At the moment I am troubleshooting a very slow (response times of 10+ seconds monitored with Fiddler) responding SharePoint 2007 intranet at a customer. At first we thought that the problems where caused by network traffic from SharePoint to SQL because this was routed through the load balancer (Windows 2008 NLB). We configured the route [...]
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At the moment I am installing a SharePoint 2007 farm with the Index server role at the Application server and the Query server role at the Web Front Ends. Because I did not configure anything with SSL in the first place, this causes some errors in the eventlog.
This event is 6482 (with two different descriptions):
Event [...]
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The EasyAssist call with the Microsoft Engineer is finished. It seems that a proxy setting caused all the trouble. We went through a lot of settings like BackConnectionHostnames, DisableLoopbackCheck, crawl rules, security settings on the databases etc.
But using the commandline tool proxycfg triggered it. See the screenshot below. The proxycfg command shows if there are [...]
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Today I wanted to download FAST Search to have a look at it, but seeing the requirements I can not install it on my VHD. Unfortunately!
The requirements are:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
The requirements below apply to single server with built-in database installations and server farm [...]
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Nice slideshow about SharePoint 2010 architecture and infrastructure on the Sparked blog:
See the slideshow here.
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A few weeks ago I joined the webcast of Joel Oleson (Quest Software) about the migration to SharePoint 2010. Here you will find the slides and whitepaper about preparing a migration to SharePoint 2010.
Webcast slides: preparing-for-upgrade-sharepoint2010-oleson-questwebcast
Whitepaper: wp_preparing_for_sharepoint_2010_upgrade
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And another interesting article from Joel Oleson here about small SharePoint farms.
There is so much unnecessary confusion over server roles in SharePoint. SharePoint roles are really a description of what services are running on the server, and because of the past we’ve overcomplicated the way we think about servers roles, app servers, tiers, topologies, and farms.
In this post Joel Oleson takes the opportunity to simplify these roles, [...]
SharePoint Joel has written a nice article about scaling and structuring your SharePoint environment. Which chooses have to be made for your site collection sizes, your backups etc.
Read more at Joel’s post.
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A few days ago I blogged about SharePoint in extranets. I have found another blogpost on the internet about SharePoint in extranets and solutions and applications for user management. You can also find a link to SharePoint extranet planning resources.
Read more at source
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