Fundamentals of SharePoint Performance - Disk, SQL, and Network
Posted by Robert L. Bogue on Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009 08:44 | 0 Comments |

I've run into a few customer environments of late where the performance of SharePoint was unacceptable, however, the real problem isn't SharePoint. It's been either disk performance or it has been network performance. So I wanted to lay out a few quick suggestions for high performance SharePoint implementations. The trick is, I'll tell you they have nothing to do with SharePoint. It's all about good general network performance and good SQL server performance.
...
http://thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2009/02/11/fundamentals-of-sharepoint-performance-disk-sql-and-network.aspx

Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Summary: Learn how to test the performance of workflow applications and determine how to apply the results. (18 printed pages)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441390.aspx

Getting even better IntelliSense for CAML when doing SharePoint projects – thanks John! by Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]

A while back I showed you (as have so many other developers in the blogosphere) how to add IntelliSense to SharePoint when you are editing CAML for use in SharePoint projects. Unfortunately there are a handful of places where the WSS.XSD is not fully complete… but more importantly, it doesn’t provide a lot of context.

CAML aficionado & good friend John Holliday has recently offered up a more complete, with context documentation, better schema files to give us even more robust IntelliSense when working with SharePoint CAML! Nice work John (and a HUGE thanks!).

» John Holliday: Feed your CAML some IntelliSense so it doesn't bite you in the you-know-what!

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/02/15/Getting-even-better-IntelliSense-for-CAML-when-doing-SharePoint-projects.aspx

CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007
CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007 is a FREE web analytics solution for SharePoint 2007. It is delivered with a set of basic SharePoint 2007 usage reports, with optional SharePoint report bundles.

Specially built for authenticated environments, CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007 provides enhanced visitor segmentation - which is available through seamless integration with the organization's Active Directory.

CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007 includes an adaptors for SharePoint 2007 - which uses an advanced JavaScript tracking agent to monitor visitor actions such as item additions and deletions, document viewing, search results clicks and other Web 2.0 actions. In addition, this adaptor identifies the structure of the SharePoint 2007 portal and enables easy reporting for specific content areas.

CardioLog Lite's client UI is a complete HTML solution - enabling users to view reports in many ways. Reports can be easily integrated into portal pages by exporting them to web parts, or launched directly from the portal.
...
http://www.intlock.com/intlocksite/ProductsAndServices/CardioLog/CardioLog-Lite-for-SharePoint.asp

Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec)
Fellow Ted Pattison Group instructor & SharePoint MVP Scot Hillier just had an article posted on MSDN. It’s the first sample I’ve seen that leverages the CMIS specification announced by Ryan on the SharePoint Team Blog a few months back which essentially is an ECM interop spec so various apps can talk to each other more easily.

His paper shows how to implement a document library in SharePoint but using a external repository that conforms to the CMIS spec. This isn’t some thrown together sample… you’re looking at a collection of Web Parts, a slick Silverlight UI, custom WCF service, custom protocol handler… you name it. Here’s a diagram of the architecture:



Scot has also uploaded the entire project that he discusses in the MSDN article to MSDN Code Gallery for you to download a kick the tires on… awesome resource!
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/02/04/Making-external-repositories-work-like-document-libraries-in-SharePoint-Server.aspx


Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007
Summary: Learn to design, implement, and deploy a complete solution for integrating an external document repository with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. External repositories can participate in workflows and use task lists and extensible metadata.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440954.aspx

Integrating SAP data by using the Business Data Catalog
This white paper describes how to integrate data from SAP 6.4 and Netweaver 5.0 with SharePoint sites by using the Business Data Catalog.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d5f7a3ac-b983-4065-9d29-1ad31029f154&displaylang=en

whitepaper:
Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f159af68-c3a3-413c-a3f7-2e0be6d5532e&displaylang=en

Best Practices Conference Spring 09 Avoiding Failed Deployments and Newbie Mistakes 10 Steps to Success Keynote by Joel Oleson
http://www.slideshare.net/joeloleson/best-practices-conference-spring-09-avoiding-failed-deployments-and-newbie-mistakes-10-steps-to-success-keynote-by-joel-oleson

Avoiding Failed Deployments Part 2 Interactive Discussion by Joel Oleson
http://www.slideshare.net/joeloleson/avoiding-failed-deployments-part-2-interactive-discussion-by-joel-oleson

SPDisposeCheck Released!

SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 has been released on MSDN Code Gallery, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck. This tool will help improve the quality of your SharePoint assemblies. It will inspect your SharePoint assemblies and check that you are correctly disposing of certain SharePoint objects (IDisposable objects which includes SPSite and SPWeb). The tool is based upon the guidance published in this MSDN article, Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is recommended to be used on Developer workstations and not on production SharePoint Server installations. For additional information, please head over to Paul Andrew's blog post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/29/spdisposecheck-released.aspx

ano pravda, uz jsem to rozchodil...
kazdopadne problem s vyhledavanim mam stale...
podle http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927012 bych mel nastavit ucet ktery ma pristup do sharepointi databaze na db serveru, nastavil jsem prava vlastnika na vsechny z tech databazi vytvorenych (obsahu, vyhledavani, administrace) a presto to nefacha... ma tady nekdo zkusenost s nasazenim WSS 3 ve farme?

KUBIS: muzes nastavit notifikaci komukoliv. prijde mu oznameni o aktivaci a pak to jede.

TENCOKACISTROMY: ano,mel jsem ten pocit... jen to uz nemuzu najit a nevim jestli to slo nejak automaticky... aniz bys musel klikat a zadat o notifikovani

KUBIS: To tam je uz samo od sebe, ne?

nevite o nejakem pluginu pro mailovou notofikaci zmen/pridani/smazani dokumentu v dokumentove knihovne? diky

SharePoint Administrator’s guide to not screwing up :)

On the SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog there is a wonderful new paper out with some fancy name; we will call it the SharePoint Admin Guide. The paper was written by the team at SharePoint911 with guidance from Brenda C. at Microsoft.

The idea of the paper is it quickly touches on all of the considerations and gotchas a new administrator needs to watch out for. Things like common installation mistakes to what consideration for branding and development you need make. The idea is not for the paper to tell you in great detail everything you need to know. Instead, the paper makes sure you don't encounter the "I didn't even know about that" issue when you server farm. Of course if you want deep details then we reference all of that material also.

Anyway, go download it and read, I promise you will like it.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2009/01/14/sharepoint-administrator-s-guide-to-not-screwing-up.aspx

SharePoint Tool Basket

Project Description
This project regroups various other projects to propose a set of tools for SharePoint. Sub components offer features such as SharePoint Document Rating, Ajax enabled lookup field, Content Type Explorer, Feature Explorer, Audience to group convertor...

This release comprises a new version of the document rating system where users can now rate custom lists, document libraries, issue lists, calendars, announcements, discussion boards and pages. The page rating is entirely integrated into the system and is on the form of a webpart....See the link in the project description for more info.


Available tools :
...
http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbasket

Sharepoint Logging Spy
Sharepoint Logging Spy is a real time diagnostic application for MOSS 2007 which allows a sharepoint administrator to view (and save to disk) the ULS Log & Event log entries from multiple machines in a sharepoint farm through a single console.
...
http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy

Imtech Fields Explorer Visual Studio 2008 plugin
Development, Productivity, SharePoint, Tools, Visual Studio, WCM

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been thinking here at Imtech ICT Velocity about how we could improve our SharePoint development process. During the last year we have gathered a lot of different tools which help us to automate the routine. And while they all are definitely very useful, they make the development environment quite complex. Maybe even too complex. One of the improvements we thought about was integrating all these different tools we have made into Visual Studio. Imtech Fields Explorer is the first one to go.
...
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/imtech-fields-explorer-visual-studio-2008-plugin/

Based on customer feedback, Microsoft has decided to consolidate Microsoft Office PerformancePoint® Server scorecard, dashboard, and analytical capabilities into Office SharePoint Server Enterprise as PerformancePoint Services. This consolidation will enable you to deliver capabilities to your customers at a lower total cost of ownership.

You can be confident that supporting Planning customers remains a top priority for Microsoft. In mid-calendar-year 2009, Microsoft will release Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which will include updates to the current product’s Planning module; thereafter Microsoft will not make further investments in stand-alone versions of Office PerformancePoint Server. We will work closely with you and with our mutual customers on a one-to-one basis during this transition.

Introducing the Bamboo SharePoint Video Library (free)
http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2008/12/16/introducing-the-bamboo-video-library.aspx