SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations

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Overview

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These white papers describe the performance and capacity impact of specific feature sets included in SharePoint Server 2010. These white papers include information about the performance and capacity characteristics of the feature and how it was tested by Microsoft, including:

• Test farm characteristics
• Test results
• Recommendations
• Troubleshooting performance and scalability

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Guide for IT Pros for Microsoft Office Web Apps

This book includes information to help IT professionals use Microsoft Office Web Apps on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products in an organization.

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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

 

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Productivity Hub 2010 (Traininig)

Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts. Version: 12-20-10 - Date Publishe: 1/17/2011 - Language: English

The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs.
The Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers the Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing the burden on your training and IT staff. The Coach program impacts productivity in a collaborative and positive way.
The 2010 version of the Productivity Hub includes a quiz feature, a section called ‘Get it Done’ that offers training for tasks such as email management and collaboration, and also features Silverlight. There will be a non-Silverlight version of the 2010 Hub delivered in late June.
The 2007 Hub contains 2007 content only (v2) with 2010 content added in v3 (to be released in June 2010). You can also add 2010 content packages to your current Hub. Watch for more document on migration from your 2007 Hub to your 2010 Hub.
What the Productivity Hub is:

1. Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint 2010 environment, depending on version
2. Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.). Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog.
3. Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog.
4. Train the trainer: Includes IT/Manager section to aid with deployment of the site collection, and guidance to develop the Coach program
5. Products: Office 2007 and Office 2010 (including SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010), Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8, Project, Visio, Live Meeting, and Communicator

You can also download additional content packages that expand the training materials you can make available through the Hub.

Once installed, the solution consumes roughly 750 megabytes of disk space. The majority of this is content (e.g. large video files and Office System documents) which SharePoint manages via its content database.

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Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers

The Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers are a set of files that extend the parsers in Microsoft Network Monitor. The Microsoft Network Monitor tool loads these files and uses the rules defined in them to analyze network traffic.

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Initial Best Practices & Lessons Learned from Microsoft IT's SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

With its SharePoint 2010 deployment nearly complete, Microsoft IT has developed helpful perspective on what worked and what steps could have been performed better. The Microsoft IT SharePoint engineering team is sharing its experiences with you to help reduce planning, deployment, and management of a SharePoint 2010 migration project. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687797.aspx 

Find here Microsoft IT's early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of SharePoint Server within our global enterprise. By leveraging our best practices, you can make decisions about how best to plan for, deploy, and manage Microsoft solutions in your own environment.

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SharePoint 2010 Build Numbers - Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog

Before they get away from me I want to start listing the builds of SharePoint 2010. Hopefully I'll keep it up to date.

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=224

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products.
The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: (1) ensuring open connections; (2) promoting data portability; (3) enhancing support for industry standards; and (4) fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open source communities.
Read the full Microsoft PressPass article: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-21ExpandInteroperabilityPR.mspx

SharePoint Products and Technologies Open Protocols Introduction
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Microsoft makes available information about protocols, binary file formats, and other specifications for a number of its most popular products, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. These technical specifications enable and encourage a vibrant development community, resulting in smarter, interoperable products.

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December 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released on Friday

Yesterday the product group released the December 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family.

The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded.

As soon as the KB articles are live they can be found at the following locations:

December 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released on Friday - Stefan Goßner - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Technical Library in Compiled Help format

 

Downloadable CHM version of FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content on TechNet.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

With this book, you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance for designing and deploying exciting business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

What you’ll learn

• Write effective SharePoint 2010 solutions that can be used on the Web, through Microsoft Office, and on mobile devices.
• Find out best practices for managing data stored in a SharePoint site and the most effective ways to get value out of it.
• Discover how to write effective web parts and pages and integrate those solutions across other Microsoft technologies.
• Put on your designer hat and create a custom look and feel for your SharePoint site or portal.
• Learn how to use existing data to create business intelligence solutions based on SharePoint sites.

  

It has always been a challenge to find the superman that knows both, data ware housing concepts, and SharePoint concepts. The data ware housing concepts include basic stuff you need to know to work in the BI area such as cubes, MDX queries, etc. So chapter 1 covers that – and if you’re a hardcore DBA, feel free to skip Chapter 1. Then beyond that, we take every single SharePoint 2010 BI topic, and slice and dice it in detail. The topics we deal with are

• Visio Services
• Reporting services
• Business Connectivity Services
• Excel Services
• PerformancePoint Services

And in covering each of these topics, we ensure that a general layout was followed for each topic, to ensure completeness of content. We make sure we cover

Who this book is for

This book is for the typical SharePoint 2010 project team member who is technical in nature. It is aimed more toward developers, IT pros, and technical architects than designers or non-technical team members.

Amazon.com: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (9781430228653): Sahil Malik: Books

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Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010

The Microsoft® Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010 provides multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.

The management console delivers a easy to use graphical interface for server discovery, configuration deployment, reporting, quarantine management, update deployment and integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.

The Microsoft® Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010 is available as a free download.

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

The SharePtServer2010.chm is a downloadable CHM that includes content in the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

DOWNLOAD CHM SP2010

Windows Live Blog – mstechdays2011 - http://clubmoss2007.org/default.aspx

 

Staffing and People Mappings

One more commonly overlooked component of a successful implementation is staffing. Architects and administrators usually do a good job creating a bill of goods for hardware and software, but they often forget to secure funding for personnel to adequately develop and maintain systems. SharePoint can consume a large amount of human resources if used to its full potential. Understand what types of dedicated personnel are required in the beginning, and start getting stakeholders' support immediately. The table below offers a suggested staffing schedule for you to consider. (Note: F = One full time person and P = One part time person.)

SharePoint Governance – Table of Content

This page to gather all articles on SharePoint governance I have published:

• Introduction - How to keep your house clean

• People, Teams, Roles and Responsibilities People teams, roles and responsibilities

  • Individual Roles and Responsibilities
  • Staffing and People Mappings
  • Training

• Policies and Procedures

  • Application Lifecycle Management Policies
  • Development and Customization Policies
  • Informational Operational and Administrational Policies

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SharePoint 2010 Governance - Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

 

Governance is a key component to ensuring the success of your SharePoint 2010 deployment, and one we frequently get asked about it as we travel to conferences and events. Represented by a set of established processes, procedures, and stakeholders, a well designed and implemented governance plan promotes adoption, ensures participation, and maximizes ROI.  By using the governance techniques, best practices, and recommendations available below, you can align your policies for using SharePoint 2010 with your culture and goals while still enabling teams and individuals to effectively collaborate and share information.

SharePoint 2010 Governance - Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

 

Office 365 Beta Data Sheets in 12 pages

 

Microsoft Office 365: Work Virtually Anytime, Anywhere 4

How Can Office 365 Help You? 4

Enterprise-Class Security and Reliability 4

IT Control and Efficiency 4

User Familiarity and Productivity 5

Office 365 Services 5

SharePoint Online 5

Exchange Online 7

Lync Online 8

Office Professional Plus 9

Office Web Apps 10

Office 365 Subscription Plans 11

Conclusion 12

 

With Office 365, you can take advantage of sophisticated collaboration and messaging capabilities without the operational burden of on-premises server software. Office 365 keeps you in control and provides business-class reliability, high availability, comprehensive security, simplified management, and familiar user interface so that you can confidently choose it as your collaboration and communication solution.

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System Center Service Manager 2010 : documentation du produit

 

System Center Service Manager 2010 fournit une plate-forme intégrée pour l'automatisation et l'adaptation des pratiques recommandées en matière de gestion des services informatiques de votre entreprise, comme celles disponibles dans Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) et Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Il offre des processus intégrés pour la résolution des incidents et problèmes, le contrôle des modifications et la gestion du cycle de vie du matériel.

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SQL Server RBS Performance with SharePoint Server 2010 and StorSimple Storage Solution

When users store more documents and larger media documents in SharePoint libraries, performance, scalability, and manageability challenges occur for SharePoint administrators. The Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) feature in SharePoint Server 2010 addresses these challenges. This paper explains the RBS feature as it applies to SharePoint Server 2010 and analyzes its performance impacts on key attributes of a SharePoint farm such as database size, database backup size, transaction response times, and backup/restore time.

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Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server (SQLRAP) – Scoping Tool

This download package is intended for Microsoft Premier Customers Only. This package includes all of the scoping tools necessary to prepare and qualify your environment to receive a Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server (SQLRAP).

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October 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint & Project Server 2010 Republished

October 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint & Project Server 2010 Republished - Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs