Load Testing Reveals Cause of SharePoint Server Performance Problem

Load Testing Reveals Cause of SharePoint Server Performance Problem

Although it seems obvious that adding hardware resources to a system should provide improved performance, a customized Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) website cluster showed the opposite in recent testing for a customer. Load testing with 200 simulated users gave disappointing results, with page durations between 10 and 30 seconds, and the system handling only about four pages per second. Curiously, reducing the cluster to a single SharePoint® server improved the performance.

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SPoint.me – The SharePoint Social Network

SPoint.me – The SharePoint Social Network

It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one.

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Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 8 of 8

Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 8 of 8

An action is simply an operation upon a selected item. The operation can retrieve information about the selected item, or it can launch a program or Web page with the selected item as a parameter.

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Avoid Newbie Mistakes: 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployments

Avoid Newbie Mistakes: 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployments

A common word that keeps popping up around SharePoint deployments is “Governance,” as if it will help you avoid chaos and have a more successful deployment. The answer is, when executed properly, it can.

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SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4

SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Partner Spotlight: Tam Tam

Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design.

This article will give the graphical designers more insight into the effect of these design decisions.

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SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3

SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Partner Spotlight: Tam Tam

Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design.
This article will give the graphical designers more insight into the effect of these design decisions.

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SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2

SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Partner Spotlight: Tam Tam

Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design.
This article will give the graphical designers more insight into the effect of these design decisions.

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SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1

SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Partner Spotlight: Tam Tam

Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design.
This article will give the graphical designers more insight into the effect of these design decisions.

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Partner Spotlight : Tam Tam

Partner Spotlight : Tam Tam

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Partner Spotlight: Tam Tam

Tam Tam is a full-service internetbureau.We link concept, design and technique such way that online questions of our customers are filled in successfully. In this we are ambitious, but also simply complete Dutch. We are proud of our top position in the Netherlands, our employees AND customers.

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SharePoint Magazine Partner Spotlight

SharePoint Magazine Partner Spotlight

SharePoint Magazine is excited to introduce a new program for Microsoft Partners

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Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6)

Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6)

We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS.

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SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment Part 6 – Post Deployment

SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment Part 6 – Post Deployment

This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.

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SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 5 – Virtualization

SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 5 – Virtualization

Virtualization in SharePoint farm is one of the key design factors that simplify server availability by providing number of additional servers that might not be available over physical server models.

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