SharePoint Magazine

Martin Angler is back to wrap up the two-part mini series, introducing backup and restore for SharePoint 2010. This time, the topic is restore, and you’ll get a great overview of the various capabilities as well as useful tips and tricks.

SharePoint permissions are confusing for most new site admins. However, use of SharePoint groups is key to effective permissions management in SharePoint. Without them, sites quickly become overrun with dozens of individual users that have varying degrees of access, including the dreadfully unhelpful “limited access” permission level.

This mini-series of articles attempts to give you the nuts and bolts of backup configuration and performing it, as well as dealing with how to recover the backup. Obviously, the better backup and recovery is prepared, the less time you will spend restoring a SharePoint 2010 environment. And after all, the less time you business loses, the better it is.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Welcome back to Part 7 of our 8 Business Data Catalog (BDC) series. In this article, we will be focusing on the BDC Object Model.

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