SharePoint Magazine

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.

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value.

As a CFO and senior business executive would life be better if all your commercial information, everything from files and documents to LOB systems were all accountable and controllable from one platform or portal?

There has been a steady growth in 3rd Party tools to provide either enhancements to weak functionality provided by out of the box WSS/MOSS or new functionality to complement existing functionality.

This is not a “How-To” article, but I have tried to include examples of “real world” experiences I’ve encountered along the way. Now, without further delay, lets take a stroll through Five Important Tests you should perform before “Go Live” with your SharePoint solution.

Just as companies have implemented email archiving systems to better manage their ever-growing volumes of email records, an increasing number are doing the same for their SharePoint records. SEC Rule 17a-4, HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are just a few of the laws and regulations requiring companies to actively monitor employee communications.

n today’s business climate, competitive pressures are greater than ever. Organizations must leverage any competitive advantage to gain or maintain an edge. Or, in the midst of a shrinking economy, there is always a need to do more with less.

This article will highlight many issues organisations will experience as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.

This the third post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the last post I explained some of the great things that can be implemented. In this post I will introduce the Governance, the People and the Approach that needs to surround SharePoint.

This the second post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the first post I introduced at a high level the Capabilities, the Editions, the Infrastructure and the API of the SharePoint Platform. In this post I will give my own opinion on what capabilities to start with and what ones to use Open Source/Partner Solutions with or to wait for SharePoint 2009.