SharePoint 2010 has a very flexible architecture enabling individual components to be scaled and given dedicated resources. Microsoft has published a range of technical diagrams including one covering topologies (references at the end of this post). This post is not going to reproduce that content but will try and highlight items for consideration when deciding on your topology.
Read more »Microsoft has a lot of content published about database sizing and performance for SharePoint 2010. But it spans a number of documents and some questions are either not fully answered or have conflicting options. This post aims to provide a single summary, albeit quite a long one. All sizing recommendations are taken from Microsoft guidelines [...]
Read more »SharePoint 2010 is a hefty upgrade from SharePoint 2007 and the hardware and software requirements have also jumped. This is the first in a series of posts looking at the planning guidelines published by Microsoft. All references are at the end of the post. Microsoft has published the following on TechNet, as the minimum required [...]
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Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
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SharePoint Server 2010, like its predecessors, includes indexing and search capabilities. But what doesn’t come out of the box is the ability to index and search for PDF documents. PDF is a format owned by Adobe, not Microsoft. If you want to be able to find Adobe PDF documents, or have the PDF icon appear when viewing PDF files in a SharePoint document library (see image above), you will need to set it up for yourself. This post describes how to.
Read more »Here are five simple tips to help improve the quality of search results when using SharePoint Server 2007 or Search Server 2008 (they share identical indexing and search features)
