One TechNet article I’m always dipping into for reminders when designing SharePoint solutions is the capacity management article defining boundaries, thresholds and supported limits for sites, lists and libraries. For the full article, read SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Software boundaries and limits (at time of writing, updated 14 July 2011 following changes introduced with Service [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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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