March 2008 - Posts

• MOSS Design Considerations

  MOSS Design Considerations taken from Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments & Optimizing custom Web parts for the WAN and my expereinces Recommendation : Minimize the amount of secured items on a page Reason : When a user authenticates, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:39 AM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments

• MOSS Server Performance Considerations

  MOSS Server Performance Considerations taken from Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments and my experiences Recommendation : use x64 hardware on all servers to optimize page downloads by minimizing number of round trips between client Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:25 AM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 3 Comments Filed under: Performance, Troubleshooting

• Client Side Performance Considerations

  Recommendation : Help Users ensure that they have configured their computers optimally. Reason : Having the right combination of BIOS, drivers, and manufacturer tools is critical for a computer system performance and stability. Benefit : Optimizes the Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:12 AM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, Tools, Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting the “This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again." error

  Problem: When anyone tried to edit a content editor web part on a MOSS site, they would get the following error: “This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again. Refresh page“ The users would hit F5 to refresh the page, Read More... Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:24 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 2 Comments Filed under: MOSS, Troubleshooting

• Real world things that were done to improve the performance on a MOSS Enterprise Portal

  Over the past 2 years, I've spent may days and nights trying to optimize our MOSS Enterprise Portals' performance (i.e. rendering time). In the end, the 3 biggest perf gains came from the following: 1. moving from x32 to x64 OS 2. moving the farm content Read More... Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:27 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, Tools, MOSS, Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Series: Identifying Network Latency

  I recently watched a webcast done by Laura Chappell on how to troubleshoot a slow network. She did an exceptional job in providing the essential information I needed in analyzing network captures for latency. Before I get ahead of myself, here are some Read More... Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:21 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, Network, Troubleshooting, Troubleshooting Series

• Automated or Silent or Unattended MOSS farm Installation and Configuration

  As an Ops person, one of the things that excites me is automation and being able to use technology to make my life easier. At the MS Sharepoint Conference, Ben Curry from Mindsharp gave a great presentation on how to perform an automated install of a Read More... Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 9:17 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, MOSS, Installation

• Troubleshooting Series - Part 1 - First steps

  I had the privilege of attending a session at the MS Sharepoint 2008 Conference covering how MS Support troubleshoots MOSS issues. The session really hit home on how depending on a person’s experience and confidence, they will either make lots of changes Read More... Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:28 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: Troubleshooting, Troubleshooting Series

• still learning how to blog....

  Unfortunately, i'm still ramping up on how to blog and how to make my site look pretty and be organized well. Rather then waiting any longer, i'm gonna jump in and start posting some of the great stuff I have learned over the past few months, especially Read More... Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:34 PM by waynemo@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: comments