Optimizing Sharepoint - an IT Operations perspective

Full circle

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:56:00 GMT

After my last post back in March, my role at work changed and rather than focusing on reactive, break/fix MOSS issues, I was focused heavily in deploying MOSS from scratch in several environments. However, as of Monday I will be taking on a new role which...(read more)

MOSS Design Considerations

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:39:00 GMT

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)

MOSS Server Performance Considerations

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:25:00 GMT

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)

Client Side Performance Considerations

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:12:00 GMT

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)

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

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT

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)

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

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:27:00 GMT

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)

Troubleshooting Series: Identifying Network Latency

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:21:00 GMT

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)

Automated or Silent or Unattended MOSS farm Installation and Configuration

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:17:00 GMT

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)

Troubleshooting Series - Part 1 - First steps

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:28:00 GMT

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)

still learning how to blog....

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:34:00 GMT

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)

you can expect to see more regular and detailed postings starting in Jan 2008

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:02:00 GMT

After writing my first two posts, I realized that this wasn’t as easy as I originally thought and spent the last three months researching other blogs and analyzing what I liked or looked for when reading them. I noticed that the ones I bookmarked contained...(read more)

Troubleshooting the MOSS error: "An unexpected error has occurred"

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:45:00 GMT

Change the following values in your web.config file so that you can see what the actual error is: 1. Change CallStack="false" to CallStack="true" 2. Change <customErrors mode="On"/> to <customErrors mode="Off "/> 3. Change <compilation...(read more)

A good tool to measure Caching, Size of pages, Authentication and Performance is Fiddler:

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:23:00 GMT

· you can go to http://www.fiddler2.com to get the tool and then: · Training: http://fiddler2.com/Fiddler/help/ - I watched the demonstration videos, which were helpful · Fiddler PowerToy - Part 1: HTTP Debugging: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250446.aspx...(read more)

Welcome Everyone!

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:47:00 GMT

This blog is focused on sharing some of the best practices, lessons learned and scenarios that I have encountered over the past several years supporting SharePoint in an Enterprise IT environment. My background and expertise is in IT Operations, so this...(read more)