Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere 4 Performance Series – Around the beginning of the year I acquired a brand new Dell PowerEdge R710 with two quad-core Intel Xeon X5570 processors and 96GB of RAM. The reason for the new server was to be able to test the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 running on VMware vSphere in virtual machines. Combining this shiny new server with a Clariion CX4-960 fibre channel storage array made for a great Exchange 2010 VM test bed.<br />
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The results have been impressive with Exchange 2010 running extremely well which made it easy to put together a three part series of blog posts (all links can be found on Dell TechCenter).
Five Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users – Managing user permissions in SharePoint can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it empowers users to be responsible for defining who can do what on SharePoint sites without heavily relying on IT. However, on the flip side, user management can be a total mess without proper guidance and a well-defined process.
EMC 20% Unified Storage Guarantee !EXPOSED! | Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist – However since joining EMC, all I would ever hear from the competition is how ‘space inefficient’ we were and frankly, I’m glad to see the release of the EMC Capacity Calculator to let you decide for yourself where your efficiency goes. Recently we announced this whole "Unified Storage Guarantee" and to be honest with you, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So I decided to take the marketing hype, set it on fire and start drilling down into the details, because that’s the way I roll.
SharePoint 2010 – Where’d “My Links” Go? – Laura Rogers @WonderLaura – In MOSS 2007, we’re used to seeing a link in a drop-down box at the top right of our SharePoint sites, called My Links. At first glance, it seems that this functionality has been removed from SharePoint 2010. It’s still there, sort of. Here are a couple of places that you can find it:
QVLWeb: Exchange Add Hidden Mailbox – After hidding an account of a terminated user, I needed to add the account to the managers mailbox for monitoring of business related mail.
The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Guide – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat – The iPhone now has most of the functions of the BlackBerry: Over-the-air push and sync of Exchange email, contacts, and calendars! This guide is intended as a concise walkthrough of how to get up and running with an iPhone and Microsoft Exchange server.
SharePoint Warm-up Scripts – From The Field – If your SharePoint servers are a little slow in the mornings try warming them up with the Field Engineers favourite scripts and tools:
JaLaBlog » Blog Archive » Vista and Windows 2008 Deployment with WDS, WAIK and MDT LiteTouch – So it is intended as a reference for my own usage, but you might find it useful if you want to deploy Vista SP1 and/or Windows 2008 server in a fully automated way without third party tools, nor any MS-System Center Config Manager. It’s all in the box or freely available for download on microsoft.com.
I’m back from sharepoint pro 2010 and I had great time. One of the biggest things I learned is that we need to decide on what and how we are going to use sharepoint before we can start worrying about which tools (sharepoint designer vs visual studio) and the farm layout.
We currently only use WSS 3.0 and it very lite use. We are waiting until Sharepoint 2010 RTM comes out next month. I do have the beta installed and we’ve been running through that. This is our first use of IIS 7 and dotNET applications. One of the things we’ve ran into was every morning the first time you hit the site it was really slow. After some digging I found it was because of a IIS job that clears the cache so the dotNET needs to recompile the code on first use each day.
The post is from 2004 so its pretty old, I posted by findings on twitter and @erickraus replied and pointed me to here.
Looks like the latest recommendation is to run a scheduled job on the WPE to script a page load to ‘warm’ the cache with the pages. I’ll test the three options listed on this page and let you know how it works.
As I was digging for this information, I also ran into this post about the top tips and tricks for new sharepoint users. The items are for Sharepoint 2007 but they still apply and they are a very good list to get your feet wet.
This year at work the new office wave 14 suite is going to be a huge project and the key piece of it will be SharePoint 2010. I downloaded the beta and using the following two sites started my install today.
I have all three servers up and SQL is all ready. I got SharePoint installed on the web server today and just finished the prerequisites on the application server this afternoon.
This is one of the things I love about my job, last year was a ton of VMware ESX and view as well as AD work. Looks like this year is going to be AD work and SharePoint.
I found these technical diagrams for SharePoint 2010 they are 34 by 44 inch poster size, I printed one out on our B&W plotter. Very nice and I have a lot to learn about application pools, IIS, and SharePoint architecture. I love new technology so its going to be a fun year.
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