SharePoint Connections Session Follow Up: Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site

During the Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site session I covered the following topics. Setting up forms based authentication. Creating your own custom Master Pages and style sheets Personalizing site content for users. Leveraging the Business Data Catalog to surface and interact with back end systems. Each of these topics is broken down more in depth in this blog post. All the code...Read more

SharePoint 2007 Performance Optimization

Recommendation: use x64 hardware on all servers to optimize page downloads by minimizing number of round trips between client computers and server computers. Reason: With x64 you are not limited to 2 GB of Memory. Benefit: Reduces network traffic and latency due to FE servers hitting the memory limit and needing to recycle. Recommendation: apply Windows Server 2003 SP2 Reason: A list...Read more

MOSS Architecture and SSP

MOSS adopts a typical 3-tier model with web servers at the front, application servers in the middle and a database server at the back where all the data and config is stored.The front-end web servers are simple web servers that can be network load balanced to achieve additional performance and...Read more