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SharePoint Server 2007
What makes Microsoft’s SharePoint tick?
02 years ago
Source: ZDNet blog from Mary-Jo Foley.
For being the fastest growing server product at Microsoft, SharePoint is still largely misunderstood. There’s no question its one of Microsoft’s most important enterprise products, contributing more than $1 billion to the company’s coffers. Yet, as CEO Steve Ballmer himself acknowledged this week, SharePoint an “unsung hero.”
In part, SharePoint is unsung because it’s a complex and ambitious product. It’s not just a content management system or an enterprise social-networking product, or an intranet search system. It’s six different servers bundled into a single back-end for Microsoft Office. There are thousands of Microsoft employees working on 40 different teams contributing to the product. It has provided system integrators, consultants and other partners with a lot of business because it has been tricky to deploy, maintain and customize.
(As my ZDNet blogging colleague David Greenberg noted this week, it’s not the cost of SharePoint server and the associated client-access licenses that are the biggest ticket items. He noted that a new InfoTrends survey found the biggest SharePoint-related expenditures were servers and storage, deployment/assessment services, development/maintenance services, i/o hardware (e.g. scanners, MFPs), and additional software.)
Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5
02 years ago
Overview
IIS Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5 enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first requests arrive. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled.
Benefits:
- Decrease the response time for first requests by pre-loading worker processes
IIS Application Warm-Up allows IT Professionals to configure the Web application to be pre-loaded at the start of the Web server before the first request arrives. By pre-loading the application, the worker process is able to reduce the time it takes to respond to the first Web request. The loading and initialization of the dependencies such as database connections, .NET Framework, and the just-in-time compilation for ASP.NET applications and dependencies have already been performed by the time the request arrives to the server. - Increase reliability by pre-loading worker processes when Overlapped Recycling occurs
The response times for the first requests in an Overlapped Recycling scenario are reduced by also pre-loading dependencies. The recycled worker process will only communicate its readiness and will start accepting requests after it finishes loading and initializing the resources as specified by the configuration. - Customize the pre-loading of applications
IIS Application Warm-Up can be configured to initialize Web applications by using specific Web pages and user identities. This makes it possible to create specific initialization processes that can be executed synchronously or asynchronously depending on the initialization logic. In addition, these procedures can use specific identities in order to ensure a proper initialization.
Jan Tielens releases the Smarttools jQueryLoader
02 years ago
Source: The blog of Jan Tielens.
Today Jan Tielens releases his Smarttools jQueryLoader. Up to now it was a time consuming job to enable jQuery on a SharePoint site, for example: adding a Content Editor Web Part to the page, open the properties, copy/paste a script using the Source dialog etc. Even worse: these steps needed to be done on every page where the desired jQuery functionality should become active.
With Jan Tielens’ Smarttools jQueryLoader the process of enabling and using jQuery on your SharePoint site is much easier.
My compliments go to Jan Tielens. I just tested the jQueryLoader and works great. The installation procedure is straight forward. Must have.
Running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on VMware Virtual Infrastructure
02 years ago
Last day I found a nice whitepaper about virtualizing MOSS 2007 on VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
Download this VMware whitepaper here.
Gartner: Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology
02 years ago
Source: Gartner.
This Magic Quadrant assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include: search; federated search, content analytics, such as content classification, categorization and clustering, fact and entity extraction, taxonomy creation and management, information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and “invoke” documents, data and e-mail.
SharePoint Conference 2009 SOLD OUT!
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft SharePoint Team blog
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SharePoint Conference 2009: SOLD OUT! We’re officially SOLD OUT! With 7000+ SharePoint experts, developers, partners, users, MVP’s and enthusiasts this is officially the BIGGEST SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE EVER!!! We’ve had a phenomenal response to the conference this year with a 94% increase in attendance and we can’t wait to see you all in just over 10 days! |
| Discounted Hotel Room Rates: SOLD OUT!Due to high demand in registration our discounted hotel room rates at The Hotel and Mandalay Bay Hotel, are SOLD OUT! Luckily Las Vegas is a big place with plenty of hotel rooms, so if you’re looking for accommodation check out some of the deals at the neighboring properties like the Luxor, but act quickly! |
| Post Conference Workshops: SOLD OUT!
The SharePoint Developer Deep Dive and SharePoint Server 2010 Installation and Upgrade post-conference workshops are both SOLD OUT! If you’re interested in attending one of these post-conference workshops open to all registered SharePoint Conference 2009 attendees, please contact spc@microsoft.com to join the wait-list. |
| Registered? Why Not Tell Everyone!
We’re excited you’ve decided to register for SharePoint Conference 2009 and you should be too! Here are some images you can use on your website and in your email signature to let others know you’ll be attending.
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| For more information visit www.mssharepointconference.com. |
10 Steps to Prepare for SharePoint Conference #SPC09
02 years ago
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Credits go to Joel Oleson for his post about preparing for the 2009 SharePoint Conference.
The unique thing about the SharePoint Conference is the sense of community. We all have something in common. SharePoint Geeks! We LOVE SharePoint. We also have a tight sense of community where we get to know each other and we get a little crazy when we get together. Attempts in the past to describe what this odd sense of community that’s special with the SharePoint people is tough to describe.
How do you prepare for this incredible global communal event???
How Microsoft did it: Speeding up SharePoint.Microsoft.com
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft SharePoint Team blog.
SharePoint.Microsoft.com is a critical communications channel for SharePoint. We wanted to provide visitors with a rich and helpful experience and at the same time educate them on what SharePoint can do for their businesses. The site leverages our industry-leading web content management platform, and provides useful content and resources to the visitors. In addition, we also recognized that there were fundamental Internet challenges that needed to be overcome in order to improve page loading time, especially for our global visitors. We teamed up with Aptimize Software to optimize SharePoint.Microsoft.com for high performance.
Today’s guest post is by Ed Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Aptimize Software. This post will review how we did it and the underlying performance techniques that improved the page loading speed of the SharePoint marketing website. We hope you can leverage the same process to optimize performance for other websites.
Tony Tai
SharePoint Senior Product Manager
