System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides an extremely comprehensive solution to monitor your entire Windows (and now non-Windows) environment, and provides great knowledge about issues which are occurring or may soon occur. The level of information available within the various management packs is extremely comprehensive and knowledge is provided within the management packs which assist…
What if you have an environment which is geographically dispersed and uses redundant WAN links to provide connectivity between the locations and you want to monitor these links with Operations Manager? You are using Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the environment and you want to know if a remote location is up or down, and…
Central Texas SharePoint User Group: "Building Scalable Enterprise Applications with MOSS 2007" September Program Description: There are techniques that organizations with experienced .NET developers should use to develop scalable, distributed, high performance applications for SharePoint Server 2007. Successfully delivering SharePoint applications should involve programming techniques that focus on optimal code execution and efficient application delivery.…
When I first installed Windows 7 RC, the image that I used had Virtual PC 2007 SP1 installed on it. Shortly afterwards Microsoft released the Beta for Windows 7 Virtual PC (KB958559). I happily downloaded the update, ran it, and then merrily went on my way for a couple of weeks where I never had…
What must an IT Department do to be successful? Running an IT Department requires diligence across many technology disciplines. Here are some suggestions for IT Management, that if met, will bring IT Operations closer to success. When the latest security patches have been applied to all servers. We use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)…
I run across a lot of questions in the forums and from customers about why their batch files are failing when run using a ConfigMgr program. There is an easy answer to this (usually): the command shell, which executes batch files, cannot change its current directory to a UNC path. Although that’s a straight…
This is part three in a continuing series, you should read Part I and Part II first. So far, in our quest to performance test SharePoint we have established a number of important criteria. First off, we know how users will actually be using our system and from that we have been able to create…
This is the third of the four part series that describes how to create custom groups to scope the Operations console, used through the rest of this series: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & Using One-Off Notifications Part 4: Using…
This is the second in a series of entries about Performance Testing in SharePoint. You can read Part I here. To recap, we want to test the performance of a SharePoint intranet so, we created a set of user profiles and determined how often each profile will be executed. Then we ran a set of…
The recommendations described in this section are general guidelines and best-practices to apply to a SharePoint implementation. The majority of the items listed here are not of my own discovery, but rather a summary of the information that can be found in the whitepaper Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (R2) created by Russ Houberg and…
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