SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Database Configuration

1. Close Distance Rule: Keep Web Frontends, Application Servers and Database Servers physically located as close as  possible.   Rule of thumb: No more than 1 ms of latency between WFEs/AS and DB servers. In practice, this means: WFEs/ASs should reside in the same data center as DB servers.     2. Co-Location/Separation of Databases [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Document Center Send To Connection Setup Walkthrough

Hi folks, While working through my current SP2010 lecture, I found an exercise which explained how to set up a document center and how to establish a connection to a web site. The goal of this set up? Simple: When working with a web application and working on documents, at a certain point you may [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Configuring Usage Data Collection Using PowerShell

Hi all, After a fresh installation (or upgrade from a MOSS 2007), there are a couple of configuration steps that need to be performed. One is the configuration of the usage and health data collection. This can be done either using the Central Administration or PowerShell. This post focuses on how to do the configuration [...]

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SharePoint Server 2010 – A Kill in the Crib

Dear all, During a few tryouts (and after a successful set-up of the SP 2010 Server), I went for the creation of the first web application – but no: after navigating to the Central Administration | Application Management | Manage Web Applications, I found myself with an all-greyed-out line of buttons in the “Web Application” [...]

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