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  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices

    Table of Contents Intro Performance 2013 Versioning Overview Feature Overview Capacity Planning Installation Upgrade and Migration Infrastructure Backup and Recovery Database Implementation and Maintenance Apps Every day use Add-ons Development Debugging Troubleshooting Farms Top 10 Blogs to Follow Recommended...
    on18 Jun 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Creating a Development Environment

    Table of Contents Hardware Software Partitioning Optional Software Hyper-V on Windows 8 Making Windows Server 2013 Dev Friendly Installing Handy software on Windows Server 2012 Backup Time Installing the Database Server Installing SharePoint 2013 Installing Developer Tools Configure Workflows for SharePoint...
    on10 Jun 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Service Accounts

    Table of Contents Service Account Overview SQL_Service SP_EnterpriseAdmin For a SharePoint installation, this page recommends the following best practices and naming conventions for service accounts: Remember: Managed Service accounts are limited to a total of 20 characters - including the...
    on7 Jun 2013

  • Wiki Page: Hyper-V: Anti-Virus Exclusions for Hyper-V Hosts

    Note: this material is excerpted from: Planning for Hyper-V Security at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd283088(WS.10).aspx As a best practice, you should NOT run any applications in the management operating system (also called a host or sometimes the Hyper-V server)—run all...
    on23 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices

    Table of Contents Intro Performance Planning Installation, Removal, Configuration, and Operation Deployment Virtualization Real Life Usage Backup and Recovery Development Search Upgrade and Migration Extranet Environments Farms Top 10 Blogs to Follow Top 5 SharePoint Books Top 10 SharePoint Tools Top...
    on16 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Starting and Running a User Group - Best Practices

    This topic is a stub (work in progress). It's planned as an index to a "Book of Best Practices" on running user groups. Please feel free to add a "Chapter" to the Index, pointing to a page or set of pages... Why start a User Group? Why do people...
    on8 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Back-up SharePoint Online

    How to back up SharePoint Online? Trust MS back-ups, as there's no way to make your own back-ups in SharePoint Online. Rely on SharePoint recycle bin functionality for basic back-up/restore functionality. Save important doc lib content via Windows Explorer view and store this info somewhere...
    on8 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Best Practices

    These are "best practices" for Configuration Manager. Since "best practices" come from your experiences with Configuration Manager we'd really like to hear from you, so please add any you have encountered. Table of Contents Best Practices Before Installation Best Practices...
    on7 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Deployment Best Practices

    Table of Contents Application Lifecycle Management Solution Management Vision & Release Roadmap Technical Documentation Requirements User Interface Data Quality Roles & Responsibilities User Training & Adoption Application Support Application Performance Data Model & Data Dictionary Logical...
    on27 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Best Practices Creating a Dev Environment - Configuring Apps

    If you don't know how to create a Dev Environment; go back to Creating a Dev Environment Configuring Apps This Wiki page contains a detailed description on how to configure Apps for SharePoint 2013. Start Subscription Service Open your SharePoint Central Administration. Go to Application...
    on22 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: What client API should you choose when building Apps?

    There are a lot of different options when it comes to communicating with SharePoint. Here's som advice when to use them when building Apps: Apps that offers Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) actions against SharePoint or BCS ( Business Connectivity Services ) external data, and are hosted on...
    on22 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: What to Do? Farm Solution vs Sandbox vs App

    What to do? Farm solution vs Sandbox vs App? Let’s recap for a moment, shall we? For SharePoint 2010, the SharePoint team introduced an elaborate architecture model for hosting sandboxed solutions, which was provided to offer an attractive alternative to farm solutions. Farm solutions are deployed...
    on17 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: PowerShell - Working With Regular Expressions (regex)

    Link to Parent: PowerShell - Deep Dive and Best Practice There are several different ways to work with regular expressions in PowerShell and this wiki will go over some of these different methods. This wiki WILL NOT go in to regex patterns, there are many resources on the web for that. If you...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: Copying Permissions Between Site Collections

    Ootb (out of the box), it's not possible to copy permissions between site collections. You can copy permissions programmatically, as explained in http://mosswat.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-copy-permissions-between-site.html and http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: Folders Not Necessarily Considered Evil

    Nowadays, the use of SharePoint folders is considered to be evil for a variety of reasons. http://stovereffect.com/2010/07/12/metadata-versus-folders/ provides a nice discussion about the shortcomings of folders. End users are typically very comfortable with working with folder structures . ...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: Where to Publish a WCF Service

    If you're creating a WCF service you basically have two options: - Create a WCF service in a SharePoint context. - Create a separate WCF service. If you're creating a WCF service in a SharePoint context, you're basically doing the following: you create a SharePointproject, add the...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: Strategies for Handling Historical Data in Custom Lists

    This Wiki page discusses strategies for dealing with historical data. It was originally inspired by Paul Stork's response at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010customization/thread/31cf9e61-4faf-4832-aefc-a110d7d93ad2 . If the historical data doesn’t take up...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: Best Practice Troubleshooting an SSRS Report That Times Out

    What to do when an SSRS report times out? This sort of problem can be really hard to troubleshoot, but here's what you can try: First of all, check how the sql query performs . If it's running slow, than the problem is query related instead of SSRS report related and you'll need to work...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: List Throttling

    If you need to pull huge amounts of data from a list or several lists, you'll face list throttling limits . This Wiki pages discusses best practice for dealing with those limits. The short term solution is to increase the throttling limits. Once you revert to this strategy, you'll soon find...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: Asset Versus Picture Library

    If you have pictures, you have the choice to either store them in an asset library or a picture library. What is the best practice here? Asset library (a media library) More info about the asset library: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/set-up-a-library-to-store-image...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Typical SharePoint Project Part 1

    Ok, you all know the recent typhoon of SharePoint projects. Now, being a SharePoint consultant, there is often a dilemma of whether to follow the traditional waterfall model or to follow the new trendy agile model. Also, there is confusion at every stage that what are the best practices while implementing...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: Best Practices to Estimating and Benchmarking Project Efforts

    Table of Contents Why? Brief introduction of COSMIC Learn by example CFSU Cost Overview Please note Why? It can be hard to estimate how much time it will take to complete a SharePoint project. The usual approach is to do an "expert count", in other words, have an expert (or...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Export – Import TermSet

    Starting from the point that site collection does not backup/restore TermSets bound to managed metadata fields, it’s easy to understand that site collection backup is not enough when site collection uses that type of field. There are some scenarios like backup site collection, working on that with...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: SPS 2010 Best Practices: Retrieving the Current User in a Workflow

    What to do when you want to determine the current user in a workflow? It’s possible that the workflow runs inside the w3wp.exe worker process, in which case the current user makes sense. But it’s also possible that a workflow runs inside the owstimer.exe process, at a later time. In these cases, the...
    on6 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Security Best Practices to Protect Internet Facing Web Servers

    Nowadays, internet facing web servers are exposed to high security risks. We quite commonly see web servers being hacked (eg: malicious code being injected in website content), and then clients that are browsing the website are most likely to be transparently compromised (aka drive-by download). And...
    on4 Feb 2013
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