Updated: 2008-10-30

This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their Microsoft SQL Server 2005 storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms.

This paper has been updated to include additional recommendations about the use of filegroups with the search database, and additional details about database redundancy, business continuity support, and performance for storage area networks (SANs) and direct-attached-storage (DAS).

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