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Best Practices Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team.

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Operational Excellence

  1. Use 64-bit hardware, plenty of memory, and fast network cards
  2. Stay close: Do not put too much network distance between front-end Web servers, application servers, and database servers
  3. Configure front-end Web servers and application servers with performance and availability in mind
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Team Collaboration Sites

  1. Deploy 64-bit architecture across the farm
  2. Plan and allocate database servers to support collaboration
  3. Monitor sites and content and perform clean-ups regularly
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My Sites

  1. Consider My Sites to be mini "team collaboration sites"
  2. Plan for My Site content databases
  3. Plan for My Site storage quotas
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Publishing Portals

  1. Deploy at least three front-end Web servers
  2. Make query-driven Web Parts efficient
  3. Make sure that lists and databases follow recommended limits to optimize query performance
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Search

  1. Plan your deployment
  2. Start with a well-configured infrastructure
  3. Manage access by using Windows security groups
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Capacity Management

  1. Document and refine your capacity planning strategy
  2. Revisit as assumptions become more concrete
  3. Conduct rapid capacity planning early in the process
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