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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 Accessibility Recommended...
    on13 Sep 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint Tips to Improve Performance

    1. Use SPWeb.GetList (string ListUrl) instead of SPWeb.Lists(String ListName). 2. Use SPList.AddItem.Instead of SPList.Items.Add. 3. Use SPUserToken instead of Run with Elevated privileges. 4. For CAML Query,Use Viewfields and Row limits to limit the columns and the results returned from the...
    on13 Sep 2013

  • Wiki Page: Whether SCVMM 2008 (R2) Should Live Inside a VM or on a Physical Server

    Note: This article is based on VMM 2008 and might not apply to VMM 2012 (R2) "Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical server as a managed host?" This is a common question from our customers regarding the placement of VMM. The answer...
    on13 Sep 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...
    on30 Aug 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Setting Up a Dev Environment - One Piece!

    Intro This wiki page is intended for each contributor who wants to create a DEV Environment. The general purpose of this document is to get a better understanding of SharePoint 2013 and its components. I think it is important that we give credit where it is due. Margriet Bruggeman is the one...
    on18 Aug 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Best Practices - Tips when creating a new virtual machine on Hyper-V

    Go back to Creating a Dev Environment Create a Virtual Machine On the Assign Memory screen, don't check Use Dynamic Memory for this Virtual machine. SharePoint 2013 doesn't like this, because it relies heavily on the use of AppFabric Distributed Cache. Instead, use 24 GB as Startup...
    on15 Aug 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Best Practices - Dev Friendly General Tips

    By default, Windows Server 2012 is not very dev friendly. I suggest some changes. At a high-level, do the following: Rename the server to something short, easy to remember and easy to type. I usually go stellar with this, with names like moon, mars, and nova. Enable Remote Desktop Disable Windows...
    on14 Aug 2013

  • Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Best Practices Creating a Dev Environment - Configure Workflows

    Go back to Creating a Dev Environment Download Windows Azure Workflow at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35375 Get the workflow manager, workflow manager BPA, workflow client, and workflow tools (which equates to all available downloads!) Try to install the Workflow...
    on12 Aug 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...
    on12 Aug 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...
    on1 Aug 2013

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

    Table of Contents How to back up SharePoint Online? More info 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...
    on20 Jul 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 Jul 2013

  • Wiki Page: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Troubleshooting and Gotchas

    These are "known issues" that folks seem to have trouble with in Configuration Manager. Best Practice and Gotchas information has been moved to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Best Practices . Applies to: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Table of Contents Troubleshooting...
    on9 Jul 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...
    on29 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: 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: 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 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
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