SharePoint Conference 2009: Day 3

Tags: Best Practice, Capacity Planning, Event, Farm Architecture, Governance, Installation / Setup, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010

Today started with a very good session on Governance. This session was not only applicable to SharePoint 2010, but also to MOSS 2007.

A few good takeaways from this session were:

   Users find workarounds to SharePoint, so it must be easy and your users must be trained
   Start with the intended business outcome and let that drive your governance plan
   The SharePoint culture needs to be evangelized ‘top-down’ in the organization

One size does not fit all - governance plans should be tailored and can contain multiple levels
“Publish once, link many” and “If you don’t own it, don’t publish it” – Sue Hanley

Using metadata is a cultural change and must be accompanied by relevant examples

- You must show users why they need to tag items and use metadata (WIIFM)

Build the user adoption time into the project plan / schedule

SharePoint 2010 adds a new dimension to governance with tags, keywords, terms, and ratings

I also attended sessions on capacity planning, REST and LINQ, and the new RBS in SharePoint 2010.

Here are a few more highlights from Day 3:

   The 100 GB (soft) limit on a content database is still recommended by Microsoft
   Large List throttling now allows a list to contain ‘hundreds of millions’ of documents

   SharePoint now employs a very sophisticated throttling mechanism to prioritize services and

    automatically give more resources to the services which directly affect the user experience
   SharePoint now has a completely revamped logging, health and usage database
   SharePoint has a ‘Developer Dashboard’ for quick developer debugging
   LINQ to SharePoint converts LINQ to CAML automatically

   SharePoint now has the inherent option to force uniqueness on a field as well as cascade

    deletes or restrict deletes for parent-child list relationships

   RBS (Remote BLOB Storage) now allows SharePoint to separate BLOB data from standard list

    metadata and store this binary data in separate databases.

    - This will dramatically increase performance for SQL Server - Available in SQL Server 2008 R2