More SharePoint Goodness

June 28, 2008

My posts about Microsoft SharePoint, the polymorphic content-collaboration-KoolAid system from Redmondians, are popular. A helpful but anonymous reader pointed us to useful information about how to figure out how much storage you will need for your SharePoint installation. Oh, you did not know that SharePoint storage needed special care and feeding. Well, once you get SharePoint up and running, you will become enlightened pretty darn quick.

Navigate to Sanjive Nair’s MSDN Web log here and download the text and the links. Believe me, trying to locate these on the Microsoft Web sites takes some serious work. Mr. Nair reviews the places where storage chokepoints typically occur; for example, your favorite database, SQL Server.

Mr. Nair addresses search as well. He writes:

Searching is extremely important for most portals. You would need to have a good understanding of your search requirements, while you are planning for capacity. Most importantly while planning for capacity you need to understand how much data will be indexed. While SharePoint can crawl and index Web Sites, Exchange folders, file folders BDC etc., the storage/search requirements may vary. For instance if you are indexing BDC content or large text files the index size may be larger compared to indexing Power Point files. By far in a SharePoint farm index server is the most processor intensive . So you need to provide enough processing power and memory to handle the indexing and crawling process. An Index server requires a Web Front Server which will serve the content while indexing. By default the Web Front End machines in your farm are set up to perform this task. However it may be beneficial to set up your index server as the Web Front End to perform this task, as it would avoid index server going over the network during the crawling process.

Mr. Nair provides a link to supplementary information which is a tough one to locate using Microsoft’s own search tools. The link to Microsoft’s search training videos is quite useful. I must admit that I did not watch any videos because system latency with my whiz bang Verizon wireless card prefers text to videos.

Kudos to Mr. Nair and a bowl of steaming burgoo when you come to Harrod’s Creek, high-technology center of Kentucky.

Stephen Arnold, June 28, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, Microsoft, News, Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.