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Tips & Tricks: SQL Server Mail Configuration
After configuring SQL Server database mail and testing it successfully, you could find maintenance plans unable to send e-mails although you have set the recipients correctly. This is generally due to...
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SQL Server Tips & Tricks: Create Bulk Queries
Sometimes you need to build bulk query to select, update or insert data to SQL tables. The selected, updated or inserted data is dynamic and is selected based on data in many tables. An example of this...
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SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management It is important to plan for your SharePoint environment carefully before starting implementation. Many companies opt for a small or medium size farms (3 to 6...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Check Current Enviornment Usage
As mentioned in my previous post, the first step in capacity management is modeling the SharePoint 2010 environment. Modeling the environment is basically analyzing and estimating the usage of the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser
Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for data sources other than IIS log files (XML files, CSV files, registry, event logs, etc.), but for the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser
Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for data sources other than IIS log files (XML files, CSV files, registry, event logs, etc.), but for the...
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SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser Part 2
As mentioned in my previous post, you should run the log parser on logs for a specific day. You can do that by copying the log files from the different load balanced Front-end servers to a centralized...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Build New Environment Usage Estimates
After analyzing the use of the current environment, you are able to involve business sponsors/users in guided discussions for the estimates for the new system. Usually, you build the model for the new...
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SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Confirm Farm Size after modelling
During the modeling step, first step in capacity management, you identify the expected use of the new environment in terms of workload and dataset. This information is used as the basis of designing...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Farm Design Considerations
While designing large SharePoint farms, many considerations need to be assessed. Below are some decisions that have implications on the farm logical architecture: Should content be served from one...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Disk Space Requirements
To be able to estimate the total disk space required by aSharePoint 2010 farm, you need to estimate the sizes of the following: System & Log Files This is the direct attached storage (DAS) required...
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SharePoint 2013 Preview Deployment – Failed to create the configuration database
On deploying 2013 on SQL Server 2012, you might get an error when running the configuration wizard to create the SharePoint farm: “Configuration Failed.” “Failed to create the configuration database”...
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