Tristan Watkins on IT Infrastructure
From the monthly archives: November 2010
SharePoint Development Productivity and Virtualisation Technologies
By Tristan Watkins On November 30, 2010 · 10 Comments · In Performance, SharePoint, Virtualisation, Windows
In the near future, I’ll be discussing the results of the SharePoint Development productivity testing that I’ve been working on for some time. A key part of the background to that story is a choice to virtualise SharePoint, and within that, a choice of virtualisation technology. In this post I’ll be reviewing the problem in [...]
SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure for Amazon EC2 Part IV: Cost Analysis
By Tristan Watkins On November 29, 2010 · 10 Comments · In Consultancy and Design, SharePoint, Windows
In the previous posts in this series I’ve discussed the AWS platform and took a closer look at storage, snapshots and provisioning, looked at networking and cloning and then [...]
In the first part of this series on SharePoint 2010 infrastructure considerations for Amazon EC2, I introduced the AWS platform and took a closer look at storage, snapshots and provisioning. In
SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure for Amazon EC2 Part II: Cloning and Networking
By Tristan Watkins On November 25, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Consultancy and Design, Networking, SharePoint, Windows
In my previous post I introduced some of the peculiarities of designing SharePoint 2010 environments for Amazon’s EC2, specifically focused on the AWS platform, storage, snapshots and provisioning. In this post I continue this exploration, moving on to cloning and networking considerations.
SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure for Amazon EC2 Part I: Storage and Provisioning
By Tristan Watkins On November 24, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Consultancy and Design, SharePoint, Windows
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been around for a while now but there’s been surprisingly little use or abuse in the SharePoint community, from what I’ve seen. A notable exception to this is Andrew Woodward’s novel and interesting approach to Exchange BPOS migration via Amazon EC2. But that doesn’t talk much about [...]
User Profile Service Connection and Slow First Page Load
By Tristan Watkins On November 4, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Client applications, Performance, SharePoint
I’m presently running some quite methodical SharePoint 2010 development environment performance tests, as we’re finding that the Dell XPS M1330 we’ve been using for the last few years doesn’t really cut it in some scenarios. This has been an on-going issue for some time where I work, but it’s only recently been prioritised at the [...]
Bit Rate Throttling Fix Released
By Tristan Watkins On November 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Networking, Performance, SharePoint, Windows
A couple of weeks ago I posted information about a Fix For Bit Rate Throttling W3WP Crashes in SharePoint 2010. A few hours ago, Jack Freelander from IIS.NET announced that IIS Media Services 4.0 has been released, [...]
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