Which business books influenced you?

A while ago I tagged – 36 best business books that influenced Microsoft leaders – here are the ones I read and definitely liked together with some extra books (the ones in bold come from the original list):

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Founders at work : Stories of startup’s early days
• The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology
• The Black Swan : The impact of the Highly improbable
• The conversation manager
• The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling more of less
• The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century
• The wisdom of crowds
• My organisation is a jungle
• Bill Gates – Business at the speed of thought
• Who moved my cheese
• Giant Killers: thirty four cutting edge management strategies from the worlds leading tech companies
• Complexity: life at the edge of chaos
• Naked conversations: How blogs are changing the way business talk with customers

So which business books influenced you?

SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management– talking about software boundaries and limits

Some interesting stuff about software boundaries and limits in SharePoint Server 2010 – take a look at the table below. You should make a distinction between hard limits (which you simply should not exceed) and soft limits – which are a sort of recommendation.

Soft limits
	2007	2010
Content DB Size	100 GB	200 GB
File Size	2 GB	2 GB
DB’s per web app	100	300
Site collection size	100 GB	100 GB
List items per view	2000	5000
Application Pools	8 per web server	10 per web server
Managed Paths	20 per web app	20 per web app
Documents in a library		30 million with nesting. Depends heavily on usage and size of the documents
Indexed items in search	50 million	100 million

There is also a Technet article – SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management: Software Boundaries and limits – which provides some additional guidance – this also puts the numbers listed above a little more in perspective.

Content database sizes up to 1 terabyte are supported only for large, single-site repositories and archives with non-collaborative I/O and usage patterns, such as Records Centers. Larger database sizes are supported for these scenarios because their I/O patterns and typical data structure formats have been designed for, and tested at, larger scales.

For a full overview of the different white papers  - check out SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations.

In general the new scale targets for 2010 go above and beyond the ones set in 2007 but design is still important although it becomes more difficult to bring a farm down by just putting millions of docs in one library – check out It looks like you’re building a large library. Would you like help? as well as Working with large lists in SharePoint 2010 – List Throttling .

Happy SharePoint-ing

 

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BIWUG Session on SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 on December 1th

Agenda

18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch

18:30-19:30 Building a public website with SharePoint Server 2010 – a practical case – www.vib.eu

19:30-19:45 Break

19:45-20:45 Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010

Location: RealDolmen, Industriezone Zenneveld, Vaucampslaan 42, 1654 Huizingen, Belgium

Registration is now opened on the BIWUG site www.biwug.be

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SharePoint 2010–Training videos overview

SharePoint 2010 on Chopsticks Belux

• The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 1 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks)
• The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 2 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks)

SharePoint 2010 Connections event

• KEYNOTE: The Evolution of SharePoint from Two Pet Projects to a Multi-Company Ecosystem – Mike FitzMaurice
• MSC02: Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform – Steve Fox
• MSC03: Social Computing Overview – Daniel McPherson, Robin Meure, Mark van Lunenburg
• MSC04: Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 – Donald Hessing
• MSC05: Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Better Together – Jan Tielens
• MSC06: Client Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 – Jan Tielens
• MSC08: Server Free Solutions: Sandboxed and Client-Only Solutions for SharePoint 2010 – Daniel McPherson
• MSC09: FAST Search for SharePoint: Capabilities Deep Dive – Sam Hassani
• MSC11: SharePoint 2010 Search – Richard Taylor
• MSC16: SharePoint BI Overview – Mike Fitzmaurice
• MSC17: Upgrading Your 2007 Solution to 2010 – Mirjan van Olst, Serge van den Oever
• MSC18: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5 Great Things to Know! – Asif Rehmani
• MSC19: Overview: Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, Infopath and Visio – Asif Rehmani
• MSC20: Creating Data-Centric Composite Applications Using SharePoint Designer 2010 – Asif Rehmani
• MSC21: What’s New in Office 2010? – Bart Wessels
• MSC24: Managing and Sharing Rich Media in SharePoint 2010 – Donald Hessing
• MSC26: Pex – Unit Testing of SharePoint Services that Rocks! – Peli de Halleux
• MSC27: Claims-Based Identity in SharePoint 2010 – Spencer Harbar
• MSC28: SharePoint 2010 Overview and What’s new for End Users – Matthijs Hoekstra
• MSC30: Advanced Web Part Development – Jan Tielens
• MSC31: SharePoint UI Customization – Marianne van Wanrooij
• MSC35: Integrating Workflows into Backend Systems using External Data Exchange Services – Wouter van Vugt
• MSC36: Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools Extensibility – Wouter van Vugt
• Creating Code-Free Mashups with InfoPath and SharePoint Web Parts

SharePoint 2010 Advanced developer training

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform
• SharePoint 2010 UI Features
• Visual Studio & SharePoint Tools Oveview 
• Business Connectivity Services
• REST and LINQ | SharePoint 2010

TechEd 2009 Videos

• SharePoint Admins, the Reluctant DBAs. Todd Klindt of Solanite Consulting and Shane Young of SharePoint 911 discuss SQL Server for SharePoint admins.
• Following Best Practices and Avoiding Common Errors with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Development. Eric Shupps, president of BinaryWave, presents proven methodologies and common API mistakes in SharePoint Server 2007 projects.
• Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Andrew Connell of Critical Path Training demonstrates proven publishing strategies for SharePoint developers.

• Top Five Ways to Make Your End Users Heroes with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Asif Rehmani of SharePoint-eLearning.com shows how to instill best practices for your company and users with SharePoint Designer 2007.

• Go Beyond with the Business Data Catalog. Todd Baginski, enterprise solution strategist at Advaiya Inc., provides a series of demos using BDC runtime APIs and custom Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services in Silverlight applications.

• Social Networking and User Profiles for Business. Matthew McDermott, MVP with Catapult Systems Inc., explains social networking profile integration in SharePoint.

• Saving the World, One Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment at a Time: Backup and Disaster Recovery. Todd Klindt of Solanite Consulting, and Shane Young of SharePoint 911 discuss data protection and recoverability in SharePoint Server 2007.

• Automate Business Processes Using InfoPath Forms with Integrated SharePoint Designer Workflows... All without Coding! Asif Rehmani, of SharePoint-eLearning.com, provides a deep dive into Office SharePoint Designer workflows, which let ordinary business users build and validate complex data-driven forms in InfoPath.

• An Introduction to SharePoint Applications using InfoPath 2010
• Building SharePoint Applications with InfoPath 2010
• Form-Driven Mashups using InfoPath and SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 – Visual How to’s

• Visual How To: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276355.aspx
• Visual How-to Video: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=5dc5a521-3451-4445-a829-ad5a9339642c&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-to Sample: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=odcsp14h2&ReleaseId=5007
• Visual How To: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276356.aspx
• Visual How-to Video: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=efdb4d4d-1201-4a29-aa31-f63bfa1434b0&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-to Sample: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/odcsp14h2/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5008
• Visual How To: Adding SharePoint Project Items to SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg241249.aspx
• Visual How-To Video: Adding SharePoint Project Items with Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=21665af4-e7fc-4574-b9f3-9d5a08fd22c5&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-To: Creating Custom Extensions for SharePoint 2010 Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg241221.aspx
• Visual How-To Video: Creating Custom Extensions for SharePoint 2010 Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=d8c70185-6fb2-4b64-b696-921a58a575d9&from=mscomsharepoint

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Big Bang Theory and Information Management videos

• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 1 – Introduction
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 2 – The Facebook Dilemma
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 3 – The mobile exigency
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 4 – The SharePoint Paradox
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 5 – The shutterfly effect
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 6 – The black swan

MVP for another year

About a month ago I found out that I have been renewed as SharePoint Server MVP. For people who don’t know what a MVP is– here’s Microsoft’s definition:

“This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Services technical communities during the past year.”

I became an MVP in 2005 and have been working with the Belgian SharePoint community ever since – it has been a great experience and I look forward to the next year.

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Rational Guide to Multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010

Spence has an interesting series of articles about multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010 – a must read

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Planning your deployment
• 3. Example scenario and what multi tenancy brings to the party
• 4. Configuring the base infrastructure
• 5. Configuring Partitioned Service Applications
• 6. Provisioning Tenants

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Quick Tip–Accessing guest from host with VMWare Workstation

Most SharePoint 2010 developers probably use VMWare workstation (or Virtualbox). But what if you needed to access your SharePoint 2010 environment running in a VM from your host environment? I actually needed this to write a Windows Phone 7 app for SharePoint Server 2010 and since I can’t install the Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008 – I decided to use the install on my Windows 7 host and access SharePoint 2010 from there.

Quite easy – just change network settings to use VMWare Network Adapter VMNet1 (Host only) - A private network shared with the host - this way you can access the host from on your guest OS.

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Overview of SharePoint 2010 powershell cmdlets

Ever wondered how you can quickly generate an overview of the available Powershell commandlets for SharePoint 2010? Try the next command:

Get-Command –PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” | select name, definition | format-list > C:\SP2010_PowerShell_Commands.txt

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