FEBRUARY 28th 2008 meeting

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FEBRUARY 28TH 2008MEETING

Arizona SharePoint Professionals Group


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Community News Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server

2008* Launch Office SharePoint Conference 2008 (3-3-08) (Sold Out) TechEd (6-10-08) MOSS Faceted Search SPConfigurator Deployment Guide and Checklist SDK Updates for SP1 & Post SP1 Hotfix Next AZSPG - 3-27-08 Office Interactive Developer Map SharePoint Inventory Asset Tracker

https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=1600&wa=wsignin1.0


MOSS Faceted Search Grouping search results by

facet Displaying a total number of

hits per facet value Refining search results by

facet value Update of the facet menu

based on refined search criteria

Displaying of the search criteria in a Bread Crumbs

Ability to exclude the chosen facet from the search criteria

Flexibility of the Faceted search configuration and its consistency with MOSS administration

http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch


Capacity Planning Tool RTM SharePoint Capacity Planning Model

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DBEE0227-D4F7-48F8-85F0-E71493B2FD87&displaylang=en

Microsoft Capacity Planner http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sccp/bb969059.aspx






http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sccp/bb969059.aspx




Deployment Guide and Checklist http://

office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102552101033

http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102552101033





SDK Updates for SP1 SharePoint Server 2007 SDK v1.3

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

WSS SDK v1.3 http://

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en

Post SP1 Hotfixes WSS - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 MOSS - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941274





http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en




http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422





Office Interactive Developer Map http://

msdn.microsoft.com/office/devmap

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/devmap

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/devmap


March Meeting Community News What You Need to Know: Windows 2008 &

WSS 3.0 How to do team development with TFS,

WSS, MOSS & Visual Studio Search Server 2008 and MOSS Search

Enhancement Pack Rapid-Fire for Five – 5 Tips and Tricks from

the field


Introducing…


Let’s Talk About Deployment…


Brief Poll How many of you are already deployed

on a version of SharePoint? How many of you are using SharePoint

for more than intranet collaboration? Extranet? Internet?

How many of you have more than 100 users? 1,000 users? 10,000 users? 100,000 users?

How long did you spend planning? 1 month? 3 months? 6 months? More?


Pitfall #1 Know why you’re deploying SharePoint!

Collaboration Application platform Extranet Content Management Search


Pitfall #2 Don’t underestimate information

architecture! Landing pages Search pages Departmental or Functional or Both? Site map(s) Content types and metadata


Pitfall #3 Don’t forget the basics

Communications SLAs Change management Support Cost Team Sponsorship – high-level or grassroots


Pitfall # 4 Operations, operations, operations

how did we forget operations! Backup and Restore…make sure it works! Counters Alerts Events Patching Deploying


Objects and Counters Objects Excel Calculation Services Excel Services Web Front End Excel Web Access Office Server Search Gatherer Office Server Indexer Catalogs Shared Service Provider Web Service Web Service Cache Counters Document Conversions Pending Conversions Document Conversions Incoming E-Mail Messes

Process Excel Calculation Services Active Requests Excel Calculation Services Average Request

Processing Time Excel Calculation Services Cached Charts

Requested/sec Excel Calculation Services Average Session Time Excel Calculation Services Current Size of memory

cache Excel Calculation Services Workbook Cache Size Excel Calculation ServicesRendered Charts

Requested per second Excel Calculation ServicesRequests received per

second Excel Calculation ServicesRequest with error per

second Excel Calculation Services Sessions per second Excel Services Web Front End Active Requests Excel Services Web Front End Average Requests

Processing Time Excel Services Web Front End Requests Per Second Excel Web Access Average Chart Image Request

Time Excel Web Access Chart Image Requests Per Second Excel Web Access Request Time InfoPath Forms Services # Business Logic

Assemblies in Memory InfoPath Forms Services # of Cached Form

Templates InfoPath Forms Services # of Form Templates in

memory InfoPath Forms Services # of Forms in Memory InfoPath Forms Services Avg. Data Adapter Query

Duration InfoPath Forms Services Avg. Data Connection

Submit Duration InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Query

Completed Rate InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Query

Failure Rate InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Query

Started Rate InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Submit

Completed Rate InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Submit

Started Rate InfoPath Forms Services Data Connection Submit

Failure Rate InfoPath Forms Services Session Started Rate InfoPath Forms Services Transactions Complete Rate InfoPath Forms Services Transactions Started Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Accessing Robots.txt

file Office Server Search Gatherer Active Queue Length Office Server Search Gatherer Admin Clients

Office Server Search Gatherer All Notificatoins received

Office Server Search Gatherer Delayed Documents Office Server Search Gatherer Document Entries Office Server Search Gatherer Documents Delayed

Retry Office Server Search Gatherer Filtered Office Server Search Gatherer Filtered Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Documents

Successfully Filtered Office Server Search Gatherer Documents

Successfully Filtered Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Ext. Notifications

Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Ext. Notifications

Received Office Server Search Gatherer Filter Objects Office Server Search Gatherer Filter Process Created Office Server Search Gatherer Processes Office Server Search Gatherer Processes Max Office Server Search Gatherer Filtering Threads Office Server Search Gatherer Heartbeats Office Server Search Gatherer Heartbeats Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Idle Threads Office Server Search Gatherer Notification Sources Office Server Search Gatherer Notifications Rate Office Server Search Gatherer Performance Level Office Server Search Gatherer reason to back off

(love that one!!) Office Server Search Gatherer Robots.txt Requests Office Server Search Gatherer server objects Office Server Search Gatherer server objects

created Office Server Search Gatherer servers currently

unavaible Office Server Search Gatherer unavailable Office Server Search Gatherer Stemmers cached Office Server Search Gatherer system IO Traffic rate Office Server Search Gatherer Threads Accessing

Network Office Server Search Gatherer Threads blocked due

to back off Office Server Search Gatherer Threads in plug-ins Office Server Search Gatherer Time Outs Office Server Search Gatherer Word Breakers

cached Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Active

Connections (AnchorProject, Portal_Content) Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Document

Filtered Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Index Size Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Indexes Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Merge Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Merge

(flush) - Count Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Merge

(flush) – Speed Average Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Merge

(flush) – Speed Last Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L0 Merges

(flushes) Now Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L1 Merge

Count Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L1 Merge

Speed Average Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L1 Merge

Speed Last Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L1 Merges

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Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L2 Merge Count

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L2 Merge Speed Average

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs L2 Merge Speed Last

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Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Master Index Level

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Master Merge Progress

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Master Merges Now

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Master Merges to Date

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Out-of-date Document ID Files

Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Persistent Indexes

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Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Queries Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Queries

Failed Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Queries

Succeeded Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Shadow

Merge Levels Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Shadow

Merge Levels Threshold Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Unique Keys Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Up-to-date

Document ID Files Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Work Items

Created Office Server Search Indexer Catalogs Work Items

Deleted Project Server:QueueGeneral (and a lot more Project

server, but not here) Shared Services Provider DL Import Rate Shared Services Provider Number of DLs imported Shared Services Provider Number of Users imported Shared Services Provider Personal Site Latency Shared Services Provider Personal Site Throughput Shared Services Provider Profile Sync Change

Process Rate Shared Services Provider Profile Sync Content

Database Process Count Shared Services Provider Profile Sync Copy Rate Shared Services Provider Profile Sync Count

Columns Created Shared Services Provider Profile Sync Site Collection

Process Count Shared Services Provider Public Site Latency Shared Services Provider Public Site Throughput Shared Services Provider SSP Job Excecution Rate Shared Services Provider Usage data processing

time (ms) Shared Services Provider User profile import rate SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing flushes / sec SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing hit count SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing hit ratio SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing hits / sec SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing miss count SharePoint Publishing Cache Publishing misses / sec SharePoint Publishing Cache Total Blob Disk Size SharePoint Publishing Cache Total Blob index writes SharePoint Publishing Cache Total number of cache

compactions SharePoint Publishing Cache Total number of cache

flushes SharePoint Publishing Cache Total number of

objects added SharePoint Publishing Cache Total objects discards SharePoint Publishing Cache Total Objects


Events Crawler cannot read from

registry Crawler exception Failed to load index Failed to load protocol

handler Failed to load word

breaker Index is corrupt Instance of search could

not be initialized Insufficient disk space Internal plug-in error Locale ID has changed Master merge error Plug-in failed to connect

to SQL Server SQL Server database

error Event handler failed to

load Failed to load safe control

assembly path Access denied for writing

to disk Access denied for writing

to registry An error occurred while

communicating with the SMTP server

Cannot connect to the SMTP host

Cannot resolve name of the outbound SMTP server

Unable to create a log file Unable to write to trace

log Alternate access

mappings update failed Failed to create a

SharePoint site Insufficient permissions to

write to the configuration data cache

Service instance provisioning failed

SharePoint Administration services is disabled

Cannot connect to SQL Server

Insufficient SQL Server database permissions

SQL Server database is full

SQL Server database

login failed Backup failed due to

insufficient permissions Backup failed due to

timer job failure The second stage recycle

bin has reached 90% capacity

The application pool account must be registered as a Kerberos service provider

Unable to load authentication provider

The Active Directory organization unit registered in Windows SharePoint Services does not exist

The application pool account has insufficient permissions to add user accounts to Active Directory

The application pool account has insufficient permissions to read user data from Active Directory

Administration site for the Shared Services Provider is missing

Enabling features failed on some sites

Enabling features on existing sites failed

Failed to connect to parent server farm

Shared Services Provider provisioning failed

Shared Services Provider synchronization failed

Site Directory scan job failed

The Microsoft Single Sign-On Services is not running

The Office Document Conversion Launcher Services is not running

The Office Document Conversions Load Balancer Services is not running

The Office SharePoint Server Search is not running

A Content Query Web Part failed to return content

Spelling checker failed to load

The page editing toolbar detected missing or corrupted configuration files in the Master Page Gallery

Cannot initialize disk-based cache because the specified location is inaccessible

Could not parse the regular expression for disk-based cache

The disk-based cache exceeded the specified limit

The location specified for the disk-based cache is no longer accessible

The object cache exceeded its maximum assigned size

A site copy operation has failed, leaving the site structure in an unusual state

A site deletion operation has failed, leaving the site structure in an unusual state

A site move operation has failed, leaving the site structure in an unusual state

Error communicating with Excel Calculation Services

Excel Calculation Services is not running locally

Excel Calculation Services not available

Incorrect URL for Excel Calculation Services

Invalid File Access method configured

Invalid SessionID in the request

Maximum memory configured for Excel Calculation Services has been exceeded

Memory allocation failed Single Sign-On failure

SSL is required but not configured

Unable to delegate credentials

Unable to establish a connection with Excel Calculation Services

Unauthorized attempt to access a session

Workbook disk cache cannot be created

Workbook disk cache is full

A form template’s business logic caused an OutOfMemory exception

Exception occurred while processing an InfoPath form template request

InfoPath form templates have conflicting business logic assembly identities

InfoPath Forms Services business logic attempted to store a nonserializable object

InfoPath Forms Services business logic exceeded the maximum limit of operations

InfoPath Forms Services business logic exception occurred while loading a form template

InfoPath Forms Services calculations exceeded the maximum limit

InfoPath Forms Services cannot find or load ifsFileNames.xml

InfoPath Forms Services event counter mismatch

InfoPath Forms Services failed to load a form template

InfoPath Forms Services found an unexpected session state version

InfoPath Forms Services postback failure

InfoPath Forms Services rules exceeded the maximum limit

InfoPath Forms Services user has exceeded the

maximum number of actions per postback

InfoPath Forms Services user has exceeded the maximum session state size

InfoPath Forms Services was running business logic when ASP.NET request timed out

User has exceeded the maximum allowable number of postbacks

Database out of space Error backing up registry

to Shared Services Provider database

Failure to commit to SQL Instance of search could

not be initialized Insufficient disk space Locale ID has changed SQL Server Database

Error Crawl failed because no

contact e-mail is set Crawler cannot read from

registry Crawler exception Encountered errors while

indexing anchor text Failed to load index Failed to load protocol

handler Failed to load word

breaker Index is corrupt Internal plug-in error Internal plug-in error –

Consolidator Master merge error Plug-in failed to connect

to SQL Server Publication of ranking

information failed Propagation failed to

communicate with a query server

Propagation of the content index paused because of a lagging query server

Query server removed from rotation

The last query server was

removed from rotation Error adding enterprise

application definition Error adding enterprise

application definition - Consolidator

Error deleting enterprise application definition

Error deleting enterprise application definition - Consolidator

Error retrieving credentials

Error retrieving credentials - Consolidator

Error retrieving cryptographic sign

Error retrieving cryptographic sign – Consolidator

Failed to load Single Sign-On configuration settings

Internal Single Sign-On service error

Microsoft Single Sign-On service failed to start

Microsoft Single Sign-On service failed to stop

Remote Procedure Call service failed to start

Remote Procedure Call service failed to stop

Single Sign-On audit failure

Audience Compilation failed

Content Database Synchronization failed

Membership Import failed My Site Creation failure Profile Import Failed Site Synch failed Sweep Synch failed Synch Job Scheduler

failed User Profile Commit

failure User Profile Property

Conversion failed


Pitfall #5 Don’t underestimate security and how

long it might take Kerberos is hard! Managing groups is hard! Using non-AD authentication source is hard!


Pitfall #6 Governance is not all it’s cracked up to

be! Governance is a great idea Creating a governance plan is like having a

cavity filled without novocain Don’t forget the basics

Managing changes and customization Retention policies Provisioning and de-provisioning….including

users!


Governance Resources


http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=92333&clcid=0x409

http://www.quest.com/sharepoint


Steps to a Successful Deployment Consistency of platform, browsers,

collaboration and enterprise search strategy.

Manage as centrally as possible with a tight team with a means to communicate to the Cxos that have a vested interest.

Have a killer backup strategy that meets the needs of your business and make sure it works before day one.

End-user training and education in addition to good content and search is the key to end user adoption.

Have a Governance and Information Management Plan. Branding consistency with a corporate style guide and consistent taxonomy. Make approved master pages available in site galleries for consistency which will inform users they are on the corporate Intranet.

Enforce workflows and approval on document centers and pages where official documentation comes together.

Leverage version history and version control to maintain a history and master document that all can refer to.

Life cycle managed site collections, and document libraries with information management policies such as content types with auditing and expiration.

Properly secure corporate assets. Sites with (PII) personally identifiable information should be appropriately flagged and secured and audited.

A corporate browse and search strategy for the enterprise will ensure you are making the most out of your intranet assets as well as encourage culture change, best practices and adoption.

Platform Usage Policies and development and test environments ensure only the code you want to introduce follows corporate guidelines and will ensure the environment is supportable and able to maintain SLAs (Service Level Agreements).

FEBRUARY 28th 2008 meeting

Documents

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comofficedevmap http

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metadata http

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