Archive for July, 2009

In honor of Sys admin Day my post today is a little bit more technical and I want to go over the scalability of a SharePoint Farm deployment.

Microsoft actually has done a good job with making the scalability limits available for SharePoint, which is important seeing the growth SharePoint is going through. 

California’s newly passed “Electronic Discovery Act” or Assembly Bill #5, now brings California civil litigation eDiscovery into the realm of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Going forward, parties involved in civil litigation and discovery in the state of California have several new requirements to consider in reference to electronically stored information (ESI) including the meet and confer session, accessible verses inaccessible data, format of ESI production among others.

Microsoft positions SharePoint as a document and information sharing platform for companies. 

SharePoint Team Services provides templates for setting up a Web site so that workgroups can share documents, calendars, announcements, postings, host blogs and wikis among other things.

SharePoint Portal Server is used to build intranet portals and share documents. The SharePoint system is a very powerful platform that will become a staple for most business entities.

 Not all archiving and recovery solutions capture and manage SharePoint’s custom metadata, and this prevents them from being able to restore advanced SharePoint data structures, as is the case of SharePoint Workflows.

Mimosa’s NearPoint for SharePoint provides full integrity recovery for workflows even if the task and workflow history lists have been deleted or damaged on the recovery destination.

There, I said it.  Its a mouth full and the first few times you might stumble over it, but this is a very important thing that many SharePoint admins forget about. 

The problem case is that SharePoint data is different than other data, it isn’t stale, it aren’t just fixed blobs.  Many vendors take the shortcut and treat it that way as that has been working for them with other applications.