SharePoint Survival

David Franklin of B2b Technologies spoke at our MOSSmosis meeting here in Huntsville a couple of weeks ago. He did a great job. Here are some of the main points I managed to write down:

 A recommended best practice is to sen data in through the web service back to the database.

Linked data sources take columns from different data sources. These data sources often don’t work. They often generate a general fault protection error.

To get creative with web parts, learn as much as you can about XSLT. You are not limited to the default style coding; you can override the code in SharePoint Designer.

Always limit the number of records in web parts that search millions of records. Need I say more?

You can export web parts with data views.

http://www.codeplex.com/SLK read on

The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer gives you detailed reports so you can plan for better performance, scalability, and uptime. Best Practices Analyzer read on

I just like keeping this list somewhere and my blog is a great place. :) EasyCleaner: for removing unneeded registry files so that you can speed ... read on

SharePoint Learning Guide read on

Part I The Stylesheeta Part II The XSLT read on

To manage overload of WFEs and slower services, you can move services to a different server. For example, you can stop the WSS 3.0 search ... read on

 Installing The minimum hardware requirements are as follows: Dual processor 2.5 GHz clock speed 2 GB of RAM recommended The minimum software requirements are as follows: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with ... read on

This add-in works with Excel 2007 to allow you to synchronize data in a table with a list on a SharePoint site.   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=25836e52-1892-4 e17-ac08-5df13cfc5295&DisplayLang=en   The following link displays ... read on

From Microsoft Technet: "The SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool allows IT professionals to inventory all of the computers in the network and identify servers that have SharePoint ... read on