Building a SharePoint 2007/2010 development environment

Originally posted in Tristan Watkins blog, a very useful series of write-ups for building a sharepoint environment, here all in one place.

• Part I: Introduction and Objectives
• Part II: Design
• Part III: Host image build and performance benchmarks
• Part IV: Automated deployment
• Part V: Guest Build
• Part VI: Issues and Results

Sharepoint 2010 How To's and Tutorials

A great collection of resources for Sharepoint 2010 developers.

• How to -- Sharepoint 2010 (http://howtosharepoint.blogspot.com/)
• Sharepoint video tutorials (http://howtosharepointvideos.blogspot.com/)

Microsoft Cloud Services Architecture

Going through some articles about cloud services architectures and found this interesting to share:

Microsoft Cloud Services Architecture

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Importing SharePoint ULS and IIS Logs into SQL

Various tools exist to parse these log files but one can use Microsoft’s Log Parser command line utility to write the log files to SQL Server tables.  From there the log data can easily be analyzed and used as the data source for Reporting Services reports.  Having the log data in a single queryable data structure offers a clear advantage over picking through thousands of log files when your site is down and the pressure is on to find the root issue.


An useful article by David Jansen at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/ETL/68843/

Forms Based Authentication (FBA) for SharePoint on IIS 7

A very nice guide to enable Form Based Authentication in Sharepoint.

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