Did you know there are best practices for SharePoint 2007 or MOSS 2007? I came across a Resource Center for SharePoint best practices by Microsoft.
Now, before you go off googling again, I thought it handy for you to read this post and visit the Microsoft link below..
Here are a list of best practices in the key areas of:
Operational Excellence, Publishing Portals, Team Collaboration Sites, Capacity Management, Search, My Sites, Developing Custom Applications
Operational Excellence
- Use 64-bit hardware, plenty of memory, and fast network cards
- Stay close: Do not put too much network distance between front-end Web servers, application servers, and database servers
- Configure front-end Web servers and application servers with performance and availability in mind
- Read details and more best practices…
Publishing Portals
- Deploy at least three front-end Web servers
- Make query-driven Web Parts efficient
- Make sure that lists and databases follow recommended limits to optimize query performance
- Read details and more best practices…
Team Collaboration Sites
- Deploy 64-bit architecture across the farm
- Plan and allocate database servers to support collaboration
- Monitor sites and content and perform clean-ups regularly
- Read details and more best practices…
Capacity Management
- Document and refine your capacity planning strategy
- Revisit as assumptions become more concrete
- Conduct rapid capacity planning early in the process
- Read details and more best practices…
Search
- Plan your deployment
- Start with a well-configured infrastructure
- Manage access by using Windows security groups
- Read details and more best practices…
My Sites
- Consider My Sites to be mini “team collaboration sites”
- Plan for My Site content databases
- Plan for My Site storage quotas
- Read details and more best practices…
Developing Custom Applications
- Best practices: Using disposable Windows SharePoint Services objects
- Best practices: Common coding issues when using the SharePoint object model
- SharePoint Products and Technologies customization best practices
- Best practices: Writing SQL syntax queries for relevant results in enterprise search
- Developing workflow solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation
- Patterns and practices SharePoint guidance
- 10 best practices for building SharePoint solutions
Read more from Microsoft:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/cc850682.aspx
Good article . Will definitely copy it to my blog.Thanks.