SharePoint Best Practices Seminar 3 april

3 april organiseert Quest samen met Microsoft een SharePoint best practices seminar gesponsord door Quest. Super moment om met een groot aantal nationale en internationale SharePoint experts informatie uit te wisselen over ons lievelingsproduct SharePoint :)

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Join international and local SharePoint experts in Amsterdam and learn how to master your SharePoint environment. Sponsored by Quest Software and Microsoft.

Date: Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Time: 10.30 - 16.30 (Registration begins at 10.00)

UPDATE LOCATIE IS AANGEPAST NAAR:

Congrescentrum Amstelveen
Sandbergplein 24
1181 ZX Amstelveen
(map)

Cost: Free (Lunch is included)

Agenda:

10:00 Registration

10:30 Welcome and Introductions

10:40 SharePoint Successful Deployments in 10 Steps
Joel Oleson, Quest Software

11:30 SharePoint, the Social Computing Platform (Business Strategy and Adoption)
Daniel McPherson, zevenseas

12:30 Lunch

1:30 SharePoint Logical and Physical Infrastructure Fundamentals
Joel Oleson, Quest Software & Robin Meure, zevenseas

2:30 Backup Demystified
Mike Watson, Quest Software

3:30 Experts Panel and Q&A

4:30 Wrap Up

Meet the Experts:

Joel Oleson
SharePoint Expert, Quest Software

Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments. http://www.sharepointjoel.com

Mike Watson
SharePoint Expert, Quest Software
Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com

Daniel McPherson
SharePoint Business Consultant and Co-Founder, zevenseas

Daniel has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries,and in over 25 different countries. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he is a co-founder and business consultant. http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Daniel

Robin Meure
SharePoint Technical Consultant, zevenseas

Robin joined Atos Origin in 2004 and was immediately introduced to the rapidly emerging Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies At Zevenseas, Robin helps customers plan, deploy and build solutions on SharePoint, and participates actively in the broader SharePoint community though his blog and many contributions to Codeplex. He is a founding member of the Elite SharePoint Black Belts established by Microsoft in Holland to promote skills sharing among its partners. http://community.zevenseas.com/blogs/robin

Matthijs Hoekstra
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Netherlands
http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/mhoekstra

Waldek Mastykarz
SharePoint MVP
Waldek Mastykarz is a Dutch SharePoint MVP specialized in Web Content Management solutions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, web standards and accessibility. Waldek Mastykarz is a Dutch SharePoint MVP specialized in Web Content Management solutions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, web standards and accessibility. http://blog.mastykarz.nl/

Windows Server 2008 MOSS WFE will not allow large file uploads.

I had a client a couple weeks ago who upgraded from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 using the database attach method. This means the MOSS farm was built on new hardware which we chose Windows Server 2008 for. This was a very challenging upgrade for several reasons but primarly because the 2003 site database was in bad shape. Once we worked through the issues and got things up we noticed strange behavior. When uploading a large file (anything larger than 28 MB) the browser would instantly come back with a 404 error. So our first thought was check the three normal settings for large uploads.

• Central Admin > Application Management > General web application settings. By default this is 50 MB. You can increase to 2 GB.
• Then you can go into IIS. Find your web application and go to properties. Then change the IIS timeout from 120 seconds to a much larger setting.
• Upload.aspx is an application page. Application pages have their own web.config which controls their timeout. The default for these pages is 360 seconds. You need to increase this.

All of these settings apply whether you are using w2k3 or w2k8 and are covered in this kb http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925083

We made all of those changes and no change in behavior. And besides we didn't have a timeout issue because on a 27 MB file is processed for a few seconds and then uploaded no problem. On a 30 MB or greater file it failed instantly.

Todd Klindt to the rescue he pointed me at this KB944981 - You cannot upload files that are larger than 28 MB on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

So I gave it a try and it actually made things worse. What the heck? Well then I reread it. They tell you to make a change to the web.config and say just put the change in the <configuration> section. WRONG! Well kind of. You need to make the change in the <configuration> section but it has to be after the </configSections> tag. So I recommend you paste their change between </configSections> and the <SharePoint> tag.

Now everything works great. Do note their change only allows you to upload files with a size of 50 MB. If you want larger you will need to increase the maxAllowedContentLength=.

If you are going to be playing with Windows Server 2008 and SharePoint I recommend you go poke around the SharePoint and w2k8 resource center at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735844.aspx. Thanks to Emily Schroeder for the tweet on that page which she runs. J