I'm a bit late with this blog as this new whitepaper was on the Combined Knowledge Web site earlier this month, but I've been at the 2008 MVP Global Summit in Seattle, and may I say it was awe inspiring. It was my first MVP summit and the other SharePoint MVPs and Lawrence Lui made it an event, that I will not forget for sometime. Thank you all! Look at: "SharePoint MVPs know how to have fun .. and give constructive product feedback", for more on what it was all about.
Well back to the subject of this blog. Back in January, Steve Smith, of Combined Knowledge and myself got together and wrote the white paper, "How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008 ". Well we've got back together again to document, How To Configure a Stress Test Project, you can find the whitepaper here -> http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htm.
Now of course, stress testing SharePoint is not new. I remember James Edelen demonstrating stress testing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 using Application Centre Test (ACT) at Mindsharp Summits, which he documented here -> http://mindsharpblogs.com/james/archive/2005/03/25/429.aspx. And of course Steve has been demonstrating stress testing for some time in both his courses and user group meetings. What is new about this whitepaper is that it documents the process using Visual Studio Team Suite 2008, which he recently demonstrated at the User Group Community event.
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