MVP Summit and How to Configure Stress Test Projects for SharePoint 2007 using Visual Studio Team Suite 2008

Penny Coventry — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:52:00 GMT

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.

Other resources you will find useful include:

WSS and MOSS load test examples posted on codeplex as part of the SharePoint Test Data Population (SPDataPop) tool project.
Stress Testing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/02/stress-testing-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
Microsoft Press book, "Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices" by Ben Curry and Bill English, ISBN 0735625387, June 2008
Good List of Performance Counters:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/16/good-list-of-performance-counters.aspx
MOSS2007 Testing Using Visual Studio Team System 2008:
http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2008/03/10/moss2007-testing-using-visual-studio-team-system-2008.aspx
Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971.aspx
Plan for performance and capacity (Windows SharePoint Services)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288426.aspx
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb961988.aspx
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Released - behind the scenes:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/02/06/sharepoint-capacity-planning-tool-released-behind-the-scenes.aspx
SharePoint Capacity Planning Key Info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/09/capacity-planning-key-links-and-info.aspx
Scaling MySites; How Many MySites per Content DB?
http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2008/04/14/scaling-mysites-how-many-mysites-per-content-db.aspx

How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008

Penny Coventry — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:58:00 GMT

Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge and I have produced a new white paper "How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008 (RC1)" that you can find here: http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htm. We provide step by step instructions on how to:

Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008, using the 64-bit version of both products.
Join an existing farm and creating the new Web front end and application servers.
Moving the Search and Excel Calculation Services from the old Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) SharePoint Server application server to the newly installed Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) SharePoint Server application server.
Extending the Central Administratiion Web site and SSP Web sites on the newly created Windows 2008 server MOSS 2007 application server.
Removing the old Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) SharePoint Server Web front-end and application servers from the farm

Microsoft will soon be releasing a whitepaper outlining the improvements and benefits of SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 in a lot more detail - make sure you watch Joel's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/ for information of this.

Thanks to:

Ben Curry of Mindsharp for information on how to slipstream SharePoint Server service packs, http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/archive/2007/12/16/3837.aspx.
Bill Baer for information on installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008, http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/10/30/installing-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-on-windows-server-2008.aspx.

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MVP Summit and How to Configure Stress Test Projects for SharePoint 2007 using Visual Studio Team Suite 2008

How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008