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22 May 2009

How to protect SharePoint 2007?

Well, there are a number of options, including using STSADM, backing up 12hive manually and so forth. There are 3rd party tools, and there are PowerShell scripts.

What fewer realise is that there is an alternative from Microsoft themselves called DPM, or Data Protection Manager. We use it in-house and have experienced only a few glitches - but nothing to major. My opinion is that it generally functions well and if you don't have backup and restore tools and procedures in place already for SharePoint then it is well worth a look.

But I am not a backup or operations kinda expert, so I cannot tell you if DPM is "the best out there" or even if it is "enterprise level", but I came across this blog here from Margo on "To the SharePoint" blog which was published a few days ago. They also published this whitepaper: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd252713.aspx

Enjoy...

17 May 2009

SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements

In case you missed it, Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog announced the "SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements" here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx

My 10 sec summary:
- 64bit only
- Windows Server 2008 only
- Windows SQL Server 2005 or 2008 only
- Browser support for: standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems
- No more IE6 (thank you!!)... it's history! See http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy