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Backup Management for SQL Server
EMC will be at TechEd this year talking about and showing all sorts of great tools and utilities. One of these is their back solution for SQL Server – in the Networker line. Networker provides backups at the transaction level and makes sure you have the information you need for recovery. EMC’s products are built for enterprise-class environments and bring incredible leverage to managing these multi-server environments. Check out the Networker options – and download a free trial. One thing you’ll quickly see is that this is a tool that applies across environments, making it one fewer tool you have to learn for each different environment. Get more information here.
SharePoint Help and Guidelines
Well, we’ll soon be adding SharePoint resources to the site – and I wanted to start things off with a call for both authors (please let me know if you’re interested at swynk@sswug.org) and for what you’ve found to be your top *2* things you wished someone had told you about SharePoint before you started using it. These can be good or challenging things — I’d just like to start a discussion about the basics and things you’ve learned, things to look out for from others, etc.
I’ve heard a lot from people talking about a need to better understand and estimate storage requirements for SharePoint – how do you tell how much space you’ll need, how much that massive library of documents will "cost" in terms of space, etc. What are the best practices and guidelines when it comes time to size a SharePoint installation? I’ve heard more than once that the databases can get large quickly and this means you’ll need to be paying close attention to the standard SQL Server growth items – disk space, database size, transaction log sizes and of course backup destinations and media selections.
My question – what are the two things you wish you’d known when you started working with SharePoint? Drop me a note, let me know. And, of course, if you’d be interested in writing articles, or in speaking at the upcoming SharePoint conference (or both), please let me know that as well.
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