Guidelines To Avoid Mistakes With Sharepoint

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Microsoft SharePoint is a technology or a platform for effective communication and document sharing between the team of people in the office.

Microsoft SharePoint is different and better than other similar tools available in the market because it offers much more enhanced security, feature set, advanced user interface, and also because of its integration with Microsoft Office.
Some important guidelines to avoid pitfalls With SharePoint 2010 are discussed below -

1] One of the most necessary initial steps is the planning for authentication, performance, capacity, and the future growth. SharePoint is too complex and therefore full-fledge planning at the initial stage is important. Working with SharePoint may look simple in the start but gradually with time it will start getting complex. It is vital to know where you want to go from the start with Microsoft SharePoint Development.

2] Defining Limit to the total data storage is very critical or users will constantly add new content to the data store. "Quotas" allows users to ...
... maintain a quota of site collections to keep the content stored in SharePoint relevant and fresh. It is always advisable to start with a small quota template like of 1 GB and then grow further when required.

3] Recycle bin management is very important as it consumes almost 50% of the SharePoint's total quota size. If its management is not done in a proper manner then the quota will continue to grow out of control. It sounds a very small matter in the start but actually they deserve careful consideration. There are two stages in recycle bin, where in the first stage it stores upto 30 days before deleting them and in the second stage files are deleted according to the capacity of the data store and not according to the date they have arrived.

4] SharePoint 2010 is scalable and flexible, but it also has certain limitations which are important to understand for long time planning. Microsoft provides certain guidelines about the boundaries and limitations of SharePoint. It's always good to stay upto 50% of Microsoft recommended limits and boundaries at the starting level.

5] Most important reason behind the poor performance is the imperfectly designed data storage architectures. To maintain the quality performance level, it is important that proper planning for the data store needs is done. Moreover, SQL is considered as the heart of SharePoint, and so its necessary to keep it simple and healthy.

These guidelines will help to smoothly carry Microsoft SharePoint 2010 services with minimum administrative resources.

Softweb Solutions is an expert consultant of SharePoint 2010 to provide end to end SharePoint solutions from the process of planning to the design to implementation. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com to know more about our quality SharePoint services.