Planning for good SharePoint performance

From the start you should plan your SharePoint environment with performance and capacity in mind. You need to think about the choice of infrastructure and the impact it will have on performance. There are important choices to be made; for example to use physical or virtual hardware, the system specifications for the different tiers, the type of storage to use, network topology, 32-bit or 64-bit, caching algorithms, authentication protocols and tuning parameters within IIS and SQL Server.

Best Practises for SharePoint Performance

The better planned a SharePoint implementation is the less likely there will be performance or a capacity problem after it goes live. However no amount of planning can completely remove the risk of something unexpected in an environment which is complex and constantly changing. That is why ongoing performance monitoring and optimization after ‘go live' is still the best practice in order to understand what level of performance you are delivering.

• Know the actual response times delivered to each user in each location for each of the pages on your site - this means you can be proactive in spotting trends in poor performance and who is affected.
• Choose a database monitoring tool with 24x7 collection and deep drill down into the SQL being executed and the database wait states on which they are waiting - this means that you can easily identify slowdowns whenever they occur and quickly see where SQL, objects or database parameters need to be tuned and the potential saving of tuning them.
• Choose a monitoring solution with good wide coverage of the network, application, infrastructure and database - this means that you can quickly spot where a bottleneck might be occurring and correlate this with other performance indicators from other tiers.
• Optimize the content of each page to reduce roundtrips and improve response times - this is particularly important where your SharePoint farm is remote from the end users who access it. As the physical distance between the client's browser and server get larger so does network latency and the effect of latency combined with many roundtrips will mean poor page load times.

Introducing the 4D performance solution for SharePoint

The good news is that we can help you avoid the potential pain and frustration of slow SharePoint performance by applying 4D performance for SharePoint solution.

We support all versions of SharePoint including 2010 and can tailor an ideal combination of 4D performance for SharePoint modules and services to quickly meet your needs.

Find out more about 4D for SharePoint

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