So we've all made some New Resolutions and most of us by now have probably broken them all. From an IT perspective, there's always things we'd like to improve or make better. Especially when it comes to SharePoint.
New Year, New IT Resolution # 1: Speed up SharePoint
According to Microsoft market research, 78% of all Fortune 500 companies use SharePoint in some form or another - whether it's for internal file and document sharing, to host their Intranet or to run their Web Site on.
Enterprises choose between the growing popularity of SharePoint Online provided with Office 365 and the more traditional on premises solution for more complex deployments. In some cases, enterprises deploy a hybrid solution with some of both.
User experience of SharePoint can vary dramatically depending on a number of different things. Here are three top tips to make sure it stays healthy and runs fast....just like that marathon you are training for!!
Tip #1 - Run Faster
When your applications suffer from bandwidth or latency challenges (common when running or accessing applications across a WAN or when access applications from the cloud), considering a WAN-optimized solution has many benefits. You can tune your deployment to handle the toughest locations around the globe without having to spend endless cash on upgraging bandwidth and circuits.
One of the added benefits of WAN-optimization with Riverbed is that you get the built-in Quality of Service (QoS) traffic shaping capability and the ability to send valuable deep packet inspection (DPI) flow traffic to Riverbed's SteelCentral suite for monitoring and troubleshooting.
Tip #2 - Give up those slow pages
Not all pages are slow with SharePoint Online or On-Premises but the ones that are could be mission-critical for your business. Knowing what those pages are, who manages them, and who accesses them will save you a ton of time and resources rather than playing a guessing game. You need to have a high level overview of page times, page views, and what users or IP conversations are impacted by the network, the server and sometimes the code itself.
Tip #3 - Get to know your applications better!
One of the most common complaints for SharePoint is the SQL database and the execution of customized .NET code. Being able to take a deep dive into the code and finding out what tier, what transaction, and what user was impacted by slow response time will help fix any mean time to resolution issues. When you have all the transactions for all the tiers for all users at one-second intervals, you never have to reproduce the issue, you have it all at your fingertips.
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