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Thanks to Richard Harbridge based on Microsoft documentation spread all over the Microsoft website, he accomplished to setup a very good comparison between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

He catagorized over Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, Composites, Office 2010, Architecture, Web Services/OM, Editions and Administration.

http://www.rharbridge.com/?page_id=103

The idea of performance and capacity management is that you setup your solution according to specifications which will result into specific hardware and farm setup.

Technet has some articles which decribe several elements which are important for performance and capacity management. Keep in mind that defining a system depends not only on SharePoint 2010, but also on your solution. Did you use a lot of customisation? How are you users using the solution? Are you using external data sources? and how are you connected with these data sources? I think you get the picture….

The following articles are available:

• Hardware and software requirements
  This article lists the minimal hardware and software requirements to install and run SharePoint 2010.
• Technical diagrams
  Simply a lot of diagrams describing different setups of SharePoint farms and use of feature sets.
• Technical case studies
  This include information about environments. Think of specifications of hardware, topologies and configuration. But also health and performance data, database content, indexes and external data sources.
• Software boundaries and limits
  This will help you understand performance and capacity limits of the product. Keep in mind that this depends on your solution. The capacity elements which are addressed are boundaries, thresholds and limits.
• Capacity and sizing
  A single whitepaper describing elements to understand targets, data architecture, hardware support versus number of users, monitoring and adjusting your environment.
• Capacity test results and recommendations
  This will include a set of white papers describing the impact of specific feature sets. This will include things like characteristics, test results, recommendations and troubleshooting performance and scalability.

I’m exited about going to speak at Cairo Code Camp on the 27th and 28th of februari 2010. I will be doing two sessions at this code camp around the new Microsoft product SharePoint 2010. It is still in beta 2 but there is a lot of stuff to talk about.

The sessions are:

BCS usage and Web Part development in SharePoint 2010
The presentation will go into usage of Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 to connect to external data sources and everything you need to know when developing Web Parts in SharePoint 2010. This will be supported with some live demo’s.
Level: Beginner / Medior

Architecture of SharePoint 2010
This presentation will show us around infrastructure and software architecture decisions made in SharePoint 2010. Elements like requirements, metadata services, digital assets, farm configuration, services, application platform support and more.
Level: Medior

I’m looking forward to meet the technical people in Cairo and have a great weekend with full of great technical stuff and information.