SharePoint Best Practices for capacity management

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The following article Best Practices for capacity management was recently published on the SharePoint Server TechCenter.

Some highlights that are also applicable to the Project Server world are:

  • Capacity planning should be revisited repeatedly in all phases of a project as assumptions become more concrete and more detailed hardware and configuration decisions have to be made. Plan accordingly.

  • Be familiar with the tested Office SharePoint Server scenarios

  • Use 64-bit server versions wherever possible to enable scale-up scenarios and improve performance . Future versions of Office SharePoint Server will only support 64-bit hardware and operating systems (<- this is also true for Project Server)

  • Plan the monitoring rules that you will use to trigger the appropriate scale-out and scale-up options.

  • Be sure to stress test customized platforms before they go into production.