SharePoint Capacity and Performance Planning

Joel Oleson last year posted an article on capacity and performance planning guidelines for both SharePoint 2003 and 2007, a very useful reference for the most important capacity metrics.

And on TechNet you can find a chapter all about performance and capacity planning for SharePoint 2007 providing a lot of detail on this subject.

Add link to People Search for Author name in search results

The SharePoint 2007 Search results return the name of the Author of each document in the results, but this name is not clickable and thus you can not easily drill down to the Author.

You can change the XSL for the Search results and link the name of the author to the People Search of SharePoint. Follow these steps:

1. Go to your SharePoint search results page (results.aspx) and click Site Actions, Edit Page
2. Click Edit next to the Search Core Results web part and select Modify Shared Web Part
3. In the toolpane on the right click the XSL Editor button
4. Select all XSL code from the pop-up window and replace with the code that can be found here...
5. Click Save and OK
6. Click Publish on the editing toolbar at the top

Now all author names should link to the Search page!

Internet Explorer crashes when you try to open an Office document in SharePoint 3.0

Microsoft has made a hotfix available for an issue that might crash your browser when opening a document from a SharePoint 2007 site in Office 2007.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true, in the order in which they are presented:
• You install a Microsoft Office 2003 product on the computer.
• You install one or more 2007 Office system programs on the computer.
• You repair or update the installation of an Office 2003 product.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888