SPC 2008 Day 2

The sessions I went to today were excellent.

The day started with a session by Ben Robb on automating build process of SharePoint solutions. Ben's build routine actually generated an install.bat file that contained the proper STSADM commands. This is a really interesting idea.

Next I attend an excellent session by James Petrosky about Performance / Optimization Strategies for MOSS. I learned about the 3 types of cache options (very similar to existing Content Management Server cache options) and how to tune them.

Next I got to check out a session by Joel Olsen and Shane Young. This was another excellent session with the main takeaway for me being avoid Content Deployment (they didn't actually say that, but came very close). This is critical for me because content deployment is critical to my companies SharePoint implementation. We could potentially be pushing between 1 - 22 GB of content a day. Needless to say I'm convinced that Content Deployment is not right for us.

Finally I got to listen to Sean Squires and David Johnson talk about how Microsoft IT implemented internal portals with SharePoint 2007. Really informative information with a nice sprinkling of lessons learned. They do a LOT with the content query web part.

The night finished up with a party at the Museum of Flight.