Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites

Contents

• Introduction to Creating High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites
• Benchmarking a SharePoint Server Publishing Site
• Resolving Common Coding Performance Issues
• Taxonomy: Designing Site Structure and Authorization
• Improving Page Load Time in Publishing Sites

Microsoft introduced the capability to create, host, and maintain content-centric Internet-facing sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Web Content Management (WCM) and publishing sites. Previous versions of SharePoint, either Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, were not designed to be Internet-facing solutions. Internet-facing solutions have some requirements that are different from those that are not Internet-facing. When building Internet-facing sites, developers and designers must handle higher concurrent client requests, consider multiple user agents, and consider multiple connection speeds—among other things that are not usually as critical in internally facing sites.