Luca Bandinelli

Find IT pro-focused how-to training and walkthrough videos with this interactive course about SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, plus deployment and performance/scalability.

This article describes the best practices for enterprise search. Unless otherwise noted, this article applies to both SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Search Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 is used for a broad set of applications and solutions, either stand-alone or in concert with other systems. To achieve this flexibility, the platform supports lots of possible architectures and configurations. Some parts of the system are well-known, but we still see variances to these parts. This article focuses on the top configuration best practices that you should consider, such as front-end Web server configuration, database configuration, servicing… Show more

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 is used for a broad set of applications and solutions, either stand-alone or in concert with other systems. To achieve this flexibility, the platform supports lots of possible architectures and configurations. Some parts of the system are well-known, but we still see variances to these parts. This article focuses on the top configuration best practices that you should consider, such as front-end Web server configuration, database configuration, servicing, and patching. Show less

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is fully supported when you deploy it in a virtual environment that is supported by Windows Server 2008 or by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. SharePoint Server 2010 is also supported for virtualization technologies that are accredited by the Server Virtualization Validation Program (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=125649) environment.

The best practices in this article are ordered based on the sequence in which they would apply as you… Show more

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is fully supported when you deploy it in a virtual environment that is supported by Windows Server 2008 or by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. SharePoint Server 2010 is also supported for virtualization technologies that are accredited by the Server Virtualization Validation Program (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=125649) environment.

The best practices in this article are ordered based on the sequence in which they would apply as you move from creating a virtual machine to deploying SharePoint Server. Show less

This article describes availability in general, costs and challenges for availability in a SharePoint Products and Technologies environment, and strategies and solutions that you can use in the environment.

This article describes the typical characteristics and best practices for publishing portals based on Office SharePoint Server 2007

This article describes the best practices for Enterprise Search. Unless otherwise noted, this article applies to both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008

The purpose of this blog entry is to tell you about the new federated search functionality that is part of the Infrastructure Update and how it can help you pull search results together in environments where multiple farms are deployed geographically

The purpose of this blog entry is to tell you about the new guidance that our team recently published around deploying Office SharePoint Server globally

This white paper provides information and guidelines for using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 in scenarios where content is managed across different languages. It details most of the functionality provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007 and suggests how to use it to manage multilingual scenarios. It also provides examples for creating custom Web Parts by using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and how to configure and manage them by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, the… Show more

This white paper provides information and guidelines for using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 in scenarios where content is managed across different languages. It details most of the functionality provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007 and suggests how to use it to manage multilingual scenarios. It also provides examples for creating custom Web Parts by using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and how to configure and manage them by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, the next generation of Web designer tools specifically designed for SharePoint sites. Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 features and functionality, and how they add value to the end-user experience, are also described Show less