Improve SharePoint Performance for Remote Workers

If SharePoint Isn't Fast & Responsive, People Won't Use It

As workforces become more and more decentralized, IT managers must learn to meet the challenges of supporting globally distributed workforces. Unfortunately, many have taken applications that were originally designed to run on a LAN and made them accessible to remote workers over a WAN without making any other changes. This often causes user response times to increase dramatically, throughput will fall, users typically will become frustrated, and the solution becomes inefficient. You went to a lot of trouble to implement SharePoint. Will that all go to waste when users avoid using it because of bottlenecks and bandwidth problems?

This is where configurations to reduce (optimize) WAN bandwidth use and minimize the effects of latency are highly desirable. This white paper shows how HP Blade Servers and f5 Web Accelerator, a traffic management device can result in a significant increase in user-perceived performance while at the same time decreasing the load on the W front-end servers (WFE).

The key benefit of this configuration is reduction of the negative effects of the WAN on applications and expanded use of ECM and collaboration infrastructures for remote users. Learn how to implement this beneficial configuration in your SharePoint environment.