Why does it take forever for SharePoint to load sometimes?

SharePoint is built on ASP.NET technology. Applications hosted through IIS, (like an ASP.NET website or SharePoint) must initially be compiled before being sent to the user. This is a process called Just-In-Time compilation. Application Pools within IIS are responsible for execution of applications (like SharePoint) they manage resources like memory, and invoke JIT compilation, [...]

SharePoint 2010 Document Coauthoring

Document co-authoring is a new feature within SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office Word, OneNote and PowerPoint 2010. When multiple users edit a document on a SharePoint site, changes saved back while editing are available to other users also editing the document.
This functionality can be disabled by checking out the document before editing. Users can [...]

SharePoint 2010 Licensing – Standard, Enterprise, FAST Search

It’s not always clear how licensing works with Microsoft, even when you visit the product page and compare editions for SharePoint 2010 you’re still left with scratching your head. To help, here’s a bullet list of things to keep in mind -

SharePoint 2010 Foundation (previously known as WSS 3.0) comes included with Windows 2008 Server [...]