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Nothing in the ULS Logs

So have you ever heard this “There is Nothing in the ULS Logs” or better (worse) yet you have experienced it. Yea me too, it’s a real bummer and your next step is to typically crank up the ULS logging verbosity and crossing your fingers. Sometimes you...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2012 1:53 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, Debugging, Troubleshooting, Tools

Troubleshooting SharePoint’s Page Output Caching

As a follow up to my previous post “When Page Output Caching Does Not Output” I have recorded a video which actually walks you through the steps and issues which I documented in this previous post. So for those of you whom don’t like to read all that...

Published Mon, May 05 2012 8:41 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, ASP.Net, Troubleshooting

VMWhere VM Manager

I have a 16GB Lenovo laptop which I use in my daily work. It runs Windows 7 and while you can install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 I choose never to do that (you can read more here about why I don’t use Windows 7 as my SharePoint development platform...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2012 9:57 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Development, SharePoint, Tools

MS11-100 Puts the Breaks On Page Output Caching

Back in December Microsoft released a patch they called MS11-100 which addressed a vulnerability in the .Net Framework. In addition to correcting the original issue it introduced a regression which breaks SharePoint’s Page Output Caching. As mentioned...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 9:15 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint

When Page Output Caching Does Not Output

SharePoint’s Page Output Caching can offer a massive performance boost to publishing sites but only when its working and working correctly. One of the problems I have seen is when some administrators turn on Page Output Caching they just assume it works...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 11:28 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, Troubleshooting

SPC11 Presentations By the Numbers

A few observations after downloading the Power Point presentations from last week’s SharePoint Conference 2011 217 Power Point presentations totaling 1.12 GB Average size for a PPT presentation is 5.5 MB The smallest presentation had a file size of 468K...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2011 9:49 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, General

SharePoint UserInfo Table Population Tool

In a previous post I spoke about how importance of pre-populating SharePoint’s Content Database’s UserInfo table with users for landing/root (and/or very popular) sites just before a large release of a new SharePoint web application. While I did mention...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2011 1:26 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, User Profiles

Introduce Users Into the UserInfo Table

When an authenticated user, whom has never visited a site collection, first visits a site there are a number of tables within the Content database which must be updated. This activity can be expensive and performance can suffer when the site collection...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2011 7:57 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, User Profiles

Fabulous Support for the FAB40 on SharePoint 2010

As most of you will know the SharePoint Product Group (PG) released a set of templates for WSS 3.0, known as the FAB40, to assist in addressing common business scenarios. These templates for WSS 3.0 can be downloaded in a single package here . But for...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2011 4:03 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint

We Got a Situation With The Federation

Over the last week my team has received reports from customers running both MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 that Federated Search Results are no longer working. The Federated location in question seems to be centered around Bing/live.com. I setup a test...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2011 8:13 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, Search

A Search SQL Index Issue

Ran into an issue the other day on SharePoint 2010 Search when configuring Managed Properties, specifically I was setting the MaxCharactersInPropertyStoreIndex value on a Managed Property. This is an integer value and is documented here . The maximum...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 11:23 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, Search

The User Profile Service Heats up With a June CU Regression

Just in time for summer break here in the US the SharePoint product team has released a good number of fixes for SharePoint 2010. Service Pack 1 and the June Cumulative Update (CU) is now available for download. These are fairly substantial updates when...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2011 11:56 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, User Profiles

SharePoint TechFest - Dallas

Today I had the great privilege of speaking at the Dallas SharePoint TechFest which was held this year in the new Irving Convention Center. I did an hour long talk on SharePoint 2010 Health and Monitoring and I was asked by several folks afterwards to...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 6:44 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Health & Usage, SharePoint

Extending The SharePoint 2010 Health & Usage - Part 4: Writing a Custom Usage Receiver

This is the 4th article and last article in a series where I have been discussing the extensibility offered with the SharePoint 2010 Usage and Health services. If you have read all the prior articles to this point then bravo for you! I really hope this...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 10:29 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Development, Health & Usage, SharePoint

Extending The SharePoint 2010 Health & Usage - Part 3: Writing Custom Reports

This is the third article of a 4 part series where I discuss the extensibility of the new Health and Usage Services built into SharePoint 2010. In the second article we created a custom Usage Provider which collected download information and stored it...

Published Wed, May 05 2011 4:53 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Health & Usage, SharePoint

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Troubleshooting SharePoint’s Page Output Caching

VMWhere VM Manager

MS11-100 Puts the Breaks On Page Output Caching

When Page Output Caching Does Not Output

SPC11 Presentations By the Numbers

SharePoint UserInfo Table Population Tool

Introduce Users Into the UserInfo Table

Fabulous Support for the FAB40 on SharePoint 2010

We Got a Situation With The Federation

A Search SQL Index Issue

The User Profile Service Heats up With a June CU Regression

SharePoint TechFest - Dallas

Extending The SharePoint 2010 Health & Usage - Part 4: Writing a Custom Usage Receiver

Extending The SharePoint 2010 Health & Usage - Part 3: Writing Custom Reports