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Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This VM!

So yesterday my Windows Server VMs running in Windows Azure (VM Role) were automatically shutdown and then later restarted. I assume this occurred due to an update/update to the host server and/or environment. I have my servers deployed in pairs where...

Published Thu, Mar 21 2013 3:38 PM by Todd Carter

Filed under: Azure, Azure; VM Roles; IAAS

Old McDonald Had a SharePoint Farm E-I-E…IO – Part 2

As an unplanned follow up to my previous post I wanted to reply to some of the feedback I received and take another run at this little IO test. The feedback was generally around “what” I tested rather than the … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2012 6:38 PM by Todd Carter

Old McDonald Had a SharePoint Farm E-I-E…IO?

On an email distribution list yesterday someone commented on the disappointing IO performance they received while running a SharePoint Farm with VM roles in Windows Azure. As an Azure user I too had noticed the IO did feel a bit … Continue reading...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2012 10:04 AM by Todd Carter

Doing a SPRead

I get asked all the time about a good SharePoint reading list. I have always found the SharePoint MCM reading lists a really good start. Some of these items are blogs and papers with additional links which if the reader … Continue reading →...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2012 9:52 AM by Todd Carter

Making an Argument for SNAP

One of the really cool things about working on and having the community use your tools is sometimes you get really great feedback and suggestions. Recently Heiko Hatzfeld from Microsoft PFE suggested we include method parameter or argument details into...

Published Tue, Sep 04 2012 10:26 AM by Todd Carter

Keep Your Friends Close and your Azure Service Bus Closer

I have a service which leverages Azure’s Service Bus Queues. Clients post messages with session into a request queue and then wait/block on the response coming back via a response queue. I have a number of Azure Persistent VMs which … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2012 8:34 AM by Todd Carter

The Crucial Upgrade

I have been running with a 256GB Crucial C300 in my Lenovo W520 for a while now and it has been great. I love the performance and I love to see applications “pop’ (vs poop) open. Someone, I forget who, tweeted the other day about a great deal on...

Published Thu, Jun 21 2012 5:13 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Hardware

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 18 2012 1:53 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, Debugging, Troubleshooting, Tools

Monitoring Exceptions is a SNAP

As a follow up to my earlier post Making Debugging a SNAP I would like to share with you a new feature I added recently which allows you to monitor exceptions within your managed processes. The exceptions we are talking about here are managed exceptions...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2012 1:16 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Debugging, Troubleshooting, Tools

Mini Me-fication in System.Web.Optimization RC is Evil

I am working on a MVC4 RC application within the Visual Studio 2012 RC. I started to notice my web pages were starting to get a bit sluggish with regard to response times. I found that I could not get any page to return in less than 1 second. So I stated...

Published Sun, Jun 10 2012 2:47 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: MVC, Visual Studio

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 07 2012 8:41 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint, ASP.Net, Troubleshooting

Making Debugging a SNAP

Recently I left Microsoft where I worked for almost 15 years and where about 10 of those years were spent in Escalation Services where my daily routine was debugging failing or faulting applications. This all began with user and kernel mode Windows processes...

Published Sat, May 05 2012 10:47 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: Development, ASP.Net, Debugging, Troubleshooting, Tools

An April Fools Prank For Nerds

So let’s say you have a sense of humor and your co-worker fails to lock his or her computer (and they have a sense of humor too [very important]). Checking out the calendar you notice it’s April first, BAM a perfect opportunity has just landed in your...

Published Sat, Mar 31 2012 12:06 PM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: General

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 06 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 23 2012 9:15 AM by Todd's Blog

Filed under: SharePoint

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