Posted in Applications, tagged SharePoint 2010 on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Following on from my previous post about list scaling and performance. The following posts details configuration of Remote Blob Storage for SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
First download the RBS provider for SQL Server 2008 (don’t install it yet):
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177388
Configure file stream for the SQL Server Service using the Configuration Manager:
Execute the following SQL [...]
Posted in Applications, tagged SharePoint 2010 on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It it a well known fact that MOSS 2007 caused some rising opinions on the subject of list scalability and performance. Many developers operated under the misconception that SharePoint lists only allowed 2000 list items before croaking out with bad performance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The following article talks about this issue of [...]
Posted in Applications, tagged SharePoint 2010 on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you missed it, public blogging of SharePoint 2010 is now permitted – let the flood gates open ;)
Posted in Applications, tagged SharePoint 2010 on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The SP2010 Developer Dashboard allows developers to review object model calls, database queries, web part events – and the timings for these various happenings.
The following code enables the dashboard:
SPPerformanceMonitor SPPerfMon;
SPPerfMon = SPFarm.Local.PerformanceMonitor;
SPPerfMon.DeveloperDashboardLevel = SPPerformanceMonitoringLevel.On;
SPPerfMon.Update();
The following code turns it off again:
SPPerformanceMonitor SPPerfMon;
SPPerfMon = SPFarm.Local.PerformanceMonitor;
SPPerfMon.DeveloperDashboardLevel = SPPerformanceMonitoringLevel.Off;
SPPerfMon.Update();
Posted in Applications, Software Development, tagged SharePoint 2010 on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some important points to remember when developing against SP2010:
Make sure your Visual Studio project is set up for .NET 3.5, not .NET 4.0
Run Visual Studio as an Administrator to load debugging symbols
Make sure your project is set to compile for Any CPU or x64 (not x86 by default), otherwise your code will throw [...]
Posted in Applications, tagged SharePoint 2010 on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone who has created a new SP2010 Farm using the SharePoint Technologies Configuration Wizard will know that it makes a huge mess of SQL server, littering new databases with GUID extensions.
Those of you who have anal tendencies, like me, can sleep at night with nice clean database names with a script as follows:
Note: I am [...]
Posted in Applications on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Search facets offer a powerful entry point into data exploration, especially in cases where data is categorized or tagged effectively. With modern search and content retrieval mechanisms, such as the search engine in MOSS (and new FAST search engine for SharePoint) the traditional method of browsing for content in SharePoint using static navigation hierarchies can [...]
Posted in Applications, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you ever run into the following error when performing a site collection restore, via STSADM, and you know space is not an issue, try the steps below before diving deep into troubleshooting mode:
“The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient [...]
Posted in Applications, Software Development, Web Sites, tagged UI Design on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been using Balsamiq Mockups for some time at my day job, but until recently I hadn’t used the tool heavily on any of the projects I’d been working. Today I needed to shell out an example search results page for a project I am architecting in SharePoint.
Think of Balsamiq Mockups as Visio for the [...]
Posted in Applications, Business Advice, tagged Cloud, Computers on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My employer uses laptops pretty much exclusively (as I do at home) for all employees, with the exception of a few, to promote flexibility and portability in our work environment. I made the mistake yesterday of forgetting my laptop and turning up to the office with no computer to work with. As was debating on [...]
