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The Top 10 Problems With SharePoint Performance Top 10 Lists
I’ve come across lot’s of helpful lists around the net and forums on the topic of performance tuning SharePoint however as time and performance projects march forward it’s clear that this subject, more than most in the already dense realm of SharePoint, deserves a more realistic outlook. The standard lists of performance tuning tips look […]
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Certificate Revocation Lists – Slow Spin up times
What Most Microsoft assemblies and DLLs are digitally signed. Each time signed assemblies are loaded, default system behaviour is to check with the owner of the root certificate that the cert with which the assembly was signed is still valid. In the case of Microsoft assemblies, this means “phoning home” to read the Certificate Revocation […]
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Network Name Cannot be Found – Intermittent issues with WebClient
When attempting to use WebDav to copy a file from one location to another programmatically, I ran into intermittent failures with the following error: http://site_name is not accessible. Either this location does not exist or you might not have permission to use this network resource. A similar client-side error (manipulating files with WebDav in Windows […]
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SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples
The SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples set of examples is an excellent starting point for Developing with SharePoint. Each code sample is part of the SharePoint 2010 101 code samples project. These samples are provided so that you can incorporate them directly in your code. Each code sample consists of a standalone project created in […]
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Shrink wrap your DLLs with Retail Mode
It happens: someone’s trying to debug a problem in a rush, a dev environment gets migrated – sometime’s it happens that your web.config Debug Mode switch gets inadvertently left in “true” mode. This is all kinds of bad- ScottGu highlights: 1) The compilation of ASP.NET pages takes longer (since some batch optimizations are disabled) 2) […]
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Hide / Remove Quick Launch, Main Menu, Ribbon Bar SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 introduced some more context-aware UI treats. In case you need to write a new ASPX which you want to display as popup, or you just need it stripped down with less bells and whistles, just add a query string value to the URL references. Same default.master, just that SP 2010 allows you to […]
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Get Check-in Comments with Nintex
NOTE: I’ve posted a revised version of this type of method for getting version history. The SQL in this post is not to be trusted! (but the rest is still good so I’ll leave the post as-is for posterity). I needed to grab the document check-in comment insides of a Nintex 2010 / SharePoint 2010 […]
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Cloud-based SharePoint – Risks & Rewards
I just checked out a whitepaper-style document promoting the cloud offerings of a company named SpringCM on the topic of Enterprise Content Management and it got my gears turning about about the the concept of ECM and SharePoint in particular in the cloud. While Office 365 is a viable option for some businesses, in particular […]
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Save As Template for Publishing Site SharePoint 2010
If the publishing feature is enabled on a site in SP 2010, the Save As Template option becomes no longer available. This is because it’s not actually a Microsoft best practice to save Publishing Sites as Templates as there are a number of inherent issues with the process. If you want to live on the […]