Monthly Archives: November 2010

Getting the most out of SharePoint 2010 logs and fast!

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As a SharePoint developer/admin you are probably intimately familiar with SharePoint logs (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS) and how you can extract useful information from them, if you have time to parse those files. Here are couple of tricks … Continue reading →

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Tracing custom SharePoint 2010 application performance

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Performance has been on my mind lately and there are some great tools I used to troubleshoot some of the issues. Starting with out of the box tools, Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010. Developer Dashboard can be enabled with a … Continue reading →

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Special permission management with SharePoint 2010 permission policies on Web applications

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: you have a SharePoint site where users are allowed to create new sites using Self-Service Site Creation. You have a designated set of users who will be responsible for approval and audit of data on any of … Continue reading →

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Slick new SharePoint 2010 interface to filter large set of documents

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Imagine having a SharePoint document library with hundreds of files in it, what about thousands. Navigating the library using standard interface not only is going to be difficult but expensive in terms of performance. In SharePoint 2010 there is a … Continue reading →

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Configuring SharePoint 2010 to store large files outside of content DB

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

There are some pros and cons to storing large binary data saved into your SharePoint lists and libraries outside of content DB. In SharePoint 2010, running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express in a back end, you … Continue reading →

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New and scalable ways to upgrade your custom SharePoint 2010 features

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Typical SharePoint solution has many features provisioning all sorts of functionality to the site. If you have several client environments where your solution is deployed to, you might get into the situation where some environments are running older versions and … Continue reading →

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Speed up your SharePoint 2010 site by using built in Output Caching

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When building sites in SharePoint – especially when building public sites with SharePoint 2010 – good performance is not just a discussion topic but a requirement. There has been some great improvement in how SharePoint 2010 handles caching and the … Continue reading →

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Resolving common issues when getting started with SharePoint 2010 Access Services

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Access Services in SharePoint 2010 is a great new promising feature allowing you to publish Access Databases to SharePoint and share them in your portal. However, when setting it up for the first time – you are likely to run … Continue reading →

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