A few months ago, I moved to the Bing Index Generation team at Microsoft, so I will no longer be maintaining the SharePoint portion of my blog, but I will keep it up for reference in case it helps anybody looking for answers. I'll start posting...

SharePoint Diagnostic Studio (SPDiag) has Shipped , and along with it SharePoint Admin Toolkit (SPAT) v2 for SharePoint 2010. This is a very exciting day for our on-premise customers managing their own SP installations. SPAT brings a crucial set...

This is a behavior I thought I'd point out, in case anybody is running into it without knowing the reason, as it may not be intuitive... :-) If you have an indexed field and are filtering by it, but it doesn't work even though you are positive the...

I thought I'd make one post where I link to all the SharePoint 2010 large list documentation.. Hope this is helpful: Large Lists help topic explaining the basic thresholds: http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/manage-lists-and...

Great post by Steve, on how to create a health rule to check your content database sizes, to help you make sure they don't exceed the 200GB limit: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/05/22/writing-custom-health-rules-in-sharepoint-2010...

This is another one of the papers I've worked on, and now it is available for download! Actually this is the one I've worked on the most, and I'd love some feedback on it :-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9CF4FA6B-4C9C-4FCA...

In this post titled "How to change the List View Threshold and Other Resource Throttling Settings", I described why you might want to use the "List View Threshold for Auditors and Administrators", which is 20,000 by default. This limit is higher than...

If you're new to SharePoint, maybe this will help smooth that along: 1- Go to the List or Library that you want to create a view in. 2- In the ribbon at the top pick "Library" or "List" 3- Click the "Create View" button 4- Now you can pick...

One of the major reasons that this List View Threshold (LVT) feature was created is to protect the server from unintentional load that may either bring it down, or at least cause other users higher latency or failures. Changing this limit (default 5000...

The capacity planning and management center is up and running. It has a ton of great documents on it, it's very exciting! Check it out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx Here's a quick look at the documents I found most...

I made a post on the official blog of the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group about how to temporarily disable the large list "List View Threshold" feature on a large list. The post talks about your options for performing throttled operations on large...

If you find yourself wondering what a SharePoint “Correlation ID” is whenever you get an unexpected error in SharePoint 2010, or what to do with it once you have it, then hopefully this blog post will shed some light on that. I've moved this post to the...

I just wrote a post on the performance effect of Totals on views on Get The Point SharePoint Blog . Please take a look: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=295 Dina

Here's a link to the post I wrote a while ago. It's applicable to SharePoint 2007 moreso than SharePoint 2010, but you might find it an interesting read nonetheless. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=162 ...

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog. Ok ok I'm starting to get a bit too many of them aren't I?! :) :) But I'll keep this one to technical stuff after my intro.... or as technical as a Program Manager at Microsoft gets :) I'm Dina Ayoub, I'm...