+ > I was responding to a post on the Apps for SharePoint forum, and it ended up being so long that I decided to make it a blog post.  If you want some additional context you can go check it out . From a SharePoint app if you want to read to and...

I found that Intellisense was not working properly in Visual Studio 2012 for a SharePoint 2013 app using the template that gets installed with the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (Preview 2). These screenshots help illustrate...

After installing Node.js to try my hand at some server side JavaScript using WebMatrix, I was getting a 500 internal server error. This is what was returned to the browser: iisnode was unable to read the configuration file. Make sure the web.config...

I usually recommend my customers group similar web applications into the same application pool.  Each application pool brings additional server resources like memory.  In addition, the supported boundary for Application Pools is 10.  Let...

You can disable list throttling at the list level in SharePoint 2010. Note that in order to do this, you must have Farm Administrator privileges. First, this can only be done via PowerShell, SharePoint Manager , or Object Model . I will be covering the...

I recently ran into an issue where I needed to get possible values for a SharePoint 2010 choice column.  Thought I would share the code in case anyone else runs across this need.  This code uses the ECMAScript Client-Side Object Model. ...

To determine which edition of SharePoint Server 2007 is installed for the purposes of inventory, the following registry key can be interrogated.  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\OfficeServerPremium If the value is 0 then...

To determine which SharePoint 2010 Products are installed for the purpose of inventory or conditional code logic, you can interrogate the registry. The screenshot below illustrates the keys that need to be evaluated. The following table shows a GUID to...

In SharePoint 2007 it was fairly easy to set the indexer to crawl a dedicated WFE. In fact it was in the UI and very easy to change. When you selected a dedicated indexer in SharePoint we would add an entry to the host file on the indexer. This solution...

The ULS logging is one of the most effective ways to find out what is going on “under the hood”.  In certain cases the verbosity of the logging might need to be increased to get more useful and actionable information.  To change the verbosity...

All Servers Please ensure that the instructions in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281884 are followed on each server. This will allow for the Process ID value to be included as part of the process monitor data that is being captured. Download the counters...

1. Start the Internet Information Services (IIS) manager on each machine. The easiest way to accomplish this is via the applet in the Administrative Tools section of the Start menu. 2. Click on the Machine node in the tree (left hand side). This will...

1. Start the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on each machine. The easiest way to accomplish this is via the applet in the Administrative Tools section of the Start menu. 2. Open the tree up (on the left hand side) until Web Sites is...

The content query web part is a powerful tool.  As a Support Escalation Engineer I get to see some very creative ways in which customers use this tool.  In this blog post I will be discussing how you can use ViewFieldsOverride to reduce not...