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...