I’m checking in as it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything.  I’m currently a beta rotational engineer supporting SharePoint 2010.  I’ve been so wrapped up in supporting the new product in it’s early stages that I haven’t had a lot of time...

This is part 2 of troubleshooting SharePoint performance problems. In order to properly diagnose and troubleshoot SharePoint performance problems, Microsoft CSS support often depends on a performance monitor (perfmon) log during problem period. In addition...

What is Security Only Crawl? Before troubleshooting Security Only Crawl’s, let’s start out with what is a security only crawl? Security Only crawl's take place when users are added/removed from Sharepoint groups and/or explicitly added/removed from...

Sharepoint Performance Blog Series Part 1 Where do I start with this performance issue? HELP! I’m going to write up several blogs in a Sharepoint Performance series to provide our customers with some insight on how to approach and troubleshoot these...

I've had customers ask this question several times because they would like a good understanding of how long the incremental crawl is going to take. The # of changes an incremental crawl must process has a lot to do with why one incremental crawl takes...

Greetings! My name is Russ Maxwell and I'm a Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft supporting SharePoint. I officially started in SharePoint sometime in November 2007. I've been with Microsoft going on four years now and will continue immersing...