In SharePoint 2010 we have completely removed the UI for resetting the disk based BLOB cache. This means that you can only reset it through the SharePoint Object Model . Fortunately, since we invested in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, it's not...

I just ran into this problem trying to run Log Parser Lizard (FX 2.0 app using 32bit dlls) on my x64 machine. It kept throwing BadImageFormatExceptions and crashing. A little research identified the problem, the app is marked to run on any CPU but it...

Yeah, that title sounds a little crazy but let me explain. The phenomena I am referring to is that once you have identified the solution to a seemingly complex problem the problem is revealed to be simple. In my case the problem was really poor performance...

Apparently some people, who shall remain nameless, still haven't gotten the memo that clearly states that if you modify the WSS/MOSS databases in almost any way your farm will be rendered unsupported. What memo am I referring to you ask? I am referring...

I recently worked on a problem that required me to debug the script for the HTML Editor control ion WSS. In the past I have always used the Microsoft Script Debugger and just selected "Break on next statement". In this case that was not really getting...

Tuning the size of the MOSS Object Cache is done via the Max Cache Size settings on the Site Settings > Object Cache Settings page. It is important to recognize that this maximum cache size setting is a limit and not a static value. For example; Just...

We have just realeased a whitepaper that describes the recommended maintenance strategies for the databases that host content and configuration settings for SharePoint Products and Technologies. You can get it here . It covers: · Checking database...

For his first post he has provided a bunch of examples of dispose patterns for SharePoint that will be really helpful for anyone trying to write custom web parts for SharePoint and wanting to avoid all the myriad ways you can leak objects: SharePoint...

We strongly recommend that our customers move to 64-bit servers for MOSS and WSSv3 unless there is some significant reason that prevents it. It is also worth noting that according to our recent documentation this will definitely be the last version of...

As part of your efforts to properly configure your server for overlapped recycling you will obviously need to know when a recycle takes place. It also makes sense that you would want to know about ALL recycle events, not just overlapped ones. To this...

There is a hidden value in configuring the overlapped recycling values. I was lucky enough to gain the collaboration of Thomas Marquardt on a particularly nasty performance case and he let me in on this little secret. Well, it’s not really a secret it...

The previous post was so short, I though today I’d give you two posts. The shutdown timeout value is used to determine how long IIS will allow for the old worker process to finish the in-flight requests that were active at the time of the recycle event...

The next section of the documentation on IIS Process Recycling that needs a little SharePoint context added is the section on “Considerations When Recycling Applications”. I believe this section may put a lot of people off of using overlapped recycling...

The original version of Planning and Deploying Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Multi-server Environment contained an error. It stated that the recommended value for the overlapped recycling setting for Virtual Memory Used...

As I have mentioned in previous posts, scheduled recycles are a good thing. You should view them as basic process housekeeping task, kind of like washing dishes or doing laundry. Scheduled recycles are of benefit primarily because they ward off problems...

I have already mentioned the values for Maximum Memory used and Maximum Virtual Memory we recommended in our recent whitepaper in previous posts but I want to speak on them directly for a minute. Let’s start by saying that there is no lack of controversy...

This is one of the topics I wanted to inject into the discussion that is not in the generic overlapped recycling documentation. There are at least two very good reasons why I believe SharePoint requires the safety net provided by overlapped recycling...

Now that we have a good understanding of the two types of IIS Process Recycling I want to discuss the portion of the documentation that attempts to explain the value of process recycling. From my discussions with customers it appears that most people...

I want to explain why it is important to configure IIS Application Pools running SharePoint to use the feature in IIS 6.0 called Overlapped Recycling. I think an effective way to do this is to parse the existing documentation on IIS Process Recycling...

I am working on a series of posts regarding performance and troubleshooting on SharePoint which I had hoped to get posted before the end of the year, only time will tell if my workload cooperates on that. But, in the meantime we have released a ton of...

Who Am I? My name is Steve Sheppard. I have been in the networking/development/support business for 19 years this year. I have spent the majority of that time supporting Microsoft products, starting with 3Com 3+Share . I am currently working as an...