Mike McIntyre's Blog

Troubleshooting MOSS/WSS Performance Issues

mmcintyr — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:23:00 GMT

One of the things that I find myself doing more and more of is troubleshooting performance related issues for SharePoint. We’re at the point in the lifecycle of the product where people have it installed, it’s working (for the most part) and they want...(read more)

Analyzing IIS Log files using Log Parser – Part 1

mmcintyr — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:00 GMT

Working with SharePoint, I often find myself in situation where I need to analyze IIS log files in a variety of ways to understand what kind of load is being placed on the system. In an effort to make this easier for me, and others, I have tried to automate,...(read more)

Mine the ULS logs for query latency - Redux

mmcintyr — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:37:00 GMT

I was reading a blog posting from Dan Blood, Sr. Test Engineer at Microsoft, on how to mine the ULS logs for query latency . If you haven’t read the post yet, I encourage you to do so. It has a wealth of information in it. I was recently working a similar...(read more)

How to quickly compare file version information across your MOSS farm

mmcintyr — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:27:00 GMT

6/1/2009, 5:10 PM I often find myself in a situation where I need to quickly compare multiple servers to determine if the same version of the product has been installed on all machines. The easiest way to do this, at least for me, involves: SPSReport...(read more)

Enumerating items counts in lists

mmcintyr — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Recently, we found ourselves in a situation where we suspected that the customer had exceeded our capacity planning guidelines for the number of items in a document library; however, how do we go about verifying that? Well, the steps below will walk you...(read more)

Hotfix for Advanced Search issue in MOSS (950437)

mmcintyr — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:04:00 GMT

Apparently , some detail was accidentally omitted from the KB article - Expensive Transact-SQL queries are generated in the back-end instance of SQL Server when you perform a search in SharePoint Server 2007 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950437...(read more)

What was I thinking?

mmcintyr — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:03:00 GMT

Have you ever written an email and clicked the send button only to wish you had given it just another minute or two of thought? Of course, you can always attempt to do a message recall; however, if your recipient has rules turned on to route your messages,...(read more)

How can you download a hotfix without contacting Microsoft?

mmcintyr — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:25:00 GMT

A customer can get the fix they want without calling in to Microsoft, assuming they know the KB number of the hotfix they want and can remember the URL format for a self-service hotfix request: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=KBNumber&kbln=KBLanguage...(read more)

Microsoft releases Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007!

mmcintyr — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:20:46 GMT

Well, Microsoft has finally released their first pass at a Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007! The BPA is based upon the same engine that Exchange has been using for a couple of years. Here is a small overview. Overview The Microsoft...(read more)

SPSReport has moved (yet again)

mmcintyr — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:08:00 GMT

Well, SPSReport has moved yet again! It is now, hopefully, in its final resting place. You can find the current version at http://www.codeplex.com/spsreport ....(read more)