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Friday, April 03, 2009 2:48 PM

What to do when your 32-bit .Net Framework 2.0 app won't run on x64

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
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Friday, March 27, 2009 9:07 AM

When you know the solution the problem is a lot easier to find…

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
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:56 PM

RECAP: Thou shalt not touch my databases!

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
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:02 PM

The Challenges of Script Debugging Using VS2008

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
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:36 PM

How do I tune the MOSS Object Cache for performance and economy?

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
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Monday, March 03, 2008 1:32 PM

New Database Maintenance whitepaper released

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 integrity.
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Friday, February 15, 2008 11:41 AM

Welcome Roger Lamb to the blog space

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
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:24 AM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: What Are The 64-bit Settings?

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
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:39 AM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: Tracking Recycle Events

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
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:01 AM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: A Hidden Benefit

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’s
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:04 PM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: Configuring The Shutdown Timeout

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
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:26 AM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: What To Watch Out For

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.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:18 AM

The documentation update has been completed

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
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:21 PM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: Scheduled Recycling

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
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:15 AM

Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: Memory Based Recycling

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
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