Today I’m flying to London with some of my Mavention colleagues to visit the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011. I think it will be an exciting 3 days full of SharePoint 2010. During the conference I shall try to update you through my blog.
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Recently I have worked on the website for the Dutch Justice Department based on SharePoint 2007. Today this site is live. The URL is http://www.rechtspraak.nl
Some of my last posts where related to this site and the infrastructure.
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Previous post: Search query results in 100 percent cpu time
No solution so far. I took these steps but no results:
Search query role
Assigned the search query role to the Application server, previously it was assigned to both Web Front Ends. Same result: very high cpu utilization during search queries.
Custom solutions
To exclude an error in one of [...]
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I’m having, well to be precise the SharePoint farm I’m dealing with, performance issues with SharePoint 2007 search queries. Let me introduce the farm first to give you an idea:
2x WFE
CPU 4x Xeon 2 GHz E5504 (1x CPU quad core), 24 GB RAM
Hardware load balanced
OS Windows 2003 R2 SP2 x64
SP2007 untill April 2010 CU
both search query [...]
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Context
Let me first tell you what the background is. I’m working at a client where they want a web application with multiple site collections each in it’s own database. Also each site collection has a managed path (explicit inclusion), some site collection names have special characters and each site collection must have an ID in [...]
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At the moment I am installing a SharePoint 2007 farm with the Index server role at the Application server and the Query server role at the Web Front Ends. Because I did not configure anything with SSL in the first place, this causes some errors in the eventlog.
This event is 6482 (with two different descriptions):
Event [...]
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The EasyAssist call with the Microsoft Engineer is finished. It seems that a proxy setting caused all the trouble. We went through a lot of settings like BackConnectionHostnames, DisableLoopbackCheck, crawl rules, security settings on the databases etc.
But using the commandline tool proxycfg triggered it. See the screenshot below. The proxycfg command shows if there are [...]
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At the moment we have a call for this at Microsoft. Their first idea was to enable DisableLoopbackCheck. DisableLoopbackCheck has already been configured (also backconnectionhostnames by the way).
Some additional info, these error/warning appear in the applicationlog when a Full crawl is started (all errors are in Dutch because I work for a government department but [...]
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Hello readers. I need some help with a very strange problem I have come up to at a customer farm.
The error that I am researching occurs when SharePoint crawls the default content source which is, in my test farm, a normal non-edited publishing portal. The error that appears in de crawl log is “The crawler [...]
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My other post about preparation for the 70-667 SP2010 exam got very positive reactions so in this post you will find a list of the resources I used to prepare for the second exam.
What you will need, according to my opinion is:
Off course a lot of experience with SharePoint and Windows Infrastructure deployments (I have 10+ years Windows experience [...]
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