MarC on October 21st, 2011

At the customer I’m working a strange thing happened. In the intranet farm (4 WFE loadbalanced with NLB) on two of the WFE servers going to Site Actions > All Site Settings resulted in the following error:
File not found. at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData.GetWebPartPageData(HttpContext context, String path, Boolean throwIfFileNotFound)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPVirtualFile.GetVirtualPathProviderCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPVirtualPathProvider.GetCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.CmsVirtualPathProvider.GetCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   [...]

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MarC on August 31st, 2011

In this previous post of mine I indicated that my client has to performance issues regarding the intranet site. The ”logged on as other user” problem is caused by a customized welcome control. A Microsoft engineer who was onsite figured this out and a colleague told me that this part is cached. So it is possible people will [...]

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At my clients SharePoint 2007 farm we have had a very hard to solve error. The error decription in the Application log was:
Failure trying to synch site 3e545b3e-4ddf-4fd2-8c46-00f73fad5864 for ContentDB ecabb92e-caa6-4a37-bebe-cacf64bc31d6 WebApp d2fc32fc-607b-4c5b-902e-b33f58705e74.  Het uitzonderingsbericht is: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.UserMemberships’ with unique index CX_UserMemberships_RecordId_MemberGroupId_SID’. The statement has been terminated.
and the second [...]

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MarC on July 5th, 2011

At the moment I am troubleshooting a very slow (response times of 10+ seconds monitored with Fiddler) responding SharePoint 2007 intranet at a customer.  At first we thought that the problems where caused by network traffic from SharePoint to SQL because this was routed through the load balancer (Windows 2008 NLB). We configured the route [...]

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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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MarC on January 14th, 2011

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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