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Best Practices for CRL Checking on SharePoint Servers
Problem The fact is that SharePoint 2010 servers think they need to be able to reach out to http://crl.microsoft.com. They need get a current list of certificates for revoked (expired, key...
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Why is CLR Requesting to resolve an assembly via BDC over and over?
Symptoms Under a heavy client load a performance problem develops in your SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 farm's WFEs. It's hard to figure out what is and what isn't affected by the perf...
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Free Tools for the SharePoint Mechanic Toolbox
This list is an expansion of an earlier blog of mine. I plan to continue to improve and enlarge this. PowerShell and STSAdm – of course. ULS Viewer – Makes scouring through ULS logs a bit easier...
View ArticleNotes on Debug mode versus Release Mode
Dlls compiled in debug mode should stay in the developmental environment while they're being debugged, improved, stepped-through, and tweaked. When the dll is ready to be deployed (released) to a...
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Why am I not seeing what I expect in the Security Event log?
Often the Windows Security Event log disappoints people when they're trying to find clues to some kind of permissions or rights problem--to a 401 unauthorized response from IIS, for a common...
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Basic Steps for Making a Process Monitor (ProcMon) Capture
ProcMon is an indispensable tool that zillions of people have used. Here are some easy steps for starting, stopping, and saving a Procmon capture. Download ProcMon from...
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Recommendations for Page Files on SharePoint Servers
Summary Here are my notes on paging file recommendations for SharePoint (2007, 2010, and 2013). This is something I always like to check when a new farm is built or I'm looking at a poorly...
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ERROR 500.0 | Internal Server Error | AuthenticateRequest | StaticFile |...
Symptoms: When browsing to the site without specifying the default page name in the browser, we received a 500 error: HTTP ERROR 500.0 - Internal Server Error The page cannot be displayed...
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NullReferenceException when Attempting to Configure Managed Accounts
While attempting to visit Configure managed accounts (ManagedAccounts.aspx) in a SP2013 farm today, I got a correlation ID and the tip of the NRE iceberg: "Object reference not set to an instance of...
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Blank browser pages for Audit Log Reports in SP2007
Symptoms Perhaps your audit log reporting functionality was working great last month but this month you're only seeing blank, empty pages in your browser. You can't run any reports successfully...
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