Monthly Archives: January 2012

SharePoint 2007 People Picker performance issues

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Bogdan Coamesu

Every time when you want to grant permission for a user or group in a SharePoint application you will use this SharePoint people-picker interface. How does people-picker work? When you type a keyword to find a user or a group, … Continue reading →

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Performance with SharePoint 2010 Large lists – List view throttling

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Bogdan Coamesu

SharePoint 2010 lists and libraries can hold a maximum number of 30,000,000 items. In a SharePoint site the list view threshold is 5000 for users and 20,000 for auditors and administrators. SharePoint large list and libraries operations like Delete/Update are … Continue reading →

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Performance and Blob Storage

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Bogdan Coamesu

Two months ago I was at a SharePoint conference where I saw a nice presentation of Dan Holme regarding blob storage. As per Microsoft definition – a binary large object (BLOB) is a large block of data stored in a … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Stress test using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Bogdan Coamesu

The following article describes the steps to create a stress test using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 1. Start Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 2. Click on Test and then New Test

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Good to know before starting to troubleshoot performance issues on SharePoint 2003

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Bogdan Coamesu

Before starting implementing performance counters, be sure you are not using one of the following options: – /3GB switch – is not supported http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933560 Reducing the size of the kernel mode memory buffers when in /3GB mode causes unacceptable performance … Continue reading →

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