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SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Best Practices

Chris We - MSFT — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Hello All, If we look at the previous posting about the causes of locks there are some published Best Practices that we should be following to reduce the deadlocks Large Lists ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262813(v=office.12...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - What causes these locks

Chris We - MSFT — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Hello All, Depending on which database and table we are locking on there several possible causes, and I want to list out these possible reasons for you. If we don’t schedule the crawls properly, they could interfere with each other and...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Troubleshooting steps

Chris We - MSFT — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Hello All, I don't have all the answers but what we can do is get you started down the correct route to figuring out what is going on. This is what I recommend you gather when you have a lock that is interrupting users productivity From SQL: ...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbit - Keeping SharePoint 2013 up to date

Chris We - MSFT — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:30:00 GMT

Hello All, I just wanted to let you know that the Product Group has released an update that must be installed in your farm before you can install any future Service Packs or Cumulative Updates. This applies to both Versions of SharePoint 2013. You...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbit - Creating a more intuitive web site

Chris We - MSFT — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, Something that I think will help you with creating a more dynamic web site in SharePoint 2013 is catalog enabled libraries and lists, and the Search web parts. Let me explain myself, starting with the catalog enabled libraries and lists...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching - Part 2

Chris We - MSFT — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, I had written a tidbit about Caching and one of my customers had some questions and I thought I would share the answers with all of you. Previous Post http://blogs.technet.com/b/christwe/archive/2013/01/24/sharepoint-tidbit-let-s-talk...(read more)

A cool site for end user info on SharePoint

Chris We - MSFT — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, I just had this web site pointed out to me when I was discussing end user education and thought I would throw it up here so that everybody would see it http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-help/find-content-about-sharepoint-server...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching

Chris We - MSFT — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, As the SharePoint environment in your Enterprise matures it is time to move from looking at how to build and maintain it, to how to improve it. These improvements can be centered how applications to improve user interaction, to process improvements...(read more)

Please check your SharePoint on Windows 2008 R2 systems for this issue

Chris We - MSFT — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, There has been an issue discovered if you have Windows 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010, and you install any of the following fixes KB2769369, KB2757638, KB2756920, KB2742598, KB2742598, or KB2736418. You may notice the following symptoms ...(read more)

SharePoint Tidbit - Upgrading to SharePoint 2013

Chris We - MSFT — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Hello All, I have been hearing the buzz of upgrades more and more lately so I thought I would perform a little write-up to explain the upgrade process. NOTE: I will use the words migrate and upgrade as one. I realize they have different meanings but...(read more)