Optimizing Sharepoint - an IT Operations perspective : Troubleshooting

MOSS Server Performance Considerations

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:25:00 GMT

MOSS Server Performance Considerations taken from Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments and my experiences Recommendation : use x64 hardware on all servers to optimize page downloads by minimizing number of round trips between client...(read more)

Client Side Performance Considerations

waynemo@microsoft.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:12:00 GMT

Recommendation : Help Users ensure that they have configured their computers optimally. Reason : Having the right combination of BIOS, drivers, and manufacturer tools is critical for a computer system performance and stability. Benefit : Optimizes the...(read more)

Troubleshooting the “This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again." error

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Problem: When anyone tried to edit a content editor web part on a MOSS site, they would get the following error: “This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again. Refresh page“ The users would hit F5 to refresh the page,...(read more)

Real world things that were done to improve the performance on a MOSS Enterprise Portal

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:27:00 GMT

Over the past 2 years, I've spent may days and nights trying to optimize our MOSS Enterprise Portals' performance (i.e. rendering time). In the end, the 3 biggest perf gains came from the following: 1. moving from x32 to x64 OS 2. moving the farm content...(read more)

Troubleshooting Series: Identifying Network Latency

waynemo@microsoft.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:21:00 GMT

I recently watched a webcast done by Laura Chappell on how to troubleshoot a slow network. She did an exceptional job in providing the essential information I needed in analyzing network captures for latency. Before I get ahead of myself, here are some...(read more)

Troubleshooting Series - Part 1 - First steps

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:28:00 GMT

I had the privilege of attending a session at the MS Sharepoint 2008 Conference covering how MS Support troubleshoots MOSS issues. The session really hit home on how depending on a person’s experience and confidence, they will either make lots of changes...(read more)

Troubleshooting the MOSS error: "An unexpected error has occurred"

waynemo@microsoft.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:45:00 GMT

Change the following values in your web.config file so that you can see what the actual error is: 1. Change CallStack="false" to CallStack="true" 2. Change <customErrors mode="On"/> to <customErrors mode="Off "/> 3. Change <compilation...(read more)