SharePoint 2013 – enable the Blob Cache
The blob cache (one of four cache types in SharePoint 2013) is a disk based cache to improve the speed at which pages load (it also reduces load on the database server). Enabling this requires editing the web.config file on each…
Using sp_BLITZ to verify SQL configuration
I’m not an SQL expert so I imagine I make a lot of common mistakes when setting up databases. I have just discovered sp_BLITZ by Brent Ozar, which is a set of scripts that will assess the configuration, security, health…
Delay opening documents on some workstations
I’ve recently noticed a delay of almost 5 seconds when opening documents from SharePoint on some workstations. After a bit of investigation I discovered that this was caused by Internet Explorer Automatic Configuration. On the workstations that were experiencing a…
SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 2010
Although I installed the SharePoint Administration Toolkit some time ago I’ve only just found the time to have a good look at what it includes. And I’m glad I did, as I discovered The SharePoint Diagnostic Tool. The main role…
Load balancing one or more web front end servers
Windows 2008 includes a Network Load Balancing feature and I’ll be utilising this in my SharePoint environment. I currently have two web front end servers but there is no reason why I can’t add more, and include them in the…
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