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One of my biggest headaches with developing and testing in SharePoint is my lack of test data to work with. Sometimes I need to generate a load of test data so I can perform searches or test performance on custom code. Like in this blog post, I needed to load up a bunch of fake... Continue Reading →
A little while ago, I wrote a post on Determining which w3wp process goes to which SharePoint Service. I have since decided to create a PowerShell script which encapsulates the entire process into one simple command! There it is! The script grabs the running SharePoint services, the running IIS application pools and matches them up.... Continue Reading →
Seriously, I want to know. Take this small survey and let me know what you think. Why do you hate SharePoint? the survey My goal here is two fold: first, for the industry to understand the headaches people face daily and two (more importantly) try to provide some solutions to make these headaches go away.... Continue Reading →
On my list of awesome SharePoint ideas that I want to try and do, was giving users the ability to filter a page based on selected metadata. I decided to hurry up and do it thanks to a question on MSDN forums. Special thanks to Stefan Bauer for the starting of some great code! I've... Continue Reading →
Thanks for visiting my blog. Over the years, I've come to love the SharePoint community. The people are great, and I depend upon the vast resources available to help me get the job done. Now I want to give back. When you post to the forums at sharepoint.stackexchange.com, I'm committed to helping out whenever I... Continue Reading →
This post was originally posted on SharePoint 365, which has since been retired. SharePoint runs its service applications on IIS application pools, which in turn creates multiple w3wp processes running on your servers. When looking at Task Manager, you will see a long list of w3wp processes. Similar to As you can see in... Continue Reading →
As a developer or administrator working with SharePoint, sometimes I need to know exactly what the data is doing, what on earth is it thinking. I may want to manipulate the data real quick without going to the website. This post may also very helpful if you're working against SharePoint's web services, as you can look... Continue Reading →
Before we can just walk through using PowerPivot and SharePoint, we need to make sure things are in order. Some prerequisites PowerPivot has been installed and properly configured on your farm. Download PowerPivot for Excel 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 version (SQL 2012 version WILL NOT WORK!) for free at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7609. I am using the Northwind sample... Continue Reading →
This is in response to the SharePoint'er (architect, administrator, developer) who has had it with SharePoint and cries "no more, I hate it". New users and customers who see SharePoint, love it. Companies realize SharePoint's potential in a few minutes of learning about it. It's a wonderfully powerful application. SharePoint in most cases can completed 80%... Continue Reading →
