The Content Organizer rules are really the heart that drives the content organizer system. The rules list is just a standard SharePoint list that uses the custom Rule content type. Each rule contains all of the criteria used to determine where new items should be uploaded. Rules provide a wide array of configuration options to…
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SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 3 – The Drop Off Library
As described in the first post in this series, the Drop Off Library is created when you activate the Content Organizer feature. As soon as you configure the Content Organizer to start routing documents (which, actually it does when you activate the feature), all uploads to the site are automatically sent to the Drop Off…
Using the New SharePoint 2010 Ratings Feature in Search
In this blog I thought I’d show how to use some of the cool new features in SharePoint 2010 with some of our old favorites from SharePoint 2007 to create an interesting search results experience. We’re going to do all of this WITHOUT WRITING ANY CODE! Even though Steve is a developer, he empathizes with…
Using the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
The developer dashboard is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that is design to provide additional performance and tracing information that can be used to debug and troubleshoot issues with page rendering time. The dashboard is turned off by default, but can be enabled via the object model or stsadm (and PowerShell too, I just…
SharePoint 2010 Development at the PDC
The PDC is just around the corner folks, so if you haven’t signed up yet then now’s the time to get on it. There’s going to be some great SharePoint 2010 developer content at this year’s PDC, including a number of really brilliant folks from the SharePoint Product Group there. I would name names, but…
Working with Large Lists in SharePoint 2010 – List Throttling
List throttling is one of the new options in SharePoint 2010 that enable to set limits on how severely users can put the beat down on your servers. In a nutshell, what it does is allow you to set a limit for how many rows of data can be retrieved for a list or library…
Problems Joining a Server to a Farm?
If you try and join a new server to the farm, but can't get the config wizard to load the list of databases from the SQL Server, double check the firewall settings on the SQL Server and SharePoint server. You will often see what seems like a really bizarre error; something like System.ArgumentNullException was thrown. …
Adding Throttling Counters in SharePoint 2010
Http throttling is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows the server to “back off” of serving requests when it is too busy. Every 5 seconds a job will run that will check the server resources compared to the levels configured. By default the Server CPU, Memory, Request in Queue and Request wait time…
Configuring an ASP.NET Application to work as a Relying Party with Geneva Beta 2
Okay, this one’s a little off the path from the types of things I normally blog about. However, I had been doing some work recently on getting an ASP.NET app to integrate with Geneva Beta 2 as a relying party (RP). For those of you who have the time and resources, there is a walk-through…
Configuring AAM for Split DNS
Seems like more and more lately, I’m hearing about people that want to use SharePoint in a split DNS environment. Split DNS just means that users on the internal corporate network (corpnet) resolve a name to a different IP address than users outside corpnet. For example, you may create a web application that uses a…