I came across a great post today that talks about ASP.NET caching (applies to SharePoint) and what to look for. Thanks to Gunnar Peipman for the great insight.
Basically you need to setup the following performance counters in windows:
I was trying to install install SharePoint 2007 onto Windows 2008 r2 and was getting a strange error referencing KB article 962935. Funny enough this article is not live yet so it left me a little unhappy. Apprarently Microsoft does not support the distributed SP1 installation package of SharePoint for this version of the OS. Turns out Jei Li posting on his msdn blog detailing how to go about creating a slipstreamed installation for SP2 on this server Click here for the article. Basically the steps are (pretty much word for word from Jei Li's blog):
Please reference Jei Li's post for furthur instuctions. I only posted all the steps here because things have a mysterious way of dissappearing or not appearing at all on Microsofts site.
After doing all of this everything seems to be fine...seems to be 
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Recently I acquired some server class hardware (Dell PowerEdge 2950) and I thought, hey this is a great opportunity for me to setup a virtual environment at home so I can test out some beta products and do some tinkering with Linux. I have VMWare Workstation installed inside of Windows Vista machine at home and I have ubuntu 8.10 running in it and this seems to work ok but I have come across some issues with it that annoy me.
I was undecided on whether to install VMWare ESXi or Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Based on the title of this article you can probably guess which route I took. I didn't decide to do this simply because I think Microsoft's virtualization platform is superior...I chose it simply because I use VMWare ESXi and ESX at work and was interested in seeing the capabilities of this free product in comparison.
After configuring the server with RAID 0 (faster and this is test) I popped the disk in and started installing. Truth be told the installation was a breeze...so much so in fact that I started the install, watched a soccer game and when I came back it was ready for me to login. I was a little confiused at first because at no point did I provide a username and password for the admin account but it prompted me at the login screen. Didn't take long to figure out it was Administrator/-blank- to login.
This all seemed a little too good to be true and I quickly found out that it was...after downloading and installing the Hyper-V Manager MMC into my vista machine I found I could not connect to the server. found this odd as the very purpose of this server is too allow connections. Turns out there were a few steps I had to do:
After reading a little further on the internet it seems that my setup at home (using a workgroup) is not the best way to do this and is partly to blame for some of mine and other peoples issues. All in all the installation was a success but seems a little more confusing than installing ESXi. Either way my environment is up and running.
Great post here with a fix/workaround. Essentially when you go to look in the windows .net framework directory that program is not there. In order to run this utility program you will need to use the Visual Studio command prompt that is in the Programs/Visual Studio menu.
From November 2008:
Whew...its been a long week and its only Thursday. This years conference was much the same as last years with the exception of being held in various portions of the Mandalay Bay convention center as opposed to on one floor. This made for lots and lots and lots and lots of walking. But I'm still young (yes i am) so it makes for good excercise to walk off all the food they shovel in your mouth.
Most of the sessions I attended were really good with the exception of a couple. I wouldn't blame the speakers because these problems were mostly due to technical issues like the computers not working, the projectors broken or feedback in the presenters microphone sort of thing. All in all there were some great things presented this week.
Some of the sessions that really stuck out were:
Kimberly Tripp - Index Internals and Usage
This was a great session that talked about thins like SQL Server Statistics, Query Optimization, Types of indexes, diminishing returns on performance, etc. Of all the session I think this one stood out the most and because it is probably the most relevant for me right now being one of the "SQL Server DBA" for my company (Christie Digital). I say it that way because its a committee based DBA
Rick Strahl - Using WCF for JSON and REST Services with ASP.Net
Great session....last one of the conference for me so it really sticks out but essentially this covers the next gen replacement for ASMX or first gen webservices in the .NET Framework.
John Papa - Practical Strategies with the Entity Framework
For me this was an introduction to the Entity Framework that was released in VS 2008 SP1. John did a great job of quickly introducing the technology and getting on to the meat and potatoes of what we were there to discuss. There was a good discussion on how to use the IDE to build the data mappings and what happens after you make changes to the backend server, which coinceidently can be any data source...not just SQL as Linq to SQL supports.
Things I would change...(and only because its my blog and I can say whatever I want!!!)
...the time between sessions was ridiculous...one hour or in some cases and hour and a half is just way too long. They could have added an extra session or two to the day. I realize they want you in the expo hall but they could have extended the day to facilitate that or leave it open all day and then some people may skip a couple of sessions here and there to go and see what the vendors are offering. this was my gripe last year and its my gripe this year. Its probably going to be the thing that keeps me from going to this in the future.
...provide video or podcasts of the sessions so we can take in the whole conference...even the sessions we didn't get to go to. I see there point about this being intellectual property and the speakers are consultants and this is their livelyhood but I mean if they are willing to teach this at a conference...and we pay to see it...shouldn't we be entitled to review this information after the fact? Maybe they will supply it on their site (i heard they were recording the sessions this year).
...ease up on the food. Damn, there was too much...I ate too much...I felt stuffed the whole time...I guess this is really my fault! Okay dont change that
Heres a simple way for you to view your GAC in its naked state, go to the following registry location:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion, once there create a DWORD value named "DisableCacheViewer" and set it to value 1.
Easy!
Kudos to Scott Elliott a colleague of mine for putting this together...
Here is how I got my SQL Express to remotely respond to SQL Management Studio.
In SQL Server Configuration Manager:
Under SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration:
Protocols for
Under SQL Server 2005 Servers
Log on as: Local System (have to restart)
SQL Server Browser
And with that, you should be able to remotely connect! Hazzah!
I came across this neat tool (well a colleague of mine did and told me about it) from Helicon called URL Rewriter. Basically it allows you to use an ISAPI filter to rewrite the url that the server uses to work with in IIS and is essentially a copy of the mod_rewrite utility available in Apache.
It uses Regular expressions...so if you are not an expert in those (as I am clearly not) then this little tidbit of code may help. It allows you to rewrite the url that comes in as subdomain.domain.com as domain.com/subdomain. The top portion is the header and sets up logging and such...the real meat is the last two lines.
Here it is
# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.48
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCompatibility2 On
RepeatLimit 200
RewriteBase
ReWriteLog C:\rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www)(\w+).christiedigital\.com
RewriteRule (.*) /%1/$1 [L]
Hope this helps
Well I finally found a solution to this. I had been having this issue for a while. I felt shame...but alas no more!!!!!!
Check out this blog http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=23
The fix to this is so easy its almost embarrassing...I mean its not even a fix. Essentially this is what you do:
