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Benchmark SharePoint Performance
The Microsoft SharePoint team just released a tool they had been using internally for measuring and benchmarking SharePoint performance. Called “CopyTimer”, it simply uploads and downloads three different files, and records the stats to a list.
Download the tool (and/or the source code!) from its’ CodePlex site:
http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbox/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=8366
There is a config file that needs to be set [...]
SkyDrive: 1GB Free Online Storage from Microsoft
SkyDrive: For those times when you need to share files that are too large to send via email (or for sharing mdb’s which can be a pain to email, even if they are small).
SkyDrive is Microsoft’s addition to the ever growing list of services that allow you to store your files online - for free. [...]
Moving / Copying InfoPath Rules
One difficulty of working with InfoPath is that if you have a button that has a rule with many actions and you would like to have some other button (or other control) execute those same actions, there is no way to simply copy the actions from one to the other. At least, not with the GUI…
AJAX Stats Created Using AJAX View
Curious about the performance of the Javascript / AJAX on your page? Microsoft Research has created Ajax View, which allows you to gather performance data about what’s going on in your web application as it runs in the browser. This is an easy to use tool and you can have it up and running in [...]
Next Gen Frontpage?
Microsoft just released a public beta of Popfly (www.PopFly.com), which is an online, Silverlight based, web page design tool aimed at the home user. You can do all the standard stuff: add images, text, rss feeds, etc. But mentioned at the bottom of the description page is this little nugget:
“In addition, Popfly offers a powerful [...]
Using Windows Authentication with Reporting Services
This post will not explain how to set up using Windows NT Integrated Security to access data sources, I will only try to explain the difficulty of doing so and suggest an alternative.
Let’s say that you have a client machine, a report server and an MS SQL Server database that is on a different server [...]
