This week reveals a new surprise in our sharepoint farm: during normal afternoon, somehow some of our pages started to load very slowly, around 30 seconds. After some investigations: only one webapplication was impacted only one server was impacted (we have 3 webfrontends) seemed that only pages witch our customizations »
Too few articles on Internet talk about the necessity of having a dedicated Distributed cache in Sharepoint 2013. a little reference here but mainly this post of samlman In our company we started with the exact same idea: we knew the distributed cache was storing a lot of information required »
Search is a critical technical piece in Sharepoint, and a lot of "new" services are based on it in order to consolidate data, such newsfeeds. And it's always a little bit magical in the background. We have around 7 millions documents in our farm, first full crawls were running at »
When you onboard sharepoint in claims/ADFS mode, you start facing a lot of new challenges you weren't at all aware when everything was running on NTLM. One surprise we discovered was that the user profile pictures (stored on the mysite host) were not recheable anymore by FIM (Forefront Identy »