In many of the interviews from the so called gurus there is a sentence that repeats pretty commonly “you can forget about scaling, because the platform will handle that”, in my opinion it’s only “partially true”.
When you host your application in your own set of servers you can detect performance problems, since your number of servers is f... [Read More]

Here is a list of steps that can help you when something goes wrong with the search:
You search for an specific file and it’s not found First of all you must see if the file is actually crawled, you can use the central admin, but there are another options like ExportCrawlLog that can be useful when, for example you need to report tons of br... [Read More]

One of the usual questions when managing a project is determining the time when the product will be shown to the users and. what is more, when can the users start “playing” with the product with some guarantees that their work will not be lost. I want to tell you how I’d like to manage the beta versions of my applications.
I must admit I’m... [Read More]

Everybody knows that moss search is security trimmed, but there are certain circumstances where it is not enough, for example:
Imagine a site that is using a custom master page with some links or text in the header, footer and may be in the lateral menu, the problem is that, when you search for a word located in the master page all the pages... [Read More]

This one happened today:
After publishing a page and waiting a few minutes, the page does not get propagated to the other variations, so you go to the variation propagation page and see something like this:

The job seems to start, but it does nothing, and the updated variation logs are empty,and it never ends…
The logs (a... [Read More]