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SharePoint 2010 Development Machine Spec

Filed Under : SharePoint 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Oct.24,2011

If you’re considering buying a new developer laptop or desktop for SharePoint 2010 development, I can thoroughly recommend getting the fastest and most capacious build you can justify.

Development Laptop Build

Here’s my laptop build, and is currently what I consider to be minimum developer spec for serious SharePoint 2010 development work.

Model: Dell XPS L702
CPU: Intel i7-2720QM
RAM: 16GB
Disk: 500GB SSD (Kingston), 500GB eSata

Operating Systems

I run Windows 7 as a native OS on my laptop. This means I can code whilst on the train, and cut-and-run without creating a boil-in-the-bag laptop. I like this feature.

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Renaming a Standalone SharePoint 2010 Server

Filed Under : SharePoint 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Oct.23,2011

OK. You never create standalone servers. I know. But, let’s just say you *did* have one, maybe for development or test, and let’s say you had such an environment on your laptop, and also let’s say your machine had an embarrassing name that you needed to change before you next demoed SharePoint stuff on it… OK, you get the picture. Smile

The Microsoft recommended steps are:

Rename your PC using Computer properties:
Reboot.
Run the PowerShell Command “Rename-SPServer”

There is only one problem with this suggested method: it’s a steaming pile of nonsense.

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Certificate Revocation List Check and SharePoint 2010 without an Internet Connection

Filed Under : SharePoint 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Sep.20,2011

UPDATED: Fix Slow SharePoint 2010 System Performance with the CRL Check

Sometimes you need to install SharePoint 2010 in an environment where the servers do not have an effective Internet connection. This posses a big problem.

Most Microsoft assemblies and DLLs are digitally signed. Each time signed assemblies are loaded, default system behaviour is to check with the owner of the root certificate that the cert with which the assembly was signed is still valid. In the case of Microsoft assemblies, this means “phoning home” to read the Certificate Revocation List at crl.microsoft.com .

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Resetting and Managing SharePoint User Alert Frequencies

Filed Under : SharePoint 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Sep.10,2011

Here’s a common use case: a user in your company is complaining about how frequently they receive Alerts from content added to SharePoint 2010 Lists.

Yes, there are quite a few tools out there, and some folks suggest using Control Point or something expensive for this requirement. But in principle you don’t need those tools.

SharePoint 2010 is best administered by PowerShell. Here’s an example script that will reset all of the alerts for a specified user (e.g. “DOMAIN\JOEL”) to receive a weekly digest.

Start-SPAssignment –Global
Get-SPWeb http://sharepoint/* | ForEach-Object { $w = $_; ForEach($alert in $w.Alerts) { if($alert.User.UserLogin -eq “domain\joel”) { $alert.AlertFrequency = “Weekly”; $alert.Update(); } } }

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