Paul Devenney

OWSTimer Hogging Processor Part 2

It seems there was more... The fundamental issue on this VM environment turned out not to be the time synch issue in all probablity, but a lack of resources in the environment. 3 Server pools had been set up, dev, test and live. VMWare allocated the resources Read More

OWSTimer Hogging Max Processor Time in VMWare

This issue isn't exclusive to VMWare, but is much easier to come across. You may notice your MOSS server being completely unresponsive for serveral minutes at a time. On investigation you find that OWSTimer is taking up 80%-100% processor utilisation. I have p Read More

Search Server 2008 Express RC

Today Microsoft released a bombshell: Search Server 2008 Express In summary: It's freeStandalone productAll the features of MOSS searchLimited to one query server – so not scalable for the very large enterprise look at the other variations if you're after thi Read More

MOSS - Targeting content to Sites not Audiences

Audience targeting is a great way to push information to individual users from a central source - but what about when you want to push information to particular sites? My example is a series of department sites. Sounds easy - content query web part (CQWP) filt Read More

MOSS 2007 - The Great Hard Disk Consumer

Recently I've been performing a bit of a review on som MOSS servers that are a little "under-specified" on the hard disk front. While you probably shouldn't have anything with as little as 10GB as your only drive on a SharePoint server, it has got me looking a Read More