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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Enabling the Developer Dashboard


The Developer Dashboard is not just for developers who write code. It is an important tool in the arsenal of the SharePoint Administrator.

Tools such as Microsoft's Visual Round Trip Analyzer are used to determine why a page is performing poorly. The downside of tools such as this is that they interrogate the page from the outside and so information such as database queries cannot be seen. We would have to use another tool such as SQL Profiler to see this information.

The Developer Dashboard brings this functionality natively to SharePoint 2010. It provides information, such as how a page is built, how it is performing, what database queries are being run and for how long, at the bottom of a page in report form. Administrators can use this information to pinpoint what is happening on a page.

In this recipe, we will enable the Developer Dashboard and view the report at the bottom of the page. This is done through PowerShell and can be scripted in the SharePoint...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

Author (1)

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
Read more about Peter Serzo