Sam Kenny’s a(musing)

Sharepoint search results are ordered incorrectly when called from code

This particular problem has not been fully resolved. I found a workaround — see lower down — but the issue itself is still perplexing. If anyone has any views or opinions please feel free to comment.

Windows Service Error Code 2

This is most likely because you are trying to remove a Windows Service service by display name rather than its “real” or Key name.

I experienced this with Confluence and was trying to remove it by its display name (“Apache Tomcat confluence”), rather…

Load Testing With Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter Overview

JMeter is a simple yet powerful open source tool that provides the ability to perform load testing on an application. Although typically used for performing stress tests on web based applications, JMeter is…

vCheck — VMWare Daily Report

vCheck is a series of scripts (or plug-ins) written by Alan Renouf that can be used to report on the status of your VMWare environment. It can be run from VMWare’s Powershell.

Crawls in Sharepoint stop

This issue took a long time to drill down into the root cause.

Symptoms

1. Sharepoint crawls of searchable content were not being run. The scheduler was working but when the crawl was initiated, nothing happened. The ‘time of…