SharePoint Navigation Limited to 50 Items

There is a limit set in SharePoint by default which only allows fifty links to show up in the navigation. If you add pages and/or subsites beyond the limit of 50, they stop showing up in the navigation.

The right thing to do would be to re-evaluate your SharePoint site structure at this point. Chances are though, that you will need a more immediate work around to get you past this issue in the meantime.

The limit is set in the PortalSiteMapProvider class in SharePoint. Microsoft’s explanation behind this limit is that “Showing a large number of items in the navigation menu is not useful and can have a negative impact on performance”.

Powershell Script to Delete Out Temporary Internet Files

If you have a lot of user profiles on a box, the user profiles can start to take up a lot of disk space. This is especially so on a Citrix or terminal services server, but can affect any system where more than a few people logon. I wrote a quick powershell script that can be scheduled to clean these out.

IIS Log Management Script in Powershell

IIS logs on a busy webserver can use up a lot of disk space. I wrote this little powershell script that I schedule to run on all of my web servers. It goes in and deletes out any IIS logs older than 1 year. Then it compresses any IIS logs that are left which are older than 1 day and are not already compressed. You can change the length of time for these to suit your needs by changeing the numbers in the "AddDays(-123)" parts of the script. Just make sure it's a negative number, or else you won't have any logs left.

Configuring a CRM Email Router to Run Under a Domain Service Account

If you tried running the CRM 2011 email router under a domain service account, you probably ran into some issues. Please, do not take the easy way out and make the account an administrator, you can give it the rights it needs without going to that extent.

The first thing it needs is the "log on as service" user right, but it should get that granted when you configure the service to run under your service account in services.msc. So, I'm going to assume that's already taken care of.

MSCRMEmail: Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved

Below is an error that can appear when you are running the CRM email router on the same server as your CRM web services. I experienced it after adding a second web site on the CRM server to run a portal that is back-ended by CRM. The error was also accompanied by high CPU and memory usage as well.

Tips on How to Free Disk Space on Your PC or Server

I have noticed a lot of people on the internet having issues with their hard drives filling up "mysteriously" and they are not sure what to do to reclaim some of that disk space. I've already written a handful of articles that touch on various consumers of disk space, so I am going to bring all of them together in one place for your convenience. I will keep adding to this page as I write more articles that are along these same lines.

How to Configure Your Page File to Save Disk Space

Written by Greg Kjono

There are a couple of hidden files that typically use up a lot of disk space, especially in systems that have large amounts of RAM. These are the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys. Hiberfil.sys can be deleted if you don't use the hibernation feature. Instructions on how to do that are available at http://nerdsknowbest.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-delete-hiberfilsys-on-windows.html.

I don't recommend completely removing the pagefile, especially on desktops and laptops, however. You can configure them to not use so much disk space though. By default they are set to "system managed" and are probably close in size to the amount of memory you have in your PC. Chances are that you aren't actually using most of that space in the page file, and that your computer is just allocating that space in case it needs it in the future.