Mike Perquin

Outscaling: retry mechanism failed events not function properly anymore

Due to some changes within Outscaling in 1.3 build 3 (and build 4 as well), the retry mechanism of sending failed events doesn't function properly anymore. This could result in Outscaling keeps trying to send a number of events over and over again (as long as they keep failing). The good news however, this can simply be prevented by adding a DEFAULT CONSTRAINT to the database (osEventQueueStatus table, RetryCount column). For more information: Outscaling keeps trying to send failed events

Active Directory Membership Provider: additional options to limit the number of groups queried

The Active Directory Membership Provider which ships with iXperion 1.4 will contain additional options to limit the number of groups queried, to boost the performance even further. As of iXperion 1.2 build 1, the primary group of an user and all of its parent groups (recursively) are retrieved as well. This could lead to a lot of additional directory search requests which may not be needed within your Active Directory configuration. Therefore, two settings are introduced with which you can alter this...

Limit the scope of Active Directory search requests and get a performance boost immediately

As of iXperion versions 1.1 build 9, 1.2 build 2 and 1.3 build 1, the default scope for searching an user within the Active Directory has been changed from cn=Users to an empty string. This because cn=Users will not be valid for every Active Directory configuration (probably just a few of them) and now at least the entire Active Directory is being searched. So, initial installation and configuration will give no problems in finding the users within the Active Directory. However, searching through the entire...

Faceted Search - Sync File Links

Introduction Faceted Search , when used in combination with SQL Server fulltext indexing, also offers the option to search through a set of documents, such as Microsoft Word & Powerpoint documents and pdf files. (Notice however, that indexing documents in such a way should only be used for a limit set of documents, e.g. 50 or 100 documents.) The mechanism to have Faceted Search / SQL Server index a set of documents is to make a content-item of contenttype File Link ( FLK ) for each file. Then the...

Config Editor - Active Directory configuration

Since more and more customers are using Active Directory integration, within the next iXperion release (1.3) the Config Editor will include the option of configuring and validating your Active Directory configuration. The screen-shot above is a sneak preview of this functionality.   Within the context-menu (on Site level), there will also be a few new features available (see also the screen-shot above): Add Active Directory Configuration , which will be available for sites which doesn't have Active...

Outscaling Dashboard

As already mentioned in another post , Outscaling within iXperion 1.2 will include a Dashboard . This new feature is an enhanced version of the Server Overview feature, which was already part of the Outscaling Console. The Dashboard will give detailed status information for each configured server instance, such as the status of the different Outscaling components (the background component and the eventsubscriber), the number of events within the queue, the number of failed items and/or events, etc. Furthermore,...

Search added to docs.ixperion.smartsite.nl

Finally, we've added search functionality to docs.ixperion.smartsite.nl. Just to the left of the Smartsite logo on the upper right corner, there's an input box where you can enter your search term. Then, just hit enter to start your search. Now it's much easier to find the information you're looking for. Enjoy!

se:webservice new features

In the upcoming Smartsite iXperion 1.2 release, the se:webservice will have two additionial features. The first new feature is the support of NetTcpBindings , which enables you to connect to a (WCF) net.tcp listener. The second new feature is the added support for returning the response as DataTable . Net.tcp support The example above shows you how a se:webservice macro would be like if you want to connect to a net.tcp listener. Not all that different then calling a regular webservice with an http-address....

Outscaling's external webservice fails when Path registry setting is missing from site's logging configuration

When you're going to use Outscaling to synchronize two iXperion CMS instances/servers with each other, you may encounter the exception "object reference not set to an instance of an object" when Outscaling tries to synchronize an item from one server to the other. This is due to a bug in the http handler ( Smartsite.Interop.IIS.WebserviceHandler ) which is used for Outscaling's external webservice. The exception is thrown when the registry setting Path is missing from the site's Logging registry...

Check index fragmentation (SQL server database)

The SQL Server Database Engine automatically maintains indexes whenever insert, update, or delete operations are made to the underlying data. Over time these modifications can cause the information in the index to become scattered in the database (fragmented). Fragmentation exists when indexes have pages in which the logical ordering, based on the key value, does not match the physical ordering inside the data file. Heavily fragmented indexes can degrade query performance and cause your application to respond...