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I am an avid SharePoint enthusiast who works as an Independent SharePoint Consultant based in Leeds, United Kingdom. I am one of the organisers of the Yorkshire SharePoint User Group in the United Kingdom. I have been designing and building SharePoint solutions since 2006.
by Simon Doy

>SharePoint Memory Leak (one for the geeks)


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Introduction

Todd Carter has found a core issue with SharePoint 2007 relating to the way that memory is disposed. Over the past couple of years memory management has become quite a hot topic and best practises have been published such as ensuring that you dispose of certain SharePoint objects (e.g. SPSite and SPWeb) after using them. These discoveries have lead to tools such SPDisposeCheck being released.

Todd however thought there was more to it and has investigated into SharePoint’s memory usage even further and uncovered a bigger issue.

An interesting article delving into the internals of Sharepoint, explaining the problem and then providing a workaround, a full fix is due shortly.

Funnily enough SharePoint 2010 does not seem to suffer from this problem, maybe thats a good reason for a client to upgrade!

http://todd-carter.com/post/2010/02/08/SharePointe28099s-Sasquatch-Memory-Leak.aspx

by Simon Doy

>SharePoint 2010 Exams


>Recently I have been going through the process of studying and taking my MCTS: SharePoint exams. Anyway I am halfway through and thought I should take a look at what Microsoft have got in store for SharePoint 2010. From the SharePoint 2010 Learning Plan I found these:-

  • Technology Specialist: Configuring SharePoint 2010 (70-667)
    With the training courses of this MCTS certification, IT Professionals can learn configuration skills for SharePoint, including deployment, upgrade, management and operation on a server farm.
  • IT Professional: Administrating SharePoint 2010 (70-668) 
    The training courses of this MCITP certification cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics like capacity planning, topology designing and performance tuning.
  • TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development (70-573)
    Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.
  • PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications (70-576)
    Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features, and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.