Usage logging is an excellent way for a small business owner to help justify the expense of running a Microsoft SharePoint server. However, if you have a large number of users accessing SharePoint, ...

In the ninth part of Robert Schifreen's SharePoint 2010 epic, he learns how one user can generate 16GB of logs in just three months. Creating a structure for our SharePoint 2010 installation was ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...

No, shrinking the database will not bring down SharePoint. Letting the disk fill up to 0KB where the database resides will bring down SharePoint (and take that database offline in SQL). The SharePoint ...