Sharepoint 2010 Slow Page Loads Master Page / Web Parts

Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone.

Great tips!!!!

We do have AV running on our Sharepoint server. We are using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8,8i with the Sharepoint integration plug-in. Is this a good or bad in your opinions????

I am reviewing the links posted earlier now...

Thanks Again!!!!!

McAfee ist not a bad tool, nevertheless in the meanwhile a bit overloaded like all others too,,,
Rather than the one or the other tool is important, to limit them dowen to do what the< should do, otherwise performance is affected in a heavy way....

Have a look here:
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB58274
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB66909
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx

You have to exclude:
The base windows machine....
The SQL Server
THe Sharepoint Server....

As virus scanner are different, follow the McAfee instructions and veriy the settings with the MS articles.
This way you get the virus scan under control

I have some question regarding Developer Dashboard. Since I have note used it before I have been watch a number of YouTube video regarding it and find it very interesting.

here are my question.

1) CAn this be only run from one of the WFE's or can it be run from a client workstation?

2) Once enable do all user both on the server and regular end-user see the diagnostic information. once enable I do not want end--users to see this information on their workstations?

Are there any performance impacts on the server by enabling this?

The information is catched by WFE.

I would not install it on a producive systems. Every solution which involves in the information stream involves also performance. The idea is to track information on a developer system to get rid of issues.

So better to use a test environmetn for tracking, and if you solved all issues to publish the solution on a productive system.

OK, so once enabled end user would be able to see the diag information correct???

I am still confused if this information is only accessible from the server or client...

Thank you for all of your help

Here the MS Information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512745(v=office.14).aspx

I guess this explains what happens...
http://www.dlindemann.de/blog/2010/01/14/sharepoint-2010-developer-dashboard-aktivieren/

OK, German, but shows what happens...

So simplyfy the configuration, means who can use and see the extensions, you can install this solution.
http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/SharePoint-2010-Developer-Dashboard-configuration-feature.aspx

This also clarifies, that you need some minimum permissions (which can be configured via wictor willens webpart) to see the activation button (on demand) for the dashboard. It shows as a window under the site and give you additional information.

Some pictures
SPS-DevBoard1.PNG
SPS-DevBoard2-Soltion.PNG
SPS-DevBoard3-Custom.PNG

Thanks for your patience.

Ok I think I am slowly understanding this. When enabled Developer Dashboard will be visialbe to anyone to has access to the Sharepoint sites.

Here is the items that concerns me. We are using a custom master page and I am almost 100% certain our web team did not insert the code to enable the dashboard. So this mean I cannot use the dashboard then correct???


When enabled, the Developer Dashboard appears by default on any page that uses the SharePoint Foundation 2010 master page or any page using a custom master page where the Dashboard control is included.

THe dashboard is visible to every user, which has the permissions defined in the configuration solution (or set by power shell). Default is "Add and customize Sites".
So not visible to everbody. And with the configuration solutio, you can decide yourself, who can see it and who not.

Custom page master depends. If they are created from a default master page (s just customized), the code for the developer dashboard should be in there. If it is a self construction, you see in one of the links, which code has to be in there to support the dashboard.

You may open a site in Sharepoint Designer and search for the code in the master page. If the codeis not there, no dashboard can be shown at all.

The last sentence means exactly what I described. If you ceated a master page by customizing the default master, the dashboard is available. You just copy the page and make your customization.
Only for master pages, which are created from the scatch do not have the code. As I would assume, that even most of the available cutom themes are based on a Sharepoint defualt master, I would assume it will show up.

But you may easyly enable the dashboard via stmadm and see what happens. The point is just, the dashboard is sharepoint default, just disabled by default.

If you run the IE developer tools in IE10 (press F12) you get a similar tool, although not as Sharepoint enabled.

You can set the permission level required to access developer dashboard using this property (exposed in powershell):
DevDashboardSettings.RequiredPermissions

Here is a list of possible permissions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spbasepermissions.aspx


Here is an example of how to set it:
http://www.sharepointboco.com/developer-dashboard-sharepoint-2010/


If the developer dashboard delegate control is not in your masterpage, I would sugest you create a new masterpage from your current page in SPD, and copy the developer dashboard delegate control from the standard V4.master file.  You can always reset the site to use the original masterpage once you have tried it out.

Thanks for the responses everyone you have given me a lot to digest.

I know when SharePoint was setup before I started ay my company do not know anything about SharePoint but figuring things out as they went along.

Right now I have to figure out if they copy the default master page of made a new one I will also have to figure out how to use Designer..

Thank Again