INFO: Use the Custom SCAPI Configuration Utility to Improve Performance (815460)

SUMMARY

Note This article describes the Custom SCAPI Configuration Utility. You can only use this utility after you apply the hotfix that the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article describes:

331111 Stability and Performance Issues May Occur for Busy CMS Sites

If you want to configure custom SCAPI settings to improve performance, you must use the Custom SCAPI Configuration Utility. Two settings are added to this utility:

ManageInternalLinks: You can only change this setting with the Custom SCAPI Configuration Utility.
Resolve Posting Name Collisions: You can use Resolve Posting Name Collisions to speed up URL transformations when you have large numbers of children in each channel.

When you use the Resolve Posting Name Collisions property, none of the children can have the same name for the same parent. Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) currently includes a feature that allows multiple postings to have the same name in the same channel. To use this feature, you must examine all the children to find a newer name, and then you must determine which name is more recent. This work takes a lot of time, and the feature has a considerable performance impact on larger sites. With this setting, you can click to clear the ResolvePostingNameCollision check box, and MCMS serves the first posting that matches the name. If the channel contains no postings with the same name, the only effect is that the URL transformation is done faster.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem was corrected in Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 1.

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

906142 How to obtain the latest Content Management Server 2002 service pack

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version     Size    File name
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   27-Feb-2003  06:21  4.1.0.1116  20,480  Internallinksandpostingcollisionconfig.exe

Note Because of file dependencies, this update requires MCMS 2001 Service Pack 1 if you are using MCMS 2001.