BCS PowerShell: Introduction and Throttle Management
Your external list worked great when you tested it, but it’s not working on the deployment server! Reading the SharePoint logs , you see a message like one of these: Timeout expired. BDC Runtime Object Model has throttled the response. The response from the service took more than ’180000′ milliseconds

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BCS PowerShell: Introduction and Throttle Management


