SharePoint Dragons

It’s well written, entertaining, and very informational: http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2012/06/09/demystifying-sharepoint-performance-management-part-4making-use-of-rps/ (check out the other parts as well). We liked it so much that we’ve added it to the SharePoint 2010 TN Wiki Best Practices page at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8666.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-en-us.aspx. We couldn’t resist to mention our favorite quote:

To that end, I would also be seriously remiss if I did not make you aware of the SharePoint Flavored Weblog Reader tool. It was created by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman who run the SharePoint Dragons blog – probably the best SharePoint performance related blog out there. This tool was specifically designed to make it easier to analyse IIS logs for SharePoint specific information. It is a command line tool, but much simpler and slicker than the methods I introduced in this post. Instead of specifying a date range you specify the number of items from the logs to process. For example:

sfwr.exe 250,000 “E:\LOGS\IIS_WWW\W3SVC1045333159”