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The SharePoint Flavored Weblog Reader v1.1

In a previous post, we’ve talked about a tool we’ve created, the SharePoint Flavored WebLog Reader: https://sharepointdragons.com/2012/02/17/the-sharepoint-flavored-weblog-readersfwr/. It’s a free tool that analyzes the IIS logs of SharePoint farms and generates several textual reports about them. We’ve just released an update to it (v1.1) and based on community feedback, two new features were incorporated:

  • An overview was added that displays the number of searches executed per user.
  • An overview was added of the top slowest requests for a specific user.

You can get it here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-SharePoint-Flavored-5b03f323

PowerShell script for monitoring SharePoint WFE’s and SQL Server back-ends

Choosing, and automating the monitoring of, the correct set of performance counters for monitoring SharePoint WFE’s and back-ends is a daunting task, and this is my attempt:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-script-for-59cf3f70