SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies

The real power of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that they can be endlessly customized to meet a wide variety of business needs.

The Protean nature of SharePoint is at once its most powerful feature and its most formidable; the complexity of your SharePoint environment can increase by orders of magnitude when you begin to shape it to suit your needs.

This complexity can make troubleshooting SharePoint issues a daunting task, as many different data points from different sources must be correlated and analyzed.

The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.
With SPDiag v1.0, you can:

Collect IIS and ULS log files, performance counter data, event logs, and WMI instrumentation data from a SharePoint farm.

Filter data to show granular information related to specific servers, Web applications, HTTP requests, event IDs, URI queries, and almost any other data points captured through supported channels.

Create custom reports that can help reveal performance trends over time.

Create snapshots of your SharePoint farm that include detailed information about your farm’s hardware, installed software and logical topology.

Export collected data and reports that can be sent to Microsoft support personnel.

SPDiag v1.0 is included in the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0, available for download at the following locations:

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035

Documentation for SPDiag is available from those download pages as well.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/02/05/sharepoint-diagnostics-spdiag-tool-v1-0-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx

Yaniv Shasha

DPM SP1 -גיבוי שיחזור חוות SP

אתר מעולה ללימוד פונקציונאלית של DPM בהקשר של גיבוי שיחזור SP

https://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/protect-sharepoint.aspx

המוצר יכול לשחזר את ה LEVELS הבאים :

o Farm recovery
o Site recovery
o Item recovery

לפי נתונים של מיקרוספט גיבוי של חווה עם 50 TB של תוכן כולל בניית קטלוג אורכת כשעתיים ורבע , המוצר משתמש בטכנולוגיה של VSS (volume shadow copy) – שמגבה block של מידע

לא מזמן שוחרר SP1 של המוצר, שמביא איתו חידושים משמעותיים :

· שיפור ניכר של יצירת הקטלוג לאחר הגיבוי – מיקרוסופט מוסרים נתונים של שיפור בניית של קטלוג מ 10 שעות לשיפור של 15 דקות בלבד !!!
· גיבוי האינדקס של SP -מה שמונע מאיתנו ביצוע full crawl לאחר שיחזור (בחוות גדולות זוהי פעולה שיכולה לקחת ימים שלמים !)

נראה ששינויים אלו יכולים לדחוף את המוצר לקו הקדמי של השחקנים המשמעותיים בשוק גיבוי / שיחזור SP

· חיסרון של המוצר (לאחר בדיקה עם מיקרוסופט) שהמוצר אינו תומך בחוות שהיא cross domain – כלומר ה SP וה SQL חייבים להיות באותו דומין בכדי שיהיה קשר בין ה Agent לבין קונסולה הניהול של DPM
כנראה שעוד שני דורות של המוצר זה יהיה ניתן לביצוע .


יניב שאשא

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint v1.3

Microsoft releases finally the VS Extensions for SharePoint
The Extensions can help development to create various SharePoint artifacts such as Web Parts, Content Types, Event Receivers and a number of others

The biggest one in my opinion is x64 support, it mean that now you can develop on an x64 Os

The new features in VSeWSS 1.3 are

o Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used

o Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added

o Command line build, package and retract commands are included enabling continuous integration and build servers. Previously command line build of SharePoint projects was very difficult

o Refactoring support for renaming of Web Parts. Previously renaming a web part required changes in several files in the project

o WSP View improvements for consistency of deleting feature elements, merging features and adding event receivers to features

o Solution Generator can now generate solutions from publishing sites. Previously only regular sites could be generated

o Allowing partial trust BIN deployments of web parts. CAS configuration must still be provided by the developer.

o New project item template for SharePoint RootFiles items

o Deployment will now optionally remove conflicting existing features on the development server prior to redeployment. Previously any feature name conflicts would result in an error

o Ancillary assemblies such as for business logic can now be added to the SharePoint Solution WSP

o Hidden features related to Site Definition projects are now shown in WSP View. They are no longer hidden

o For advanced users a fast deploy is included to update only the compiled assembly on the SharePoint development installation

o The User Guide is now installed with the extensions instead of being a separate download

Download from here
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=428&DownloadID=15946


Yaniv shasha

SharePoint Analyzer

SharePoint Analyzer v1.1

Same useful free tool from Bamboo

With this tool you can display the following information about your SharePoint farm:

· The information for the entire farm topology, from Web Application down to individual lists.
· Server information, including patches and updates.
· Database information that are being used as part of your SharePoint deployment.
· Solutions and Features that are deployed, which are displayed per Web App, Site Collection or Site scope.
· Services and their status.
· Information about Bamboo products that are used in your farm.
http://community.bamboosolutions.com/media/p/7160.aspx

Semantic URL's in SharePoint Sites

The URL of Must the internet faced SharePoint site which I know, is look like:

http://blablabla/Pages/defult.aspx

The critical disadvantage in this URL structure is it's Not user friendly URL
And another reason, why semantic URL's are important, is the Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Same tool that I find that can be were helpful for URL rewriting is

Imtech SharePoint Semantic URL's v1.0.0.0

That can be finding here
http://www.codeplex.com/tmt/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14648


Imtech SharePoint Semantic URL's allows you to use semantic URL's in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 WCM solutions
For example:
http://myorganization.com/Division/Pages/Services.aspx
Becomes http://myorganization.com/Division/Services

More information about the Feature and screenshots available http://blog.mastykarz.nl/2008/06/23/semantic-urls-in-moss-2007-imtech-sharepoint-semantic-urls-free-feature/

Thanks yaniv shasha