Sunday, March 23, 2014

SharePoint Environment Troubleshooting Tools

Tools used to troubleshoot environments......

  • PAL – templates, http://pal.codeplex.com/
  • ULS Viewer – http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer  (MS)
  • SETH – SharePoint Engineer Troubleshooting Helper – provided by Microsoft Support. 
  • SNAP tool  - Exception Monitor - http://todd-carter.com/post/2012/05/05/Making-Debugging-a-SNAP/ (MS)
  • DebugDiag 2.0 - http://debugdiag.com -   crash dumps, exception dumps.
  • Delegconfig - Kerberos Issues - http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2009/04/22/delegconfig-v2-beta.aspx
  • Fiddler2 - Headers etc - http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
  • Logparser  – IIS Files - http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=24659
  • Process Monitor 3.1 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
  • Netmon 3.x + NMParsers + SharePoint Parsers 
  • SharePoint Administration and Clean-up Tool
  • iDNA/TTTrace.exe – for tracing any process - provided by Microsoft support
  • PSSDIAG – for SQL Server tracing - provided by Microsoft Support
  • Debugging Tools for Windows(Windbg.exe)

Standard Tools - PowerShell
  • PSConfig
  • NETSH
  • Developer Dashboard
  • SQL Profiler 
  • System.net