SharePoint 2013

Today it was time to update my SharePoint 2013 installation from March PU 2013 to August 2013 CU - mostly because the Search Schema changed under the hood and I wanted to try something out for the awesome Search Query Tool. Download Wow, 1.8GB patch – that is huge! Compared to the RTM version of SharePoint 2013 with 2.4GB they rewrote 75% - or the patching strategy is not that optimal.

Another essential SharePoint tool found its way to the chocolatey gallery – this time it’s the awesome and feature-rich SharePointLogViewer. Key Features: View multiple SharePoint log files at once Search by any field Filter the log by any field File drag & drop support Live monitoring for entire farm Export filtered log entries Bookmark log entries Get popup notification of SharePoint log events from system tray Receive email notifications on errors Redirect log entries to event log Supports SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 Installation After installing chocolatey you can install SharePointLogViewer with one line of Powershell:

Inspired by Wictor Wilén yearly blog series I try to summarize my year – last year I wanted to write one but I did not gather enough stuff to fill a page – lets try it again: Wow, 2013 was an interesting year and the time has come for my annual blog post to sum up the year that soon has passed us and looking a bit into the crystal ball for the next one.