Tools

Germany’s latest and greatest SharePoint community event was last weekend (30.05.2015 & 31.05.2015 at Microsoft in Munich) - and it was awesome, once again! ShareCamp & Community What is so special about ShareCamp? Easy question, it is entirely community-driven. On both days, Saturday and Sunday, there is a session vote before the “conference” starts. So the attendees prepare presentations and do a short intro during the vote - if more than 3 people raise their hand there will be a session and there were lots of em.

MSDN Archive has been retired this week - I do not know why they retired it before there is an adequate replacement for the majority of the tools, but it has a huge impact on my work. One of my favorite tool, the famous ULSViewer is was hosted there. You will be greeted with this beautiful page when you try to download the ULSViewer - no alternative download location so far!

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: