The document discusses SharePoint logging and debugging. It provides an overview of SharePoint logging capabilities including the Developer Dashboard, ULS logs, and flood protection. It also discusses tools for viewing and analyzing SharePoint logs, such as the SPFLogger tool. The document aims to help troubleshooters understand and leverage SharePoint logging.

1. SharePoint Logging & Debugging
The Troubleshooter’s Best Friend
Jason Himmelstein
SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri, Inc.
jhimmelstein@sentri.com
@sharepointlhorn

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10. With this option enabled, if the same event fires 5 times
within 2 minutes, SharePoint will suppress the event from
logging and throw a summary event at the 2 minute mark.
The default behavior and can be customized using
PowerShell and the Set-SPDiagnosticConfig cmdlet.
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12. • How do I turn it off and on?
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18. $j = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings;
$j.DisplayLevel = 'OnDemand';
$j.Update()
Optional parameters
$j.TraceEnabled = $true;
$j.RequiredPermissions = '%MaskSetting%';
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23.  Configurable ULS Logs
 Flood Protection
 Developer Dashboard

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26.  SQL Views
 CodePlex Projects
 http://SPFLogger.codeplex.com

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0
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