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2011
April 22
Announcing the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio
by   sharepointblog@live.com   on  4/22/2011 3:34 PM

Author: Bill Baer, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation - SharePoint

One of the most challenging aspects of maintaining a SharePoint deployment is understanding why certain events have transpired in the environment, often IT Professionals and Developers only have access to when an event occurred and are tasked with parsing Performance Counters, Event and Diagnostic logs, or executing Transact-SQL statements against the Usage database to put the what and why to the when.  These tasks are typically accomplished through an array of tools such as Excel, Log Parser, SQL Server Management Studio and others and the IT Professional and Developer are challenged to correlate and condense this information into a meaningful format - large complex server farm environments make these tasks all the more difficult.
 
Often the most accessible solutions are used to identify and resolve issues occurring in a server farm environment to include the SharePoint Health Analyzer and Systems Center Operations Manager.

The next version (v2.0) of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit includes the new SharePoint Diagnostics Studio.  The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio provides a 3rd layer than can be implemented to support these processes and solutions.
 
 

In the new version of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit we’ve introduced a new and revised SharePoint Diagnostics Studio that represents a complete departure from previous diagnostics toolkits.  The next generation SharePoint Diagnostics Tool, the SharePoint Diagnostics Studio, presents server diagnostic information in a visual and structured way that enables Developers and IT Professionals to quickly diagnose and act upon intermittent performance, reliability and functionality problems in a SharePoint 2010 environment.

 

The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio offers unprecedented depth surfacing every request, across every machine, remotely, with minimal permissions.  This depth and usage allows the IT Professional or Developer to rapidly identity and isolate issues without requiring access to the physical hardware that supports the underlying environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio gathers and consolidates Event and Diagnostic (ULS) logs in addition to information from the Usage database and presents it through a graphical user interface supporting clarity and a single view into issues impacting a deployment.
 
The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio provides a wide variety of reports intended to address the most common issues impacting capacity, performance, availability, and usage that can be used independently or together to identify and isolate issues occurring in a SharePoint environment.
 


The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio provides reports in 5 separate categories:
1.       Base
2.       Capacity
3.       Performance
4.       Availability
5.       Usage
 
 
Integrated search enables rapid insight into issues that have occurred during the lifecycle of a request allowing the IT Professional or Developer to search against the most common criteria including date and time, Correlation Id, and the source user.
 

Snapshot and export support in the SharePoint Diagnostics Studio provides the ability to take information offline.

 

 

Context sensitive help provides guidance on both the purpose and how each report should be used.
 

 
Download the SharePoint Administration Toolkit and start solving your problems with the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio today.
 
Additional Resources
 
Read the SharePoint Diagnostics Studio documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh144782.aspx.

 

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installation questions

I downloaded and installed the SP Admin Kit v2, but there is no option for the Diag Studio - just the other app's like SCW, CMI, Profile replication and load testing.

Am I missing something?

Bryce
 on 4/24/2011 10:30 PM

re: installation questions

Bryce,

Check the Setup.exe dialog and ensure the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio is available from the list of available Features - also check <drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft\SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit\ and check if SPDIAG.exe is installed.

Thanks,

Bill
 on 4/25/2011 12:32 AM

Good Stuff

This will come in handly in troubleshooting production issues. Thanks to the teams that worked on this !
 on 4/25/2011 10:01 AM

SharePoint Diagnostic Studio Not Working On Windows 7 Workstation

When I try to create a new project, I get the "SPDiag has stopped working" dialog box with the "Close program" button.

My workstation is Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with 12 GB RAM and one 6 core processor.

Thanks in advance for any advice given.
 on 4/26/2011 4:16 AM

Great Stuff

Amazing Results with the graphs
 on 4/26/2011 8:28 AM

Re: Announcing the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio

Great tool, but unfortunately the DateTime parsing does not work on non-en-US cultures, so it's impossible to render reports
 on 4/26/2011 4:13 PM

not able to locate the spdiag.exe

hi,

i installed sharepoint Administrator kit in my windows server 2008 R2(Sharepoint Server) i am not able to locate the spdiag.exe (drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft\SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit\ and check if SPDIAG.exe is not there )

after installing i am able to see the replication engine only in my server...

how to get spdiag.exe(SharePoint Diagnostic Studio )

Thanks,
Siv
 on 4/26/2011 5:26 PM

I forward to trying this out.

Thanks for pulling this together.
 on 4/26/2011 9:36 PM

Also not working on W7 64bit

I also get the crash -- stopped working and close program -- at point of new project, putting in server name and error is:

escription:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01: spdiag.exe
  Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03: 4d55cd8b
  Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
  Problem Signature 05: 2.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06: 4bebe8e2
  Problem Signature 07: 23e8
  Problem Signature 08: ce
  Problem Signature 09: System.ArgumentOutOfRange
  OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
  Locale ID: 1033

.Net 4 Full Framework is installed (not just Client Profile).
 on 4/27/2011 4:00 AM

SPDiag doesn't work with non-US date format

Not really useful if it can only report on the first 12 days in a month.  The DateTime Picker reports the date correctly using the current locale (enAU, dd/mm/yyyy) but enters the date as mm/dd/yyyy then correctly complains that it isn't a valid DateTime.
 on 4/27/2011 8:58 AM
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