Using the Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet
The Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet can be a real time saver if you need to search the SharePoint logs and there are multiple servers in the farm. I regularly use it to search for a specific correlation ID and then open the…
"Sorry, something went wrong" when a user tries to edit their profile
I have had users report that they are unable to edit their profile, they just get the unhelpful “Sorry, something went wrong” error. Fortunately some of them thought to record the Correlation ID so I was able to use the…
SharePoint 2013 logs growing by several GB per day
I have received an alert from our monitoring system for one of the Web Front End servers in my SharePoint 2013 farm running low on disk space. A quick check revealed that the log folder was fast filling up (in fact…
Change the location of usage logs
By default SharePoint stores it’s usage logs in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS but if a server doesn’t have a large C: drive then it is easy to change the location to a larger drive. Here is how: 1….