Mohamed El Ashmawi's Blog - All Comments

re: SharePoint 2013 Preview Deployment - Failed to create the configuration database

mel — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:49:59 GMT

Did not work for me: My "max degree of parallelism" was already set at "1".

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Disk Space Requirements

Glenn Wilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:40:41 GMT

Thanks for this, it will come in handy.

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Check Current Enviornment Usage

Marijn Somers — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:56:57 GMT

Great Stuff! that is coming into my governance plan, section Capacity management !

Thanks!

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser

Sunil — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:08:02 GMT

Hi Good post.

i am getting following error while trying to parse the sharepoint 2010 IIS log data.

Cannot find '#Fields' directive in header of file "c:\logs\TK5-FINSFW-05-2011

1024-0857.log". Lines 1 to 220773 have been ignored

Cannot find '#Fields' directive in header of file "c:\logs\TK5-FINSFW-05-2011

1024-0927.log". Lines 1 to 349417 have been ignored

Do I need to change anything on th elog files?

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser Part 2

Mohamed El Ashmawi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:02:59 GMT

Yes, this tool can do much more than I used in the analysis mentioned above. Just keep in mind that it gets its input from the IIS logs, so it is limited by information in these logs.

One possiblity is to analyze data based on agent type (user-agent). In such a case, the query will look like this: logparser -i:IISW3C "select count(*) as ct,cs(user-agent) from *.log group by cs(user-agent) order by ct desc"

Another possibility is to analyze based on web pages and use "cs-uri-stem" and "cs-uri-query" fields for that..An example is

logparser -i:CSV "select count(*) as ct,TO_LOWERCASE(EXTRACT_EXTENSION(cs-uri-stem)) as ext from *.log group by ext order by ct desc"

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser Part 2

sharepoint_total — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:11:52 GMT

This is an amazing tool and a very nice blog article ! Other than user analysis, in what other ways can the log data be used? May be, the Request Type and Target info can be used to analyze things like most commonly accessed sites/webparts/features etc?

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management

Mohamed El Ashmawi — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:59:17 GMT

Thanks Mathieu,

I will build the approach as a series of blog posts. I have added another one now, and I anticipate adding a new post each week.

Regards

re: SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management

Mathieu Deleplanque — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:53:40 GMT

Thank you for this article. Waiting for the next one !

re: Migrating Forms Based Authentication Sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Mohamed El Ashmawi — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:22:11 GMT

I am telling the web applicaiton of the membership database (aspnet database) in steps 2 and 3 above. i.e. I am configuring the web application, central administration and STS to retrieve users from the membership database.

As for the database in steps 4 & 6, this is a the actual content database with all the FBA site content. It should be taken as the SharePoint 2007 content database.

I hope this helps you. Please send me back for any additonal clarifications

re: Migrating Forms Based Authentication Sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Umar — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:06:22 GMT

Nice article. Thanks for posting exactly what I was looking for. Just want to ask you that you are creating a new web app in step 2. After that which data base you are attaching to FBA site in step 6. When and where will you tell new web app in 2010 to use aspnetdata base that contains all the users’ lists.

Thanks