In the last couple of posts you’ve seen collection and manual analysis of Performance data. In this post let’s automate the analysis using one of the really fantastic tools called PAL – Performance Analysis of Logs. Download it from CodePlex. Ensure that you have installed all the pre-requisites… 1. Log Parser 2.2 Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Win... [More]

In my previous post, I have shown the configuration of perfmon counters. Let’s talk about how to analyze it now. Before you do anything else, read the following articles… IIS 6 Performance Counters Suggested Performance Counters to Watch (IIS 6.0) ASP.NET Performance Counters I know it is a lot of stuff to go through, but then to master drawing, you must learn about the brushes! To manually monitor some counters, you must add the .blg file that got created earlier when you stopped... [More]

If you consider troubleshooting as an art, Perfmon will be one of the brushes – almost like sable. If you master it well, you can not only tell a lot about your server’s performance, you will also be able to take a lot of actions pro-actively even before anything breaks down. In this post, let me quickly show how you can create various counters and set it up on your IIS/SharePoint Servers.     Click Start –> Run –> Perfmon (Click Ok)     Right click... [More]

Objective 1 –> Install all the pre-requisites on the system that was created in part 2. Objective 2 –> Install SharePoint 2010 beta 2 binaries. Notes: 1. This is a public beta and there is no support available. It is to be used only for evaluation purposes 2. Software that needs to be downloaded…     a. OfficeServer.exe     b. Products Keys = BV7VC-RMR6B-26P6Y-BTQDG-DX2KQ OR PKXTJ-DCM9D-6MM3V-G86P8-MJ8CY     c. WCF Hotfix... [More]

Objective –> Run DCPromo on the system that was created in part 1. This is not a recommended way of setting up SharePoint, but due to the hardware limitations on my laptop I have no other choice. Basically, this will be a 1 server setup of SharePoint 2010 beta 2. In the part 1, a machine was setup with Win 2k8 R2 server x64, and Hyper-V enabled. In this post, the objective is to promote the machine to a domain controller. Click Start –> Run –> Type DCPROMO –> Click Ok  ... [More]

Objective 1 –> Installing Hyper-V on a Windows 2k8 R2 x64. This will be the Host OS. Objective 2 –> Creating a Virtual Machine with the OS as Win 2k8 R2 x64. This will be the Guest OS. Learning new stuff is the best part of my job. And for me the biggest motivation for learning is sharing. I just tend to learn more in the process and it feels really good when I get a random comment or mail saying it helped someone, somewhere out in the globe. I always have a lot on my plate to learn,... [More]

I don’t personally want this browser war to end… seriously! And that’s simply because each day the things are becoming simpler and simpler. I tried Google Chrome extensions and can easily see experience how easy things have become for me now. Let’s say you want to twitter a link that you just found. Going to a any URL Shortening service and submitting the link is fine, but just needs a little more dedication, especially for lazy guys like me. What I have now is Google Extensions which looks so... [More]

Before I answer this question, let us have a quick refresher. Answer this question diligently… Is Page_Render in ASP.NET really an EVENT? A BIG ZERO if you have said YES! The answer is No, It is not. Here is an excerpt from MSDN… <snip> This is not an event; instead, at this stage of processing, the Page object calls this method on each control. All ASP.NET Web server controls have a Render method that writes out the control's markup that is sent to the browser. If you create a custom... [More]

Not everyone will need this tool, but in case you have a Microsoft SQL Database Server and a lot of disk drives/SAN, you may choose to read on. Let’s assume you are a Database Administrator, and you have a lot of Disk Drives, and you have SQL Databases residing on quite a few of them. You know that a database file increases in size based on a specific setting and it is called, AutoGrow. Some of you would have it as x%, some x MB and some will have it set to different settings for different file... [More]

If you are a web developer, and haven’t heard of VRTA yet, you should try downloading it from here. It is free and it depends on Microsoft Network Monitor. To have the real knowledge about this VRTA, read the following article - 12 Steps To Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer. Using this tool is a fairly simple task. Start VRTA.     Select your network.  Since I am using a Laptop, I chose Wireless…     Click the green play button . Th... [More]