Eric Lawrence touches on this topic in one of his Fiddler blog posts, but unless you know what you're looking for it can be hard to track down so I am going to add the SharePoint twist on it here. We often tell folks to use Fiddler to get an idea of what's going on when they are having issues with their...

I know that there have been a number of posts and articles out there about using diagnostics in Windows Azure. This, in fact, was part of the problem when I went to flesh out the details of what’s available recently. I found a bunch of different articles, but spread across many different releases...

Hey folks, our good friend Adam C. in SharePoint support recently alerted the folks here with a complaint we're seeing come up more frequently from customers that are using SAML claims. It starts out as taking a very long time to log into a site using SAML authentication. If you monitor the requests...

I recently came across a very nice troubleshooting methodology when I was trying to debug some authentication issues that were occurring during a SharePoint 2010 crawl. I was getting some errors and also having difficulty getting the information I needed out of the crawl log to some other issues that...

One of the interesting challenges when trying to troubleshoot remotely connected systems is figuring out what they're saying to each other. The CASI Kit that I've posted about other times on this blog ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/11/06/the-claims-azure-and-sharepoint-integration...

In part 1 of ULS logging tips ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/01/23/tips-for-uls-logging.aspx ) I included a some code to add a custom ULS logging Area and demonstrated how to use it within your project. After working with it a bit I noticed a few things: 1. There was some code...

I was recently clued into an pretty interesting little tool that can be useful when debugging how a document is crawled using FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It will crack a document and break out for you exactly what properties are being extracted and with what values, as well as how it’s crawling...

The developer dashboard is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that is design to provide additional performance and tracing information that can be used to debug and troubleshoot issues with page rendering time. The dashboard is turned off by default, but can be enabled via the object model or stsadm (and...