Today it was time to update my SharePoint 2013 installation from March PU 2013 to August 2013 CU - mostly because the Search Schema changed under the hood and I wanted to try something out for the awesome Search Query Tool. Download Wow, 1.8GB patch – that is huge! Compared to the RTM version of SharePoint 2013 with 2.4GB they rewrote 75% - or the patching strategy is not that optimal.

First User Group in Munich - with live streaming to google hangout - pretty cool stuff! Session 1: Migrations and their pitfalls First session by Dennis Hobmaier (@DHobmaier) about SharePoint migrations. Key take-aways: templates, custom-code, permissions, workflows are the main causes of trouble - thats new 😉 Session 2: Offerings for the SharePoint Community in Germany - or how to create a podcast Michael Greth (@mysharepoint) showed us the various offerings for the large SharePoint Community in Germany (there are around 30 User Groups):

Another essential SharePoint tool found its way to the chocolatey gallery – this time it’s the awesome and feature-rich SharePointLogViewer. Key Features: View multiple SharePoint log files at once Search by any field Filter the log by any field File drag & drop support Live monitoring for entire farm Export filtered log entries Bookmark log entries Get popup notification of SharePoint log events from system tray Receive email notifications on errors Redirect log entries to event log Supports SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 Installation After installing chocolatey you can install SharePointLogViewer with one line of Powershell: