Tune your SharePoint Farm for better performance Part 3: Warm-Up your farm every morning

One of the best recommendations to improve performance in your farm is to run warm-up script every morning.

I recommand the script of  Jeff Jones  :  https://spbestwarmup.codeplex.com/


I use it every morning after resetting IIS, the script can also create a daily planified task in Task Scheduler.

See Also:

Tune your SharePoint Farm for better performance Part 2

Tune your SharePoint Farm for better performance Part 1

Tune your SharePoint Farm for better performance Part 1: IIS compression : Enabling GZIP compression

To tune your SharePoint  Farm for better performance we recommend to configure the IIS compression (GZIP compression).

IIS compression is turned on by default

but we need to configure it on all SharePoint WFE in few steps :

- Open CMD window and run the following commands :

CD \Windows\System32\Inetsrv\

c:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\appcmd list config -section:httpcompression

this will show the current  settings.

- Configuring gzip compression 

Appcmd.exe  set config -section:httpCompression   -[name='gzip'].staticCompressionLevel:9   -[name='gzip'].dynamicCompressionLevel:7

- Configuring CPU usage for compression

appCmd set config -section:httpCompression /dynamicCompressionDisableCpuUsage:50 appCmd set config -section:httpCompression /dynamicCompressionEnableCpuUsage:30

- Configuring minimum size before compression is applied

appCmd set config -section:httpCompression /MinFileSizeForComp:512

Enjoy performance...

For more information TechNet Article.

New Web Part not appearing in Web Part Gallery - SharePoint

A recurrent problem is that new webparts doesn't appear after deployment on the SharePoint server

First of all be sure that your new webparts are included in the feature (left side) and that the scope of your feature is right

You tried to update your solution.wsp  :

Update-SPSolution –Identity solution.wsp –LiteralPath “C:\solution.wsp” –GacDeployment


You  tried to retract , delete and then add and install your solution but no result :

Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity solution.wsp –WebApplication http://mysite/  

Remove-SPSolution –Identity solution.wsp 

Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath C:\sharedfolder\Release\solution.wsp

Install-SPSolution -Identity "solution.wsp" -webapplication "http://mysite/" -GACDEployment



The solution for this problem is to disable your feature before retracting and then enabling it after installation :



Disable-SPFeature -Identity solution_Feature1 -url "http://mysite/" 

Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity solution.wsp –WebApplication http://mysite/  

Remove-SPSolution –Identity solution.wsp 

Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath C:\sharedfolder\Release\solution.wsp.wsp

Install-SPSolution -Identity "solution.wsp" -webapplication "http://mysite/" -GACDEployment

Enable-SPFeature -Identity solution_Feature1 -url "http://mysite/"

Deploying List Definition with Instance without losing old Data - Sharepoint 2013

If you have a sharepoint list instance in a sharepoint 2013 site with lot of data in it. This instance has been created using a custom List Definition.

If you retract and deploy your solution it'll delete the current instance of the list that has your records.
How can you deploy the List definition without losing old data?

In my case my custom list is lstSimpleRegister
and the instance is lstSimpleRegisterInstance

To resolve this problem you can change the Deployment conflict resolution property to : None
See below :

How to stop deployment or retraction of your solution- Sharepoint 2013

To stop current deployment you can use the Stsadm tool for command-line administrationYou must be an administrator on the local computer to use Stsadm.

Stsadm is located at the following path on the drive where SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN



two steps for this :

******** To see the deployment-status (pending etc.):

stsadm -o enumdeployments

******** To cancel the deployment:

stsadm -o canceldeployment –id “id”

Some PowerShell cmdlets that help you manage features and solutions in a SharePoint 2013 farm

Programmer , administrator , architect you need at least these cmdlets to manage your solution and deployement

-- To check the deployment status and the last operation done
Get-SPSolution | Select Name, LastOperationResult, LastOperationEndTime, LastOperationDetails

Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath C:\MySolution.wsp

Install-SPSolution -Identity "MySolution.wsp" -webapplication "http://Siteurl" -GACDEployment 

Enable-SPFeature  -Identity MySolution_Feature1 -url "http://Siteurl "

Update-SPSolution  –Identity MySolution.wsp –LiteralPath “C:\MySolution.wsp” –GacDeployment

-- Disable Feature from Web Application
Disable-SPFeature  -Identity MySolution_Feature1 -url http://Siteurl 

-- Remove Web Part from Web Application
Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity MySolution.wsp –WebApplication http://Siteurl

Remove-SPSolution –Identity MySolution.wsp

-- Remove Solution from Central Administration
Remove-SPSolution "MySolution.wsp"

--To see all features for a Web Application:
Get-SPFeature -WebApplication http://Siteurl 

--To see all features for a Site Collection:
Get-SPFeature -Site http://sitecollection

--To see all features for a Site:
Get-SPFeature -Web http://siteurl

//Remove Solution from All Web Application
Uninstall-SPSolution -Identity SPEnableDeploy.wsp -allwebapplications

//Remove Solution from Central Administration using Force Command
Remove-SPSolution -Identity MySolution.wsp -force

//Again Add Solution 
Add-SPSolution  -LiteralPath C:\MySolution.wsp

//Install Solution using Force Command
Install-SPSolution -Identity TestWebPart.wsp -webapplication http://Siteurl -GACDeployment -force

 I hope it will help you...