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Disabling logging in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0

One of the pre-requisites for ILM “2” is SharePoint Services. SharePoint Services 3.0 is no longer part of Windows Server 2008 (it was during beta), but is available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. In order to install and run SharePoint services on Windows Server 2008 you need to install the SP1 version. This is available in both x86 and x64 flavours. If, like me, you don’t really know anything about SharePoint other than what it is and what it looks like then you’ll probably simply install it using the defaults. This is fine for ILM “2” however, a word of warning. Out of the box all of the logging is enabled. The default installation will write these logs to the following location:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\LOGS\

It would appear that the default logging in WSSv3 is extensive to say the least. It quickly used more than 3GB of my OS HDD, resulting in my failing to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 twice! I recommend you disable the logging altogether if this is a lab or POC, or at least move the location to a separate hard disk. To disable (or move), you need to do the following:

Load/ open the Central Administration console:

Start | All Programs | Administrative Tools | SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration

Navigate to the diagnostics logging page:

SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration | Operations | Logging and Reporting | Diagnostic Logging

Change the logging option:
- To clear the entry, delete the text for the path in the trace log section (leaving the text box empty disables logging).
- To move the log files, modify the path in the trace log section to a different location.

Hope this helps -it sure saved me a bunch of disk space!

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