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How to enable it ? To enable dashboard you need to create the Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application. Use the below powershell command to create the service application. New-SPUsageApplication -Name "Health and Usage Application" -DatabaseName "SP2013_Health_and_Logging_Database". Once you run the above command it will create the service application with the name Health and Usage Application and the respective database. Once you have created the service application you have to enable the dashboard. In the previous versions we use to get three options ON/OFF/OnDemand settings for the dashboard. Now in this version you will get only two options ON/OFF. To enable the dashboard, we will use ON setting and use the below powershell command. $svc = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService $dds = $svc.DeveloperDashboardSettings $dds.DisplayLevel = "On" $dds.Update() After executing the above powershell com...

I was doing an analysis for a client to figure out if there were any capacity improvements on the new SharePoint 2013 RTM compared to SharePoint 2010 and I thought I would put it in a chart and make it available for my blog readers. What I found was that besides the new features,  the most significant amount of changes were on the limits for Search as search has had some big underlying architecture changes for SharePoint in this release. This data is taken from the Microsoft TechNet article entitled: SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits as well as the article entitled: Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2013 .  To get more detailed information, go directly to these articles. Disclaimer : As SharePoint 2013 RTM has just been released, I’m sure there are still updates being made to the article so please refer to the TechNet articles for any more information required as well as updates. Microsoft states that some v...