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ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Toolkit – Collection Evaluation Viewer

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jörgen Nilsson

With the release of Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Toolkit three new tools are included in the Toolkit! The toolkit can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36213

These are:

  • DP Job Manager
  • Collection Evaluation Viewer
  • Content Library Explorer

Collection Evaluation Viewer is a great addition, saving a lot of time when troubleshooting performance related issues and collection evaluation overall.
With Collection Evaluation Viewer you can see the different queues that are used for Collection Evaluation as displayed below including some valuable information like member changes, Last evaluation time and Run Time which can be used to troubleshoot performance related issues and bad queries.

Collection Evaluator Viewer_2You can also see each individual Queue as well which is great, Incremental updates is something that is asked for a lot, how many can we have without affecting collection evaluation.
This is a great tool for that as well here you can see how many collections which have incremental updates enabled in your environment. According to Technet the supported/recommended limit is 200 but normally you can have more than that, using this tool it is much easier to detect when you are getting close to that limit.

Collection Evaluator Viewer

    DP Job Manager
    Collection Evaluation Tool
    Content Library Explorer

    This is a tool that I will use a lot to troubleshoot and use to find performance bottlenecks! Much easier than reading the colleval.log file to achieve the same.

1 thought on “ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Toolkit – Collection Evaluation Viewer”

  1. John says:
    January 4, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    Hi Jörgen. If I may ask, how are you determining your collection limit for incremental updates?. CPU and SQL performance? the “Total Run Time” for the evaluation to complete? or both?
    With just over 100 collections configured with incremental updates the default incremental evaluation schedule of 5 minutes is too small as the Total Run Time exceeds 6:30 minutes.
    I am interested to hear if you think increasing the schedule or reducing the amount of collections configured in this fashion is preferred.
    Thanks

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