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SharePoint Manager The SharePoint Manager 2013 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. http://spm.codeplex.com/ CAMLDesigner The CAML designer is a tool that helps you build your CAML queries to query SharePoint lists http://sharepoint.biwug.be/Pages/Downloads.aspx Property bag settings SharePoint Property Bag offers developers to store configurations settings at different levels of the SharePoint hierarchy outside of the application itself. http://pbs2013.codeplex.com/ ULS Viewer ULSViewer allows users to open a ULS log file and display its contents in a user friendly format. Users can then perform advanced functions. http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3308 SharePoint feature admin Quickly review what features are installed. Detect faulty solutions. Mass activate and deactivate features. http://featureadmin.codeplex.com/ Search Query ...

SharePoint Search 2013 infrastructure totally changed and now in 2013 provides the great OOB tools that help to troubleshoot the problem more easily. Monitor the crawl and query rates and latency and generate the reports. So the following are the some of the great tools that exist in the SharePoint 2010 Fast Infrastructure but 2013 it adds more options in crawl logs also display the crawl and query health reports in form of charts. Crawl logs: The crawl logs basic first level entry where the SharePoint administrator checks the crawl status. So the following are the options that added in the existing crawl logs that gives the more help in terms of analysis the & check the performance of the crawler. Content Source (added 1, 7 and 30 day duration trend) URL View (Added new link remove from index) History( added new column Latency and load) Content source URL View History View Crawl Health Report: Display the health report card of the crawler the report gen...