Description

Tired of waiting for SharePoint pages to load? Want something easy to support? That works on all versions? This warmup script is for you!

I used several different warmup scripts. All worked OK but each seemed to lack features so I decided to create a new one. Hope you find it useful too.

Key Features

• SharePoint 2010, 2013, and 2016
• Custom page URLs
• Detect SP Web Application URLs
• Detect Host Named Site Collection URLs
• Detects Service Application URLs
• Detects Project Server PWA
• Download full page resources (JS, images) not just HTML
• Download with Invoke-WebRequest
• Great for ECM websites to populate blob cache
• Warm up Central Admin - home, health rules, web apps for a faster admin experience!
• Warm up Central Admin - all Manage Service Application pages.
• Display W3WP total #MB before and after
• Excellent blog post by @hd_ka at http://blog.greenbrain.de/2014/10/fire-up-those-caches.html

Quick Start

• Download SPBestWarmUp.ps1
• Copy SPBestWarmUp.ps1 to one SharePoint web front end (WFE)
• (Optionnally) Run the following powershell command to avoid error on the next command : Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy ByPass
• Run SPBestWarmUp.ps1 -f to install farm wide. Creates Task Scheduler job on every machine.
• Run SPBestWarmUp.ps1 -i to install locally. Creates Task Scheduler job on the local machine.
• Run SPBestWarmUp.ps1 -u to uninstall farm wide. Deletes any Task Scheduler job named "SPBestWarmup"
• Sit back and enjoy!

Screenshots

• Install farm wide

• Manual run

• Manual run with custom URL parameter

Admin Tip

• After reboot run this command to manually trigger the job and warm up IIS SCHTASKS /RUN /TN "SPBestWarmUp"

Custom URLs

• Use the -url paramter to add custom URLs from the command line.
• Rename Central Admin site title and edit lines 331-345 to add custom URLs within the script. Good for lifecycle (dev, test, prod).

Permission

• Running this with a different service account than farm might require you to first grant PowerShell access. This ensures the service account has access to run Get-SPWebApplication and Get-SPServer for detecting URLs to load. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg490648.aspx

Contact

Please drop a line to @spjeff or spjeff@spjeff.com Thanks! =)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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