Finding that SharePoint Correlation ID

So you have an issue in SharePoint and a screenshot form a user in a production environment.

You have asked the production support team to put SharePoint log viewer onto the server and they have submitted the request to the change group and will get back to you in a couple of days and in the mean time your user is going up the wall.

So you have the Correlation ID and need to find out what is going on, you can use the Get-SPEventLog cmdlet and filter things but remembering the syntax is more that you can do after the day you are having.

Feel free to grab this script that you can put on the server pass the Correlation ID to it along with some other things and you will have the information you are looking for to help you get to the bottom of the problem.

Download file: GetSPError as a text file

Examples of usage:

GetSPError.ps1 -GUIDToFind 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -NumberOfMinutes 10
This will only look in the last 10 minutes of the log.

GetSPError.ps1 -GUIDToFind 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -NumberOfMinutes 0
This will look at all of the the log.

GetSPError.ps1 -GUIDToFind 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -NumberOfMinutes 10 -FileName error.txt
This will only look in the last 10 minutes of the log and send the output to the error.txt file.

GetSPError.ps1 -GUIDToFind 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -NumberOfMinutes 0 -FileName error.txt
This will look at all of the the log and send the output to the error.txt file.

Get-Help GetSPError.ps1
This will list the help for this file.