Debug Diagnostic Tool 1.2 RTM Launches

Microsoft has wrapped up and made available for download the latest version of the Debug Diagnostic Tool.

Debug Diagnostic Tool 1.2 RTM can now be grabbed free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center, but customers running the previous iteration of the solution should make sure and download it, as the two won’t run side by side.

The successor of DebugDiag 1.1, Debug Diagnostic Tool 1.2 is also available as a standalone tool, just as its precursor, both of which were no longer included in the IIS Diagnostic Toolkit, as version 1.0.

IT professionals that have already been leveraging the tool know that it’s designed to serve in a variety of troubleshooting scenarios.

“The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process,” revealed Stefan Goßner, Senior Escalation Engineer for SharePoint (WSS, SPS, MOSS, SP2010) and MCMS.

“The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, SharePoint, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.”

A debugging service, a debugger host, and the user interface continue to be the three components of DebugDiag 1.2.

Goßner provided a list with all the highlights of Debug Diagnostic Tool 1.2 RTM:

“Analysis:

•.Net 2.0 and higher analysis integrated to the Crash Hang analysis.
•SharePoint Analysis Script (based on my debugger extension).
•Performance Analysis Script.
•.NET memory analysis script (beta).
•Native heap analysis for all supported operating systems
Collection:

•Generate series of Userdumps.
•Performance Rule.
•IIS ETW hang detection.
•.NET CLR 4.0 support.
•Managed Breakpoint Support.
•Report Userdump generation to the Event log.
Deployment

•Import/Export of rules and configuration, including 'Direct Push' to remote servers.
•Enterprise deployment support using XCopy and Register.bat.
Non-supported items

•x64 userdump analysis on x86 systems.
•Installing x86 DebugDiag on x64 systems.
•Installing 1.2 and 1.1 DebugDiag on the same system.
•1.2 Memory leak analysis of 1.1 leaktrack.
•Analysis of x86 Userdumps generated by x64 debugger.”

Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) 1.2 RTM is available for download here.