How to disable logging in WSS.

For a developer of WSS or MOSS, you may be interesting in this idea - disable the logging(default is on) for SharePoint for the sake of performance. Of course this should be done only for your debugging environment. It's strongly recommended to enable the logging for any of your production servers. Else you may not able to troubleshoot any WSS errors.

1. Go to your WSS Central Administration -> Operations -> Logging and Reporting

2. Click on Diagnostic Logging

   • Customer Experience Improvement Program: select No, I don't wish to participate.
   • Error Reports: select Ignore errors and don't collect information

   • Trace log: clear the entire Path.

   • Click OK.

3. Click on Usage Analysis Processing
   • Uncheck Enable logging
   • Click OK
4. Click on Information Management Policy Usage Reports. Uncheck Enable recurring policy usage reports.