Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 Preview includes updated IntelliTrace Standalone Collector

Microsoft has released previews of the updated Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.  It now includes the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector which supports the following editions of Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview
• Visual Studio Ultimate 2012.2 (Update 2)

The IntelliTrace Collector is located in the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\IntelliTraceCollector

To install the IntelliTrace PowerShell cmdlets open a Windows PowerShell Console (make sure you choose Run as Administrator)

Type the following command:

import-module “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\IntelliTraceCollector\Microsoft.VisualStudio.IntelliTrace.PowerShell.dll”

More details regarding the use of the Standalone Collector can be found in the document Collect IntelliTrace Data Outside Visual Studio with the Standalone Collector.  Here you will find the following examples:

Collecting Data from a Web app or SharePoint Web application

Collecting data from a managed app