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SharePoint Fun FactsTodd Klindt & Shane Young
Level: Extremely Advanced
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• What’s the largest a content database should be?
• 200 GB.*
• *unless you like pain
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Little known fact…
• SharePoint was named after the Earl of SharePoint
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• What are the only objects in SharePoint that can have quotas applied to them?
• Site Collections
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Bonus Question
• Which Site Collections should have quotas?
• All of them!!
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Little known fact…
• Al Gore also invented SharePoint
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• Where is the only place in SharePoint that you can deny an account access to an object?
• Web Application Policies
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Little known fact…
• One SharePoint farm I worked on had so many sites that it actually ran out of GUIDs. True story…
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• The Farm Configuration Wizard (FCW) does some terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things
• Here is short list of its atrocities
• Felonious GUID abuse (illegal in six states and two territories)
• Creates the content web app based on the server’s name
• Creates the My Site Host on the content web app
• Encourages enabling too many service applications
• I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure once it drank right out of the milk carton, emptied it, then put it back into the refrigerator! True story!
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Little known fact…
• Every time you do a Single Server Install, God kills a kitten
• Please, think of the kittens
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• A site collection must exist entirely in one content database. No exceptions.
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• How many of you are comfortable with PowerShell?
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Little known fact…
• Studies have shown that SharePoint Administrators on average are 83% better looking than their SharePoint Developer counterparts
• Up from 50% three years ago
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• For the next 100 people that download it, SharePoint Designer 2013 is free
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• Alternate Access Mappings are the number one problem new SharePoint administrators have
• Even Chuck Norris screwed up AAMs the first time he installed SharePoint
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• Everybody has a test Farm, the real question is do you have a production Farm.
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Little known fact…
• SharePoint has never met an IISReset it didn’t like
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• Don’t plan your backup strategy, plan your restore strategy
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• 9 out of 10 doctors agree, the SharePoint database defaults are bad for your farm’s health
• Example:
• Transaction Log autogrow 10% = Bad
• 1 MB database autogrow = Even Worse
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• Yes, you can deploy code without using a Solution file. You can also teach a bear to dance.
• Neither is a good idea
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More Fun and Frivality
• SharePoint Netcast 9:30 in Liberty BC
• Tuesday 11:30 – PowerShell!!!
• Tuesday 4:00 - SharePoint 2013 Administrator Skills