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SharePoint SaturdayLouisville, Kentucky
July 28, 2012
System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint 2010
Stephen Wilson SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace
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Stephen Wilson
• Blog:– http://SharePointBitMe.com
• Twitter:– http://twitter.com/StephenTech911
• Cincinnati, OH• Employed at Rackspace (formerly by
SharePoint911)
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Contact Info
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Agenda (Hint: There isn’t one)
•Why System Reviews are a good idea. •When should System Reviews be done•What is a SharePoint System Review?•How they are more than just maintenance.
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If It Ain’t Broke…
• You have just been lucky!– SharePoint is not a Complainer– Just because you didn’t upgrade doesn’t
mean nothing has changed.• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bul
letin/ms11-074 (September 2011)
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 (July 2012)
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Service Packs and Cumulative Updates• Service Packs– Should be a Goal.– Repeat after me. We all have test Farms.
• Cumulative Updates– What’s in it for you?– That being said: The sad truth about
SharePoint 2010 SP1
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Start at the Beginning
• First Question-Are you Happy?• Performance is driven by:– Hardware
• What was “required”? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
• What was allocated?
– SQL – IT IS Part of the Farm!• How much has your Farm Grown?• What does that tell you about the future?
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It Works, but is it Right?• Service Accounts
– One is not enough – http://toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?
ID=237
• Service Applications– They are there, but are they doing anything?
• User Profile Service Application– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx– http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx
• Search Crawls• Web Analytics
– http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg266382%28office.14%29.aspx
– http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=250
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Is Your Farm Speaking to You?
• Incoming Mail and Outgoing mail• Incoming– http://
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx
– http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-incoming-email-sharepoint-2010/
• Outgoing– http://
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263462.aspx
– http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-outgoing-email-sharepoint-2010/
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What is SharePoint Hiding?
• Timer Jobs– One piece of PowerShell– Get-SPTimerJob | select name | ForEach-
Object {Get-SPTimerJob $_.name} | ForEach-Object {$_.historyentries} | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Failed"} | select JobDefinitionTitle, StartTime, ErrorMessage > c:\FailedTimerJobs.txt
• Some things that can go wrong in SharePoint will only show up here or in an exhaustive search of the logs.
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Speaking of SharePoint Logs• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Logs– http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/– http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com/
• Correlation IDs– Google or Bing can’t help you– http://
blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/05/01/correlation-ids-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
– Correlation IDs are UNDERRATED!
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Event Logs• Most of the Action is in the Application logs.
– My lottery number is 6-39-8-55-86 (6398 5586)– The Security Log is especially important for
authentication
• There is a lot of Stuff, what is really important?– Errors and Warnings– Repetition and Timing– Event ID numbers are usually searchable, but don’t
forget the error messages.
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Web ApplicationsSite Collections &Alternate Access Mappings
• Do you know what each one is? • Can any of them be eliminated (after a backup!) ?• Can, or should, any of your content be split up?
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Back To SQL• Post service pack 1 the Content DB limit is 4TB
(still 200GB for Collaboration)– Does that really help you?– Are SQL and SharePoint a good place for an archive?
• SQL Backups are King for keeping your content safe. Schedule them, use them, love them.
• Database Management– http://
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329.aspx– Database types and management
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868.aspx
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Why bother?
• SharePoint does more than you can see at first glance.
• The Future is almost here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx
• A well maintained Farm is much easier to upgrade.• A small investment for what could be a big return.
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Final Thoughts
• A System Review is about more than errors and patches.
• SharePoint, SharePoint Saturdays and the Microsoft Community.
•Thank You!
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Questions
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Rackspace a SharePoint Services Company
• Full service SharePoint Consulting– Project Planning– Architecture– Branding–Development–Help Desk
• http://www.sharepoint911.com
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Clean-Up Items• Fill out your evaluation forms!
• Visit the Dugout for a sneak peak of SharePoint 2013 and Networking.
• See you back at Home Plate for the Closing and Raffles!!
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SharePint is being held right here at the Marriott immediately following the event. Visit the Rackspace booth for your ticket.
For each unused drink ticket turned back in, a $5 donation will be made to charity.
Tonight’s SharePint is generously sponsored by
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SharePoint Saturday Louisville has been made possible because of a generous sponsorship from the following friends…