SharePoint SaturdayLouisville, Kentucky

July 28, 2012

System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint 2010

Stephen Wilson SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace

Stephen Wilson

• Blog:– http://SharePointBitMe.com

• Twitter:– http://twitter.com/StephenTech911

• Cincinnati, OH• Employed at Rackspace (formerly by

SharePoint911)

Contact Info

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.

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)

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

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?

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

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/

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.

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!

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.

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?

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

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.

Final Thoughts

• A System Review is about more than errors and patches.

• SharePoint, SharePoint Saturdays and the Microsoft Community.

•Thank You!

Questions

Rackspace a SharePoint Services Company

• Full service SharePoint Consulting– Project Planning– Architecture– Branding–Development–Help Desk

• http://www.sharepoint911.com

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!!

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

SharePoint Saturday Louisville has been made possible because of a generous sponsorship from the following friends…