1. SharePoint Saturday Louisville, Kentucky July 28, 2012 System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint 2010 Stephen Wilson SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace

2. Stephen Wilson Blog: – http://SharePointBitMe.com http://SharePointBitMe.com Twitter: – http://twitter.com/StephenTech911 http://twitter.com/StephenTech911 Cincinnati, OH Employed at Rackspace (formerly by SharePoint911)

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4. 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.

5. 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/bulletin/ms11-074 (September 2011) http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/security/bulletin/ms11-074 http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 (July 2012) http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/security/bulletin/ms12-050

6. 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

7. 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.aspxhttp://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?

8. It Works, but is it Right? Service Accounts – One is not enough – http://toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2 37 Service Applications – They are there, but are they doing anything? User Profile Service Application – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx – http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx Search Crawls Web Analytics – http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg266382%28office.14%29.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg266382%28office.14%29.aspx – http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=250 http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=250

9. Is Your Farm Speaking to You? Incoming Mail and Outgoing mail Incoming – http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc262947.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc262947.aspx – http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring- incoming-email-sharepoint-2010/ http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring- incoming-email-sharepoint-2010/ Outgoing – http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc263462.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc263462.aspx – http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring- outgoing-email-sharepoint-2010/ http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring- outgoing-email-sharepoint-2010/

10. 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.

11. Speaking of SharePoint Logs C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Logs – http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/ http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/ – http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com/ 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 http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/05/01/ correlation-ids-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx – Correlation IDs are UNDERRATED!

12. 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.

13. Web Applications Site 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?

14. 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 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329.aspx – Database types and management http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868.aspx

15. 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 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.

16. 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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19. 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!!

20. 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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