Advanced SharePoint Administration Todd Klindt Shane Young

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Who is this Todd guy?

• WSS MVP since 2006

• Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, Founder and President of Shane Young fan club

• Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog

• Company web site www.sharepoint911.com

• E-mail todd@sharepoint911.com

• Twitter me! @toddklindt

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Who Am I?

• Shane Young

• Owner of SharePoint911.com

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP

• Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker • shane@sharepoint911.com

• Blog

• http://msmvps.com/shane

• SharePoint Consulting

• http://www.sharepoint911.com

• http://twitter.com/shanescows

Agenda

Documentation

• http://www.spdockit.com/

Things We See People Do Wrong

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx

• Not enough

• Too many

• What IS that thing?

• Good for search

• Good for troubleshooting

• http://www.toddklindt.com/edithosts

More Dumb Things

• Knowledge is power!

• Do you have too much RAM?

• Is SharePoint too fast?

• Don’t forget Publishing Cache

Accounts

http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2010serviceaccounts

http://www.toddklindt.com/sp_farm

SQL

• Autogrow values are comically bad

• Default is “Full” for most databases

• Simple might be appropriate

• Use Model database

Health Analyzer

Patching

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Patching Parlance

• Critical On Demand (COD) – Issued when needed, like MS 12-050

• Cumulative Update (CU) – Released each even month

• Service Pack (SP) - Released when they’re released

• Patch – Any of the above

• When should you install them?

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Patching Process

• Test, test, test

• Phased installation

• Phased upgrade

• Config Wizards all around

• Make up with the User Profile Service

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Patching Ponderables

• “Do I need the Foundation patch if I have Server?”

• “Do I need to patch the languages too?”

• “Do I need to patch FAST?”

• “Do I need to patch the Office Web Apps?”

• “Where do I run the Config Wizard?”

• “Can I uninstall a patch I don’t like?”

• “Where can I keep up all this patching mayhem?”

• http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2010builds

• http://www.twitter.com/sp2010patches

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