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Presented By: Mike Henthorn, Covenant Technology Partners, LLC JD Wade, Horizons Consulting, Inc. MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT SERVER 2007 SP 2 KEY BENEFITS
Presented By:Mike Henthorn, Covenant Technology Partners, LLCJD Wade, Horizons Consulting, Inc.
MICROSOFTOFFICE SHAREPOINTSERVER 2007 SP 2KEYBENEFITS
Part IIntroductionsIntroduction to Microsoft SP2Overview of SharePoint SP2 Improvements
Part 2Review of the SharePoint Update Process
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system
Service Pack 2 will update the followingMicrosoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)Microsoft Office Project Server 2007Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007
Microsoft Search Server 2008Microsoft Search Server 2008 ExpressMicrosoft Office Groove® Server 2007, 64-‐Bit Edition
Focusing on the improvements to the following:Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Key features of this update:Improve performance and availability in your SharePoint server farmRollup of fixes to known issues across SharePoint Products and Technologies
Enhancements designed to support greater interoperabilityImprove user experienceReduce administrative burdenProvides the groundwork for an eventual upgrade path to the next major versionof SharePoint Products and TechnologiesØ Has been officially named: “SharePoint 2010”
Important to note that this SP2 release incorporates all previous majorand minor updates
HotfixesService Pack 1 (SP1)Infrastructure UpdateCumulative update packages up to and including those released in February 2009.
Upgrade path’sWSS 3.0 RTM – Directly to SP2SharePoint 2007 RTM – Directly to SP2
Outstanding issue:After installing this update your License will be set back to evaluation period of 180 Days..A patch was release 6/25/2009
KB Article: http://tinyurl.com/kb971620MSDN Blog: http://tinyurl.com/msdn-‐sp2-‐update
For more technical information on SP2, please see TechNet.Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies
http://tinyurl.com/36hlpf
Index fragmentation is a major cause of performance degradation inMicrosoft® SQL Server™ databases.
Problem was addressed in SP2Ø New enhanced version of the Database Statistics timer job.
Previously, the sole responsibility of the Database Statistics job was to updatequery optimization statistics for content databases.As of SP2, the job also rebuilds content database indexes every time it runs. Thisautomatic index rebuild helps to stop fragmentation and maintain databaseperformance.
The Database Statistics job uses the online index rebuild feature ofSQL Server 2005 and should run without any impact on performancefor content databases of up to the recommended size limit of 100 GB.
While performing some maintenance tasks, you may need to markcontent databases as read-‐only.
On farms that are running SP2, the site collection associated with a read-‐onlycontent database is set to be read-‐only automatically, and the user interface ismodified so that users cannot perform tasks that require writing to the database.
Previously, the user interface was not modified, and users received errormessages when they attempted to perform operations that wrote information tothe content database.
SP2 added 5 new commands for the Stsadm command-‐line tool.
Stsadm commands
ECMstsadm -‐o variationsfixuptool
Site Managementstsadm -‐o enumallwebs
Administrationstsadm -‐o preupgradecheck
Searchstsadm -‐o setqueryprocessoroptionsstsadm -‐o listqueryprocessoroptions
More info: http://tinyurl.com/stsadm
CONTENT DEPLOYMENT AND SITE VARIATIONSOffice SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 includes several enhancements that improvethe performance and stability of the content deployment and site variationsfeatures.In particular, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 adds a new operation to theStsadm command-‐line tool that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sitesthat use the variations feature for errors.
The operation reports on errors encountered and, where possible, fixes theunderlying issues.Ø For example, the operation can find and repair missing peer relationships and
corrupted entries in the internal variations relationships list.
Handles the propagation of large volumes of variations content in a moremanageable way.
stsadm -‐o variationsfixuptool
C:\stsadm -‐o variationsfixuptool
Missing required argument: url
stsadm -‐o variationsfixuptool-‐url <absolute web URL>[-‐recurse][-‐label <label to fix or spawn>][-‐fix][-‐scan][-‐spawn][-‐showrunningjobs]
stsadm -‐o enumallwebsstsadm -‐o enumallwebs -‐databasename sharepoint_site_content_db
Displays the IDs and site map status for all site collections and subsites in thecontent database
More info: http://tinyurl.com/stsadm
Stsadm –o deletesite-‐Force: the -‐force parameter is new with SP2 and allows you to delete orphaned sitecollections. In order to run the command, you need the GUID for the site collection.You can get this from either running the enumallwebs command as described aboveand looking for any site collections where InSiteMap="False".
Stsadm –o deleteweb-‐Force: the -‐force parameter is new with SP2 and allows you to delete orphaned websin the same way you can delete orphaned sites with deletesite -‐force as shown above.
Stsadm –o backup-‐Nositelock (site collection backup): specifies that the site collection lock during asite collection backup is not set to read-‐only.-‐Force [farm (catastrophic) backup]: ignores the disk space check and proceeds withthe backup.
Stsadm –o osearch-‐Reprovisionindex: in a farm with multiple SSPs, you can use to re-‐initialize thequery servers for one of the SSPs while the other SSP continues to serve the queryrequest.
Improves the reliability and stability of WSS crawl, of SharePointcrawl, of crawling through a very large corpus, and of backup restore.
For example, the Query processor multiplier can be used to tune thequery performance for SSP indexing content sources that have highlyrestrictive permissions and many duplicates.
Improves the accuracy of searches that involve numbers. For example,there is additional support for large numbers in which a comma isused to separate every three digits (for example, 1,000,000), fornumbers that are between 9 and 40 characters, and for numbers thatare separated by spaces.
Introduces a new command to the Stsadm.exe tool that lets aSharePoint administrator tune the Query processor multiplierparameter.
stsadm -‐o setqueryprocessoroptionsØ Sets the current values of the SharePoint Search query processor settings
C:\stsadm -‐o setqueryprocessoroptions –ssp SharedServices1stsadm -‐o setqueryprocessoroptions
-‐ssp <ssp name>[-‐securitytrimmingcachesize <security trimming cache size>][-‐securitytrimmingmultiplier <security trimming overfetch multiplier>][-‐nearduplicatemultiplier <duplicate removal overfetch multiplier>][-‐joinmultiplier <join discard overfetch multiplier>][-‐sdidjoinmultiplier <missing security descriptor overfetch multiplier>]
stsadm -‐o listqueryprocessoroptionsØ Displays the current values of the SharePoint Search query processor settings
More info: http://tinyurl.com/stsadm
C:\stsadm -‐o listqueryprocessoroptions -‐ssp SharedServices1
securitytrimmingcachesize 10000securitytrimmingmultiplier 2.6nearduplicatemultiplier 1.8joinmultiplier 10sdidjoinmultiplier 1.01
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Office SharePoint Server2007 SP2 offer a substantially improved client integration experiencefor forms-‐based authentication users.
Previously, forms-‐based authentication provided a poor experience when users attemptedto use the client integration features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or OfficeSharePoint Server 2007; the client application would repeatedly prompt users forcredentials whenever they executed a command in a document. To avoid this,administrators were advised to disable SharePoint client integration features in forms-‐based authentication environments.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Office SharePoint Server2007 SP2, together with the SP2 updates for Microsoft Office Clientapplications, provide a much smoother user experience and makeclient integration a viable option for forms-‐based authenticationusers.
Users of Microsoft Windows Vista™ must install Vista SP2 to take advantage of theimproved user experience.Not with XP
Web browser support in SharePoint Products and Technologies isdivided into two levels.
Level 1 Web browsers provide an optimal user experience for all SharePoint sites,through the use of advanced Microsoft ActiveX® control features.Level 1 browser support is extended to include:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (already)
Level 2 Web browsers support all of the basic features of SharePoint Productsand Technologies, including read and write functionality and site administrationtasks.Level 2 browser support is extended to include:
Firefox 2Firefox 3http://office.microsoft.com/en-‐us/sharepointserver/HA101945391033.aspx
stsadm -‐o preupgradecheckAssist administrators in preparing for upgrade from Windows SharePointServices 3.0 and related products to future version of SharePoint andTechnology products
This tool goes one step deeper and after the completion of this tool anice output page is displayed that further dives into your FARM andoutputs some decent information. If there are failures or issues it willbe deeply highlighted in this output.
Guess I’m ready to upgrade J
There is some more info that I didn't capture but you should get the idea.More info: http://tinyurl.com/stsadmFull reports: http://tinyurl.com/upgradereport
Report results, Please review the results at:C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\logs\PreUpgradeCheck-‐20090712-‐199143-‐697.htm
Detail Report Sections• Information Only: Search content sources and start addresses
• Information Only: Informational rule to list the Office Server Search topology information
• Information Only: Servers in the current farm
• Information Only: The components from this farm
• Information Only: Supported upgrade types
• Information Only: Site Definition Information
• Information Only: Language pack information
• Information Only: Feature Information
• Information Only: Alternate Access Mapping Url(s) within the current environment that should beconsidered when upgrading.
• Information Only: Lists and Libraries
• Information Only: Customized list views that will not be upgraded.
• Information Only: Customized field types that will not be upgraded.
• Information Only: Modified authorized types for workflow in web.config
• Information Only: Informational rule to list the Windows SharePoint Services Search topologyinformation
SP2 offers a range of improvements for users of InfoPath FormsServices.
Performance enhancements in SP2 reduce both the memory requirements andthe page load times for large browser-‐rendered forms.
SP2 also improves the browser rendering of various controls, such as the Cannotbe blank red asterisk and the rich text field.
Improves reliability of Forms Server and of Microsoft Office SharePoint Serverby addressing the previous behavior in which an upgrade of an administrator-‐approved form template triggers an IIS reset.
Improves the Digital Signature functionality for InfoPath Forms Services.
SP2 includes a broad range of fixes and enhancements that improvethe performance, security, stability, and usability of Excel Services.
SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web Parts on new sites.
Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.Fixes Open Snapshot so that snapshots open more reliably, even if there is noSharePoint root site.Fixes display issues that cause calculations to appear incorrect in some cases.Improves connections to cubes by using .odc files in non-‐English cases.
Improves the performance of programmatic scenarios.Fixes conditional formatting in Mozilla Firefox browsers.
Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 and Office SharePointServer 2007 Service Pack 2 offer significant enhancements to theperformance, availability, and stability of your SharePointenvironment.
Installing these service packs in your server farm also brings greaterinteroperability, with newly added support for broader range of Webbrowsers.
Finally, SP2 includes tools that you can use to prepare your SharePointenvironment for the next major version of SharePoint Products andTechnologies.
http://blogs.technet.com/office sustained engineering/archive/2009/04/23/service-‐pack-‐2-‐for-‐the-‐2007-‐microsoft-‐office-‐system-‐available-‐today.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/office sustained engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-‐pack-‐2-‐for-‐the-‐2007-‐microsoft-‐office-‐system-‐due-‐to-‐ship-‐april-‐28th.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334
For MOSS http://technet.microsoft.com/en-‐us/library/dd793609.aspxFor WSS http://technet.microsoft.com/en-‐us/library/dd793607.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-‐5FC6-‐4347-‐89B0-‐A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en
SP2 Issues: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-‐important-‐information-‐on-‐service-‐pack-‐2.aspx
Deployment
Che k Disk Space Backup and erify resto
Backup OOB Files
Deployment
Run DBCC CH CKDB on databases
Run Orphan Repair Too Stsadm –o da erepair
Docu nt content databases Stsa –o enumcontentdbs
Check database sizes
Deployment
Verify No Upgrade Timer Jobs
Rename previous upgrade logs
Disable a i-virus software ( B 936
Defragm ndexes in SQL ( B 943345) *P P2 only
Backup
Deployment
Stop WWW service on all WFE
Disco ect C t Databases
Logon as Setup Run pac ages Cancel izard
Deployment
Run u rade (KB 948780) U in psconfig
Central Administration
Deployment
Verif grade
Deployment
Run u rade U in psconfig
1. Application 2. Web Front End
Deployment
Start WWW service on all WFE
Attach databases
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Enable anti-virus software (KB 936867)
Deployment
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Deployment Process Pre-steps (complete prior to upgrade)
1. Check for adequate disk space for binaries, index files (2.85 times), SQL database files (incl. tempdb), temp file locations, and log files.
2. Backup farm and verify restore capabilities. See backup notes here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706876.aspx
3. Backup any SharePoint out-of-box files you have customized
4. Document content databases (stsadm –o enumcontentdbs)
5. Check content database sizes (<100GB, load balance Site Coll.)
6. Run orphan repair tool (KB 923904: stsadm –o databaserepair).
7. Run DBCC CHECKDB on all databases and address any errors.
8. Defragment databases (KB 943345). This step is NOT needed after Service Pack 2
9. Verify no upgrade timer jobs exist (see Deployment Guide).
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Deployment Process Upgrade steps
1. Backup farm just prior to upgrade
2. Rename upgrade log file on all servers (file is cumulative).
3. Disable anti-virus (KB 936867).
4. Stop the WWW service on all WFE.
5. To speed up upgrade or if content DBs are greater than 25GB, disconnect databases (can use batch file).
6. Logged in as the Setup account, run appropriate packages. Cancel SharePoint Configuration Wizard each time.
7. Determine best first server to run upgrade (see Deployment Guide)
8. Run upgrade using “psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b” command line. Upgrade Process is fully described in KB 948780 (Baretail can be used to monitor upgrade log).
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Deployment Process 9. Verify upgrade was successful using the upgrade log. Check the version
number in CA (see Deployment Guide).
10. Complete upgrade on all other servers as described in above order
11. If you detached databases, begin attaching again one by one, upgrade process will be done when they attach. There is a more advanced parallel upgrade process for very large farms available in deployment document.
12. Install WSS and SharePoint Language Pack updates for both WSS and SharePoint.
13. Enable anti-virus (KB 936867)
14. Start the WWW service on all WFE
15. Complete a full crawl of all SharePoint content [New features]
16. Backup farm
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