1. System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint 2010 Stephen Wilson SharePoint Engineer

2. 2 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 Stephen Wilson Blog: http://SharePointBitMe.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenTech911 Cincinnati, OH Employed at Rackspace (formerly by SharePoint911)

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4. 4 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012  Please turn off all electronic devices or set them to vibrate.  If you must take a phone call, please do so in the hall so as not to disturb others.  Wireless is available to all attendees with a valid Michigan ID, just find the nearest sign-up terminal  Follow SharePoint Saturday Michigan on Twitter @spsmi and hashtag #spsmi  Join us for SharePint after the closing Chammps 301 West Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48084

5. 5 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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?

6. 6 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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

7. 7 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 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

8. 8 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 It Works, but is it Right? Service Accounts One is not enough http://toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=237 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

9. 9 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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/ 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/ http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-outgoing-email- sharepoint-2010/

10. 10 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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. 11 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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 http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/05/01/correlation -ids-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx Correlation IDs are UNDERRATED!

12. 12 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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. 13 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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. 14 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc678868.aspx

15. 15 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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. 16 | SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2012 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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