SharePoint 2010 – Installation and maintenance – best practices

SharePoint 2010 – Installation and maintenance – best practicesToni FrankolaAcceleratio d.o.o.http://sharepointusecases.com

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• Ignored warnings

• Sailing too fast

• Construction QA

• Iceberg 1:10

Mistakes


Installation Patching

Contents

SQL

Capacity

Upgrade

BackupMonitoring

Language Packs

Tools and Scripts


• Choose your edition: Foundation / Sta / Ent

• Services I need…

• Hardware I need (read minimal reqs)

• Additional software (SQL, Windows…)

• Check licensing options

• OWA requires a license and key

• Control SharePointa deploys with GP

Before installation

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



• Minimum of 2 SharePoint farms

• Test / Production

• Only 1 farm = no Production farm

• Prepare & Learn it’s not Next > Next

How to setup


• 4 cores

• 8 GB of RAM

• 100 GB C: DriveWindows, Program Files, Updates

• Second Logs and stuff

Hardware




Repeat this procedure for

• Office Web Apps

• Other products (Project Server)

• …


Per UserFormulas and columns

Language packs

Turn ON

Regional settings

Translate content

Error messages

Automatic switch


PowerShell Install

• http://tinyurl/SPFarmConfig ili http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/

http://tinyurl/SPFarmConfig

http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/


RTM

• Jul

10 C

U• A

ug10

CU

• Oct

10

CU

• Dec

10

CU

• Feb

11

CU

• Apr

11

CU SP

1• J

un11

CU

• Aug

11

CU

• Dec

11

CU

• Feb

12

CU

Patching

• RTM = Release to Manufacturing• CU = Cumulative update• SP = Service Pack


• Install SP1

• Install CU if affected with error

• Check community blogs http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=224

• Currently „stable” : SharePoint 2010 SP1 + December 2011 CU

When should I install a patch?

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=224



• Backup

• Unpack files

• Run configurtation wizard

• Repeat on each server

Patching procedure


• Various flavors

• Foundation / Server

• Language Packs

Patches


• Try to use SQL 2012

• Windows Server 2008 R2 + all patches

• SharePoint 2010 + SP1 + Dec11 CU

Installing today?


• Slipstreaming patches

Installing today? (2)





Account name Role

sp_install Used to install SharePoint binaries.

sp_farm Farm account. Used for Windows Timer Service, Central Admin and User Profile service

sp_webapp App pool id for content web apps

sp_serviceapps Service app pool id

sp_search Search process id

sp_content Account used to crawl content

sp_userprofile Account used by the User Profile services to access Active Directory

sp_superuser Cache account

sp_superreader Cache account

Service Accountshttp://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=237




• Use a dedicated server for SQL Server 2008 (Configure specific SQL Server 2008 settings)

• Pre-grow all databases and logs if you can. Be sure to monitor the sizes so that you do not run out of disk space.

• Limit content databases to 200 GB.

• Defragment and rebuild indices daily, if you can absorb the downtime required to rebuild.

• Be sure that you back up and truncate the log files

• Test Restore

• Continuously monitor SQL Server storage and performance

SQL Best Practices for SharePointhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622.aspx


• User Profile Servicehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx

• Configuring Search-aSecuritySchedule

Challenges

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx


• SLA?

• Must have: Content databases

• Other databases?

• PowerShell backup, CA backup, SQL backup, 3rd party

• Test it!!!

Backup


• Event Log

• ULS Log (ULS Log Viewer)

• Usage, Health logs

• Performance Counters

• Disk (if no other monitoring tools)

• Search

Regular checks


• Can be configured as Search job

• Web Site search (npr. http://intranet/default.aspx)

Warmup

2:00 Recycle

6:00 Search

warmup

7:00 Working

day starts

http://intranet/default.aspx


• Blobcachinghttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770229.aspx

• SharePoint caching

Caching






• Prepare site templates(Team Site)

• Prepare document templates

Sites and templates

http://www.sharepointanalysthq.com/2012/04/why-you-shouldnt-use-team-sites-in-sharepoint-2010/




• Different editions and

• Different templates have different features

Features

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/pages/editions-comparison.aspx




• Follow instructions

• or automate with PowerShell

PDF icon & iFilter

http://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/adobe-pdf-ifilter-indexing-with-sharepoint%C2%A02010/

http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2011/02/automate-pdf-configuration-for-sharepoint-2010-via-powershell/





• Laws of physics

• SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limitshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

• Quotes

Capacity Limits




Capacity Limits - example

Limit Maximum value

Limit type Notes

Applicationpools

10 per Web server

Supported The maximum number is determined by hardware capabilities.

This limit is dependent largely upon: The amount of RAM allocated to the Web

servers

The workload that the farm is serving, that is, the user base and the usage characteristics (a single highly active application pools can reach 10 GB or more)

Content database size (general usage scenarios)

200 GB per content database

Supported We strongly recommended limiting the size of content databases to 200 GB, except when the circumstances in the following rows in this table apply.

If you are using Remote BLOB Storage (RBS), the total volume of remote BLOB storage and metadata in the content database must not exceed this limit.


1. 2007 SP2

2. Install 2010

3. Preupgrade

check

4. Backup/Resto

re 2007DB

5. Test-SPContentDB

6. Back to Step 3.

7. Mount-SPContentDB

8. Test and back to step

3.

9. Install 2010 Prod

10. Repeat steps 4,5,7

2007 upgrade workflow


• SharePoint has hundreds of settings

• Different admins or partners

• Make documentation

Document your farm


Documentation Toolkit for SharePointhttp://spdockit.com

http://spdockit.com/

Questionshttp://sharepointusecases.comhttp://slideshare.net/tonifrankola

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