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SharePoint Campfire Stories

By:B.J. Fentress

Senior Business AnalystLife Care Centers of America

bj_fentress@lcca.com

Bio

• SharePoint Admin (mostly) day to day – 6 years• Worked on WssV2 as my first experience of SharePoint

• Helped start Business Intelligence effort from ground up• Use the Microsoft stack to develop solutions

• Blogger since 2010• http://bjfentress.wordpress.com

• Secretly hooked on twitter• @bjfentress

• Part-time outdoorsman

Topics for today

• Installing SharePoint• Upgrading SharePoint• Patching SharePoint• Scary stories!!

Installing SharePoint

• Don’t forget the prerequisites• Hardware and software

• Installing is easy…when you have an outside connection• And when you don’t there are ways of making them work

• Who loves GUID’s???• (Hint: I hate them and so should you)

• Pow…Pow…PowerShell, Pow…Pow…PowerShell, PowerShell!!!

Upgrading SharePoint

• Going to 2013?• Pre upgrade• During the upgrade• Post upgrade• 3rd Party options

Patching SharePoint

• Don’t be the person on the bottom…

What patch level should I be at??

• What level are you at now? (Get-SpFarm).buildversion or central admin• Todd Klindt’s site• Trevor Seward's Site• Wictor Wilen’s site• Patch SQL also• And Office Web Apps• Did you remember App Fabric and Workflow Server???

Sharing your own scary story

• Volunteers?