SharePoint Administration from the

firehose
Shane Young Bold Zebras
Your Host Shane Young
12 Year SharePoint MVP
Bold Zebras SharePoint, Azure &
Office 365 Consulting
Shane.Young@BoldZebras.com
@ShanesCows
http://www.youtube.com/ShaneYoungCloud
Cincinnati, Ohio
Agenda
Talk about all things SharePoint Administration
WHAT VERSION DO YOU
HAVE?
Upgrades and Migration
Out of the box you always have to increment
Database attach is the only way
3rd party tools are your friend
Good time to rearrange
Dont upgrade crap!
14.5 site collections need to go to 15 before you
go to 16
Learn more about Upgrade
Jim Addock case study session at 1:10 in this
room
Todd Klindt and Jason Himmelstein at Ignite
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2016/
BRK3033
Patching is really just a build to build upgrade

Patching gets better the more recent the version

Patches for old versions after the new one
released are generally to make upgrades go
better
Zero Downtime Patching is a thing finally with
SharePoint 2016
https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-
US/library/mt767550(v=office.16).aspx
Finding your build number and patches
2010
http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2010builds
2013
http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2013builds
2016
http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2016builds
More Patching info
November 2016 SharePoint Feature Pack 1
September 2016 for SharePoint 2016 is SLOW
Step-by-step
2013
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGGtLsUjh
m0PaOqrkv7yq4dsUGZKKbEI
2016
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGGtLsUjh
m2XntL1_yYVeHy6q-IgSpJ3
MinRole
New for SharePoint 2016
Makes farm planning and scaling easier
Six types
Front-end
Application
Distributed Cache
Search
Custom
Single-server farm
Minrole planning
It is your friend but does mean you need 4
SharePoint 2016 servers at a minimum
8 servers for HA
Feature Pack 1 = 2 server farms possible
PowerShell
Seriously! Learn more PowerShell.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGGtLsUjh
m2k22nFHHdupAK0hSNZVfXi
Azure? Office 365? All of the above?
Yes!
IaaS? Remember that:
Office web apps/Office Online Server not legally
allowed in the cloud
AWS runs an unsupported Hypervisor
2010 is supported on Azure but out of main stream
support in general.
IOPS
Office 365
Lots of ways to get your feet wet
OneDrive
Hybrid search
Both will require you solving AD
Learning Azure AD is a good life skill right now
Not doing hybrid with 2016
That is fair just remember that is least tested
scenario
Fast Site Collection creation is an example
Hardware Boundaries
Spend more time understanding them
Just because you can teach a bear
The answer is usually it depends understand
the answer and dont get frustrated
How big can a SharePoint database be?
200 GB
4 TB
No limit
All can be correct
Fun reading
2016 Boundaries
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc262787%28v=office.16%29.aspx?f=255&
MSPPError=-2147217396
2013 Boundaries
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc262787.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-
2147217396
Random thoughts
Building a new SharePoint 2013 server? Stay
away from Windows Server 2012 R2.
2016 Major changes
No more Foundation
No more SQL Express support
Project Server is now just baked in
Site Collections are EVERYTHING
Security boundaries
Quotas
Storage boundaries
SQL Server
Pre-grow your database
Never* shrink a database
Watch out for transaction logs
TempDB is your friend
SQL DB defaults are pretty bad
Database size?
SQL Server Performance
I\O requirements
DB Files RAID Level Optimization
1 TempDB data 10 Write
2 TempDB logs 10 Write
3 ContentDB data 10 Read\Write
4 ContentDB logs 10 Write
5 Crawl DB logs 10 Write
6 Crawl DB data 10 Read\Write
7 Property DB logs 10 Write
8 Property DB data 10 Write
9 Services DB logs 10 Write
10 Services DB data 5/10 Read\Write
11 Archive Content DB 5 Read
12 Publishing Site Content DB 5 Read
My two cents on backups
SQL Databases are king
Do everything as solutions
PowerShell scripting can help
Documentation (but no one does this)
ULS Logs
ULS Viewer
https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=44020
PowerShell
New-SPLogFile
Merge-SPLogFile
Get-SPLogEvent
Out-GridView
Dont forget Fiddler
http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
Think about the boring stuff
Governance
Information Architecture
Training
End Users
Worlds Greatest Slide
Farm SPFarm

Servers - SPServer
Web Front End, APP

Web Applications SPWebApplication

Central Admin, Content

Databases SPContentDatabase
Content Database

Site Collections SPSite

The Bag

Webs SPWeb
Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Workspaces, Search Center

Lists
Doc Libs, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, Etc

Items
Files, Calendar items, Contacts, Customers, Images, Custom
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