SharePoint web application administration and configuration involves managing multiple features and capabilities we have seen in chapters of this book. In this chapter, we'll take a look at what's involved with managing some of the most common configuration parameters in your web application and a farm.
We'll take a look at how you can troubleshoot issues with your custom and out-of-the-box functionality by using SharePoint logs and see where PowerShell can help you with getting all of the relevant information faster.
As your custom and out-of-the-box applications are used, you're likely to face an issue of managing available server resources effectively. In one of the recipes of this chapter, we'll take a look at some of the resource-throttling capabilities available in SharePoint, and how you can use PowerShell to speed up the configuration of such parameters for newly provisioned farms and environments.
The concept of sandbox solutions is new in SharePoint 2010 and has already...