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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

By : Peter Serzo
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

By: Peter Serzo

Overview of this book

Collaboration and content management are the major business needs of every organization in this increasingly global and connected environment. Microsoft SharePoint is a solution to these needs that offers a software platform that facilitates collaboration and provides content management features for the effective implementation of business processes. With a vast amount of functionality available with SharePoint, it is easy to get confused in carrying out administrative tasks. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook starts off by demonstrating the various upgrading and post-upgrading tasks to be performed in SharePoint 2010. Next come recipes for managing SharePoint service-level applications and for monitoring the SharePoint environment. The book introduces one of the best new tools that should be in your arsenal, PowerShell, and the commands you will need to script your tasks with Powershell. Collaboration and content management are the most important features of SharePoint and this book contains many recipes that focus on improving them. Enterprise monitoring and reporting are also covered in detail so that you can ensure that your SharePoint implementation is up and running all the time. You will find recipes to manage and customize SharePoint Search. When you are half way through the book, you will explore more advanced and interesting topics such as customizing and securing the SharePoint environment. You will learn to extend SharePoint to include features similar to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Lastly, the book covers backup and recovery solutions for SharePoint so that you can ensure that your system is protected from data loss and virus attacks.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Peter Serzo
Jan, 2011 | 288 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010
Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010
Introduction
Checking current installation upgradeability
Upgrading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010
Upgrading with minimal downtime
Visual upgrade
Creating and associating content databases to a specific web application and site collection
Configuring a content database
Creating an Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)
Patching (compatibility boundaries)
2
Service Applications
Service Applications
Introduction
Managing a service
Creating the Secure Store
Creating custom security for a service
Creating a custom service application proxy group
Managing service application associations
Setting up Excel Services
Setting up PerformancePoint Services
Setting up Visio Services
Setting up the Managed Metadata Service
Establishing a trust relationship between two farms
Publishing a SharePoint service
Consuming another Farm's Service
3
Farm Governance
Farm Governance
Introduction
Administering SharePoint Designer
Configuring a Managed account
Creating a new policy for a web application
Configuring Resource Throttling (large lists)
Installing a feature and activating it
Restricting web part access in the farm
Learning timer job management (including server affinity)
Running a timer job on demand
Configuring Sandbox functionality
4
Site Administration
Site Administration
Introduction
Migrating a site collection
Provisioning a site via Windows PowerShell
Managing the Term Store
Adding a column with the property of Managed Metadata
Setting up a site collection policy
Configuring a Document Set
Configuring multiple Send To connections
Setting up an enterprise wiki
5
Monitoring and Reporting
Monitoring and Reporting
Introduction
Accessing the SharePoint 2010 logging database
Configuring what gets logged
Editing rule definitions in the health analyzer
Viewing web analytics reports
Troubleshooting with correlation IDs
Enabling the Developer Dashboard
6
Search
Search
Introduction
Setting up Search Service
Managing Search Service
Scaling out Search—adding a query component
Scaling out Search—adding a property database
Scaling out Search—adding a crawl database
Adding a host distribution rule
Viewing Search Query/Crawl Reports
Customizing the refinement menu
7
Security Administration: Users and Groups
Security Administration: Users and Groups
Introduction
Adding a user via PowerShell
Delegating PowerShell permissions
Checking effective permission user interface
Setting Lockdown Mode for publishing sites
Configuring Site Collection audit settings
Accessing security policy reports
8
Content Management
Content Management
Introduction
Configuring advanced routing (Content Organizer)
Routing documents to another site
Configuring content deployment
Adding a Content Type hub
Managing External Content Types
Creating a Term Set
Importing a Term Set
In place Records Management
9
Social Architecture
Social Architecture
Introduction
Setting up a tag cloud and navigating to the Term Store
Disabling social features for a user
Deleting a note associated with a page
Viewing an Activity feed
Setting up and compiling an audience
Creating a synchronization connection
Changing import/export for user profiles
Adding a user subtype for user profile
Creating a new user profile property
10
Backup and Restore
Backup and Restore
Introduction
Recycle Bin settings in Central Administration
Performing a site collection backup
Exporting sites
Importing sites
Recovering data from an unattached content database
Backing up a farm in Central Administration
Restoring from a backup in Central Administration
11
Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Introduction
Enabling HTTP Request Monitoring and Throttling
Using SQL Profiler
What and how to monitor with Performance Monitor
Implementing Visual Round Trip Analyzer

About the Reviewers

With experience in commercial software development dating back to the late nineties, Marius Constantinescu currently works as the Lead Architect on Microsoft Solutions, for a professional IT services company based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Having worked with .NET from its very early beta stages, as well as with the SharePoint platform since 2003, Marius has played a major part in developing useful tools for large international organizations and private companies, providing consulting expertise on architectures based on .NET, SharePoint, and other related technologies.

His passion for technology has made him recipient of various prestigious awards such as "Technology Scout for 2005" and "Siemens Certified Architect" while working as the Microsoft Solution architect for Siemens. Currently his focus has shifted again to latest .NET technologies such as Silverlight, SharePoint Server, and Cloud Computing.

Marius has been working as a Technical Reviewer of .NET technologies for almost a decade, with multiple publishing houses and prestigious authors around. He has quite a few credits added to his name, including the two best sellers on ASP.NET 2.0, written by the popular author Dino Esposito, back in 2005.

Marius is also a frequent speaker in management briefings and technology conferences, and maintains a blog, available at http://nettitude.spaces.live.com.

I'd like to thank my fiancé, Réka K., for her immense patience and support thorough the long late nights I had to spend away, and all the weekends traded in favor of my other passion, .NET technologies.

Michael Nemtsev is a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) in SharePoint Server and has held this status since year 2009. Previously, he had held the same award in .NET/C# area since year 2005. Michael has expertise in the Enterprise Integration Platform and Collaborations areas, and is currently working as a Senior Information Management Consultant at Gen-I in Sydney, Australia.

Ivan Wilson has been working as a consultant on Microsoft technologies for the last 15 years and has been focusing on the SharePoint platform for the last seven years. He has five Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) awards to his credit—winning continuously since 2006 until 2010. Originally from Ireland, he moved to Sydney, Australia in 1999. He now co-runs SharePoint Gurus, a consultancy business focused on helping organizations collaborate in a better way.

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