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SharePoint 2010Tips & Tricks of the TradeAvoiding Administrator Blunders
Scott Hoag and Dan Usher
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who am I?
Infrastructure Consultant with Applied Information Sciences8 years of experience with the SharePoint platform from MCMS 2002 through 2013 todayA lowly developer…They let me build things…
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who’s that other guy?
Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton8 years of experience with SharePoint going back to adventures with STS 2001 and SPS 2003 to the presentFollows the SharePoint Credo - ADIDASAll Day I Dream About SharePointEnjoys discussions about Claims AuthZ, SmartCard AuthN, Drumming Rudiments & the Big Bang TheoryFascinated by Radio Lab
DanUsher
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about you
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rules of the road
Phones silenced, phasers set to stun
Ask questions
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basic administrative blunders
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creating orphans
IIS reset solves all qualmsor so we’d like to think…
During backup of a site collectionThe backup is now invalid
During a restore of a site collectionThe restore will have portions of the site collection and associated webs restored (maybe)
Two kinds of orphansContent DatabaseConfiguration Database / Site Map
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permissions management
Removing groups with Full ControlRemoving yourself from groups that have Full ControlCreating new sites and groups instead of Permission Levels
Permissions…
Permissions!
Permissions!Permissions!Permissions!
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publish and approvepublish
I updated myMaster PagePage LayoutStyle Sheetor a number of other assets
And no one can see my changes!
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the recycle bin
The common misconceptionsThe (cold) truth
“Regardless of whether or not an item is sent to the users' Recycle Bin or to the Site Collection Recycle Bin, items are deleted automatically after the number of days that the server administrator specified in Central Administration.”
Manage the Recycle Bin of a site (Office.com)
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testing workflows as a deity
Declarative Workflows set to start when an item is created or changed will not execute when logged in as the System Account.Pro Tip: Email-enabled lists will not auto start workflows either, unless…
declarativeworkflowautostartonemailenabled (Property Reference)
> stsadm –o setproperty –pn declarativeworkflowautostartonemailenabled –pv true
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deleting the wrong item
I see a hidden Forms folder when using Explorer View. I think I should delete some things in it!
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web part fun…
The page is loading slowThe page web part gallery is confusingThe page is still loading slow
Closed web parts still load…
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server blunders
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tune your analytics
By default, you get 25 months(!!) of analytics dataMicrosoft’s guidance for capacity planning in regards to web analytics isn’t pretty.
Dataset Characteristics Value
SharePoint components 30k
Unique users 117k
Unique queries 68k
Unique assets 500k
Reporting DB data size? 200GB per day
Capacity requirements for the Web Analytics Shared Service in SharePoint Server 2010
73TB per year511TB for 7 years
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permissive file handling
Users are being prompted to download PDFsEnable permissive file handling for all files in Web Application in Central AdministrationSet specific mime types for a Web Application
> $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication("http://intranet.contoso.com")> $webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadMimeTypes.Add("application/pdf")> $webApp.Update()
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running in circles
You’re browsing your site from the server. Or you’re trying to get search to work. Or you’re trying to get a web service to work. Or you just want anything to work….HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed and you’ve got a FQDN on your siteKB896861 offers several options
DisableLoopbackCheck or BackConnectionHostNames
DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know
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pausing IIS
Bring up your SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard on the second screenChecking IIS to see your web applications temporarily paused
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lost passphrases
Passphrase is no longer known
Managed accounts and auto-password resetsDocument your farm
TechNetCodePlex
> $passphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force> Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase -Confirm
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certificate revocation list
Slow (up to 60 seconds) execution of stsadm and Application Pool recycles
Enable outbound internet access to crl.microsoft.comHOSTS file redirectSet the State registry key for all users who will run a shell or application pool
Edit the machine.config for each server in your farm
<psuedocode>if (!server.HasInternetConnectivity()) {
server.DisableCRLCheck();}
</psuedocode>
Certificate Revocation List Check and SharePoint 2010 without an Internet Connection
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing
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installing SharePoint
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hardware and software requirements
Under-sizing the infrastructureVirtualizing on oversubscribed hardwareAttempting to use an IaaS cloud providerUnderestimating storage and IOPS requirements
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not enough service accounts
Excuses, excuses…We only need a Farm accountManaging passwords is hardWe don’t need our search to workThere’s a cookie on my Wookie!
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primary service accountsAccount Purpose Requirements
SQL Server Runs SQL Server • Domain user account• No rights in SharePoint
Setup Account Installs the bits and performs initial configuration
• Domain user account• Member of Local Admins on each
server in the farm• securityadmin and dbcreator on
SQL instance
Farm Account Used for configuring and managing the farm and runs primary services (e.g. SPTimerV4)
• Domain account• Additional rights are automatically
granted as part of installation (both server and SQL)
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other service accountsAccount Purpose Requirements
MySites Application Pool
Worker process identity for MySites
• Domain user account• Managed account
Content Application Pool
Worker process identity for Content web applications
• Domain user account• Managed account
Services Application Pool
Worker process identity for Service Application Pools
• Domain account• Managed account
Search Service Process
Process identity for SharePoint Foundation (Help) search service and SharePoint Search service
• Domain account• Managed account
Search Service Default Content Access
Used to crawl content specified in content sources
• Domain account
User Profile Import Account
Account used to import (and optionally export) user data from an identity store
• Domain account• Replicate Directory Changes in AD
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still more service accountsAccount Purpose Requirements
Object Cache Super User
Processes items in the object cache of a web application
• Domain user account• Managed account• Full Control User Policy on target
web application(s)
Object Cache Super Reader
Processes items in the object cache of a web application
• Domain user account• Managed account• Full Read User Policy on target web
application(s)
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running the farm configuration wizard
Don’t do it.Really, don’t do it. Your GUIDs will thank you!
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sql foibles
Not having a part time DBANot having a maintenance plan in placeNot having dedicated spindles for performanceNot using a domain account for your SQL server serviceSetting up a lot content databases in a mirrored environmentUsing Full Recovery when you don’t need toNot setting auto growth properlySetting quotas larger than disk sizeNot setting Max Degree of Parallelism properly in SP2013Modifying the stored procedures
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configuring SharePoint
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sandboxed solutions…“The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request”
Your ports are blocked internally (TCP 32846)The UserCode Solutions service isn’t runningGPO Policy
RPC Endpoint Mapper Client AuthenticationRestrictions for Unauthenticated RPC clients
Registry Key Exists
Value set incorrectly for CRL checkHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\RPC
HKEY_USERS\AccountSID\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\SoftwarePublishing
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managing managed paths
Don’t create managed paths for URIs that already exist!Both sites exist, but only 1 is accessible
Take care created managed paths with managed codeThere are limits
20 managed paths per web application
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trim your (audit) logs
MOSS 2007 audit trimming does not occur automatically
> stsadm -o trimauditlog –date 20120502 –databasename SP2010_Content_FEDSPUG
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trim your (audit) logs
SharePoint 2010 works a little better
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setting up Kerberos
Not reading the documentationNot knowing how to use ADSIEdit or setspnNot realizing that Kerberos usually dies at the boundaryNot understanding the Claims to Windows Token Service
Configuring Kerberos Authentication for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products
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questions
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find us
Scott HoagTwitter: @ciphertxtEmail: [email protected]: http://www.psconfig.com
Dan UsherTwitter: @usherEmail: [email protected]: http://www.spdan.com