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Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 3 Credits......Page 4 About the Author......Page 5 About the Reviewers......Page 6 www.PacktPub.com......Page 8 Table of Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 14 Chapter 1: Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010......Page 20 Checking current installation upgradeability......Page 21 Upgrading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010......Page 24 Upgrading with minimal downtime......Page 31 Visual upgrade......Page 33 and site collection......Page 36 Configuring a content database......Page 39 Mapping (AAM)......Page 42 Patching (compatibility boundaries)......Page 44 Introduction......Page 48 Managing a service......Page 50 Creating the Secure Store......Page 54 Creating custom security for a service......Page 57 proxy group......Page 60 Managing service application associations......Page 62 Setting up Excel Services......Page 64 Setting up PerformancePoint Services......Page 69 Setting up Visio Services......Page 73 Setting up the Managed Metadata Service......Page 76 between two farms......Page 79 Publishing a SharePoint service......Page 82 Consuming another Farm's Service......Page 85 Introduction......Page 88 Administering SharePoint Designer......Page 89 Configuring a Managed account......Page 93 Creating a new policy for a web application......Page 95 Configuring Resource Throttling (large lists)......Page 98 Installing a feature and activating it......Page 101 Restricting web part access in the farm......Page 103 server affinity)......Page 105 Running a timer job on demand......Page 108 Configuring Sandbox functionality......Page 110 Introduction......Page 112 Migrating a site collection......Page 113 Provisioning a site via Windows PowerShell......Page 115 Managing the Term Store......Page 117 of Managed Metadata......Page 121 Setting up a site collection policy......Page 124 Configuring a Document Set......Page 126 Configuring multiple Send To connections......Page 131 Setting up an enterprise wiki......Page 134 Introduction......Page 138 Accessing the SharePoint 2010 logging database......Page 139 Configuring what gets logged......Page 141 Editing rule definitions in the health analyzer......Page 143 Viewing web analytics reports......Page 146 Troubleshooting with correlation IDs......Page 150 Enabling the Developer Dashboard......Page 152 Introduction......Page 156 Setting up Search Service......Page 157 Managing Search Service......Page 159 Scaling out Search—adding a query component......Page 162 Scaling out Search—adding a property database......Page 165 Scaling out Search—adding a crawl database......Page 167 Adding a host distribution rule......Page 170 Viewing Search Query/Crawl Reports......Page 172 Customizing the refinement menu......Page 174 Introduction......Page 180 Adding a user via PowerShell......Page 181 Delegating PowerShell permissions......Page 183 Checking effective permission user interface......Page 185 Setting Lockdown Mode for publishing sites......Page 187 Configuring Site Collection audit settings......Page 188 Accessing security policy reports......Page 190 Introduction......Page 192 Configuring advanced routing (Content Organizer)......Page 193 Routing documents to another site......Page 198 Configuring content deployment......Page 201 Adding a Content Type hub......Page 205 Managing External Content Types......Page 208 Creating a Term Set......Page 211 Importing a Term Set......Page 214 In place Records Management......Page 216 Introduction......Page 220 Setting up a tag cloud and navigating to the Term Store......Page 221 Disabling social features for a user......Page 225 Deleting a note associated with a page......Page 227 Viewing an Activity feed......Page 229 Setting up and compiling an audience......Page 232 Creating a synchronization connection......Page 235 Changing import/export for user profiles......Page 238 Adding a user subtype for user profile......Page 239 Creating a new user profile property......Page 241 Introduction......Page 246 Recycle Bin settings in Central Administration......Page 248 Performing a site collection backup......Page 250 Exporting sites......Page 252 Importing sites......Page 254 Recovering data from an unattached content database......Page 255 Backing up a farm in Central Administration......Page 258 Restoring from a backup in Central Administration......Page 262 Introduction......Page 266 Enabling HTTP Request Monitoring and Throttling......Page 268 Using SQL Profiler......Page 271 What and how to monitor with Performance Monitor......Page 273 Implementing Visual Round Trip Analyzer......Page 277 Index......Page 280

In Detail

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.

A practical cookbook providing solutions to SharePoint administrative tasks such as configuration, monitoring, and reporting

Approach

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for SharePoint administrators to gain control of their SharePoint environment. The book is designed so that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and read those that interest you in no particular order.

Who this book is for

If you are a SharePoint Administrator looking for solutions to the many problems faced while managing SharePoint, then this book is for you. It is written for SharePoint administrators who are either already working on SharePoint, or have recently started working and eager to learn more about SharePoint administration. You need to have some basic knowledge of SharePoint in order to follow the recipes in this book.

Annotation 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. A practical cookbook providing solutions to SharePoint administrative tasks such as configuration, monitoring, and reporting