Exam Ref 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Chapter 5. Maintain a core SharePoint environment

Up to this point, we’ve been talking about the preparations that go into creating a new SharePoint 2013 environment. Designing the topology, planning security, installing, and configuring the environment lead to the eventual completion of the implementation phase.

The implementation phase is not the end of the project but its beginning; moving forward, the environment will require careful maintenance, planning, and management to ensure continuing service to a growing user base.

In this chapter, we will focus on three major tasks: monitoring, tuning and optimization, and troubleshooting. Monitoring is concerned with the use of tools and metrics to minimize system failures or loss of performance. Tuning ...