Chapter summary

  • Monitoring a SharePoint environment can be done with one of several tools: Central Administration, Windows PowerShell, logs, and Systems Center 2012 Operations Manager.

  • Caching performance can be improved by activating and configuring one or more different caching technologies: output cache, BLOB cache, and object cache.

  • Usage and Health services enable SharePoint logging information to be centralized into a logging database.

  • Data tier performance is highly dependent on the I/O characteristics of the SQL storage subsystem.

  • Pregrowing and then configuring autogrowth for content databases can improve SQL performance by reducing I/O requests.

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