Best Practices

• Become familiar with all the tasks in the SharePoint Central Administration tool.

• Let individual site administrators become more aware of the site settings administration options that are available in each site.

• Enable usage analysis processing to get a better idea of how sites are used and which ones are more popular.

• Consider the use of auto-site deletion for stale sites to reduce the overhead on the environment generated by unused sites.

• Use the IIS Manager tool for SSL certificate generation and to change authentication settings on individual IIS websites used by web applications in SharePoint.

• Use PowerShell for command-line administration, and only use the legacy STSADM tool for specific scenarios when legacy ...

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