Performing Weekly SharePoint Maintenance
Maintenance procedures that require slightly less attention than daily checking are categorized in a weekly routine and are examined in the following sections.
Checking Disk Space
Disk space is a precious commodity. Although the disk capacity of a Windows Server system can seem virtually endless, the amount of free space on all drives should be checked daily. Serious problems can occur if there isn’t enough disk space.
One of the most common disk space problems occurs on database drives where all SQL SharePoint data is held. Other volumes such as the system drive and partitions with logging data can also quickly fill up.
As mentioned earlier, lack of free disk space can cause a multitude of problems including, ...
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