Best Practices

  • Use the SharePoint Central Administration utility to handle many of the back-end administrative tasks in both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

  • Move the SQL database and transaction logs to separate physical drive-sets.

  • Verify that proper SMTP server settings have been configured for the server farm.

  • Ensure that metadata stored in document libraries is replicated on other document libraries if documents are transferred between them.

  • Verify that the SQL recovery model is set to Full to allow for full restores of SQL data.

  • Add or remove entries from SharePoint Search noise files so as to fine-tune the search results for an organization by removing words such as the organization name, which may just pollute ...

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