Introduction to Farm Management

Managing a SharePoint environment has many things in common with managing most other enterprise-grade applications. The goal is to create a system that is reliable, maintainable, and performant. To do this, the system needs to be installed and upgraded in a consistent, documented way. The data and configurations for the system should be backed up regularly with plans in place for restoring those backups locally or in a remote disaster recovery facility. The system should be proactively monitored to ensure that problems are addressed before they impact users. The capacity of the system, for both processing and storage, should be compared to the current usage and tracked over time to allow advanced planning for needed ...

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