Maintaining SharePoint

In this section, we will discuss the routine activities that need to be performed in a SharePoint farm to keep it running properly. This includes installing new SharePoint releases and upgrades and performing regular backups. These are some of the least glamorous, and correspondingly most important, processes that IT professionals do every day. If all goes according to plan, the end users will never know that they are happening.

Backup and Restore Configurations and Content

Backing up data in SharePoint is just as important as backing up your e-mail or network file system. In this section, we will look at the tools and techniques supported by SharePoint to make backups of all the data within a SharePoint environment. Remember, ...

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