Monitoring SharePoint

Monitoring is one of the most often overlooked aspects of SharePoint farm administration. Ironically, the reason for this is because most SharePoint server farms will run well for quite a while without regular monitoring. Unfortunately, the definition of well is far too broad to risk an organization's most valuable data. To most users, the system is either up or down. Monitoring allows you to answer questions such as “How well is it running?” and “Will it still be running tomorrow?”

Diagnostic Logging

An important part of managing any IT system is collecting diagnostic information that can be used to solve problems or understand how the system is behaving. Like any Windows application, SharePoint writes important events ...

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