How well do you know your SharePoint Farm? Get to know it better with SPDocKit. Jay Simcox shows you how. View webinar recording with demo: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/3655800667057550849

1. Assessing the Health ofYour
SharePoint Farm.
HowWell DoYou KnowYour SharePoint Farm?

2. • Co-author, SharePoint 2013 Administrators Pocket Guide
• MCT, MCSE: SharePoint 2013, MCITP: SharePoint 2010,
MCTS: Project Server 2010, MCTS: MOSS 2007
• 12 years working on the SharePoint platform in a variety of
positions.
• 7 years of instructional/training delivery experience.
• Contact Info
• Email: Jay.Simcox@Summit7Systems.com
• Twitter: @JaySimcox or @SPHoneyBadger
SENIOR CONSULTANT/INSTRUCTOR, SUMMIT 7 SYSTEMS/MINDSHARP
HUNTSVILLE, AL
@JaySimcox http://summit7systems.com/author/jay.simcox/

3. ABOUT SUMMIT 7 SYSTEMS
Work performed in 31 States
Employees in 6 States

4. Acceleratio Ltd
Who are we?
Acceleratio is
a software
development
company based in
Zagreb, Croatia,
Europe founded in
2009.
Technology PartnersWe create innovative
software solutions for
SharePoint, Office 365,
MS Windows Remote
Desktop Services, and
Citrix admins and
consultants.

5. More than 2000 customers in more than 50 countries worldwide use our products!
Acceleratio Ltd
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7. AGENDA
• Housekeeping
• The Assessment Process.
• Configuration What?
• Moving on up!
• Ten Take-Aways.
• Q & A

8. HOUSEKEEPING
• A recording of the webinar will be made available for download.
• All attendees will receive a discount of 30% off SPDocKit and Summit 7 Systems' AnchorPoint Support.
Contact sales@summit7systems.com for more info.
• One randomly chosen winner will receive 1 free license for SPDocKit and 16 hours of AnchorPoint
Support. Winner will be notified via email.
• We’ve reserved 10 minutes at the end of the hour for questions and answers. Please submit your
questions via the chat window, I’ll answer as many as possible in the time allotted and will recap them
on my BLOG next week.

9. THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS
• What do we look at and document or note?
• The old way of doing things
• The new way of doing things

11. WHAT I USED TO DO
• Review the previous 15 – 30 days of Windows Application Event
logs.
• Review a sample of the SharePoint trace logs.
• Go through Central Administration manually or use PowerShell to
gather assessment information.
• Visually review the SharePoint farm being evaluated for web part
usage, branding customizations, etc.
• Document the findings of the assessment for use as the base of an
upgrade/migration strategy, health and usage analysis, or
SharePoint project roadmap.

12. WHAT I DO NOW
•500+ reports
•User friendly
•Intuitive interface
Load SharePoint farm
Generate Reports
Review and Evaluate
Generate entire SharePoint
documentation, check the custom
solutions, save farm deployment.
Farm Assessment

13. CONFIGURATION WHAT?
• Uh……Why?
• Change Management
• Proactive vs. Reactive

14. UH………..WHY?
Consistency
Stability
Visibility
Auditability Predictability

15. Change Management

16. PROACTIVE VS. REACTIVE
Snapshot
Collection Settings
Subscription
Settings
Data Retention
Policies
Email Alerts

17. MOVING ON UP!
• Identify and clean up the stale, outdated and the dead.
• Identify and locate your 3rd party or custom solutions and/or
features.
• Where are your workflows?
• Review features, web parts, custom templates, etc. for
compatibility.
• Involve your site owners and administrators in the
upgrade/migration process and communication plans.

18. DEMO

19. TEN TAKE-AWAYS
• Establish a baseline configuration and capture
it!
• Use the Best Practices report to locate objects
that could critically impact a
migration/upgrade.
• Use the Extract WSP functionality to download
solutions you may not have the source code to.
• Save the farm configuration as an
AutoSPInstaller XML configuration file.
• Make the selections to capture workflows,
content types, solutions, etc. can be set in the
“Default Load Options” tab of the SPDocKit
configuration options dialog.
• SharePoint objects are often linked together
and must be migrated together (workflows,
workflow history and workflow tasks).
• Use the “Snapshot” functionality to
automatically generate SharePoint
configuration reports.
• Capture Windows Application event logs and
SharePoint trace logs in a single location.
• Use the permissions reports to identify orphan
users, groups without users, user specific
permissions, etc.
• SPDocKit does NOT have to be installed in
order to take advantage of many of its’
benefits.

20. THANKS FOR ATTENDING!
• All attendees will receive a discount of 30% off SPDocKit and Summit 7 Systems'
AnchorPoint Support. Contact sales@summit7systems.com for more info.
• One randomly chosen winner will receive 1 free license for SPDocKit and 16 hours
of AnchorPoint Support. Winner will be notified via email.
• For questions regarding SPDocKit sales or support please contact
support@acceleratio.net
• Visit Jay's blog for a post-webinar follow up featuring Q&A’s you might have missed
and webinar recording.