1. Risk and Health Assessment Program
for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Risk and Health Assessment Program for
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Maximizing Your Investments and Efficiency with Critical Analysis
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 are
Proactive service increasingly used to store business-critical data and as a development platform for business-
based on customers’ critical applications. A poorly functioning SharePoint environment increases the burden on your
administrators and lowers the productivity of your users, causing significant impact to your
experience and business.
Microsoft IT Maximize Your Microsoft Investment
The Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has been
procedures. developed to provide in-depth analysis of your Office SharePoint Server and Windows
SharePoint Services configurations, custom code, and operational procedures, uncovering
areas that are potential risks to server stability or that do not align with Microsoft best
practices. This can help ensure that your environment is configured and managed properly to
meet your business needs.
During the assessment, Microsoft assigns experienced engineers to analyze the production
servers in your Office SharePoint Server or Windows SharePoint Services environment using
specially-designed data collection and analysis tools. Your own key IT personnel can be
involved in this process to learn from the experience and knowledge of the Microsoft
The Risk and Health engineers, thus gaining knowledge that they can use in the future to troubleshoot and resolve
Assessment Program for issues.
Microsoft Office SharePoint
Key Focus Areas
Server is designed to
The Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server utilizes a
provide you with: data collection tool that gathers an extensive amount of information about your SharePoint
 Detailed analysis of your topology. This tool runs in tandem with the SharePoint Snapshot Tool for additional data
Office SharePoint Server collection and analysis. Data relating to the operation of your server farm is gathered from your
and/or Windows IT staff through the Operational Excellence survey.
SharePoint Services The engagement provides comprehensive analysis of the following areas:
server farm.
Office SharePoint Operations: Performance:
 Reduced services outage Server/Windows  Monitoring  Web interfaces
SharePoint Services
and downtime.
Configuration
 Change control  Index/application
 Improved performance.  Patching procedures servers
 Adherence to capacity  Database servers
planning guidelines Disaster Recovery:
 Enhanced knowledge
transfer from Microsoft  Related SQL/IIS  Backup/restore best
configuration practices
engineers to your IT staff.
Office SharePoint  Recovery procedures,
Server/Windows from farm-level to item-
level
SharePoint Services
Customizations: Security: For more information
 Custom and third-party  Security hotfixes Please visit the Premier
Web Parts
 Antivirus Support Web site at
 Site definitions
 Service accounts www.microsoft.com/
Best practices for coding
against Office SharePoint
premier or contact your
Server/Windows local Microsoft
 SharePoint Services
Services representative.

2. Risk and Health Assessment Program
for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Delivered by highly Maintain Maximum Efficiency
experienced and The Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
accredited engineers from leverages experience from thousands of customers and Microsoft’s own internal IT
Microsoft, the Risk and organization to help you meet your performance and reliability goals with your SharePoint
Products and Technologies.
Health Assessment
Program for Microsoft
Reduce Support Costs
Office SharePoint Server
The Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is
helps you: designed to proactively identify configuration errors, operational weaknesses, and other
 Meet high availability problems before they affect your business. This can help you optimize productivity,
goals while improving improve uptime, and reduce support costs.
efficiency.
 Reduce support costs. Benefit from Practical Recommendations
 Benefit from practical Microsoft engineers provide remediation recommendations for each of the risks identified
recommendations. during an engagement. Implementing these recommendations will improve the operation
and efficiency of your SharePoint server farm.
Minimal Business Interference
The toolset utilized by the Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server is designed to run in a production environment with minimal impact to
server performance and day-to-day business operations.
Deliverables
At the conclusion of your Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server engagement, you will receive a full report in PDF format, explaining all
risks found and recommended remediation with links to related documentation and
Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.
You will also receive a summary report in Office Excel format outlining the issues found,
which will help you in developing an action plan for remediation.
Maximize the Value of Your IT Investments
Ensuring you get the most out of your IT investments is the mission of Microsoft Services.
Whether you are looking to improve your bottom line, enhance productivity, or use
technology to realize new business opportunities, Microsoft is ready to assist. From
business support to strategic consulting, we offer a full range of Premier Support services
for any stage in your IT lifecycle.
For more information about consulting and support offerings from Microsoft, contact your
Microsoft Services representative or visit www.microsoft.com/services.
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