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- 2. SharePoint Campfire Stories By: B.J. Fentress Senior Business Analyst Life Care Centers of America bj_fentress@lcca.com
- 3. Bio • SharePoint Admin (mostly) day to day – 6 years • Worked on WssV2 as my first experience of SharePoint • Helped start Business Intelligence effort from ground up • Use the Microsoft stack to develop solutions • Blogger since 2010 • http://bjfentress.wordpress.com • Secretly hooked on twitter • @bjfentress • Part-time outdoorsman
- 4. Topics for today • Installing SharePoint • Upgrading SharePoint • Patching SharePoint • Scary stories!!
- 5. Installing SharePoint • Don’t forget the prerequisites • Hardware and software • Installing is easy…when you have an outside connection • And when you don’t there are ways of making them work • Who loves GUID’s??? • (Hint: I hate them and so should you) • Pow…Pow…PowerShell, Pow…Pow…PowerShell, PowerShell!!!
- 6. Upgrading SharePoint • Going to 2013? • Pre upgrade • During the upgrade • Post upgrade • 3rd Party options
- 7. Patching SharePoint • Don’t be the person on the bottom…
- 8. What patch level should I be at?? • What level are you at now? (Get-SpFarm).buildversion or central admin • Todd Klindt’s site • Trevor Seward's Site • Wictor Wilen’s site • Patch SQL also • And Office Web Apps • Did you remember App Fabric and Workflow Server???
- 9. Sharing your own scary story • Volunteers?
Editor's Notes
- Welcome and remind of participation
- Current hybrid on prem and cloud based things making head hurt
- Auto-SpInstaller Check CodePlex for other tools Build your own script, it saves you so much time!
- Or if going from 2007 to 2013? Don’t forget two part upgrade. 2007-2010-2013 Don’t forget Claims Based Authentication Make sure workflows are compatible Use InfoPath? I hope you archived your content types Pre-Upgrade make sure you know what you have SPDocKit, SPDocGen, and others During upgrade test your backups Post upgrade test workflows, emails, notifications, look and feel Test-SpContentDatabase and other commands Export Solutions if possible before upgrade
- Did you know the updates are monthly now? And that they come in through windows updates? Discuss SP2013 July-August-September 2014 CU fun Don’t forget the BDC PowerShell fix to remove database problems
- Talk about User Profile Service fun InfoPath conversions