Some of the most common technical questions and challenges involved with SharePoint. Presentation given to SMBITPro - Brisbane 6 September 2009.

1. Technical aspects including migration Presented by : Robert Crane BE MBA MCP director@ciaops.com Computer Information Agency http://www.ciaops.com

2. 2 Agenda for Day [10.00 – 10.40] - What is SharePoint? [10.45 – 11.30] - SharePoint Opportunities [11.30 – 11.45] - BREAK [11.45 – 12.30] - MVP and SharePoint UG [12.30 – 01.30] - LUNCH [01.30 – 02.30] - Taking SharePoint beyond the default [02.30 – 02.45] - BREAK [02.45 – 03.45] - Technical aspects including migration [03.45 – 04.00] - BREAK [04.00 – Finish] - Q & A, Tutorials, Networking

3. 3 Agenda Best practices. Migrations. Backup and restore. Templates. Remote Access. Troubleshooting. Questions. More info.

4. Best Practices Think before installing. Custom installation. Relocate databases. Install SQL tools. Disaster recovery. Migration to WSS 2010. 4

5. Installation Host machine IIS, DotNet v2.0, v3.0, OS SP’s, DNS Databases Which version? Location? Licensing? WSS config Single server or multi server? Search server? 5

6. Installation types Basic. Does everything but provides no choices. Advanced. Have to do everything manually. 6

7. Configuring Web based Central Administration Command line via STSADM 7

8. Databases Attach/detach. Easy to move SharePoint databases via SQL tools. Compress. Use SQL tools to compress databases. Backup and restore. GUI Via STSADM on command line SQL backup 8

9. Migration Can’t restore WSS v2 to WSS v3. Must migrate. In place migration. Use virtual machine (i.e. swing) Via MS Office migration. Copy and paste Database migration. Detach/reattach 9

10. 10 Backup and restore Via GUI. Via command line. SQL backup. SharePoint designer. 3rd Party. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb447526.aspx - SharePoint Backup and Restore Overview

12. Can save a site as a template

14. Troubleshooting Dataviews. Office version. Different browsers. IIS. Search. SQL - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932744 - Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases 13

15. 14 References http://supportweb.ciaops.net.au http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx http://www.slideshare.net/directorcia/slideshows http://www.youtube.com/user/directorciaops

16. Feedback Questions / queries? 15

17. 16 Robert Crane director@ciaops.com Blog supportweb.ciaops.net.au/blog

18. [03.45 – 04.00]Break 17