Course
Skills Expanded
SharePoint Server 2013 Monitoring and Troubleshooting
This course will help any SharePoint administrator monitor and troubleshoot the Web tier, application server tier and data storage tier of their SharePoint farm.
What you'll learn
SharePoint Server 2013 is a multi-tentacled beast with lots of moving parts at the Web tier, application server tier, and the data storage tier. How does the busy SharePoint administrator keep their finger on the proverbial pulse of their SharePoint farm? This course gives the student everything they need to know to do that and more.
Table of contents
SharePoint Server 2013 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Basics
30mins
- Overview 2m
- How to Use This Course 3m
- Monitoring 3m
- Troubleshooting 4m
- Documenting Your SharePoint Farm 2m
- Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint 1m
- Patching SharePoint 2013 2m
- Microsoft's 'Variable' Update Terminology 2m
- The Microsoft SharePoint Software Update Process 1m
- Patching and Farm Availability 2m
- Watch That Windows Update! 1m
- Demo 1: Documenting Your SharePoint Farm 2m
- Demo 2: Patching SharePoint Server 2013 5m
- Summary 1m
Learning From the SharePoint Health Analyzer
26mins
- Overview 1m
- A Reference 1m
- SharePoint Health Analyzer - A Definition 1m
- Introducing the SharePoint Health Analyzer 3m
- Demo 1: Using the Best Practices Analyzer 3m
- Health Analyzer Rules 3m
- Extending Health Analyzer Rules 1m
- Accessing Health Analyzer Data via Windows PowerShell 1m
- But What About SCOM? 1m
- Demo 2: Working With the SharePoint Health Analyzer 10m
- Summary 1m
Diving Into the SharePoint Diagnostic Logs
27mins
- Overview 2m
- What Are ULS Logs? 4m
- A Typical SharePoint Error Message 2m
- Demo 1: Disabling Friendly ASP.NET Error Messages 1m
- Making Sense of ULS Logs 2m
- Taking Control of ULS Logs 0m
- About SharePoint Event Logs 1m
- Demo 2: Investigating the ULS Logs 9m
- Demo 3: Configuring Logging Options 2m
- About the SQL Server Logs 0m
- Levels of Automation 1m
- Summary 1m
Implementing Usage and Health Data Collection
29mins
- Overview 1m
- Haven't We Discussed This Already? 2m
- Analytics in SharePoint Server 2013 3m
- A Reference 2m
- Controlling Data Collection 1m
- Viewing Usage Reports 1m
- Intlock Cardiolog Analytics 1m
- SharePoint/SSRS Integration 1m
- Demo 1: Configuring Usage and Data Collection 6m
- Demo 2: Accessing Reports 5m
- Performance Monitor and SharePoint 2013 1m
- Demo 3: Working With Performance Monitor 3m
- Summary 2m
Investigating SharePoint Server 2013 Network Traffic
31mins
- Overview 2m
- What Is a Protocol? 2m
- Characterizing SharePoint Network Traffic 5m
- The Great Divide 2m
- How to Understand Network Messages? 2m
- IIS Failed Request Tracing 1m
- Demo 1: Enabling IIS Failed Request Tracing 2m
- Demo 2: Using Developer Dashboard 5m
- Demo 3: Using Microsoft Message Analyzer 3m
- Demo 4: Using Fiddler and Other Tools 6m
- Summary 2m
Drilling Into the SharePoint Server 2013 Data Tier
29mins
- Overview 2m
- Supported SQL Server Versions 2m
- Remote BLOB Storage 4m
- Visualizing RBS 1m
- Configuring RBS (High-Level Steps) 1m
- Shredded Storage 2m
- SQL Server Logging 2m
- Profiling SQL Server Traffic 2m
- Demo 1: Examining SQL Server Logs 5m
- Demo 2: Using SQL Server Profiler 4m
- Demo 3: Correlating SQL Server Data With Performance Data 4m
- Summary 1m