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
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
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???
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