Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions

Chapter 9. Maintaining and monitoring Microsoft SharePoint

In this chapter, you will learn about:

• Monitoring a SharePoint environment.

• Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint environment.

• Troubleshooting a SharePoint environment.

• Putting it all together.

Once you have designed and built the Microsoft SharePoint 2013 environment, you must then maintain it. The maintenance cycle, shown in Figure 9-1, contains three phases: monitoring, tuning and optimizing, and troubleshooting.

Figure 9-1. The maintenance cycle contains three phases.

The primary goal of the monitoring phase is to make sure that SharePoint is operating within the performance objectives that have ...