SharePoint Fun Facts

SharePoint Fun FactsTodd Klindt & Shane Young

Level: Extremely Advanced

• What’s the largest a content database should be?

• 200 GB.*

• *unless you like pain

Little known fact…

• SharePoint was named after the Earl of SharePoint

• What are the only objects in SharePoint that can have quotas applied to them?

• Site Collections

Bonus Question

• Which Site Collections should have quotas?

• All of them!!

Little known fact…

• Al Gore also invented SharePoint

• Where is the only place in SharePoint that you can deny an account access to an object?

• Web Application Policies

Little known fact…

• One SharePoint farm I worked on had so many sites that it actually ran out of GUIDs. True story…

• The Farm Configuration Wizard (FCW) does some terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things

• Here is short list of its atrocities

• Felonious GUID abuse (illegal in six states and two territories)

• Creates the content web app based on the server’s name

• Creates the My Site Host on the content web app

• Encourages enabling too many service applications

• I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure once it drank right out of the milk carton, emptied it, then put it back into the refrigerator! True story!

Little known fact…

• Every time you do a Single Server Install, God kills a kitten

• Please, think of the kittens

• A site collection must exist entirely in one content database. No exceptions.

• How many of you are comfortable with PowerShell?

Little known fact…

• Studies have shown that SharePoint Administrators on average are 83% better looking than their SharePoint Developer counterparts

• Up from 50% three years ago

• For the next 100 people that download it, SharePoint Designer 2013 is free

• Alternate Access Mappings are the number one problem new SharePoint administrators have

• Even Chuck Norris screwed up AAMs the first time he installed SharePoint

• Everybody has a test Farm, the real question is do you have a production Farm.

Little known fact…

• SharePoint has never met an IISReset it didn’t like

• Don’t plan your backup strategy, plan your restore strategy

• 9 out of 10 doctors agree, the SharePoint database defaults are bad for your farm’s health

• Example:

• Transaction Log autogrow 10% = Bad

• 1 MB database autogrow = Even Worse

• Yes, you can deploy code without using a Solution file. You can also teach a bear to dance.

• Neither is a good idea

More Fun and Frivality

• SharePoint Netcast 9:30 in Liberty BC

• Tuesday 11:30 – PowerShell!!!

• Tuesday 4:00 - SharePoint 2013 Administrator Skills