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Guides

SharePoint guides covering architecture, administration, security, performance, SharePoint Online, migration and troubleshooting.

Guides

Grouped by subject and numbered in reading order. New to the farm? Start at the top. Something on fire? Jump to troubleshooting.

  1. Start here
  2. 01Getting startedWhich shell to use for what, installing the modules, and signing in to SharePoint Online.
  3. Architecture and platform
  4. 02Architecture from 2003 to Subscription EditionHow SharePoint sits on IIS and ASP.NET, from the 2003 ISAPI filter to Subscription Edition.
  5. 03Services and server roles (MinRole)Which services run on which servers, how MinRole works, and how Microsoft changed the model.
  6. 04Search: from 2003 to todayEvery generation of SharePoint search, and how to manage today's search topology.
  7. 05Single sign-on and authenticationKerberos, SAML with AD FS, OpenID Connect, and Secure Store for reaching other systems.
  8. Running the farm
  9. 06SharePoint Server (on-premises) tipsFarm administration from SharePoint 2010 to Subscription Edition: ULS, patching, recovery, performance.
  10. 07Security patchesWhy patching matters, how to install updates, what to run afterwards, and how to verify every server.
  11. 08Performance: warm-up and cachingWarm-up scripts, the object cache, the BLOB cache and the page output cache.
  12. 09BLOB cache: why and howServe images, scripts, styles and video from web server disk instead of SQL, and let browsers cache them.
  13. Content and reporting
  14. 10Library schemas and content type IDsContent type IDs from 0x down, list templates, schema.xml, and building custom libraries the right way.
  15. 11Reporting and BI: SSRS, analytics and Power BISSRS integration through the versions, SharePoint usage analytics, and Power BI.
  16. SharePoint Online and migration
  17. 12SharePoint Online tipsPnP.PowerShell and the SPO module in practice: paging, batching, sharing, recovery, storage.
  18. 13Migration tipsPlanning and running migrations from file shares, older farms and SharePoint Server to Online.
  19. When things go wrong
  20. 14TroubleshootingCommon error messages and what actually fixes them.