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SharePoint Best Practices

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Introduction

To keep the SharePoint environment in healthy state it is important to follow best practices and guidelines.

Best Practices

  • Move Database files on other drive than system drive
  • Place database log files on other drive than data drive and system drive
  • IIS log files and ULS log files to be moved on other drive than system drive
  • Use naming conventions for all components (services applications, database names, services accounts)
  • Disable Loopback check
  • Disable Unused services like: spooler, Audiosrv, Do not run SharePoint application on the same server as SQL database server unless it is only for testing purposes.
  • Optimize content databases Autogrowth settings to reflect the expected growth and use rather growth by MB, than percentage. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx
  • Set Max degree of parallelism to 1 on SQL server
  • Use database alias when configuring the farm using cliconfg tool
  • Use Kerberos authentication
  • Use as much as you can SSL with sites