Thursday, March 26, 2015

Farm Admin Do and dont's

Never delete any site collection without taking a backup

Don’t restore any site collection without checking the database allocated site collection numbers

Restore site collections using Powershell Assigning individual database

Never make any changes to web.config files before keeping a copy of original

Don’t delete a farm solutions using UI, Preferably use the PS commands

Never restart any SP timer service without having latest Image backup in place

Avoid IIS reset during Working hours

Don’t  restart any SP services without going through the reverse stop procedure similar to activating
the service

Never Change user account of FIM service manually, use proper user account change and password change through PowerShell

Additionally never delete and create the user profile service application with same name of the service application created previously. Internal name references clashes could lead to more issues

Never do any registry settings without backup.

Make sure that after registry settings servers are restarted.

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