The main purpose of SharePoint is to create connection within business. By providing this connectivity it can be easily accessible for user and can be manageable from any location. Using the right application based on organizational criteria, it can ensure to develop simple modern system where all employee can enjoy access, manage, collaborate on project demand.

Migrate SharePoint environment to newer version (note: the amount of content upgrade depends on the customization of the source SP Application)

We organize our task into four major sections – planning, operations, optimization and maintenance.

Planning

SharePoint design and deployment start with effective planning. Thorough planning leads to highly available, reliable, secure and scalable SharePoint based systems. Some of the key planning elements every SharePoint administrator must consider before deploying a server farm are:

• Server roles– represents what services are running on the server. Each SharePoint farm contains servers performing web server role, application server role and database server role.
• Service applications – set of services which could be shared across web applications in a farm or across multiple farms. The SharePoint administrator must plan to deploy only the required service applications and share services across farms, if possible.
• Topologies– refers to the organization of servers in a farm. Based on tiers, there are single tier, two tiers and three tiers farms. Based on the size or number of servers in a farm, there are small, medium and large farms. The SharePoint administrator should plan for the right farm topology based on the organization needs.
• Capacity planning– ensures that the given farm topology meets the performance targets and the hardware capacity boundaries. Some of the ways to accomplish this are by configuring servers, adding more servers in the farm, and adding another server farm.
• Authentication – protect farm servers and web applications by configuring available authentication methods. The popular authentication providers are Windows, form-based, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) token-based.

Operations

Operations are an essential SharePoint administrative task. SharePoint provides a number of operations tools and techniques that a SharePoint administrator must be familiar with. Some of the important operations tools provided by SharePoint are:

• Central administration– fully functional SharePoint site, providing all the operational and administrative tasks.
• PowerShell– command-line tool and scripting language for the SharePoint administrative tasks and operations.
• Monitor health and performance of the SharePoint environment by using unified logging service, usage service application, developer dashboard, system center operations manager monitoring, and usage reporting.
• Health Analyzer– primary job of health analyzer is to examine the health of the server farm and report configuration errors, performance bottlenecks, security risks, availability recommendations and usage problems. The health analyzer operates using predefined health rules.

Optimization

Performance optimization plays a critical role in the smooth operation of SharePoint based systems. The SharePoint administrator must take effective measures to optimize the performance of the server farm. Some of the key optimization and performance control techniques are:

• Throttling– controls overloading of server resources during peak usage times. When the server is in the throttling mode, all the current requests are processed. However, the new requests are denied and an error message is logged into the event viewer.
• Large lists control– as the size of a list grows the execution time of the list queries also increases, resulting in poor list performance. Some of the controlling parameters are the number of user query results, the list warning level indicating that the list is getting close to the threshold limit, the number of query results allowed for the site administrators, and the maximum number of lookup columns each list could have.
• Search engine optimization– refers to the process of sites and pages optimization for the search engine. Some of the recommendations for the search engine optimization are meaningful site URLs and page titles, accurate metadata elements, and text based navigation menus.
• Storage optimization– optimize storage by using RAID disk arrays, avoid the auto growth option for data sand log files, limit the content database size, and create multiple data files and distribute them across multiple disks for large content database.

Maintenance

SharePoint administrator must perform the maintenance activities for protecting the server farm from becoming a victim of a catastrophic failure or disaster. Some of the key maintenance tools and techniques provided by the SharePoint are:

• Backup and restore – backup could be performed at entire server farm, farm configuration database, site collections, subsites and lists.
• SQL mirroring – protects the content database from a catastrophic failure.
• SQL snapshots – read-only and static copy of a database.
• Database maintenance – routinely check the database integrity, defragment indexes, set optimal fill factor for the database servers, and monitor the database size and shrink it to recover the unused space.
• Migrates – migrating from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 can be done by migration service.
• Patching – refers to updating the SharePoint server to the latest build.