Troubleshooting SharePoint: The Complete Guide to Tools, Best Practices, PowerShell One-Liners, and Scripts

Utilize a treasure trove of free SharePoint troubleshooting tools and receive insightful guidance about the types of SharePoint issues that can be discovered through their use. Chapters in this book contrast solid and least privileged builds in order to help you understand the types of issues that are raised when farms are not built the least privileged way.

Because SharePoint errors often present themselves one way, when an issue is actually something entirely different, the process of finding the root cause can feel like going down a rabbit hole. Hands-on exercises get you comfortable with logs so you can efficiently and effectively “explore the rabbit hole.”

Troubleshooting SharePoint also demonstrates how to identify components and settings that enter an environment where access has been restricted. The author shares his proven methods for researching an issue based on what appears in the logs, with the understanding that often it is not as simple as asking a question, but how you ask it that leads to the right answer.

What You’ll Learn

• Utilize networking tools such as NetMon, WireShark, and Fiddler for troubleshooting
• Master SharePoint PAL, Webalizer, Indihaing, Developer Dashboard, the Feature Admin tool, and more
• Become proficient using Timer Jobs and Search Diagnostics
• Understand how various files are accessed by IIS sites and within the server file system
• Discover how IIS mappings and file permissions affect issues
• Troubleshoot with ULS Viewer, PowerShell, and tools such as ProcMon, PerfMon, and Event Viewer
• Meet your new best friend, the ULS Viewer
• Use Event Viewer as a troubleshooting source
• Become conversant in the “language” of SharePoint from the log’s perspective

Who This Book Is For

SharePoint administrators and developers who want to learn how to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in any SharePoint server in SharePoint farms where admin access is possible

About the Author

I'm a SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company.

I've worked in the food, legal, manufacturing, health insurance, and professional services industries. I have over a decade of federal government experience as an IT specialist with the Social Security Administration. I've held various roles that involved architecting and developing small, medium, and large SharePoint environments. I worked on SharePoint environments at a regional component of the Social Security Administration, at the Chicago office of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, at the Jackson, Michigan, office of Dawn Foods, Inc., and at an international law firm’s operations center located in Brandon, Florida.

I've also worked as a solutions architect for Magenium Solutions and as a senior consultant for Sogeti LLC. Holding numerous Microsoft Certifications, I regularly blog on SharePoint and other Microsoft products. I love working with customers in assisting them in the understanding of the capabilities of SharePoint. I enjoy speaking at user group meetings and other technology related events and have re-energized the Tampa Bay SharePoint User Group.