Our SharePoint Health Check can highlight where your systems align with
recommended best practices, and identify where your existing implementation is
in alignment with your business needs. We can identify how you can increase
operational efficiency, maximize system uptime, and reduce costs through
examination of the most critical aspects of your SharePoint environment.
A Health Check helps expose vulnerabilities in your SharePoint infrastructure
and operational processes. The health check reveals the causes of problems, not
just the symptoms, helping you to take a proactive approach in addressing the
problems. This proactive approach can help optimize productivity and uncover
potential risks before they affect users and drive up support costs.
A Health Check can address your key needs now, as well as your projected
needs over the next few years. The SharePoint Health Check provides minimal
intrusion to your IT systems, while gathering key data, and we have a strict
policy of non-intervention throughout the Health Check.
Deliverable Outcomes
We will produce a report, analyzing the information/data gathered on site,
and providing a summary of our findings. This report will include a description
of the risks involved with the current implementation, and highlighting any
problem areas. In addition, it will provide recommendations for the short term
and longer term, to enhance and improve your business’ SharePoint experience.
Key areas addressed by the Health Check
In order to address the stability and performance of the SharePoint
implementation, we will address the following key areas:
- Installation
- Deployment Configuration – architecture
review, log review.
- Farm Architecture
- Patch Levels
- Resilience
- Services – a look at which services have
been implemented in the implementation, and how
they are running.
- Protection
- Back up
- Disaster recovery
- Scalability
- Sizing – coping with current and projected
usage.
- Site Usage
- Number of Databases
- Best Practices – Are you following Microsoft’s recommended
best practices for SharePoint?
- Customization
- Web part implementation
- Third Party tools
How we carry out the Health Check
We provide one or two experienced SharePoint consultants for a minimum of one
day, depending on the size of your organization, and current SharePoint
implementation, increasing the time on site proportionally.
The Report
The report will provide a plan for improving your SharePoint implementation
which includes:
- Farm Assessment
- Farm Health
- Farm Topology
- Database Sizing
- Patch Levels
- Service Accounts
- Sites and Databases
- Back Up and Recovery
- Recommendations addressing current issues and long term
health and stability
We will provide a set of recommendations to improve your SharePoint
implementation; including any action that can help you reach your highest
performance goals. In addition, we can provide recommendations to ensure that
your environment is configured and managed properly to meet your business needs.
Our Health Check provides practical solutions for each of the identified
risks, to improve your enterprise deployment of Office SharePoint Server.