Sharepoint HealthCheck

What if someone tells your or you want do healthcheck up of your MOSS farm? what do you do...whats your step do you just check the sharepoint side or code? or someone says site is slow?

There are series of healthcheck that needs to be done for infratstructure, IIS, Database side..

I had used few of them and believe me its very helpful.

For developments :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898631 (Support for customized sites)

SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Best Practices

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861954.aspx

Check SharePoint Governance and Manageability (WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Tools) :
http://www.codeplex.com/governance



For performance :



http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262198.aspx (Codeplex, not an officially MS released product)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971.aspx (Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server)

For Infrastructure :


The SPS Reporting Tool is utilized to gather detailed information regarding a systems current configuration. The data collected will assist the Microsoft Support Professional with fault isolation :
http://www.codeplex.com/spsreport/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5706

You can check farm services using the Central administration Web Site

For supported topologies and Architecture Guidelines :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422.aspx

Review supported topologies : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262870.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc789337.aspx