I am very pleased to introduce the next author for Understanding SharePoint Journal. Ayman El-Hattab is a SharePoint developer and speaker. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer as well as a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in SharePoint. Ayman writes articles about SharePoint and its related technologies for online magazines and speaks at numerous user groups and other offline communities. He is the founder of SharePoint4Arabs.com and organizes events for EGYSUG. You will also find him as an active participant in the MSDN forums.
Ayman has written a bonus issue for members of the Understanding SharePoint Journal mailing list, titled SharePoint Troubleshooting. Targeted both at developers and administrators, this issue walks you through tools and techniques to help you when you really need it – when there is trouble.
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This post was written by furuknap on September 7, 2009
This was a useful article. I would love to see a similar article that was more oriented towards the SharePoint administrator. Perhaps it might be thought of as a “care and feeding of SharePoint” type article. I am trying to learn how to be a SP admin, and I find every day there are entries in the event log and tracing log that seem to indicate problems, but I am uncertain how to figure out what to do about them. I suspect there are additional logs that should be monitored (like for IIS, etc.) that I do not yet know about.
An article – or perhaps series of articles – that help an admin AFTER SP is installed, to keep it running, to determine when a configuration change might resolve an issue, or when adding or replacing hardware is necessary, etc. – would be a wonderful help.
Tips, exercises, and screen shots what more could and administrator want in a troubleshooting guide? I liked the idea of reference blogs at a point in the document. This article was geared more toward a developer than administrator. However, the troubleshooting examples are useful for the administrator to know because most error messages in SharePoint are non-descript. I look forward to more troubleshooting articles for the administrator. Thank you.