SharePoint administrator roles and responsibilities

Understanding SharePoint administrator roles and responsibilities is very important. You might be thinking what are actually sharepoint admin responsibilities tasks list are. What are administrative support duties. Sharepoint administrator responsibilities categorized as daily task, weekly task and monthly task.

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sharepoint administrator daily tasks list

Follow the list of daily tasks that are part of SharePoint administrator roles and responsibilities.

  • Ensure that the daily backup completed successfully.
  • Analyze and respond to backup warnings and errors.
  • If custom solutions are part of the backup plan, verify that they completed.
  • Review the scheduled and important timer jobs and verify that they are completed successfully.
  • Check CPU and Memory Used.
  • Examine the % Processor Time performance counter.
  • Examine the Available MBs performance counter.
  • Examine the % Committed Bytes In Use performance counter.
  • Check against a performance baseline to determine the health of a server.
  • Check Disk Use.
  • Check disks with transaction log files.
  • Check disks with trace log files.
  • Check other farm server disks.
  • Use server monitors to check free disk space.
  • Check performance of disks.
  • Review the event logs.
  • Check the trace logs.
  • Review the security logs for any unauthorized activities or failures.
  • Check the ULS logs.
  • Respond to discovered failures and problems.
  • Check IIS – IIS Logs and Performance.
  • Review System Monitor for IIS performance and examine the output of performance counters.
  • Verify that the application pools have enough memory and check if they are running correctly.
  • Look for recycle events and memory leaks.
  • Ensure that the application pools are recycled every day.
  • Review the SharePoint Health Analyzer messages.
  • Check the size of the site collections.
  • Check the number of site collections per content database.
  • Check the size of the content database.
  • Check health reports.
  • Check diagnostic logs.
  • View the security event log and investigate unauthorized changes.
  • Verify that SharePoint Server and the required Windows services have started correctly.
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sharepoint administrator weekly tasks list

Follow the list of weekly tasks that are part of SharePoint administrator roles and responsibilities.

  • Confirm that the backups can be successfully restored.
  • Review database sizes to ensure that they are in the expected ranges.
  • Capacity reports.
  • Queue use, size, and growth.
  • Growth of SharePoint site collections being created.
  • SharePoint database maintenance.
  • Check and compose IIS logs.
  • Check and compose SharePoint ULS logs.
    • Record, review, and compare the set of installed features with the previously recorded set.
    • Confirm that all changes were authorized.
    • Review, record, and compare SharePoint policies with the previous set. Confirm that all changes were authorized.
    • Check to make sure the Farm Administrators group contains authorized personnel.
    • Create reports specifying your findings.
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sharepoint administrator monthly tasks list

Follow the list of common monthly tasks that are part of SharePoint administrator roles and responsibilities.

Now you understood exactly what does a SharePoint administrator do.

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Delete SharePoint site subsite permanently

Delete SharePoint site subsite on premise environment is a common task for administrator. You might be thinking how to permanently delete a SharePoint site collection in production server. There are difference scenarios, you might face while trying to delete a site SharePoint. After sharepoint site migration, we need to delete old site, exactly where its helpful, as per current situation.

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Permanently delete a subsite in SharePoint from site settings

You can follow UI method for sharepoint subsite deletion following step by step procedure below.

  • Navigate to sharepoint subsite.
  • Open site settings.
  • Click on Delete this site present under Site Actions.
Delete SharePoint subsite from site settings
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  • Click on Delete option present at bottom right.
  • Pop up will appear for confirmation.
  • Click on OK to delete.
delete this site in site settings
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Permanently delete a site in SharePoint from site settings

Follow the same procedure to delete site collection as well. Navigate to site collection settings and click on delete this site. After that click on delete and OK to apply the change.

Same steps are also applicable to delete sharepoint online site in office 365.

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Delete a Site Collection from Central Admin

You can follow another way to delete site collection from central admin without navigating to site settings.

  • Navigate to central admin
  • Click on Application Management.
  • Click on Delete a site collection present under option Site Collections.
delete a site collection in sharepoint from central admin
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  • Select site collection from any one web application, from the drop down, that you want to delete and click on Delete.
  • Click on OK for confirmation to apply changes.
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Delete SharePoint site collection powershell

Follow Remove-SPSite, the powershell command to delete site collection in SharePoint.

Remove-SPSite -Identity "<Site Collection Url>" -GradualDelete -Confirm:$False
Remove-SPSite -Identity "http://win-q2repghf9du:44179/sites/SharePointTech" -GradualDelete -Confirm:$False
Remove-SPSite
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Delete SharePoint subsite powershell

If you need to delete SharePoint subsite using powershell command, follow Remove-SPWeb.

Remove-SPWeb -Identity "<Subsite Url>"
Remove-SPWeb -Identity "http://win-q2repghf9du:44179/sites/SharePointTechnicalSupport/Subsite1/"
Remove-SPWeb
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Delete all site collections present under web application

If you want to delete all site collections present under one web application, follow the command below.

$WebApplicationURL="http://win-q2repghf9du:24072/"
Get-SPWebApplication $WebApplicationURL | Get-SPSite -Limit ALL | Remove-SPSite -Confirm:$false
Delete all site collections present under web application
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Delete all site collections present under specific managed path

Specific requirement might come when user need to delete all site collections part of one specific sharepoint managed path, in a web application, using powershell.

Get-SPSite "<web application url>/<managed path>*" -Limit ALL | Remove-SPSite -Confirm:$false
Get-SPSite "http://win-q2repghf9du:27315/sites*" -Limit ALL | Remove-SPSite -Confirm:$false
Delete all site collections present under specific managed path
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move site collection to dedicate content database

We have to move site collection to dedicate content database when content database size growing too large. One content database present under a web application in SharePoint contains multiple site collections. We can create or add new content databases under web application when limit of maximum number of sites that can be created in this database exceed while creating new site collection. If one site collection present under a content database is growing large, user request to create a dedicate content database and move that particular site collection to another new content database. We need to follow the steps as described below to move site collection to dedicate content database.

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  1. Get site collection GUID using powershell
  2. Get which content database site collection web application is stored
  3. Create new content database in SharePoint
  4. move site collection to different content database
  5. IISRESET SharePoint server
  6. Post Implementation testing
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Get site collection GUID using powershell

Before you move site collection to another content database, get guid of sharepoint site. You can get site collection guid using powershell script as mentioned below.

$site=Get-SPSite http://win-q2repghf9du/sites/TeamSiteClassicRenamed
$siteguid=$site.id
echo $siteguid
get site collection guid powershell
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Get which content database site collection web application is stored

Get site collection content database details including web application, site url using the powershell command below.

Get-SPSite | Where-Object {$_.Url -like "http://win-q2repghf9du/sites/TeamSiteClassicRenamed"} | select Url, ContentDatabase, WebApplication
content database in which site collection is stored

You can use the alternative command as described in my old post link below.

https://atomic-temporary-119393429.wpcomstaging.com/content-database-in-sharepoint/
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Create new content database in SharePoint

I described in detail about how to create or add a new content database in SharePoint in my previous post. Follow the post linked below for more details and use the powershell script for creating content database.

https://sharepointtechnicalsupport.com/create-add-a-content-database-in-sharepoint-2019/
New-SPContentDatabase "WSS_Content_DB2" -DatabaseServer "WIN-Q2REPGHF9DU" -WebApplication http://win-q2repghf9du/ -MaxSiteCount 1 -WarningSiteCount 0
Create new content database in sharepoint using powershell
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move site collection to different content database

Now we are ready to move site collections between databases using the powershell command Move-SPSite as described below.

Move-SPSite "http://win-q2repghf9du/sites/TeamSiteClassicRenamed" -DestinationDatabase "WSS_Content_DB2"
move site collection to dedicate content database
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IISRESET SharePoint server

You will get a message in powershell window like “IIS must be restarted before this change will take effect. To restart IIS, open a command prompt window and type iisreset”. You have to do IIS reset SharePoint server.

iisreset
iisreset sharepoint server
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Post Implementation testing

After move site collection to new content database completed, you can check GUID of the site collection again. Its same as source location.

check guid of site in sharepoint

check content database of site collection to cross check the new content database as destination location.

check content database of site collection
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