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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uls logs fiddler traces verbose logging collect

collect and analyze uls logs fiddler traces verbose logging enabled is one of the most common sharepoint administrator task. If there is an issue in accessing site, webpart in sharepoint page, data source connection, application, we can follow this . We collect uls logs, capture fiddler traces by enabling verbose logging. In this post I will share the step by step process to enable verbose using powershell, debug or capture fillder trace or https traffic.

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we need to follow these steps as below:

  • Run fiddler
  • Enable verbose logging in sharepoint server
  • Create new log file in sharepoint server.
  • Access the site having issue
  • Create log files new.
  • Disable verbose logging.
  • save fiddler trace all session
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collect uls logs fiddler traces verbose step by step

  • Close all browsers.
  • Run fiddler to collect fiddler trace or capture https traffic.
  • Run sharepoint management shell as an administrator.
  • Enable verbose logging applying powershell command below.
Set-SPLogLevel -TraceSeverity VerboseEx
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  • collect uls logs, new log file running below command in all sharepoint servers
New-SPLogFile
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  • Remove all sessions from fiddler.
  • Access sharepoint site now.
  • Run below command in sharepoint management shell in all sharepoint servers.
New-SPLogFile
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  • Disable verbose now by running command below.
Clear-SPLogLevel
uls logs fiddler traces verbose logging
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  • Save the fiddler trace results.
File -> Save -> All Session

You can follow the post “Log management using powershell” to get more details about management of uls logs in sharepoint 2019.

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Follow the video to get steps in detail for better understanding.

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