(Anna Notes) SP TS667 CH 4 & CH 5 Intro: Flashcards

1
Q

How to create a new site collection:

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

A

Central Administration > QL, Application management > Site Collection Section

Powershell:
New-SPSIte -URL “” -ContentDatabase -Name “” -Template -OwnerAlias “”

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How to view a site collection?

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

A

Central Administration > QL, Application management - App Management Screen, Site Collection section > View All

Powershell:
Get-SPWebApplication “” | Get-SPSite -LimitAll| Format-List -Property URL, ContentDatabase, Owner, SecondaryContact

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3
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How to delete Site Collections?

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

A

Central Administration > QL, Application management > Site Collection Section > delete site collection

Powershell:
Remove-SPSite -Identity “” [-GradualDelete]

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4
Q

Configuration Option for Site Collection in Central Admin

A
  • Ownership and Administration
  • Storage Limits and Warnings
  • Locks
  • User and Groups Management
  • Features
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5
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Assign Site Collection Owners with Powershell:

A

Set-SPSite -Identity “” -OwnerAlias “” -SecondaryOwnerAlias “”

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6
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Add Site Collection Administrator in Central Admin

& Powershell

A

Open Top Level site collection > Site Actions > Site Settings > user + Permissions > site Collection Administrators.

Powershell:
Set-SPUser -Identity “” -IsSiteCollectionAdmin

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7
Q

Where are “Quotas located” and what can be configured with “Quotas and Locks”

A

Central Admin > Application Management > Site collection , conf Quotas and Locks:

  • documents stored in document libraries
  • List Items
  • Attachments
  • Previous versions, if versioning is enabled.
  • Content in Recycle Bins.
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8
Q

Configure a Quota for a site collection using Powershell

A

Set-SPSite -Identity “” -Max Size <> -WarningLevel <>

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9
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Site Collection Locks: Prevent users from accessing or modifying content in a site collection with Powershell

A

Set-SPSite -Identity “” -LockState “”

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10
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Site Collection settings: User and group management is use for?

A

Multiple sites vs multiple site collections

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11
Q

What is the site hierarchy URL length limit?

A

Site hierarchy limit with 260 character URL length limit.

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12
Q

Site collection Settings: Managed Paths are used for?

A

A portion of the URI namespace where the site collection exist. Not mapped directly to web app, used by SP as a Namespace (path) node

Explicit (/): path defines a specific managed path that can be used to create a single site collection

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13
Q

Add a Content DB in Central Admin and Powershell:

A

Central Admin > QL, Application Management > DBs Section, Manage Content Databases, select add DB

Powershell:
New-SPContentDatabase -Name -WebApplication

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14
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Add a Site Collection to a Content DB

A

-Limited from in Central Admin

New-SPSite -ContentDabase

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15
Q

Move a Site Collection Between Content DBs

A

Cannot be performed in Central Admin

Move-SPSite “” -DestinationDatabase

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16
Q

How may content DBs per web application

A

300 Content DBs (Additional scalability with RAM & SQL incres)

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17
Q

Max size per Content DB?

A

200GB

18
Q

What is the max size per site collection if multiple? Max size per single site collection?

A

100 GB per site unless single, 200 GB

19
Q

How many sites per site collection?

A

250,000

20
Q

How many subsites per site view (site)?

A

2,000

21
Q

Manage Web Policy: Can grant permissions from the web application level. What are the permission levels that can be set?

A
  • Full Control
  • Full Read
  • Deny Write
  • Deny All
22
Q

What is the Service Application Framework(SAF)?

A

including search, metadata, business data connectivity and user profiles - are deployed, managed, backedup, restored, and shared across farms.

23
Q

Service Instances Consits of one or more of the following?

A
  • Binary files such as DLLs
  • Configuration Files
  • Settings in the farm configuration database
  • Resitry-based configuration
  • Windows Services
  • Timer Jobs
  • Web pages with which to manage the service
24
Q

How to view service instances Central Admin & powershell:

A

Central Administration > QL, System Settings > Servers section, Manage Services on Server

Powershell:
Get-SPServiceInstance -Server <>

25
Q

What is the Managed Metadata Service?

A

a user facing web app accesses the functionality it requires from a middle tier of shared services, in which each service provides a specific type of functionality to one or more web apps in the farm, or, possibly, to web application in remote farm.

26
Q

How to Start a Service with Powershell

A

Start-SPServiceInstance -Identity

-Services must be binded to a variable for

27
Q

What is the difference between a Service Application and Service Instance?

A

App: logical, farm-level comp0onent that exposes the service instance to web apps

Instance: Process running on one or more servers in the farm.

28
Q

What is the Physical location, where do sharepoint services reside?

A

C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftOfficeServers\14.0\WebServices

29
Q

What are the service file extensions? The are no longer ASP.NET(.asmx)

A

WFC Services

.svc

30
Q

Service Application endpoints are comprised of?

A

The virtual directory and associated files

31
Q

Load Balancer Service is also called?

A

Topology Service

32
Q

Create a Managed Metadata Service Application with Powershell

A

New-SPMetadataSeviceApplication -Name<> -DatabaseName<> -ApplicationPool<>

33
Q

Create a Service Application using Powershell

A

New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Name “ManagedMetaDataServie” -ServieApplication “”

34
Q

Who can delegate members to Service Applications?

A

Farm Administrators

35
Q

Assign Administrators of Service App. Using Central Admin

A

Central Admin > QL, Application Management > Service Applications > Manage Service Applications

36
Q

What are the steps to restrict access to a service application?

A

1) Add service account to service application
2) Add web. app. account to service app.
3) Remove local farm ID from Service App.

37
Q

What are the OOB Service Applications?

A
User Profile
Managed Metadata
Search
Business Connectivity Service
Secure Store
Web Analytic
38
Q

How to configure trust between Farms?

A

an Admin must configure a root certificate & security token service (STS)
Additionally, the Admin of the published Farm, must provide a root certificate for the consuming farm.

39
Q

How to configure Service Apps between to farms?

A

1) Configure trust / exchange of certs
2) In one farm publish service(s) app. creates URL for the published service application
3) Other connects to publish service application when connecting, specify URL of Service Application.

40
Q

Tip: Write down certs, exported & imported / also, write down powershell steps:

[configure trust between Farms]
Export Root Certification programatically:

A

$rootcert = (Get-SPCertificationAuthority).RootCertificate

$rootcert.Export(“Cert”) | Set-Content -Encoding byte

41
Q

Tip: Write down certs, exported & imported / also, write down powershell steps:

[configure trust between Farms]
Export STS Certification programatically:

A

$stsCert = (Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig).LocalLoginProvider.SingingCertificate
$sts.Export(“Cert”) |Set-Content -Encoding byte