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

Question 1

How to create a new site collection:

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

Answer 1

Central Administration > QL, Application management > Site Collection Section

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

Question 2

How to view a site collection?

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

How to delete Site Collections?

Central Administration?
&
Powershell?

Answer 3

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

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

Question 4

Configuration Option for Site Collection in Central Admin

Answer 4

• Ownership and Administration
• Storage Limits and Warnings
• Locks
• User and Groups Management
• Features

Question 5

Assign Site Collection Owners with Powershell:

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Add Site Collection Administrator in Central Admin

& Powershell

Answer 6

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

Powershell:
Set-SPUser -Identity “” -IsSiteCollectionAdmin

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Configure a Quota for a site collection using Powershell

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Set-SPSite -Identity “” -LockState “”

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Multiple sites vs multiple site collections

Question 11

What is the site hierarchy URL length limit?

Answer 11

Site hierarchy limit with 260 character URL length limit.

Question 12

Site collection Settings: Managed Paths are used for?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Add a Content DB in Central Admin and Powershell:

Answer 13

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

Powershell:
New-SPContentDatabase -Name -WebApplication

Question 14

Add a Site Collection to a Content DB

Answer 14

-Limited from in Central Admin

New-SPSite -ContentDabase

Question 15

Move a Site Collection Between Content DBs

Answer 15

Cannot be performed in Central Admin

Move-SPSite “” -DestinationDatabase

Question 16

How may content DBs per web application

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Max size per Content DB?

Answer 17

200GB

Question 18

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

Answer 18

100 GB per site unless single, 200 GB

Question 19

How many sites per site collection?

Answer 19

250,000

Question 20

How many subsites per site view (site)?

Answer 20

2,000

Question 21

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

Answer 21

• Full Control
• Full Read
• Deny Write
• Deny All

Question 22

What is the Service Application Framework(SAF)?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Service Instances Consits of one or more of the following?

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

How to view service instances Central Admin & powershell:

Answer 24

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

Powershell:
Get-SPServiceInstance -Server <>

Question 25

What is the Managed Metadata Service?

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

How to Start a Service with Powershell

Answer 26

Start-SPServiceInstance -Identity | -Services must be binded to a variable for

Question 27

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

Answer 27

App: logical, farm-level comp0onent that exposes the service instance to web apps Instance: Process running on one or more servers in the farm.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftOfficeServers\14.0\WebServices

Question 29

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

Answer 29

WFC Services | .svc

Question 30

Service Application endpoints are comprised of?

Answer 30

The virtual directory and associated files

Question 31

Load Balancer Service is also called?

Answer 31

Topology Service

Question 32

Create a Managed Metadata Service Application with Powershell

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Create a Service Application using Powershell

Answer 33

New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Name "ManagedMetaDataServie" -ServieApplication ""

Question 34

Who can delegate members to Service Applications?

Answer 34

Farm Administrators

Question 35

Assign Administrators of Service App. Using Central Admin

Answer 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer 36

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

Question 37

What are the OOB Service Applications?

Answer 37

``` User Profile Managed Metadata Search Business Connectivity Service Secure Store Web Analytic ```

Question 38

How to configure trust between Farms?

Answer 38

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.

Question 39

How to configure Service Apps between to farms?

Answer 39

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.

Question 40

Tip: Write down certs, exported & imported / also, write down powershell steps: [configure trust between Farms] Export Root Certification programatically:

Answer 40

$rootcert = (Get-SPCertificationAuthority).RootCertificate | $rootcert.Export("Cert") | Set-Content -Encoding byte

Question 41

Tip: Write down certs, exported & imported / also, write down powershell steps: [configure trust between Farms] Export STS Certification programatically:

Answer 41

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