What Will You Learn in This Chapter?

• The concepts of farm management and the reasons for creating an operational plan
• The more important types of configuration tools available in SharePoint for creating a stable, robust environment
• How SharePoint web applications can be configured to produce secure, reliable results
• The logging mechanisms that can be used to monitor and diagnose issues in a production SharePoint farm
• How to monitor the usage and health of the farm
• Best practices around performing server maintenance and software upgrades in a production server farm
• The options available for making backups of the content and configurations in the farm