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Five quick tips to NOT look like a SharePoint newbie

By Peter Serzo

April 23, 2013 — (Page 1 of 2)
I can immediately spot a newbie to SharePoint. After 10 years of installing, configuring and developing SharePoint, I am going to give you my top five tips for not ever being confused for a newbie, or anything that rhymes with “newb.”

One of the things I love best about being a consultant is going to different client sites and getting to see what folks do with their SharePoint installations. Often, I see some very creative uses of SharePoint and business solutions. Every time I go to a new customer site and investigate how they put their stuff together, I learn something new, even if that something new is what not to do. So, here are my five tips:

1. Don’t use the default port assigned for Central Administration when installing SharePoint.

When I see this done, I have fond memories of the mid-1990s drift into consciousness. Windows NT was shiny, new and battling Novell. I loved going to sites and seeing the creativity of naming a domain (you guessed it) “Domain” (and I am sad to report I still see this done).

Maybe this is just me preaching as a consultant who has performed dozens of installations, but using a simple, memorable port number like 9999 just makes sense. Often, you need to navigate to Central Administration from another machine, and there is no shortcut. You need to recall the port number along with the machine name. The random five-digit port number the installation picks is not memorable. Assign a port number.

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Comments

04/24/2013 01:54:59 PM EST

Love this list! To 5, I'd add the created permission groups that are created with a Publishing site. If I had a dime for every time someone "cleaned up" the groups that had access to their site and deleted the Style Resource Readers group and then came back to me with "Hey, why can't people access my site?!?!" I would have... a lot of dimes. Which, quite frankly, doesn't seem all that exciting. But you get my point.

United StatesOwen Baern

04/24/2013 02:10:18 PM EST

ALWAYS Specify/Know what version of SharePoint you are using, and make sure ANY blog post you read specifies which version of SharePoint it applies to. Like - Content Query Web Part and Content Type Hub are ONLY available in SharePoint Server, not in SharePoint Foundation or WSS environments.

United StatesSPGuy

04/24/2013 02:31:11 PM EST

Don't set a low quota on the My Site Host site collection; this is where user profile pictures are stored and if this site reaches its quota users won't be able to upload/update their profile pics.

United StatesNobody special

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