Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019: An expert guide to SharePoint Server for architects, administrators, and developers

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Understanding Your Current State
	Technical requirements
	Warning – deprecated features
		Deprecated features
		List of removed features
	New features
		Service application enhancements
		Additional documentation links for central administration
		Communication sites
		Fast Site Creation
		Increased storage file size in SharePoint document libraries
		Modern lists and libraries
		Modern sharing experiences
		Modern search experiences
		Modern team sites
		Sharing using modern internet information APIs
		SharePoint home page
		Creating sites from the home page
		Site creation support for AAM zones
		SMTP authentication when sending emails
		Use of # and % in file and folder names
		Syncing files with the OneDrive sync client (NGSC)
		PowerShell enhancements
		New health analyzer rules
	Improved features
	Server support updates
	Assessing the environment
		Other collaborative tools
	Best practices
		Windows Server and VMs
		SQL Server
		SharePoint Server
	Governance
		Stakeholders
		Why governance is important
		Determining an approach
		Creating a governance plan
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 2: Planning and Architecture
	Technical requirements
	Planning – overview
		Goals and objectives
	Planning – how to find the best architecture based on requirements
		Exercise 1
	Planning – cost of your environment
		Virtualization
		Cloud and Services
		SharePoint licensing
		Battling contingency
	Planning – resources
		Assessment review
		Prioritizing requirements
	Planning – SharePoint farm design
		Physical server assessment
		Design – documenting the design
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
	Technical requirements
	Creating hosts and VMs
		Server feature comparisons
	Defining needed server roles
	Installing Windows Server 2019 – host configuration
		Configuring the network and server names
		Configuring network and internet access
		Adding the server to the domain
	Configuring Hyper-V Manager on Windows Server 2019
		Hyper-V advanced post-installation options
	Creating VMs
		Creating our first VM
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 4: Installation Concepts
	Technical requirements
	Installation updates
		List of configuration details
	Configuring SQL Server 2017
		SQL outbound port configuration
		SQL inbound port configuration
	Configuring SharePoint 2019 prerequisites
		SharePoint outbound port configuration
		SharePoint Server inbound port configuration
		Disabling loopback check
		Microsoft SharePoint preparation toolkit
		Scripted preparation tool installation
	SharePoint 2019 installation
		Configuration of SQL and SharePoint
		Running the configuration script
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 5: Farm and Services Configuration
	Technical requirements
	Configuring SQL Server services
		SQL properties
	Configuring SharePoint Services
		Setting server logging locations
		Creating the state service
		Creating SharePoint logging services
	Antivirus and security configurations
		Antivirus settings
		Web Part Security
		Block File Types 
	Creating service applications
		Registering service accounts
	SharePoint MinRole resources
	Understanding the Distributed Cache service
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 6: Finalizing the Farm – Going Live
	Technical requirements
	Finalizing loose ends
		Search and the User Profile service
		Configuring your connection to Active Directory
		Creating web applications and associations
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 7: Finalizing the Farm to Go Live – Part II
	Technical requirements
	Understanding workflows and Workflow Manager
		Installing Workflow Manager
	Authentication
		Claims authentication
		Windows authentication
		SAML authentication
	Understanding load balancing
		Load balancing with hardware
		Load balancing with software
	Exploring SharePoint migration
		Know your customers
		Migration – choosing your weapon of choice
		Types of migration
		Migration tools
		Scheduling migrations
	Exploring farm solutions
		Developed custom solutions
	Carrying out testing
		Stress and performance testing the environment
		User testing
	Performing the final checks
		Server resources and configuration
	Backup and restore
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 8: Post-Implementation Operations and Maintenance
	Technical requirements
	Post-implementation
		DNS cutover and on-premise migrations
		First-day blues
		Understanding team dynamics
		Incident management concepts
		Exploring troubleshooting tools
	Maintaining the environments
		Why is a development environment important?
		Why do you need a test environment?
		Production – why you should be cautious
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 9: Managing Performance and Troubleshooting
	Technical requirements
	Performance overview
		The client's role in terms of performance
		The developer's role in terms of performance
		Farm administrator tips 
		Farm administrative monitoring
		Monitoring in Central Administration
		Monitoring as a Site Collection Admin
	SQL Server performance
	Troubleshooting
		Scenarios and fixes
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 10: SharePoint Advanced Reporting and Features
	Technical requirements
	Advanced reporting and features
		Deprecated features
	Azure Active Directory
		SQL Reporting Services
	Hybrid configurations
		SharePoint hybrid gateways
		On-premises data gateways
	Power BI
		Power BI admin
		Power BI Desktop
		Best practices for Power BI
	Power Apps
	Power Automate
		Connecting Power Automate to SharePoint Online
		Connecting to a SharePoint On-Premises environment
		Power Automate Desktop
	Office Online Server
		Configuring Office Online Server in SharePoint 2019
	Excel Online
	Azure reporting capabilities
	Azure Analysis Services
	Azure Logic Apps
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Enterprise Social Networking and Collaboration
	Technical requirements
	Social features in SharePoint 2019
		Microsoft's direction in enterprise social networking
	Microsoft Teams overview
		Microsoft Teams in the age of the pandemic
		SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
		Tasked to suddenly roll out teams – now what?
		Deployment
		Network considerations
		Communication
		Using Microsoft Teams
		Best practices for organizing Teams
		Limits and restriction considerations
		Configuring an auditorium solution with Microsoft Teams
		Creating a live event
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 12: SharePoint Framework
	Technical requirements
	Developer essentials
		Helpful tools
		Code and tools summary
		Developer experience and teamwork
		Documentation
		Jobs and certifications
	Setting up a development environment
		Modern or classic?
	SPFx overview
		What is SPFx?
		Setting up a development environment to create SharePoint framework solutions
		Visual Studio setup
	Develop a Client side WebPart
	Developer best practices
		Requirement gathering
		Preproduction environments
		Testers
		Capacity planning
		List limits
		Timeout issue
		Enterprise security
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
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Index