Maintain a core SharePoint Environment

In this post we will focus on three major tasks: monitoring, tuning and optimization, and troubleshooting. Monitoring is concerned with the use of tools and metrics to minimize system failures or loss of performance. Tuning and optimization expands on these concepts, providing insight into how to optimize the performance of not only SharePoint, but SQL and Internet Information Services (IIS) as well. Troubleshooting is perhaps the most complex of these tasks and is concerned with establishing performance baselines as well as using both client and server tools to troubleshoot issues as they occur.

Maintaining a SharePoint Environment need focus on these three topics