Our SharePoint health assessment process examines clients' SharePoint environments to identify any issues, risks, or areas that do not follow best practices. The assessment generates detailed reports on the farm structure, servers, services, databases, solutions, security settings, hardware requirements, maintenance procedures, monitoring and logging configuration, and patch status. It also checks for common problems like neglected systems with outdated patching, search performance issues due to improper sizing, and risks associated with unsupported upgrade statuses. The goal is to ensure optimal performance and compliance with Microsoft's guidance.

1. SharePoint Health Assessments
Our health assessment process is designed to ensure your SharePoint environment is in optimal operating condition and following
Microsoft best practices.
Over
Use Cases
Neglected Systems
We have seen numerous issues with systems that were put into place and then not properly
maintained (lack of time, personnel or resources to maintain patching levels, security patches
etc). Almost every client we audit turns up issues that should be addressed or remediated!
Search Issues / Scaling
We have seen issues were search has been underperforming, and needs to be resized to meet
current environment needs. These issues do not show up on monitoring, and require an
experienced resource to review system logs to determine what the appropriate disk sizing for a
search farm should be and configure it appropriately. This can only be determined using
powershell to extract reporting information on the search health.
Migration Planning
If you are looking to migrate to either SP 2016 on premises, or SharePoint Online, then you need
to review your current state. The information we gather in an audit/assessment can be used to
help appropriately size the migration effort.
Upgrading and Microsoft Support
On systems that are out of date, you run the risk of prolonged outages, if you have to first
upgrade your system before addressing an issue. One of the first steps for Microsoft Support is
to bring a system up to date before addressing an issue. This can cause a major delay and
increase the risk of creating additional issues.

2. SharePoint Health Assessment
Our Process
Our SharePoint Assessment process involves the use of a couple of tools, as well as visually inspecting the environment. We generate
reports on the following:
Documents the entire farm structure includes
(but not limited to)
Servers in farm
Services on server
Web App Structure
Web App Databases
Deployed Solutions
Security
Documents Best Practices
Configuration
Security
Server Configuration
Deployed Solutions
Database
Auto-Growth
Recovery
Capacity
Alias Usage
MAX DOP Settings
Hardware Requirements Analysis
Maintenance
Backup
Misc.
Farm Accounts
Interactive use
PDF Filter
Upgrade Status
Analysis of SharePoint Monitoring
and Logging Configuration
Service Application Configuration
Best Practices Analysis
Site Collection health analysis
OS Patch Status
SharePoint Patch and Configuration
Status
Analysis of Web App Configuration
Settings
Caching
App Pool Use
Web App Configuration Best
Practices