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1. Key Roles and Requirements
for SharePoint Farm
Administration

2. • SharePoint Server 2007 is an application platform, not just an
application, maintaining and managing a SharePoint farm requires
many skills.
• The level of complexity is comparable to SAP, although SharePoint does
much more than SAP.
• The required skills are so broad it’s almost impossible to find them in one
person.
• However, most of what’s required can be found in two roles: System
Administrator and SharePoint Development Leader

3. SHAREPOINT SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATOR:
• The System Administrator role in a SharePoint farm is very broad since it
requires knowledge of both SQL Server and Windows Server.
• The Windows Server knowledge required to build and maintain a SharePoint
farm is considerable, and DBAs may not have the time or desire to acquire this
knowledge.
• The System Administrator role is often split between two people who work
closely together: a Windows Server administrator and a SQL Server
DBA.

4. • The DBA skills required are the standard set required for any SQL Server
database but the features of Windows Server that a SharePoint Administrator
needs to have some knowledge of include:
•IIS Manager and IIS 6/7 architecture
•Server Manager and its functionality Active Directory
•DNS
•SMTP
• Network Load Balancing (NLB)
• Windows Firewall Event Viewer and Performance Monitor
•Powershell scripting

5. • The SharePoint Administrator should also have a broad knowledge of
Windows networking and authentication, particularly Kerberos.
• Also needs to be familiar with all the functionality of the “Central
Administration” web application and the STSADM.EXE commands
• The administrator should monitor the Event Viewer, Performance Monitor
and SharePoint logs for any problems and be prepared to troubleshoot any
problems.
• Monitoring of disk space, backups and other repetitive tasks can be handled
by operational staff or with Power shell scripts written by the SharePoint
Administrator

6. SHAREPOINT DEVELOPMENT LEADER:
• Fortunately, since SharePoint is at heart simply a ASP.NET web
application, it is highly customizable.
• Along with a good understanding of ASP.NET, Java script CSS and XSLT,
the SharePoint Development Leader needs to have a good understanding of
SharePoint architectecture and a thorough knowledge of SharePoint security
• The Development Leader also needs to understand the special elements of
SharePoint sites: Site Templates, Master Pages, Style Libraries, Web Part
libraries, the importance of Core.js, etc. and where these elements are
maintained on the farm servers.

7. • They should also have a good knowledge of IIS and the
applicationhost.config, web.config and machine.config settings and their
impact on SharePoint web applications.
• The Development Leader should also be familiar with the web parts and
delegate controls that come out-of-the-box with SharePoint and how to modify
them.
• The real key to SharePoint development is to understand the out-of-the-box
functionality and SharePoint web services well enough so that you don’t program
something SharePoint does natively

8. • The Development Leader also must have a good knowledge of Central
Administration and STSADM.EXE, especially the Search and Profile
functionality, and should work closely with the System Administrator
• We should be fully aware of all custom development projects and have an
opportunity to test them in an a QA environment before they are added to a
production farm.
•The Development Leader should also act as a backup to the SharePoint System
Administrator.