Establishing Maintenance Schedules for SharePoint

Maintaining a SharePoint farm is not an easy task for administrators. They must find time in their fire-fighting efforts to focus and plan for maintenance on the server systems. When maintenance tasks are commonplace in an environment, they can alleviate many of the common fire-fighting tasks.

The processes and procedures for maintaining Windows Server systems can be separated based on the appropriate time to maintain a particular aspect of SharePoint. Some maintenance procedures require daily attention, whereas others may require only yearly checkups. The maintenance processes and procedures that an organization follows depend strictly on the organization; however, the categories described in the following sections and their corresponding procedures are best practices for organizations of all sizes and varying IT infrastructures.