2.5 Post-installation Considerations

This section describes how to configure AppManager to enable this module to discover and work with your SharePoint environment.

2.5.1 Verifying SharePoint-related Services

The pre-installation checker makes sure the relevant SharePoint-related services are running before you install the module. Based on the type of server you are installing, the SharePoint installation starts the required services.

If you are using SharePoint in a distributed environment, each server will display a list of services specific to the version of SharePoint that the server is running.

Verifying SharePoint Server Services

Use the following steps to verify whether SharePoint-related services are present.

To verify whether the SharePoint-related services are present:

  1. From the Control Panel, select Services from the Administrative Tools folder.

  2. (Conditional) If the server is running Microsoft SharePoint 2019, ensure that the Services window displays the following services in the list:

    • SharePoint Administration

    • SharePoint Search Host Controller

    • SharePoint Server Search 16

    • SharePoint Timer Service

    • SharePoint Tracing Service

    • SharePoint User Code Host

    • SharePoint VSS Writer

    • World Wide Web Publishing Service

  3. (Conditional) If the server is running Microsoft SharePoint 2016, ensure that the Services window displays the following services in the list:

    • SharePoint Administration

    • SharePoint Search Host Controller

    • SharePoint Server Search 16

    • SharePoint Timer Service

    • SharePoint Tracing Service

    • SharePoint User Code Host

    • SharePoint VSS Writer

    • World Wide Web Publishing Service

  4. (Conditional) If the server is running Microsoft SharePoint 2013, ensure that the Services window displays the following services in the list:

    • SharePoint Administration

    • SharePoint Search Host Controller

    • SharePoint Server Search 15

    • SharePoint Timer Service

    • SharePoint Tracing Service

    • SharePoint User Code Host

    • SharePoint VSS Writer

    • World Wide Web Publishing Service

    • Forefront Identity Manager Service

    • Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service

  5. (Conditional) If the server is running Microsoft SharePoint 2010, ensure that the Services window displays the following services in the list:

    • SharePoint 2010 Administration

    • SharePoint 2010 Timer

    • SharePoint 2010 Tracing

    • SharePoint 2010 User Code Host

    • SharePoint 2010 VSS Writer

    • SharePoint Foundation Search V4

    • SharePoint Server Search 14

    • World Wide Web Publishing Service

    • Forefront Identity Manager Service

    • Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service

  6. (Conditional) If the server is running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, ensure that the Services window displays the following services in the list:

    • Windows SharePoint Services Administration

    • Windows SharePoint Services Search

    • Windows SharePoint Services Timer

    • Windows SharePoint Services Tracing

    • Windows SharePoint Services VSS

    • Microsoft Single Sign-on Service

    • World Wide Web Publishing Service

2.5.2 Enabling Usage Logging

When you enable usage logging, AppManager for Microsoft SharePoint Server tracks and reports usage data for your SharePoint environment. After you enable usage logging, you can run the SiteUsage and WebPagePerf Knowledge Scripts on a SharePoint server to gather site usage and Web page performance information. To enable usage logging, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.

The following sections describe how to enable usage logging for SharePoint Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2010, and SharePoint Server 2007.

Enabling Usage Logging in SharePoint Server 2019

This section describes how to enable usage logging and health data collection for SharePoint Server 2019.

To enable usage logging in SharePoint Server 2019:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click Monitoring.

  2. In the Reporting section, click Configure usage and health data collection.

  3. In the Usage Data Collection section, select Enable usage data collection. Ensure that the events you want to log are selected in the Event Selection section. By default, all events are selected.

  4. (Optional) If you want to log information about specific resources, data, and processes at certain points in time, select Enable health data collection in the Health Data Collection section.

  5. Click OK.

Enabling Usage Logging in SharePoint Server 2016

This section describes how to enable usage logging and health data collection for SharePoint Server 2016.

To enable usage logging in SharePoint Server 2016:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click Monitoring.

  2. In the Reporting section, click Configure usage and health data collection.

  3. In the Usage Data Collection section, select Enable usage data collection. Ensure that the events you want to log are selected in the Event Selection section. By default, all events are selected.

  4. (Optional) If you want to log information about specific resources, data, and processes at certain points in time, select Enable health data collection in the Health Data Collection section.

  5. Click OK.

Enabling Usage Logging in SharePoint Server 2013

This section describes how to enable usage logging and health data collection for SharePoint Server 2013.

To enable usage logging in SharePoint Server 2013:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click Monitoring.

  2. In the Reporting section, click Configure usage and health data collection.

  3. In the Usage Data Collection section, select Enable usage data collection. Ensure that the events you want to log are selected in the Event Selection section. By default, all events are selected.

  4. (Optional) If you want to log information about specific resources, data, and processes at certain points in time, select Enable health data collection in the Health Data Collection section.

  5. Click OK.

Enabling Usage Logging in SharePoint Server 2010

This section describes how to enable usage logging and health data collection for SharePoint Server 2010.

To enable usage logging in SharePoint Server 2010:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click Monitoring.

  2. In the Reporting section, click Configure usage and health data collection.

  3. In the Usage Data Collection section, select Enable usage data collection. Ensure that the events you want to log are selected in the Event Selection section. By default, all events are selected.

  4. (Optional) If you want to log information about specific resources, data, and processes at certain points in time, select Enable health data collection in the Health Data Collection section.

  5. Click OK.

  6. To verify the settings in Central Administration, click Manage service applications in the Application Management section.

  7. Click WSS_UsageApplication.

  8. Verify that Enable usage data collection is selected.

Enabling Usage Logging in SharePoint Server 2007

This section describes how to enable usage logging and usage analysis processing for SharePoint Server 2007.

To enable usage logging in SharePoint Server 2007:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click the Operations tab.

  2. In the Logging and Reporting section, click Usage analysis processing.

  3. In the Logging Settings section, select Enable Logging.

  4. In the Log file location field, type the location for the log files. The default location is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Logs

  5. In the Number of log files to create field, type a number. Valid values are between 1 and 30.

  6. In the Processing Settings section, select Enable usage analysis processing.

  7. In the Run processing between these times daily fields, specify the time range for running usage processing.

  8. Click OK.

2.5.3 Enabling Usage Reporting

By enabling usage reporting, you can create reports that track what users are doing and how they are using a site. After you enable usage reporting, you can run the SiteUsage Knowledge Script on a SharePoint server to gather site usage information.

For SharePoint Server 2010 and later, reporting is enabled by default.

Enabling Usage Reporting in SharePoint Server 2007

Before you can enable usage reporting for Shared Services in SharePoint Server 2007, you must configure the Index Server and the Primary Shared Services Provider.

To enable usage reporting from Shared Services in SharePoint Server 2007:

  1. Ensure that you have configured the Index Server and the Primary Shared Services Provider. For more information, see the links in the introduction to this section.

  2. Open SharePoint Central Administration.

  3. In the Shared Services Administration section, click the default shared service.

  4. On the Home page of the default shared service, click Usage reporting in the Office SharePoint Usage Reporting section.

  5. In the Processing Settings section, select Enable advanced usage analysis processing.

  6. In the Search Query Logging section, select Enable search query logging.

  7. Click OK.

2.5.4 Enabling Web Application Reporting

After you enable reporting on the Microsoft SharePoint server, you can run the SiteUsage Knowledge Script to monitor site usage information.

For SharePoint Server 2010 and later, reporting is enabled by default.

Enabling Web Application Reporting in SharePoint Server 2007

In SharePoint 2007, you activate Web application usage reporting to make the reports available. You can access collected data for reports 24 hours after you enable them.

To enable reporting using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration.

  2. From the Site Actions tab, click Site Settings.

  3. In the Site Collection Administration section, click Site collection features.

  4. Scroll down to the Reporting section and click Activate.

2.5.5 Allocating Storage Space for a SharePoint Site Collection

Microsoft SharePoint Server allows you to allocate storage space for the SharePoint site collection. You can also calculate the amount of space used by the Recycle Bin. After you allocate site quota for a SharePoint site collection, you can run the RecycleBinInfo Knowledge Script on a SharePoint server.

To allocate site quota for a SharePoint site collection:

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration.

  2. Click Application Management and do one of the following:

    • (Conditional) If you are running SharePoint Server 2010 or later, in the Site Collections section, click Configure quotas and locks.

    • (Conditional) If you are running SharePoint Server 2007, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site collection quotas and locks.

  3. In the Site Collection section, select the URL for your site collection.

  4. In the Site Quota Information section, in the Current quota template box, select Individual Quota.

  5. Click OK. By default, the storage limit of a personal site is 100 MB.

  6. Modify settings for a personal site by doing one of the following:

    • (Conditional) If you are running SharePoint Server 2010 or later, select Specify quota templates in the SharePoint Site Collections section.

    • (Conditional) If you are running SharePoint Server 2007, select Quota templates in the SharePoint Site Management section.

  7. On the Quota Templates page, in the Template Name section, edit an existing quota template or create a new template.

  8. In the Storage Limit Values section, in the Limit site storage to a maximum of field, specify the maximum amount of storage space to allocate.

  9. Click OK.