One of the features of SharePoint 2010 that I was most interested to see was the Best Practices Analyzer. Judging from this video demonstration, the BPA is a customizable feature that will run jobs to check your environments health, then list the issues it finds along with fixes for those issues (being Microsoft hopefully the fix won't direct you to a page that says "There are no known fixes for this issue", which seems to happen a lot for MS directed linking.) This is the the integration of the previously available BPA, not sure how much different it is though until we actually see more of it in action.
It seems that there is a list containing these jobs and it allows you to customize what is run, when it is run and also an option on whether you wish to have the job fix the issue per MS recommendations. In theory a great idea, not sure how it will work in practice though.
A couple questions stick out for me. What if these 'fixes' will disable or remove some functionality without the administrator knowing? I can just imagine that troubleshooting nightmare.
Also are all features turned on by default? I remember back from a previous life I was involved with a MOM implementation and when we first turned that on everything was enabled and it took weeks of tuning to get the environment functioning, nowhere near as to what the BPA seems to be, but none the less what MS thinks is imperative could be a nuisance for an Admin to deal with.
Those are just some quick thoughts on the BPA, take a look at the video of SharePoint 2010 and let me know what you think.
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