Being mainly focused on development aspects of SharePoint 2010 I haven’t spent as much time as I perhaps should have looking at the new features that have been added to make Administrators lives easier.  Having just upgraded one on my development machines from SharePoint 2010 Foundation to SharePoint 2010 Server for Internet Sites,  which on a single box installation with AD and SQL local went without a hitch, I thought it worth looking at what the Health Analyzer was telling me.

As you can see I have a few issues:

Security

The security Issue I can live with and I suspect everyone running the Beta has the same as using full admin accounts is the only way to get SharePoint working fully at this stage.

Performance

This is a dev box, so I am ok with SQL running on the same machine,  interesting that this is the only performance issue reported as the machine is a Hyper-V VM with 4 processors allocated and only 4GB RAM – but it seems to be running fine.

Configuration

3 items here – the second is about Email not configured – which is correct.  And again I have used built in accounts for the service identities as this was a single box install – I may fix these up at some point.

The 3rd item Missing server side dependencies caught my eye,  and I have to say the dialog that was displayed brought a smile to my face.

The server was reporting that I had referenced a web part TestJQuery.WebPart1.WebPart1 in two places and that the files to support these web parts were not on the system meaning the user will get an error.

This is awesome!

I know why these are here,  it was a spike test that I had done previously and had obviously forgot to clear it down.  What it does show is that the administrators (and developers on your own environments) can now proactively check for missing DLLs.

This was not one of the features I asked for in SharePoint 2010 – but is one that I am very glad exists. 

Availability

How many times have you been called in to find the logs have maxed out the drive space and SharePoint has crashed?   Here the health analyzer is telling me I may have an issue with space.    I’m ok with this,  I have a 40GB drive with 11GB free – I like to keep the drives around 40GB as I move then to my laptop and boot to VHD and this needs the full drive size as free space in order to boot – so I can let this one go as well.

The only thing left to say this is:

Thank you SharePoint Product Team.