If you start reading this, you might got into a situation where you want to build up a second farm which has the same configuration as your first farm. But farm 1 is hardly documented or even nothing documented. Or in case you just want to find out, what’s your configuration. There fore i posted two links in the bottom of this article. There you’ll find a prepared script to read your configuration which is really great. What is prepared in the script?
- Retrieve Web Application information.
- Retrieve custom layout information.
- Determine how SharePoint designer access is configured.
- Retrieve information about alternate access mapping
- Retrieve information about content databases
- Retrieve database properties for each database
- Retrieve information about all SharePoint Products installed in the farm, and the versions of all updates installed for each product.
- Retrieve farm information
- Retrieve information about the servers in the farm
- Retrieve information about installed features
- Retrieve information about globally-installed site templates
- Retrieve information about deployed solutions
- Retrieve information about sandboxed solutions deployed in a site collection
- Retrieve information about claims authentication
- Retrieve information about installed Help
- Retrieve information about the logging levels that have been set
- Retrieve information about the sites in the farm
- Retrieve ULS logging information
- Retrieve information about accounts registered in the configuration database
- Retrieve specific information about the certificate authority
- Retrieve information about content deployment jobs
- Retrieve information about the Mobile Messaging account.
- Retrieve information about the service applications in the farm
- Retrieve information about the services running in the farm
- Retrieve information about InfoPath form services
- Retrieve information about common Web service settings
- Retrieve specific information for the Access Services service application
- Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service Application
- Business Data Connectivity Service
- Retrieve information about data connection files. Excel Services Application
- Managed Metadata Service
- PerformancePoint Service Application
- Retrieve search information
- Security Token Service Application
- Retrieve information about the security token service used for incoming SOAP messages.
- Retrieve information about the State Service.
- Retrieve information about the Usage and Health Data Collection service application.
- Visio Service
- Web Analytics Service Application
- Word Automation Services
I can recommend to read this technet article. There you’ll find a prepared script, to get information about your SharePoint Server and its configuration, installed features and more.
Technet Article for SharePoint 2010
Technet Article for SharePoint 2013
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