Most common reasons for corruption in SharePoint Server

Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based application merged with the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Corporation first released SharePoint in 2001 as a document storage and management system. In organizations, it is commonly used to create websites. According to a survey, SharePoint has 160 million users in 75,000 customer organizations.

SharePoint can be used as a secure place where users can store their crucial data and information. In addition, it allows users to access, organize and share information with almost all types of devices. A web browser is the only thing required here, be it Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Firefox. SharePoint is available in several editions for different functions, such as SharePoint Server, SharePoint Standard, SharePoint Enterprise, and SharePoint Online. Here in this article, we will talk about SharePoint Server.

Microsoft SharePoint Server is a popular server platform that is commonly used to share information, collaborate, and manage content. It provides great benefits for organizations, such as:

• You can create an intranet portal for your organization to share information.

• You can manage and edit documents between multiple users and offices.

• Also, you can create a public website.

The main capabilities of SharePoint Server are collaboration, enterprise content management, enterprise search, and portal creation. Although the benefits of SharePoint Server are enormous, it does come with a major drawback. It has many internal bugs that can sometimes cause serious problems. Also, the database file created by SharePoint Server is highly prone to corruption like any other database file. Below are the most common reasons for corruption in SharePoint Server:

• If SharePoint Server has low RAM or hard disk space, you may be at high risk. It can cause SharePoint Server to crash or damage the database file.
• Using virtual Microsoft SQL Server can also create problems for SharePoint Server users. Improper virtualization allows administrators to make big mistakes that can result in corruption.
• During the creation of content web applications, full URLs are mainly required. But if you use wrong or short URLs, it can cause serious problems.
• Enabling the default settings for the SharePoint database can be risky. For example: If the Autogrow setting is enabled, it will increase the database file size by 1 MB with each upload. Such an action can slow down both SQL Server and SharePoint.
• SharePoint can store a large number of PDF files that contain invaluable information. SharePoint Search allows you to access information stored in PDF files. Make sure you have installed iFilter only for SharePoint servers running the search index feature. But if you are not using any “PDF iFilter”, it might be bad for you.
• If you have disabled BLOB caching, you might be facing some serious issues. BLOB caching plays a very important role in SharePoint and improves its performance.

If you have made a backup of SharePoint Server, you can easily restore it. But if there is no backup then you should try to repair SharePoint database manually. There is a feature in SharePoint Server 2010 to restore the configuration database. This will help you to restore the farm settings. In SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016, you can directly restore the farm configuration without restoring the configuration database.

Follow the steps to know how to repair SharePoint database:

• Go to the Central Administration home page. In the “Backup and Restore” section, click “Restore from a backup.”
• Choose the “Backup to Restore” page on the “Restore from Backup” screen. Select the backup job and click Next to continue the process.
• Now choose the “Component to restore” page and click on the checkbox displayed next to the farm. Click Next to continue with the process.
• In the “Restore Component” section, select the Restore Options page from the “Restore from Backup” option. Note: Make sure Farm appears in the Restore content list below.
• In the “Restore settings settings only” part, select “Restore content and settings settings preference”.
• In the “Restore Options” section, select “Restore preference type.” You must use the same configuration settings. Click OK to confirm this operation. Then click on Start Restore option.

Before you can use the manual trick above, make sure of the following:

• You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the system running Central Administration.

• You have the permissions for a sysadmin server role on the database server that contains all the databases.