Compare Farms

It is very often that you have several SharePoint farms with similar hardware running all of them, but due to different configuration their performances vary a lot. At that point you would like to find out how is Farm 1 differently configured from Farm 2, so you could tune it’s performances. Comparing farm can be crucial in case you have multiple farms in your organization e.g. DEV / Production / Q&A / Staging Farms.

Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint enables you to create configuration snapshots of each farm. Once you export snapshots to files, you can compare the 2 snapshots. It does not matter if farms are not connected or not the part of a same IT system, comparison is made solely between the files. Here is an example of how it’s done:

  1. Compare SharePoint FarmsCompare Farms
  2. Differences between different SharePoint farmsExplore differences