A company uses SharePoint 2013 Server as its intranet portal. The Marketing department publishes
many news articles, press releases, and corporate communications to the intranet home page.
You need to ensure that the Marketing department pages do not impact intranet performance.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose
two.)

A.
In Central Administration, set up a User Policy for the Super User and Super Reader accounts.

B.
Configure IIS to use the Super User and Super Reader accounts for caching.

C.
Use the Farm Configuration Wizard to configure the Super User and Super Reader accounts.

D.
Use Windows PowerShell to add the Super User and Super Reader accounts.

Explanation:
A: The way to correct this problem is to first create two normal user accounts in AD. These are not
service accounts. You could call them domain\\superuser and domain\\superreader, but of course that’s
up to you.
The domain\\superuser account needs to have a User Policy set for that gives it Full Control to the entire
web application.
D: If you are using any type of claims based authentication you will need to use Windows PowerShell.
And Windows PowerShell is the hipper more modern and sustainable option anyway.
If you are using classic mode authentication run the following cmdlets on one of your SharePoint
servers:
$w = Get-SPWebApplication “http://<server>/”
$w.Properties[“portalsuperuseraccount”] = “domain\\superuser”
$w.Properties[“portalsuperreaderaccount”] = “domain\\superreader”
$w.Update()
If you are using claims based authentication run these cmdlets on one of your SharePoint servers:
$w = Get-SPWebApplication “http://<server>/”
$w.Properties[“portalsuperuseraccount”] = “i:0#.w|domain\\superuser”
$w.Properties[“portalsuperreaderaccount”] = “i:0#.w|domain\\superreader”
$w.Update()
Note:
* If you have a SharePoint Publishing site and you check the event viewer every once in a while you
might see the following warning in there:
Object Cache: The super user account utilized by the cache is not configured. This can increase the
number of cache misses, which causes the page requests to consume unneccesary system resources.
To configure the account use the following command ‘stsadm -o setproperty -propertynameportalsuperuseraccount -propertyvalue account -urlwebappurl’. The account should be any
account that has Full Control access to the SharePoint databases but is not an application pool account.
Additional Data:
Current default super user account: SHAREPOINT\\system
This means that the cache accounts for your web application aren’t properly set and that there will be a
lot of cache misses. If a cache miss occurs the page the user requested will have to be build up from
scratch again. Files and information will be retrieved from the database and the file system and the page
will be rendered. This means an extra hit on your SharePoint and database servers and a slower page
load for your end user. Resolving “The super user account utilized by the cache is not configured.”