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• 1. SharePoint 2010 Web Application Architecture
  Ayman El-Hattab
  Technology Solution Professional
  MEA Center of Expertise
  SharePoint MVP
  ayman@aymanelhattab.com
  www.aymanelhattab.com
  
• 2. Session Objectives
  Learn about different server roles.
  Learn about web application architecture.
  Understand Customized Vs. Uncustomized Pages.
  
• 3. SharePoint Server Roles
  Web Front End: Is a server that hosts web applications that users access with a browser or other types of clients. A large farm will contain multiple Web Front Ends.
  
• 4. SharePoint Server Roles
  Application Server : Hosts the background services like the search service and the web analytics service. In a large farm, it is possible to have multiple application servers with each of the servers running a different set of services for optimal load balancing.
  SQL Server : Hosts Microsoft SQL Server and the many databases that support a typical farm. A large farm may have several SQL Servers acting as a high performance and high availability cluster.
  
• 5. IIS, ASP.NET 3.5, Windows, and SQL Server
  
• 6. File Locations and Storage
  Some resources always come from File System like:
  Core List Definitions
  Core Application Pages( /_layouts/settings.aspx)
  Core User Controls
  More…
  Others always come from SQL Server
  List Items
  Documents
  Sometimes, it depends on the state ????
  
• 7. SharePoint Web Application Architecture
  File Locations and Storage!
  demo
  Not supported on production servers!
  
• 8. Configuration Management
  Everything in the previous demo is not recommended.
  Modifying files that ships with SharePoint is not supported and leads to an out-of-sync farm servers.
  Do not add files directly to SharePoint root, instead use Solutions Packages (WSPs).