5. What about this session?
Provide some insights and tips when designing and
architecting your SharePoint Farm.
TechNet/MSD iis not always your answer.
Business requirements and budget – things that really
matters.
DISCLAIMER: Opinions may differ but these are my
own thoughts.
7. In 2015…
• SharePoint Server 2016
• Search and Discovery innovation
• NextGen Portals
• OneDrive for Business improvements
• Hybrid advancements
• Increased limits in SharePoint Online
8. SharePoint v.Next
SharePoint Server 2016
N-2 upgrade would you? I.e. 2010 > 2016 without
stopping at 2013 first...
C:Program FilesCommon filesMicrosoft SharedWeb
Server Extensions16
Hybrid is the new normal
Farm solutions will be supported in #SharePoint2016.
AppFabric is deprecated for v.Next Server
9. Understand SharePoint
SharePoint covers a huge set of individual technologies
under the SharePoint Platform umbrella
Application Domain
Active Directory
SQL Server
Office Web Apps Server
…
It requires time, patience and experience as it’s
continuously changing
Know when to use OOTB vs Custom Components
Know your users
10. Understand SharePoint
The same core Infrastructure : Very similar as
SharePoint 20 in terms of infrastructure : but more
powerful hardware is needed
More RAM
More CPU
More everything
11. Understand SharePoint
New Service Applications (Machine Translation)
Offloaded Services: Yammer, OneDrive for Business,
Office Web Apps, Workflow Manager…
Improved Service Applications (Fast)
Not UI Bindended Services to be managed with PoSH
(Subscription Management)
Re-architected Service Applications (Search & OWA)
Different release schedule
OWA can be used for other platforms like Lync, Exchange, …
12. Understand Infrastructure
Not supported: Dynamic Memory | Discontinued :
Web Analytics
Prerequisites: Hardware and software requirements for
a single server with a built-in database:
24 GB, 64-bit, 4 cores, 80 GB for system drive
SQL Server 2014 requires the May 2014 CU to be
installed
Windows Server 2012 R2 is only supported on a
SharePoint Server 2013 Service Pack 1 environment
13. Understand SQL Server
SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012
Standard or Enterprise
License costs
New functionality with SQL Server 2012
Use of Report Server and Reporting Services Add-in with SharePoint 2013
New Excel Features (advanced data models, define KPI’s, etc.)
Power View
14. Understand how it works
Share services across farms
Business Connectivity Services, Managed Metadata Service, Search Service (Crawl,
Index, Query), Secure Store Service, User Profile Service…
App Management Service Application = NOT!
New way of works: HNSC
Claims: big deal expect if you have custom code who
is dealing with Classic code, and upgrades.. It’s a
recommendation to set your authentication model in
2010 as Claims then to migrate.
16. 3 is the new 2 | 7 is the new 5
3 webserver
2 load balanced – 1 Maintenance HA/DR.
2 Servers, if one for maintenance and has a
problem SharePoint farm is down
Not only Server, think globally: Load balancer, …
3 Web Server / 2 Application / 2 SQL Redundant.
17. It’s not all about SharePoint
Training
Hardware ( AD, ADFS, F5, DNS, … )
Mobile Office
$
SLA
18. Statistics
According to Gartner early last year (2013) and
repeated by Microsoft at their Worldwide Partner
Conference (WPC13) in Houston, in the next 6-8 years:
35% of existing SharePoint customers will never
move to the cloud
15% will become “pure cloud” customers
50% will adopt a hybrid SharePoint platform
19. Statistics
One year later, at the Worldwide Partner Conference
in Washington DC (WPC14), a senior Microsoft leader
admitted hybrid was bigger than earlier estimated:
15-20% of existing SharePoint customers will
never move to the cloud
10% will become “pure cloud” customers
70-75% will adopt a hybrid SharePoint platform
20. Office 365 Adoption
Microsoft has shared limited statistics on how Office
365 is being adopted, but did provide some detail into
the reasons why customers purchased Office 365:
90% use the platform for
06% use the platform for
04% use the platform for
23. Business ProductivityInfrastructure
Azure &
O365
Exchange &
Lync + Voice
Private &
Public Cloud
Windows &
SQL Server
Identity,
Active
Directory
System
Center 2012
ITSM / ITIL
Migrations &
Integrations
Desktop &
Win upgrade
Portals, Intranets, Business
Critical, Doc Imaging, Workflow…
(SharePoint)
Sales, Marketing, Dashboards,
Account Management, Etc.
(Dynamics CRM)
Business Apps
Application
Development
Messaging,
Conference,
Presence, Video,
Voice (Lync)
Office
Real Microsoft expertise. Real business
value. My view.
25. Your architecture depends
Structure of content and data
What kind of? MB? GB? TB? PB?
SQL Server. Storage. Licenses.
Accessibility of content and data
Which groups of people can you identify and how are
you going to grant access?
ADFS, Proxy, F5 Auth.?
Availability (content, data, services)
Public Facing Websites, Intranet or Collaboration sites
SLAs
26. Your architecture depends
Amount of Content
Current amount of content and Expected growth
Backup. Restore
Infrastructure
On-Premises, Hybrid, Pure Cloud
Hardware. Consultant Costs. Documentations.
External systems
Home made applications
Software. Consultant Costs. Non-Prod Environments.
27. Your architecture depends
Usage of custom components
Any custom development? Are they going to use
SharePoint Apps?
DNS zones and Subzones -, AD Changes
Keep track of your boundaries
Maximum size of content databases
Number of web applications and Application Pools
Determine Servers
28. Your architecture depends
Virtualization
VMWare. Hyper-V.
Load Balancing will define he number hosts in
Datacenters
Workload
Social features. Yammer. SharePoint Social Features.
Install SP1 per default for Cloud Integration.
29. Your architecture depends
Operations
First Line. Second Line. Operations team.
Do they have skills to operate the new farm? Are
they good to handle
Available resources
Who is writing the PoSH scripts
hopefully not you as an architect.
30. Role Traditional Topology Streamlined Topology
(each tier optimized)
Streamlined Topology
(Optimize for)
Web Server Fast, Light-weight server which
responds to user requests from web
pages. All web servers are mirrors of
each other and load balanced. Directs
requests to the appropriate application
servers
Service Applications, Services
and components that serve
user requests directly
Low latency
Access Services, BCS,
Metadata, User Profile
Application Server Runs one or more services in the
SharePoint Farm. Load balancing
possible by redundant application
servers
Service Applications, Services
and components that process
background tasks. Also called
batch processing.
Load
User Profile Synchronization,
Workflow, Machine
translation, Work
management
Search on separate
dedicated machines
Database Server Stores content and service data.
Databases can be clustered or mirrored
for failover protection
Stores content and service
data. Databases can be
clustered or mirrored for
failover protection
Throughput
31. Topologies – Farm types
Farm Number of
servers
Purpose
Limited Deployment 1-2 Used for product evaluation, development and testing with
a limited number of users
Small farm 3-4 Serve a large number of users and scales out based on how
heavily services are used. These types of farms are not
always fault-tolerant
Medium farm 6+ Serve a large number of users and scales out based on how
heavily services are used. Their goal is a multi-purpose
environment with possible optimalisation. These farms are
always fault-tolerant.
Large farm Mostly a lot Serve a large number of users. Group service applications,
services or databases that have similar performance
characteristics on dedicated servers
32. Your architecture depends
Topology planning is very iterative
Customer will say it costs
You change
Mise en Production, you need more RAM
You change
You need a new Service Application
You change
And it will change over time
You change
33. Know the Boundaries
Software Boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2013
Available on TechNet
Boundaries, Thresholds and limits
Boundary – Static, cannot be exceeded
Threshold – configurable BUT it’s not because you …
Supported Limit – configurable
Continuously updated but try to memorize them!
37. SharePoint – 2014 year in review
Hybrid Accelerators (within SP1)
Encryption at REST
Delve and Office Graph
DLP for SharePoint Online
Office 365 Video
Team Collab and Doc Conversations
1 TB OneDrive and Unified Apps
The new CSOM by PnP SharePoint Server template on Azure IaaS
Improved SPO Limits and Storage
38. On Premises Hybrid with Office 365
Microsoft Azure SharePoint 2013 in Office 365
SharePoint 2013 Platform Options
Web servers
All databases
Application
servers
Dedicated application
servers for search
components
Active
Directory
On Premises
39.
40.
41. On-Premises
Capacity planning and sizing.
Server acquisition and setup.
Deployment.
Scaling out, patching, and operations.
Backing up data.
Maintaining a disaster recovery environment.
Customizations are not limited.
42. Office 365
(SaaS) Software as a Service.
(Rich) feature set is always up to date.
Includes a Microsoft Azure Active Directory tenant
(can be used with other applications).
If single sign-on is a requirement, ADFS can be
implemented.
Client communication over the Internet through
encrypted and authenticated access (port 443).
43. Microsoft Azure
(IaaS) Best native cloud platform for SQL Server and
SharePoint.
Computing resources are available almost immediately
with no commitment.
Focus on applications, instead of datacenters and
infrastructure.
Inexpensive development and test environments.
SharePoint solutions can be accessible from the Internet
44. Hybrid
Combine the benefits of Office 365 with an on-
premises deployment of SharePoint 2013
(very simple, right )
46. On-Premises
In-country farms (when data is required to reside within a jurisdiction).
Complex (BI) solutions.
Highly customized solutions.
Legacy solutions that are not supported on Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure Services.
Privacy restrictions that prevent synchronization of Active Directory
accounts with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (a requirement for Office
365).
Organizations that desire control of the entire platform and solution.
47. SharePoint in Office 365
Secure external sharing and collaboration (unique
feature!).
Intranet/Extranet - Team Sites, My Sites, and Internal
collaboration.
Document storage and versioning in the cloud.· Basic
website.
OneDrive For Business.
48. Hybrid
Move My Sites (OneDrive for Business) to the cloud
to make it easier for users to access their files
remotely.
Get 1,000,000,000,000 Byte of free space
Push Service Applications
49. Microsoft Azure
Developer, test, and staging environments - Quickly
provision and un-provision entire environments.
Hybrid applications - Applications that span your
datacenter and the cloud
Disaster recovery environment Quickly recover from
a disaster, only pay for use
51. On-Premises
Design the SharePoint environment in an existing on-
premises environment:
SharePoint farm topology and logical architecture.
Server hardware.
Virtual environment, if used.
Load balancing.
Integration with Active Directory and DNS.
Design the disaster recovery environment.
52. Office 365
Password sync (requires one 64-bit server).
Single sign-on (requires ADFS and multiple servers).
Ensure network capacity, firewalls, proxy servers…
Acquire third-party SSL certificates.
Plan the tenant name, design site. collection architecture and
governance.
Plan customizations, solutions, and apps for SharePoint
Online.
53. Hybrid
In addition to tasks for both the Office 365 and on-
premises environments:
Determine how much feature integration is desired and
choose the hybrid topology.
54. Microsoft Azure
Design the Microsoft Azure network environment
Integration with on-premises servers.
IP addresses and DNS.
Design the SharePoint environment
SharePoint farm topology and logical architecture.
Virtual machines sizes.
Design the disaster recovery environment
…
55. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4633.what-is-infrastructure-as-a-service.aspx
Partner Hosted
Private Cloud
• Dedicated environment
• Externally hosted
• Externally or internally
managed
• Internally designed
Self Hosted
Private Cloud
• Dedicated environment
• Internally hosted
• Internally managed
• Internally designed
Shared or Dedicated
Public Cloud
• Shared or dedicated
environment
• Externally hosted
• Externally managed
• Externally designed
Dedicated
Public Cloud
• Partially or fully dedicated
• Externally hosted
• Externally or internally
managed
• Minimal customization
Traditional
on prem