SharePoint Advanced Administration with Joel Oleson, Shane Young and Mike Watson

MOSS 2007: Advanced Administrative Architecture, Deployment, and Operations Joel Oleson, Principal Consultant, Nintex/TPG Shane Young, President, SharePoint911 Mike Watson, Technology Architect, MS
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Who Am I?
Joel Oleson
Co-Founder of IdeaMango
Consulting Sr. Product Manager for Nintex
Ex-Microsoft Sr Tech Product Manager for SharePoint
Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker
[email_address]
Blog
http://www.sharepointjoel.com
Nintex Reporting
http:// www.nintex.com/reporting
SharePoint Training
http://www.tedpattison.net

Who Am I?
Shane Young
Owner of SharePoint911.com
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP
Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker
[email_address]
Blog
http://msmvps.com/shane
SharePoint Consulting
http://www.sharepoint911.com
SharePoint Training
http://www.tedpattison.net

2 Part Session Objectives
Part 1 - Basic Deployment
Catch up – MOSS 2007 the New World
Farm Topologies and SSP
Part 2 - Advanced Deployment
Planning and Deploying…
Intranet Solutions
Extranet Solutions
Internet Solutions

Topics
Intranet
Global Deployments
Optimization & Troubleshooting
Extranet
Auth, Security & Firewall Rules
Internet
Multi Farm Topologies
Content & Solution Deployment
Caching
Solution Accelerators

Solutions
Intranet
Portal/Publishing/Enterprise Search
Collaboration
Records Repository
BI / BPM
Extranet
Partner Collaboration
Publishing Portal
Internet
Publishing
Community: Discussions & Blogs

Intranet

Setup & Deployments Hints and Watch-outs
Setup
Basic versus Advanced (farm = advanced)
WFE versus “Complete”
Scripting setup
Setup.exe – put binaries on computer
(requires config.xml)
PSConfig.exe – enable SharePoint services
STSAdm.exe – configure SharePoint services and create shared services and sites
Role: Dedicated front-end Web server for indexing adds Host file entries
Central Admin will push IIS config and can hammer IIS settings

Backup & Disaster Recovery Options Summary
2 Stage Recycle Bin
Versioning
Web Delete Event
Snapshots
Third Party Tools
Content Recovery Disaster Recovery
STSADM backup/restore
SQL backups
3 rd party tools
Log-Shipping
Remote Snapshots
High Availability
SQL Clustering
Database Mirroring
Third Party Replication
Which combination of tools is right for you?

Log-Shipping Mirror Farm

App Pool
Defaults only ok for small environments
Consolidate app pools for like applications
Memory issues could be:
Poorly written dispose
SQL delays
Network delays
32bit vs. 64 bit
Warm up and cold access

What Matters!

Database Splits or Consolidation
Put like sites together (sizes & user #s)
Dedicate large site collections to database
Portal/Internet vs Collab Database Strategies
Portal dedicated database
Put Mysites separate from portal
Portal database can grow

Database Maintenance
Orphaned/Twinned (dupe) Site removal
Content - Stsadm –help repair
Config - Prepare to move then detatch reattach
Maintenance Plans
Defrag (growth plans)
DBCC
Monitor for blocking/long running!
Troubleshooting
What Can Cause Blocking spids
Site Deletes, Backups

Customization and Development
You have to have a customization and Development Policy!
Customization – what you can do with Designer and the browser
What’s cool or not with Designer?
Development – what should be in solutions/features
Dev Env, Test,
CAS, Perf Test for Memory, Disposal
Test adding and removal including page!

Defaults have Faults

Additional Common Mistakes
Misconfigured AAMs (more later)
Forget to configure backup
You think you are running SQL (even installed) but it is SQL Express
Site Use Confirmation Delete: Deletes Used Sites
All data goes into one database
Turning off Recycle bin...

Extranet and Security

Flexible Authentication

SharePoint Web App Security Policies
Centrally enforced and overwrites permissions for all sites in the web application
GRANT and DENY
Bound to web application/zone
Permissions Level
Full read – search crawling accounts, auditors, legal compliance
Deny all – security control, regulatory compliance
Deny write – extranet lockdown

Architecture Considerations
Why more than 1 Farm?
Application/Customization SLAs, Licensing (Internet vs. Intranet CAL), Isolation (No Scale)
Why more than 1 SSP?
Isolation and Service Needs
Why more than 1 App Pool?
Security Isolation, Memory and CPU isolation, Auth requirements
Why more than 1 Site Collection?
Separation/delegation of ownership, quotas, ability to split across databases
Why one site collection?
Global Navigation, Inheritance of style/Master page, Security inheritance, Query web parts, Site Collection policy and content types enforcements

Database Considerations
Config
contains list of all site collections, web apps, web parts, solutions (Most critical db in farm from availability view)
Content database
contains all blobs, sites webs, etc… Most content (consider RAID 5)
Search & SSP dbs
Optimize… High Disk I/O contains configuration & search property store (index/query contain index on disk)
Don’t forget Database Maintenance!!!
DBCC Check Database, Shrink Database, Reorganize Index, Clean up History, Defrag… Disk IO

Extranet Architecture Example

Protocols
All protocols are HTTP-based
HTTP/S: Browser sessions
SOAP: Editing from Office Applications, Web Services & Indexing
RSS: All lists can be viewed this way
FP-RPC: SharePoint Designer, Usage
Web-DAV: Explorer View, Web Client Access
XMLHTTP - Forms

Firewall Ports

Extranet Terms
Alternate Access Mappings - “Zones”
Namespaces used to access a single set of content, e.g.
http://office
https://office.microsoft.com
Default Zone for Alerts URLs and Search results
Authorization == what can you do
Authentication == confirm who you are
ASP.Net model for pluggable Authentication
Understand - “Enable Client Integration”
Matches Office client’s behavior for some FBA providers

Internet

Content Deployment

Authoring -> Production

Solution Deployment
Deploy the Solution package to the farm
Retract the Solutions package
When a new web server is added, automatically deploy the solution to it
Deploy new versions of the Solution
Solution - A CAB file containing
Manifest.xml file
All the files for the Features, Web Parts, Site or list def changes, etc... that make up your solution

What Do SharePoint Server and Donald Trump Have in Common? Courtesy Si.com

Cache! TechNet: (Cache Settings) Additional performance and capacity factors

Cache Config Levels
Web App – Disk based caching in web.config
Site collection – configure output cache and object cache settings
Site – output cache settings
Page layout – output cache
Web Part – settings in dwp code
Query – i.e. RSS Feed cache is 5 min by default, cross list query

Cache Recommendations
Cache is but….
Setting memory based caching can waste valuable memory (ASP.NET may flush cache to make room!)
Never cache search results – disable search results layout page cache
Never cache personalized web parts

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