Speaker: Darko Milevski; Today, many organizations use SharePoint as an ultimate platform for collaboration and consolidation of their business applications. At the same time, most of them find it easy for start-up implementation and almost plug-and-play use by employees. In time, the platform adopts more and more users, data, applications and processes, and if not architected and governed with this considerations, it becomes very tough to maintain and lose it’s performance and usability. Solid SharePoint solutions architecture at the beginning of implementation is crucial for long-term success, performance and usability of the applications on top of Microsoft prime enterprise content management platform. In this presentation, I will cover various aspects and considerations that should be analyzed and later implemented very carefully in a production SharePoint farm. Topics like Farm topology, SQL performance, Backups, Updates and Patching, Storage, Security and Governance will be covered. Form Development perspective, defining and negotiating Requirements, identifying constraints, policies, and selecting right SharePoint features and APIs that will be used in the solutions, is another aspect of the complete solution designing process.