Michael Noel is an author of several books on SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies. He is a partner at Convergent Computing, an infrastructure and security consulting firm focused on SharePoint, Active Directory, Exchange, and security. In his presentation, he discussed best practices for architecting and optimizing SharePoint 2013 infrastructures, including farm designs, server virtualization approaches, high availability and disaster recovery options, security strategies, and SQL Server and data management techniques.
Despite the rumors of its demise, SharePoint On-Premises is still very much alive and kicking, and it is still critical to architect it for performance. During this session, we walk you through some of the highlights of the content that will be presented in the 'Ultimate SharePoint Infrastructure Best Practices' session that the speaker will present at the European SharePoint Conference in May. Topics discussed are SharePoint infrastructure security, database performance and optimization, server virtualization, and high availability.
Who is to blame? SharePoint? SQL? For many admins, SharePoint is the biggest and most important SQL Server application they manage. But how? In this session, we give an overview on planning, installation and management of SQL Server for SharePoint. We also explain how SharePoint uses SQL and cover best practices from the SharePoint and SQL CAT teams.
SharePoint 2010 best practices for infrastructure deployments SharePoint Sat...Knowledge Cue
This session cover best practices for ensuring that your core SharePoint infrastructure layer has been deployed correctly. The session is geared towards SharePoint infrastructure administrators and architects who will be managing a SharePoint deployment.
SQL Server is really the brain of SharePoint; in this session, Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) will give you an overview of what any SharePoint consultant and DBA need to know regarding business continuity in SharePoint 2013 & 2016. Of course SQL Server plays a major role in this story; the sessions will be animated with real & live demos.
Topics covered:
Concepts of business continuity
SharePoint and Business continuity
Patterns and anti-patterns
SharePoint and SQL Server Always on Availability groups : what works, what doesn’t work (demos)
Lessons learned from real projects
SharePoint 2016 Min Role and Business continuity
Tuning SQL Server for Sharepoint 2013- What every sharepoint consultant need...serge luca
Tuning SQL Server for SharePoint what every SharePoint consultant needs to know - SharePoint Summit Vancouver - Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt(SQ Server MVP); ShareQL, Belgium
Despite the rumors of its demise, SharePoint On-Premises is still very much alive and kicking, and it is still critical to architect it for performance. During this session, we walk you through some of the highlights of the content that will be presented in the 'Ultimate SharePoint Infrastructure Best Practices' session that the speaker will present at the European SharePoint Conference in May. Topics discussed are SharePoint infrastructure security, database performance and optimization, server virtualization, and high availability.
Who is to blame? SharePoint? SQL? For many admins, SharePoint is the biggest and most important SQL Server application they manage. But how? In this session, we give an overview on planning, installation and management of SQL Server for SharePoint. We also explain how SharePoint uses SQL and cover best practices from the SharePoint and SQL CAT teams.
SharePoint 2010 best practices for infrastructure deployments SharePoint Sat...Knowledge Cue
This session cover best practices for ensuring that your core SharePoint infrastructure layer has been deployed correctly. The session is geared towards SharePoint infrastructure administrators and architects who will be managing a SharePoint deployment.
SQL Server is really the brain of SharePoint; in this session, Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) will give you an overview of what any SharePoint consultant and DBA need to know regarding business continuity in SharePoint 2013 & 2016. Of course SQL Server plays a major role in this story; the sessions will be animated with real & live demos.
Topics covered:
Concepts of business continuity
SharePoint and Business continuity
Patterns and anti-patterns
SharePoint and SQL Server Always on Availability groups : what works, what doesn’t work (demos)
Lessons learned from real projects
SharePoint 2016 Min Role and Business continuity
Tuning SQL Server for Sharepoint 2013- What every sharepoint consultant need...serge luca
Tuning SQL Server for SharePoint what every SharePoint consultant needs to know - SharePoint Summit Vancouver - Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt(SQ Server MVP); ShareQL, Belgium
Workflow Manager is a new workflow engine added in SharePoint 2013 which has some tips & tricks, We will see in this session how to go with smooth installation.
Virtualizing Sharepoint for Performance and AvailabilityDamir Bersinic
Are you prepared to change the way you look at availability? Have you thought about how SharePoint works with Hyper-V Live Migration or vMWare's vMotion? As you architect your SharePoint farm virtually, knowing how to structure it correctly and leverage both physical and virtual elements effectively is a must. In this session, we’ll cover how and when to use virtualization availability features, Windows Failover Clustering and SQL Server technologies and the impact of combining them. We’ll also discuss how you can combine SharePoint, SQL Server and Windows Server features to help you ensure your SharePoint environment is available 24x7 365 days a year.
What SQL DBAs need to know about SharePoint-Indianapolis 2013J.D. Wade
With the number of deployments of SharePoint exponentially growing every day, as a DBA, it is very likely you are going to have SharePoint databases on SQL Servers you support. This session reviews SharePoint strictly from the SQL Server perspective. You will learn how SharePoint is optimized for SQL, how to properly manage and maintain the SharePoint databases, how to optimize the SQL configuration for SharePoint, what settings in SharePoint need to be changed or not changed to maintain SQL Server performance, supported methods for providing high availability and disaster recovery, and the part SharePoint and SQL each play in the Microsoft Business Intelligence story.
Knowing the vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Regardless of whether you have a dedicated DBA, or the SharePoint administrator is also the DBA, there are critical SQL Server configurations that can be made that will improve the performance of SharePoint. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint. In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made to improve the performance of SharePoint. These changes include database file settings and SQL Server instance settings. We'll also examine how to properly install SQL Server and SharePoint so they work together as efficiently as possible. This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint implementation
Design a share point 2013 architecture – the basicsAlexander Meijers
session walks you through the necessary steps to design a SharePoint 2013 architecture. It explains what information is needed to actually design such an architecture and discusses the many things you need to know to make the right decisions. It helps you to design a small, medium or large SharePoint farm for your customers
Deep Dive into SharePoint Topologies and Server Architecture for SharePoint 2013K.Mohamed Faizal
Come and understand different type of SharePoint Topologies and learn how to design for SharePoint architecture that serve for Intranet, Websites, Office Web Apps Server, App management, wide-area networks, monitoring, newsfeeds, distributed cache, high availability, and disaster recovery.
SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2014: What SharePoint Admins need to know about...J.D. Wade
You will learn how SharePoint is optimized for SQL, how to properly manage and maintain the SharePoint databases, how to optimize the SQL configuration for SharePoint, what settings in SharePoint need to be changed or not changed to maintain SQL Server performance, and supported methods for providing high availability and disaster recovery.
Responsive Web Design ~ Best Practices for Maximizing ROIJuan Carlos Duron
Implementing a Responsive design for SharePoint? Consider these best practices to ensure you’re delivering an optimized experience for your users. This session discusses RWD principles and industry leading best practice guidelines, followed by a review of public facing SharePoint sites and design elements that can impact project costs and timelines.
Sql Server Tuning for SharePoint : what every consultant must know (Office 36...serge luca
Sql server tuning for SharePoint : what every consultant must know from Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) - (Office 365 Saturday Copenhagen - March 2016)
On Wednesday November 18th, 2015 Microsoft publicly released SharePoint 2016 Beta 2. I was on route from LA to Houston to speak at the Houston SharePoint Users Group and the organizers asked me to speak about what was new.
All of the content herein comes from the TechNet articles that Microsoft released on that morning and can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/cc261970(v=office.16).aspx
I used this deck to talk to the new features that were released in IT Preview & Beta 2 that evening and was asked to share this deck.
Enjoy!
-jase
In this presentation, Perficient leverages its extensive SharePoint user experience design, customization, and implementation expertise to guide you in understanding the criticality of SharePoint user experience (UX) in driving user adoption, and to provide you with user experience best practices in the areas of information architecture and visual design, technical configuration and customization, and user experience server deployments.
Workflow Manager is a new workflow engine added in SharePoint 2013 which has some tips & tricks, We will see in this session how to go with smooth installation.
Virtualizing Sharepoint for Performance and AvailabilityDamir Bersinic
Are you prepared to change the way you look at availability? Have you thought about how SharePoint works with Hyper-V Live Migration or vMWare's vMotion? As you architect your SharePoint farm virtually, knowing how to structure it correctly and leverage both physical and virtual elements effectively is a must. In this session, we’ll cover how and when to use virtualization availability features, Windows Failover Clustering and SQL Server technologies and the impact of combining them. We’ll also discuss how you can combine SharePoint, SQL Server and Windows Server features to help you ensure your SharePoint environment is available 24x7 365 days a year.
What SQL DBAs need to know about SharePoint-Indianapolis 2013J.D. Wade
With the number of deployments of SharePoint exponentially growing every day, as a DBA, it is very likely you are going to have SharePoint databases on SQL Servers you support. This session reviews SharePoint strictly from the SQL Server perspective. You will learn how SharePoint is optimized for SQL, how to properly manage and maintain the SharePoint databases, how to optimize the SQL configuration for SharePoint, what settings in SharePoint need to be changed or not changed to maintain SQL Server performance, supported methods for providing high availability and disaster recovery, and the part SharePoint and SQL each play in the Microsoft Business Intelligence story.
Knowing the vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Regardless of whether you have a dedicated DBA, or the SharePoint administrator is also the DBA, there are critical SQL Server configurations that can be made that will improve the performance of SharePoint. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint. In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made to improve the performance of SharePoint. These changes include database file settings and SQL Server instance settings. We'll also examine how to properly install SQL Server and SharePoint so they work together as efficiently as possible. This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint implementation
Design a share point 2013 architecture – the basicsAlexander Meijers
session walks you through the necessary steps to design a SharePoint 2013 architecture. It explains what information is needed to actually design such an architecture and discusses the many things you need to know to make the right decisions. It helps you to design a small, medium or large SharePoint farm for your customers
Deep Dive into SharePoint Topologies and Server Architecture for SharePoint 2013K.Mohamed Faizal
Come and understand different type of SharePoint Topologies and learn how to design for SharePoint architecture that serve for Intranet, Websites, Office Web Apps Server, App management, wide-area networks, monitoring, newsfeeds, distributed cache, high availability, and disaster recovery.
SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2014: What SharePoint Admins need to know about...J.D. Wade
You will learn how SharePoint is optimized for SQL, how to properly manage and maintain the SharePoint databases, how to optimize the SQL configuration for SharePoint, what settings in SharePoint need to be changed or not changed to maintain SQL Server performance, and supported methods for providing high availability and disaster recovery.
Responsive Web Design ~ Best Practices for Maximizing ROIJuan Carlos Duron
Implementing a Responsive design for SharePoint? Consider these best practices to ensure you’re delivering an optimized experience for your users. This session discusses RWD principles and industry leading best practice guidelines, followed by a review of public facing SharePoint sites and design elements that can impact project costs and timelines.
Sql Server Tuning for SharePoint : what every consultant must know (Office 36...serge luca
Sql server tuning for SharePoint : what every consultant must know from Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP) and Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) - (Office 365 Saturday Copenhagen - March 2016)
On Wednesday November 18th, 2015 Microsoft publicly released SharePoint 2016 Beta 2. I was on route from LA to Houston to speak at the Houston SharePoint Users Group and the organizers asked me to speak about what was new.
All of the content herein comes from the TechNet articles that Microsoft released on that morning and can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/cc261970(v=office.16).aspx
I used this deck to talk to the new features that were released in IT Preview & Beta 2 that evening and was asked to share this deck.
Enjoy!
-jase
In this presentation, Perficient leverages its extensive SharePoint user experience design, customization, and implementation expertise to guide you in understanding the criticality of SharePoint user experience (UX) in driving user adoption, and to provide you with user experience best practices in the areas of information architecture and visual design, technical configuration and customization, and user experience server deployments.
"SQL Server Storage Configuration for SharePoint" presented to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group on January 13, 2010
Presenter: Burzin Patel, author and Solutions Architect at StorSimple
Learn about the Top Five SQL Server storage configuration best practices for SharePoint, including:
•Disk sizing and configuration •Externalizing BLOB storage •Common maintenance tasks •Performance tuning
What's new in SharePoint Server 2013 (End user - Admin – Developer)Mahmoud Hamed Mahmoud
Learn about new features and functionality in SharePoint 2013, including the new Cloud App Model, development tools, platform enhancements, mobile apps, and more.
Marlabs Capabilities Overview: Microsoft SharePoint Services Marlabs
Marlabs’ SharePoint services include SharePoint development, governance and migration, and testing. SharePoint architecture services include auditing and analysis, governance planning, and implementation. Auditing and analysis involves taking stock of existing SharePoint investments, portfolio rationalization, pre-migration analysis, migration strategy, infrastructure review, information management, review, and applications review.
Was gibt es Neues im Office 365 Umfeld? PowerApps und FlowIOZ AG
Aufgrund technologischer Fortschritte müssen sich Unternehmen in der heutigen Arbeitswelt ständig anpassen und ihre Prozesse optimieren. Business Lösungen decken nicht alle Anforderungen ab und zugeschnittene Lösungen sind meist zu kostspielig und zeitraubend. Dank dem Wachstum von Software as a Service (SaaS) gibt es aber Tools, welche die Arbeit in verschiedenen Abteilungen erleichtern. Haben Sie schon von Microsoft PowerApps für Formulare und Flow für einfache Workflows gehört? Michael Nguyen stellte diese beiden Tools anhand von Live Demos vor.
Arbeits- und Informationsplattform mit Office 365 von FinnovaIOZ AG
Mit der neuen Arbeits- und Informationsplattform von Finnova wurde für die Mitarbeitenden ein zentraler Einstiegspunkt mit allen relevanten Informationen geschaffen. Diese Plattform beinhaltet ein strukturiertes Intranet sowie informative Bereichsseiten. Um die teamübergreifende Zusammenarbeit, den Austausch mit Partnern und Kunden sowie Adhoc Meetings zu ermöglichen, werden Gruppenräume für die Kollaboration genutzt. Matthias Sägesser (Finnova) und Fabian Häfliger (IOZ) stellten das Projekt sowie diese Plattformen vor.
SharePoint Governance: Impacts of Moving to the CloudChristian Buckley
Webinar presented by myself (@buckleyplanet) and Antonio Maio (@AntonioMaio2) from TITUS on the impacts to governance strategy as organizations begin planning to expand their SharePoint footprint to the cloud -- whether moving entirely to the cloud, or in a hybrid model. Includes comparisons of on prem and online advantages and risks, and a quiz to help organizations plan accordingly.
An overview of the search driven publishing feature available in SharePoint 2013.
This deck was created and presented by me at the January 2014 meetup of the Sri Laka SharePoint Forum
Follow/Tweet me: @ShehanPeruma
This informative slide deck contains two presentations, one by Simon Hudson from Cloud2 about Microsoft SharePoint best practice and moving to the cloud. This is followed by an overview of performance monitoring and best practice for SharePoint applications by Mick McGuinness from Appplication Performance Ltd.
The Couse SharePoint 2013 for Administrators and IT Pro's is designed for Professionals who want to learn core concepts of SharePoint and need a detailed Tutorial on Advanced SharePoint Server administration.
Please see the entire Course Presentation attached.
Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm - SPS SacramentoMichael Noel
Slide deck from Michael Noel's session on Best Practices SharePoint 2010 infrastructure, as presented at SharePoint Saturday Sacramento, 18 June, 2011.
TechEd Africa 2011 - OFC307: Architecting a Disaster Tolerant and Highly Avai...Michael Noel
Many organizations are finding that their SharePoint environments are becoming as or more mission-critical as email or phone currently are. They are subsequently expecting that SharePoint be both highly available and disaster tolerant at all times. Because the Service Application architecture model in SharePoint 2010 is relatively complex, it’s not surprising that there is confusion about how to architect a SharePoint environment to be able to survive hardware, software, and site outages. This session focuses on a deep dive into the specifics of how to architect the web, data, and service application tiers of SharePoint 2010 to be both highly available and disaster tolerant. Topics such as SQL Database mirroring, clustering, Network Load Balancing, Virtualization HA and Service Application failover are discussed. In addition, real world models of various farm failover techniques for environments of all different sizes are presented and compared. • Learn how to build in high availability and disaster tolerance into the web, data, and service application tiers of SharePoint 2010 Architecture. • Examine real world designs for SharePoint 2010 that are built to allow for full functionality in the event of various failure scenarios. • Examine how to take advantage of several ‘out of the box’ technologies with SharePoint, SQL, and Windows to provide for HA, as well as understanding when a third-party option may be required.
Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm - SPS Brisbane 2011Michael Noel
SharePoint 2010 has matured over the past year, with improvements in scalability, enterprise search, and administration. Best practices from SharePoint 2007 are no longer relevant, and new guidance has emerged from the last year worth of SharePoint deployments. In addition, new features such as SharePoint FAST Search capabilities can have a significant effect on how an environment is architected. In addition, the popularity of server virtualization technologies have created new design options for SharePoint administrators, allowing for new and unique high availability and provisioning options. This session goes right to the heart of the matter, providing for physical and virtual architecture guidelines and specific configuration settings that can immediately be used to construct SharePoint 2010 environments that can be used to replace existing SharePoint 2007 farms. Architectural specifics are based on best practices obtained from existing SharePoint 2010 environments of multiple sizes and performance metrics gathered from both physical and virtual SQL Server and SharePoint environments will help you to build the ‘perfect’ SharePoint 2010 farm for your organization.
Want to see a high-level overview of the products in the Microsoft data platform portfolio in Azure? I’ll cover products in the categories of OLTP, OLAP, data warehouse, storage, data transport, data prep, data lake, IaaS, PaaS, SMP/MPP, NoSQL, Hadoop, open source, reporting, machine learning, and AI. It’s a lot to digest but I’ll categorize the products and discuss their use cases to help you narrow down the best products for the solution you want to build.
Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. This is a huge deck with lots of screenshots so you can see exactly how it works.
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Combatting Cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender 365 - CollabDays Finland 2023Michael Noel
As presented at CollabDays Finland, Helsinki, 2023-09-09
The dramatic rise in the number and severity of cyber-threats faced by organizations today has led to a proliferation of countermeasure IT security tool-sets. In many cases, these security tools operate independently from each other and can lead to siloed alerting and monitoring making it difficult for IT staff to effectively identify threats and mitigate them before they become major issues.
Microsoft Defender 365 suite of cloud security tools consolidates multiple security tool-sets under a single management interface and provides for end-to-end security, allowing administrators to quickly identify and contain threats. Rather than constantly being on the defensive, Defender 365 provides for the ability to proactively hunt for vulnerabilities and potential bad actors while they are still making lateral moves within your environment, allowing IT cybersecurity the ability to stay one step ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers.
This session takes an in-depth look at the tools that are part of the Microsoft Defender 365 suite, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity and more. Discover how to better control, audit, and manage your organization’s data in both the cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Explore the various tool-sets and capabilities built into Microsoft 365 Defender, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality, endpoint threat detection and management, and sophisticated on-premises real-time threat prevention tools.
• Examine how real-time threats can overwhelm more traditional threat management systems and how an intuitive ‘single pane of glass’ view of threat detection and management can greatly improve the odds of stopping sophisticated cyberattacks.
• Understand how Microsoft licensing for Microsoft Defender 365 is structured and how you can take advantage of these security tools for little or even no cost in some scenarios.
You are Doing IT Security Wrong - Understanding the Threat of Modern Cyber-at...Michael Noel
Organizations today are vastly unprepared for the threat of modern cyber-attacks. At the same time, the attackers are becoming more sophisticated and the amount of resources at their disposal is increasing. It has become a lucrative business to hack, disrupt, and steal intellectual property from organizations of all sizes and in all business sectors.
While the attackers are becoming more sophisticated, organizations have their IT security positioned for threats from the past century, with poor password management techniques, simple ACL based file permissions, and basic firewall and zone-based containment techniques. This makes it easier for attackers to obtain access to critical intellectual property and makes career-ruining disruptions all the more common.
This session focuses on understanding what is currently wrong with IT security practices and how your organization can change processes, techniques, and tools to provide for a significantly higher level of IT security without necessarily having to implement expensive tools or obtrusive processes.
• Understand the pitfalls of current IT Security practices, including myths around password change policies, allowing logins without providing multiple factors, and the proliferation of ‘always-on’ admin rights.
• Examine how simple changes in IT strategy can greatly improve your overall IT posture, including providing for up to a 99% improvement in the likelihood of a data credential theft.
• Determine which easy to deploy tools and features which you may already be licensed for can be used to tighten up IT security within an environment, including solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Cloud App Security, next-generation firewalls, and more.
Securing IT Against Modern Threats with Microsoft Cloud Security Tools - M365...Michael Noel
Organizations today are facing unprecedented and sophisticated attacks to their internal Information Technology infrastructure. These evolving attacks include spear phishing, ransomware, credential hijacking, and more and can result in significant data loss and/or theft of confidential and valuable intellectual property. In response to these threats, Microsoft has released an array of tools such as Azure Sentinel, Cloud App Security, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and more which can help to secure and protect against these threats. These tools work with both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure to provide for comprehensive protection of hybrid environments.
This session breaks down each of these Microsoft tools and provides for an understanding of their value for specific security scenarios. A simple, no-marketing approach is taken to evaluating each individual tool, and a simple breakdown of what is provided with each Microsoft licensing model is outlined. Attendees will gain a better appreciation to which tools to utilize and how to better protect their Information Technology investments from the type of career-ending attacks which are unfortunately common today.
• Understand how modern threats such as spear phishing, ransomware, credential hijacking, and more are commonly faced in today’s IT environments and what tools and techniques can be used to mitigate the risk faced by these modern threats
• Examine Microsoft security tools such as Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Cloud App Security, Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, Azure AD Identity Protection, Azure Information Protection, and more
• Understand which tools are available for each licensing model in the Microsoft world and when it may make sense to ‘upgrade’ existing licenses to support specific toolsets as opposed to investment in third-party tools
Understanding the Tools and Features of Office 365 - New Zealand Digital Work...Michael Noel
As presented at the New Zealand Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland, May 1st, 2018
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organisations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well-known tools such as Power BI, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Flow, Delve, Stream, MyAnalytics and many more which are added on a continual basis.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs. It examines the overall Office 365 licensing options and compares the internal tools with other common industry tools to help business decision makers to get the most out of their licensing.
Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Groups, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and much more
Determine what type of license is required for your organisation based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
Compare Office 365 native tools with other similar industry tools to better understand what type of cost savings can be realized through the platform.
AUDWC 2016 - Using SQL Server 20146 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for SharePoi...Michael Noel
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Understand the differences between SQL AlwaysOn options, and determine the requirements to deploy the technologies
Examine how SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can provide aggressive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of a few seconds.
See the exact steps required to enable SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for a SharePoint 2013 On-Premises environment, including options for storing replicas in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.
Understanding Office 365 Service Offerings - O365 Saturday Sydney 2015Michael Noel
Version of the presentation given at Office365 Saturday Sydney on 12 June, 2015. Contains licensing info in AUD.
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth in recent months, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organizations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well known services such as OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business that make Microsoft’s cloud offering even more tempting for IT decision makers.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Office Web App, and the Office 2013 client suite
• Determine what type of license is required for your organization based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
• Review key decision points to make when considering an Office 365 deployment such as whether or not to provide Single Sign On to the platform with an internal Active Directory environment, data retention decisions, and migration options
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Ultimate SharePoint 2013 Infrastructure Best Practices Session - SPKSLO 2012
1. Michael Noel - CCO
THE ULTIMATE SHAREPOINT 2013
INFRASTRUCTURE BEST
PRACTICES SESSION
2. Michael Noel
Author of SAMS Publishing titles “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed,” the upcoming
“SharePoint 2010 Unleashed,” “SharePoint 2003 Unleashed”, “Teach Yourself
SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes,” “Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed,”
“Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed”, “ISA Server 2006 Unleashed”, and many
other titles .
Partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com / +1(510)444-5700) – San
Francisco, U.S.A. based Infrastructure/Security specialists for
SharePoint, AD, Exchange, Security
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4. Architecting the Farm
Three Layers of SharePoint Infrastructure
Web
Service Apps
Data
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5. Architecting the Farm
Small Farm Models
„All-in-One‟ (Avoid)
DB and SP Roles Separate
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6. Architecting the Farm
Smallest Highly Available Farm
2 SharePoint Servers running
Web and Service Apps
2 Database Servers
(AlwaysOn FCI or AlwaysOn
Availability Groups)
1 or 2 Index Partitions with
equivalent query components
Smallest farm size that is fully
highly available
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7. Architecting the Farm
Best Practice ‘Six Server Farm’
2 Dedicated Web
Servers (NLB)
2 Service Application
Servers
2 Database Servers
(Clustered or
Mirrored)
1 or 2 Index Partitions
with equivalent query
components
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8. Architecting the Farm
Ideal – Separate Service App Farm + Content Farm(s)
• Separate farm for
Service
Applications
• One or more farms
dedicated to
content
• Service Apps are
consumed cross-
farm
• Isolates „cranky‟
service apps like
User Profile Sync
and allows for
patching in
isolation
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9. Architecting the Farm
Large SharePoint Farms
• Multiple Dedicated
Web Servers
• Multiple Dedicated
Service App Servers
• Multiple Dedicated
Query Servers
• Multiple Dedicated
Crawl Servers, with
multiple Crawl DBs to
increase
parallelization of the
crawl process
• Multiple distributed
Index partitions (max
of 10 million items per
index partition)
• Two query
components for each
Index
partition, spread
among servers
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11. SP Server Virtualization
Sample 1: Single Server Environment
Allows organizations that wouldn‟t normally be able to have a test
environment to run one
Allows for separation of the database role onto a dedicated server
Can be more easily scaled out in the future
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12. SP Server Virtualization
Sample 2: Two Server Highly Available Farm
High-
Availability
across Hosts
All
components
Virtualized
Uses only
two
Windows
Ent Edition
Licenses
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13. SP Server Virtualization
Sample 3: Mix of Physical and Virtual Servers
Highest
transaction
servers are
physical
Multiple
farm
support, wit
h DBs for all
farms on the
SQL cluster
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14. SP Server Virtualization
Scaling to Large Virtual Environments
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15. Virtualization of SharePoint Servers
Virtualization Performance Monitoring
Processor (Host Only) • Network Bandwidth –
• <60% Utilization = Good Bytes Total/sec
• 60%-90% = Caution – <40% Utilization = Good
• >90% = Trouble – 41%-64% = Caution
Available Memory – >65% = Trouble
• 50% and above = Good
• 10%-50% = OK
• Network Latency - Output
• <10% = Trouble Queue Length
Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read or – 0 = Good
Avg. Disk sec/Write – 1-2= OK
• Up to 15ms = fine – >2 = Trouble
• 15ms-25ms = Caution
• >25ms = Trouble
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17. Data Management
Sample Distributed Content Database Design
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18. Data Management
Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)
Can reduce dramatically the size of Content DBs, as
upwards of 80%-90% of space in content DBs is
composed of BLOBs
Can move BLOB storage to more efficient/cheaper
storage
Improve performance and scalability of your SharePoint
deployment – But highly recommended to use third party
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19. Data Management
Shredded Storage in SharePoint 2013
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22. SQL Server Optimization
Multiple Files for SharePoint Databases
• Break Content Databases and TempDB into multiple files (MDF, NDF), total
should equal number of physical processors (not cores) on SQL server.
• Pre-size Content DBs and TempDB to avoid fragmentation
• Separate files onto different drive spindles for best IO perf.
• Example: 50GB total Content DB on Two-way SQL Server would have two
database files distributed across two sets of drive spindles = 25GB pre-sized
for each file.
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23. SQL Database Optimization
SQL Maintenance Plans
• Implement SQL Maintenance Plans!
• Include DBCC (Check Consistency) and either
Reorganize Indexes or Rebuild Indexes, but not both!
• Add backups into the
maintenance plan if they
don’t exist already
• Be sure to truncate
transaction logs with a T-
SQL Script (after full
backups have run…)
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25. High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Comparing the Options
High Availability and Disaster Potential Potential
Automatic Readable
Recovery Data Loss Recovery
Failover Secondaries
(RPO) Time (RTO)
SQL Server Solution
AlwaysOn Availability Group - synchronous- Zero Seconds Yes 0-2
commit
AlwaysOn Availability Group - asynchronous- Seconds Minutes No 0-4
commit
AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance NA Seconds Yes NA
-to-minutes
Database Mirroring - High-safety (sync + witness) Zero Seconds Yes NA
Database Mirroring - High-performance (async) Seconds Minutes No NA
Log Shipping Minutes Minutes No Not during
-to-hours a restore
Backup, Copy, Restore Hours Hours No Not during
-to-days a restore
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26. HA and DR
AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL 2012
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27. HA and DR
Network Load Balancing
Hardware Based Load Balancing (F5,
Cisco, Citrix NetScaler – Best
performance and scalability
Software Windows Network Load
Balancing fully supported by MS, but
requires Layer 2 VLAN (all packets
must reach all hosts.) Layer 3
Switches must be configured to allow
Layer 2 to the specific VLAN.
If using Unicast, use two NICs on the
server, one for communications
between nodes.
If using Multicast, be sure to configure
routers appropriately
Set Affinity to Single (Sticky Sessions)
If using VMware, note fix to NLB
RARP issue
(http://tinyurl.com/vmwarenlbfix)
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28. HA and DR
Network Load Balancing
Best Practice – Create Multiple Web Apps with
Load-balanced VIPs (Sample below)
• Web Role Servers
o sp1.companyabc.com (10.0.0.101) – Web Role Server
#1
o sp2.companyabc.com (10.0.0.102) – Web Role Server
#2
• Clustered VIPs shared between SP1 and SP2
(Create A records in DNS)
o spnlb.companyabc.com (10.0.0.103) - Cluster
o spca.companyabc.com (10.0.0.104) – SP Central Admin
o spsmtp.companyabc.com (10.0.0.105) – Inbound Email
VIP
o home.companyabc.com (10.0.0.106) – Main SP Web
App (can be multiple)
o mysite.companyabc.com (10.0.0.107) – Main MySites
Web App
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30. Security
Five Layers of SharePoint Security
• Infrastructure Security and Best practices
• Physical Security
• Best Practice Service Account Setup
• Kerberos Authentication
• Data Security
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) of SQL Databases
• Transport Security
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) from Server to Client
• IPSec from Server to Server
• Edge Security
• Inbound Internet Security (Forefront UAG/TMG)
• Rights Management
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31. Document SharePoint
SPDocKit
• Document all key settings in IIS, SharePoint, after
installation
• Consider monitoring for changes after installation for Config
Mgmt.
• Fantastic tool for this is the SPDocKit - can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/spdockit
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32. For More Information
SharePoint 2013 Unleashed from SAMS Publishing
(http://tinyurl.com/sp2013unleashed)
Microsoft „Virtualizing SharePoint Infrastructure‟
Whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/virtualsp)
Microsoft SQL Mirroring Case Study
(http://tinyurl.com/mirrorsp )
SharePoint Kerberos Guidance
(http://tinyurl.com/kerbsp)
SharePoint Installation Scripts
(http://tinyurl.com/SPFarm-Config)
SharePoint Documentation Toolkit
(http://tinyurl.com/SPDocKit)
Contact us at CCO.com
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33. Michael Noel
Twitter: @MichaelTNoel
www.cco.com
Slides: slideshare.net/michaeltnoel
Pre-order SP2013 Unleashed
(http://tinyurl.com/sp2013unleashed)
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