Best Practices to SharePoint Physical and Information Architecture

1. Best Practices: SharePoint Physical and Information Architecture Fundamentals Name: Joel Oleson Title: Sr. Architect Company: Quest Software

2. Who is SharePoint Joel? 8 year SharePoint Veteran… First SharePoint Admin! Sr. Technical Product Manager - SharePoint team Launch of SharePoint Server 2007 Top IT SharePoint Blog Blog: http://www.sharepointjoel.com Twitter: @joeloleson

3. Audience Poll SharePoint Admins? Less than 3 years in SharePoint? Belong to SharePoint &/or .NET user groups?

4. Agenda… SharePoint Best Practices: Architecture Fundamentals Core Logical Architecture Physical Architecture Designing Information Architecture Avoid Common Mistakes

5. WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS FIS For Internet Sites & Enterprise Intranet Web Forms, Excel Services, BDC Doc Management, Web Content Management, Search, & Portals Intranet/Extranet Standard Platform & Collaboration (blogs & wikis) Windows Internet Connector

6. Fundamental Principle #1 IIS Web Sites = IIS Virtual Servers = Web Applications Physical Server Web Application(s) Top Level Site(s) Site Collections Site(s) Site Collection

7. Fundamental Principle #2 Consistency in Hierarchy WSS 3.0 Web Applications Site Collections Sites Templates & Features MOSS 2007 Web Applications Site Collections Sites Templates & Features

8. Fundamental Principle #2 Servers Have Services are Are Roles Servers have Roles Web Front End (WFE) Query Calculation (Excel) Index (Non SharePoint) Database Server Simplified Really Just 3 Roles WFE/Query – 99% Index (App Tier) SQL Note: Never put Query and Index on same server if there is another Query server!

9. Deployment InstallKey concepts 32 bit or 64bit binaries **Note: SharePoint 2010 requires 2008 64bit & 64bit SQL 2005 or 2008 Install Basic NOT RECOMMENDED except for POC Advanced – Allows you to connect to SQL WFE only vs. Full install Language Packs (Downloads on the Web) WSS MOSS Ifilter packs

10. Most Common Farms WFE/Query WFE/Query All SP Roles Index “All in One” SQL SQL SQL

13. Application

14. Database2 Clustered SQL server Picking Your Topology Performance Availability

15. Key Factors in Topology Usage # Users Solution (The answer before the question) Authentication Type (Anonymous vs. AD) Caching Offload devices Business & Tech Requirements Client & Server Performance Requirements SLAs (Uptime/High Availability Req.) WAN Considerations (Multi farm) Data GBs/TBs of data Total # Files and Items (rare)

16. SharePoint in common… LOLCATS.COM

17. Fundamental Principle #3 You MUST learn the difference between site and site collection despite the confusion. Site = Web = Spweb aka subweb STSADM = Web UI=site Site Collection = SpSite STSADM = Site Central Admin = Site UI= Site Collection

18. Defaults have Faults

19. POP QUIZ!!!! What is the most scalable object in SharePoint? Site Collection Can I run WFE and Query on one box and WFE Query Index on another? NO! Is a default basic install good enough to get started? No! Is Virtualization and SharePoint ok? Yes!

20. WooHoo! You Pass SharePoint Fundamentals– The New World

21. Containment Hierarchy

22. Joel's Cheat Sheet for Hosting

23. Endusersharepoint.com

24. SharePoint Server Logical Model Service Offering Permanent Central Portal Web Application Permanent Structured SharePoint Server Sites Central Portal Permanent Division Portals Web Applications or Site Collections Semi Structured Consolidation on 1 to 3 Web Applications Ad Hoc WSS Site Templates SharePoint Server Sites 1 Web App per Region

25. Planning for *REAL* Capacity Boundaries

26. Plan for Software BoundariesPlan your lists and libraries Throughput differences between flat document library vs. document library with folders

27. Understanding the SharePoint Databases

28. Top Performance Killers Indexing/Crawling Backup (SQL & Tape) Profile Import Misc Timer Jobs – User Sync for large #s of Users STSADM Backup/Restore Large List Operations Heavy User Operation List Import/Write

29. Disk I/O Demand Most Demand Medium Demand Low Demand *Content.. Search Config Temp Model +SSP Master Tlogs * Except during backup and Indexing + Except during Profile Import

30. #8 SharePoint Common Mistakes

31. Operations and IT Failures

32. Developer Failures

33. Project Management Failures

34. Business Deployment Failures

35. Call to Action! Be sure to PLAN your logical infrastructure & Physical… Don’t forget a Governance Plan! Where do you get your information? TechNet, MSDN, SharePoint Team Blog, SharePoint User Groups http://www.sharepointpros.org, and blogs!! Twitter? http://www.sharepointjoel.com@joeloleson

36. Quest IT Solutions for SharePoint Site Administrator for SharePoint Discover, understand and manage your SharePoint environment Quest SQL Server Solutions Maximize SQL Server performance while simplifying tasks and providing visibility and control Quest Web Parts Enable rapid development of SharePoint applications Recovery Manager for SharePoint Granular SharePoint recovery for enterprise-level needs Migration Manager for SharePoint SharePoint 2003 to 2007 migration File Migrator for SharePoint File shares to SharePoint migration Public Folder Migrator for SharePoint Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint migration Notes Migrator for SharePoint Notes application content to SharePoint migration 33

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38. Q&A Questions?