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SharePointUserGroupUKNovember27th2008,Edinburgh

SpencerHarbarspence@harbar.net

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  SpencerHarbar,MVP,MCSD.NET,MCAD,MCSE,APM   www.harbar.net

EnterpriseArchitectworkingwithsomeofMicrosoL’slargestcustomersdeployingOfficeSharePointServer200715yearsinEnterpriseITISPABoardMember

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 CommonSharePointMyths   FarmTopologies   SharedServiceProviders   GlobalDeployments

  HighAvailability

 SharePoint“MagicNumbers”

 InteracYvesession

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 “WebFrontEnd”(WFE)   Terminologyhangoverfrompreviousversion

 WSSWebApplicaYonService

 FuncYonalDecomposiYonof:   SearchIndex&SearchQuery   ExcelServices   InfoPathFormsServices   DocumentConversions   ContentDeploymentExport/Import

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FarmTopologies

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 “NoTopologyRestricYons”   NoenforcedrestricYons   PlentyofrealworldrestricYons,forexample   Numberof“WFE”s   NumberofWebApplicaYons   TopologyModelsremainappropriate

 “Loadbalancing”of:   SearchQueryServers   ExcelCalculaYonServices

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 “SSPsareimplementedasWebApplicaYons”  ManyelementsmakeupaSSP  WebApplicaYonisforadministraYononly

 “SSPAdmincanbeprovisionedondedicatedservers”   It’saWebApplicaYon!   Thereforedeployedtoevery“WFE”

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OfficeServerWebServices(IIS)

SharedServices1(WebApp)

ContentDB

SSPDB SSPSearchDB

SearchIndexMySiteHost(WebApp)

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SharedServiceProviders

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 “It’sOKtorunSSPAdminonahighport”   Notifyouwanttodelegatecontrol   “renaming”laterisnontrivial   Besides,highportsareevil!

 “TheSSPdatabasewillonlyeverbesmall”   Itstoresyouruserprofiles   Itstoresyouraudiences   Etc

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 “SharePointcan’tdogeo‐distribuYon”   PlentyofopYons   Considercarefullywhyyoumayneedthem   SharePointOnline

 “SharePointdoesn’tworkovertheWAN”   AslowWANlinkproblemisaslowWANlink

problem!   NotaSharePointproblem

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 “WebGardensgiveyoubejerperformance”   Don’tusethem(yet!)

 “AsingleFarmcanhost100sofWebApplicaYons”   ~10WebApplicaYonsperFarmisreasonable   SharePointlovesRAM   RequestRouYngorDNSincreasesoperaYonal

serviceburdenconsiderably

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 “WebAppscanbedeployedtospecificserversinaFarm”   RequestRouYngorDNSincreasesoperaYonal

serviceburdenconsiderably   ThereisnothingwrongwithmulYplefarms

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  averagedailyloadthroughputof:   ~5millionTIFFimages   ~1.9millionMicrosoLOfficedocuments.

  40+millioncontentitemswereloadedintoSharePointinonly13days

  Averagecontentdatabasesizeof:   200.65GBforDivisionalSiteCollecYons   137.60GBfordepartmentalsitecollecYons   539GBforthesearchdatabase

 Over5TBcontentstoragewithcapacityfordouble

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 Don’tbelievethehype!

technet.microsoL.com/en‐us/library/cc262067.aspx

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 “HowmanyXXXXcanIhaveinmySharePoint?”

 PlanforSoLwareBoundaries(TechNet)   technet.microsoL.com/en‐us/library/cc262787.aspx

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 Thereareonlyguidelinesforacceptableperformance

 Suchguidelinesarebasedupontestscenarios   1thru1DatabaseServer   1thru8WebServers   TeamSites(55%),DocWorkspace(20%),MeeYng

Workspace(10%),Blog(10%),Wiki(5%)

 Otherscenarioscomingsoon  OLenrefinedbasedoncustomerdeployments

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SiteobjectGuidelinesforacceptableperformance

Scopeofimpactwhenperformancedegrades

SitecollecYon 50,000percontentdatabase Farm

SitecollecYon 150,000perWebapplicaYon Farm

Website 250,000persitecollecYon SitecollecYon

Subsite 2,000perWebsite Siteview

Document 5millionperlibrary Library

Item 2,000perview Listview

Documentfilesize 50MB(2GBmax*) Library,filesaveperformance

List 2,000perWebsite Listview

Fieldtype 256perlist Listview

Column2,000perdocumentlibrary4,096perlist

Libraryandlistview

WebPart 50perpage Page

Managedpath 20perWebapplicaYon WebapplicaYon

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Logicalarchitectureobject Guidelinesforacceptableperformance

SharedServicesProvider(SSP) 3perfarm(20perfarmmaximum)

Zone 5*perfarm

WebapplicaYon 99perSSP

InternetInformaYonServices(IIS)applicaYonpool

8perWebserver

SitecollecYon 50,000perWebapplicaYon

Contentdatabase 100perWebapplicaYon

SitecollecYon 50,000perdatabase

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  SuccessfulSoluYonsArchitectureisbasicallytwothings:   Compromise   ReducYonofComplexity

  EvaluatesoluYonholisYcallyensuringadequatecompromises.   TestandmonitorasyoubuildanddeployyoursoluYon.   Re‐designthesoluYontoensurethatyoudonotexceedcapacityguidelines.

  Test,test,test!

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