A PPT talk about SharePoint site architecture, special in web application desgin

1. SharePoint Architecture
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Philip (KZ) Gao(2014.04)

2. About SharePoint Architecture
I plan to write 3 articles about SharePoint Architecture:
1. Web site Architecture(This article)
2. Web Page Architecture
3. File and Folder Architecture
Microsoft has itself SharePoint Farm architecture, Services Architecture
This PPT is against SharePoint 2010, 2013, it help you to understand the
SharePoint site architecture, and how to design your site
architecture

3. Basic knowledge
Site URL anatomy
•Protocol
•Host name
•Site Directory
name
•Web File name
•Site port,
default 80

4. Basic knowledge
Host Named Site Path-based site
• Portal.mysite.com
• Portal.mysite.com/HR
• Portal.mysite.com/Support

5. IIS site Architecture
Host-named site(DNS+IIS HOSTNAME)
In same IP address or same web server:
• Portal.mysite.com
• HR.mysite.com
• Support.mysite.com
Multi-IP IIS site(DNS+IIS IP BINDING)
Multi-IP in same Web server:
• Portal.mysite.com (167.10.10.20)
• HR.mysite.com (167.10.10.21)
• Support.mysite.com(167.10.10.22)
Multi-port IIS site (IIS SITE PORT)
Multi-port in same Web server or one IP:
• Portal-Site (80 root portal, hostname or IP)
• Portal-Site:8848 (Center admin)
• Portal-Site:1001 (HR)
• Portal-Site:1002 (Support)
IIS architecture
• Application Pool
• Web Site
• IP address, Host name, Port number
• SSL & Certificate, authentication

6. SharePoint site basic architecture
Farm Service app  services on server
• Web application
(Content database, app pool)
• Site collection in root(host-named, path-based)
•Site
• Subsite …
• List
• Item

7. Web application structure
• Service Application is based on service
on server status
• For each farm, Service application has
two branch: default & custom, it is a
service’s collection support web
application
• Web application related to:
• IIS Application Pool(one web app to one app pool, but
one app pool could support multi-web application
• Content database: one web app need at least one
content database, it could create multi-content
database in one web application
• One web application has a special authentication and a
special authentication provider
• An unique port number, IP address & URL is based IIS &
DNS setup
• Host header(host name) is optional
• Follow one of the Service application: default, custom
• Web application support one or more than one site
collection

8. Path-based site design
• Web application: portal.mysite.org
• Site collection: portal.mysite.org (root site
collection)
• Site collection HR: portal.mysite.org/HR
• Site collection IT: portal.mysite.org/IT
• Managed Paths: Explicit Inclusion & Wildcard Inclusion
• Explicit Inclusion: portal.mysite.org/HR, only one
site collection based this address
• Wildcard Inclusion: portal.mysite.org/IT
•portal.mysite.org/IT/network
•portal.mysite.org/IT/develop
(here is 3 site collections in “/IT”)

9. Multi-Port mode site design
• http://contoso:8848
• http://contoso
• http://contoso:1001
• http://contoso:1002
• Contoso(hostname or IP address)
• Web application: contoso:8848 (SharePoint Center
Administration)
• Web application: contoso (default:80) portal
intranet site
• Web application: Contoso:1001 (HR site, use 1001)
• Web application: Contoso:1002 (IT site, use 1002)
• Alternate Access Mapping
We could use address mapping these to internet
• Contoso:1001  hr.contoso.com
• Contoso:1002  IT.contoso.com
This should setup DNS and IP binding in IIS, it’s not a
good idea in site design

10. Host-named site design1
Hostname is SP1
• Web application: http://sp1(empty)
Host-named Site collection:
• Portal.mysite.com
• Hr.mysite.com
• It.mysite.com
This mode should use Powershell
Search maybe problem when sp1 root
site no site collection, even if you have
a blank site in root, the search maybe
can’t work well.
We could use one content database for
all site collection or multi-content
database according requirement

11. Host-named site design2
Hostname is SP1
• Host-named Web application:
• Portal.mysite.com
• Hr.mysite.com
• It.mysite.com
Each web application build a site
collection in root without host
header name.
Host name can be deployed in one IP
address with IIS hostname or multi-
IP address for IP binding in IIS. All
these need DNS mapping.
Search can work well in this mode.

12. Conclusions
•Understand site logical structure can help you design
•CA(Center Administration) can’t config every mode,
Powershell is important tool
•We can design types logical site structures, but we
should test each potential service, confirm all function
•Site architecture design based on team, security,
SharePoint services, server performance, backup,
requirement.