Eli Robillard is a thought leader and educator in SharePoint architecture with over 6 years of experience as a Microsoft MVP. He has co-founded groups to support the SharePoint community and works with PricewaterhouseCoopers on a global SharePoint platform. In his personal time, Eli enjoys spending time with his family and dog.

3. Eli Robillard is a six-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP. He
specializes in SharePoint architecture and building great
teams to manage SharePoint as an enterprise service
platform.
As a thought leader and educator, Eli co-founded the
ASPInsiders, launched the Toronto SharePoint User Group
in 2005, launched the first free Saturday event in 2007,
was a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007
Development and a technical editor of Professional
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Press).
Eli is currently working with PricewaterhouseCoopers on a
global SharePoint platform service. He is based in Toronto
and likes to ride bikes, swim, fish and play music with his
wife Dawn, daughter Irina and their dog Nukka.

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14. Source: Steve Walker,

15. Web tier
Application tier
Database tier
Host A Host B

16. Web tier
Application tier
Database tier
Hyper–V host A Hyper–V host B

17. On Critical Path For Most Requests Interactive / Serving End-user Doing Background Processing
Requests
Request Management User Profile Application User Profile Sync
Distributed Cache Metadata Services Crawl Target
Business Data Connectivity Content DB Jobs
Secure Store Workflow
State WMA
Session State Machine Translation
Access Search Crawl
User Code Document Conversion
Search Query
PerformancePoint
Visio
Excel Services
PowerPivot
Project

18. Request Management
User Profile Application Routing and Caching
Distributed Cache
Metadata Services Very low latency
Business Data Connectivity
Secure Store
State
Session State Front End
Access Low latency
User Code
Search Query
PerformancePoint
User Profile Sync
Visio Back End
Crawl Target
Excel Services More tolerant latency
Content DB Jobs
PowerPivot
Workflow
Project
WMA
Machine Translation Database tier
Search Crawl
Document Conversion

19. For all but the
Routing and Caching
smallest enterprise
Very low latency
deployments, you
will want to split
Search Query
functionality to a
Front End
separate tier Low latency
Search (Query, Index, Admin)
Low latency
Back End
More tolerant latency
Database tier

22. Office Web Applications
Primary Farm (Services and Content)
IIS Web Site— SharePoint Web Services
Application Pool
Search Managed
Metadata Default group
Business Data Machine
Connectivity Translation
User Profile Secure Store
Service Primary Content Sites
Excel Access Farm B - Content Farm C - Content Farm D - Content
Services Services http://content/sites/foo
IIS Web Site— IIS Web Site— IIS Web Site—
SharePoint Web Services SharePoint Web Services SharePoint Web Services
Word Work Application Pool Application Pool Application Pool
Automation Management
Default group Default group Excel Access
Default group
Excel Access Excel Access
My Site Host & Personal Sites Services Services Services Services Services Services
Visio App
Graphics Management
http://my Word Work Word Work Word Work
Application Pool Application Pool Automation Management
Application Pool
Automation Management Automation Management
http://my/personal/<user>
Web Application—Team Sites and Web Application—Team Sites and Web Application—Team Sites and
community sites community sites community sites
Visio App Visio App Visio App
Graphics Management Graphics Management Graphics Management