For organizations planning to migrate to a hybrid deployment of the their SharePoint and Office 365 infrastructure, optimizing their current SharePoint is a crucial step in reducing the amount of work required for a successful migration, increase end-user performance and decrease the risk of an unsuccessful migration.
Join Metalogix SharePoint expert Adam Levithan on March 17, 2016 for 5 Tips to Optimize SharePoint While Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment, a comprehensive live webinar where he unveils the top five optimizations that organizations need to consider before they plan to move to a SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 hybrid deployment.
Key takeaways
Such optimizations will help SharePoint Admins and IT professionals:
Provide the best end-user experience,
Gain early warnings as performance issues are developing
Obtain better insight into the interdependency between SharePoint infrastructure and applications
With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2016, hybrid deployments are quickly becoming the new standard for SharePoint deployments. Adam's help increased the success of several companies migrating to hybrid deployments and will be happy to share his insights, experience and solutions with attendees.
5 Tips to Optimize SharePoint While Preparing for Hybrid
1. Adam Levithan
Senior Product Manager, Metalogix
alevithan@metalogix.com
@Collabadam
5 Tips to Optimize SharePoint While
Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment
3. Drivers
• Access to documents and content - regardless of technical issues
• Ownership of information
• Ease of Use
• We already purchased it
Business Needs
4. Drivers
• Keeping all users engaged and active (no matter where they are or
how they connect)
• Providing the best possible speed and access to content even
through disruptions
• Keep confidential information shared with partners/agencies in
approved environments (and safe)
• Keep information authoritative across all systems
Business Concerns
16. What’s In your SharePoint?
• URLs
• Site Collection Name
• Site Collection Size
• Sub site count
• Large Lists
• Document Versions
• Customizations
• Site Location/position
• Content DB – Size, Number
• Site Collections per DB
• Duplicate or Orphaned Site
Collections
• My Sites – Content DB, Size
17. Case Study: Moving Workloads
Identity/ Authentication
RecordTemporary
TypeofContent
Instant Message
E-Mail
Social
Team Sites/ ExtranetEFSS
Intranet
Document/
Records Management
Individual Team Enterprise
Audience
Originally presented at Portal Solutions http://www.portalsolutions.net
18. Case Study: Distribution of Content
On-Premises On-Premises
Identity/
Authentication
Hybrid
Customized Business Process
Document/ Records Management
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives
Cloud
EFSS
Extranet
Social
E-mail
22. Network
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• Where are you starting?
• Where are you going?
• What is the current load?
• How much content are you moving?
• How much time have you given yourself?
• Can you migrate simultaneously?
29. For the people
Business User
• Want system to
work
• Experience
Productivity
Loss
SharePoint Team
• Receive the first
call
• Hands-on
troubleshooting
Information
Technology
• Responsible for
entire system
• Dependent on
SharePoint
Team
30. • Architecture
• Authentication / SSO / ADFS /
Azure AD
• Look & Feel/ User experience
differences
• Network
• Network topology, Latency &
Throttling of Transactions
• Database
• Keeping information up to date -
Authoritative information
• Compliance / Risk
• Backup Services
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Summary
For organizations planning to migrate to a hybrid deployment of the their SharePoint and Office 365 infrastructure, optimizing their current SharePoint is a crucial step in reducing the amount of work required for a successful migration, increase end-user performance and decrease the risk of an unsuccessful migration.
Join Metalogix SharePoint expert Adam Levithan on March 17, 2016 for 5 Tips to Optimize SharePoint While Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment, a comprehensive live webinar where he unveils the top five optimizations that organizations need to consider before they plan to move to a SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 hybrid deployment.
Access to documents and content - regardless of technical issues
"If I can't get to my documents, I'll just use a different method for my workflow..."
Availability to documents
"You promised me 99.999% uptime and availability for all of my information - this is a Mission Critical operation and I need them all the time..."
Ownership of information
"Thanks for letting me manage the permissions to my files, it helps to ensure that I control who has access... wait , what do you mean I can't change who has access?"
Ease of Use
"Why does my information not synchronize and show up between the different portals and apps?"
As a business there are larger concerns than with each individual in the organization. Ofcourse we want to provide and easy-to-use system, ofcourse we want it to be responsive and mobile for employees to be efficient. But on a larger scale, what happens if confidential information is leaked, what is the overall security of technology assets for all of our company. IT doesn’t put up firewalls because they’re fun toys to play with (quite boring actually) but because they’re necessary to have the confidence protecting sensitive content.
I hope you don’t mind sarcasm
Hybrid is a combination of any two things
If you learn anything it’s that you’ve gone through these challenges before
However you came to your decisions (check through your e-mail archive) before, you can do that again when applying it to the cloud, on-prem and office 365 hybrid dilemma
We’ve seen this happen all the time
Organizations want to change, but they have 2 years left on their enterprise agreement and don’t want to double pay for Office 365
You’re probably not in purchasing, so if you don’t know what your licensing is right now we’d highly recommend you go find out
Good Guy Azure AD
Who are you and what does your company want you to have access to
This diagram is complicated, but it demonstrates the power of Azure Active directory
How are you controlling this?
Just bring up the overall SLA, don’t talk about the effect of the SLA
This list could go on forever
What are the outside pressures your organization is feeling
Do you have Sensitive content within SharePoint?
Is your content hosted in they country that regulates your company?
Adam
Adam
So here’s the simple question: How is your current SharePoint environment configured?
We could spend a whole session on the details of migration but I’d like to cover just a few of those items
Large Lists
Orphaned items
My favorite, documents that have never been checked in.
We actually came across these issues so many times that they’re included within our Migration Expert tool (it’s free, I’m not selling anything here)
NEXT SLIDE
Here’s a quick way to look at the phrase workloads
It doesn’t align exactly with Microsoft, but pretty close
When you look at what to put where, you can look at the different types of content – Temporary to Record
Or you can look at the audience, individual to enterprise
Of course the mix of this Kaleidoscope of collaboration can change for each organization but we’ll use this to demonstrate a real-life hybrid scenario
So this is a real-world scenario – a regulated pharma company that Adam worked with in his consulting days
They built a sophisticated Business solution in SharePoint 2010 and decided it needed to stay there because it would be to hard to move
They then determined that the Intranet, with sensitive information about upcoming trial dates, would best be secured on premises
Hey did use Cloud for extranet, for individual – non drug project – content, and they’re marketing team was already using Dropbox.
Phew, so that’s pretty complicated an I hope that you don’t have to do that yourelves,
At each step they made of choice of the value and risks involved with each type of content
So let’s start on-prem
First, CLICK those archives of yours might be most appropriately stored on-prem in file shares CLICK
Then, CLICK if we think of the case study before, and your organization has invested in building a business process into SharePoint 2010, well then you still have that
Ofcourse, CLICK here’s where SHarePoint (2013 or 2016 in a few weeks) comes in to build the hybrid story with Office 365 CLICK
HOWEVER, it isn’t even that easy, because within SharePoint itself you have a decision CLICK to hybridize (yes I believe that’s an actual word) Site Collections, and especially One Drive for business
Now I can hear some scratching heads because there’s a cloud, pretty straight forward, but then Office 365 is under another Azure cloud. This is quite literal that Office 365 uses Azure as its infrastructure. I could certainly draw Amazon Web services in the mix here too, it’s a perfectly good alterntanative, but as with most Microsoft strategies the power of these individual systems is that they are interoperable.
Also, CLICK in the azure cloud you have several alternatives for storing those archive files that you identified in your ROT analysis – Azure blob storage
And finally,CLICK to complete out the parrellal description to the case study we reviewed – who says your organization is only using products within the Microsoft system. You can add SalesForce in here and keep going with different cloud services that Microsoft won’t attempt to recreate.
SO What are some of the considerations in all of these locations
I love this cartoon
Do I really need to say anything
But let’s remember that throttling makes a lot of sense, how can any cloud service provider know the difference between a denial of service attack and a mass migration of content into its system
Not only when moving your content to the cloud, but active hybrid scenarios it’s a good thing to know how your network performs
Migrations/Initial Data Transfer
Internal and External Bandwidth
ExpressRoute
Azure Storage
Cloud
Content Delivery Network
Geographic Distribution (WAN link balancing)
Page contents
ERIC
1 Some content will simply not function in
the cloud. Office 365 offers a different set
of features than on-premises SharePoint.
Some page components are not available,
certain types of sites don’t exist and many
customizations are either deprecated or illadvised.
A review of all the content pages with
a focus on what will and won’t work online can
result in a great deal of data storage savings as
pages are refactored to be cloud-ready. There
is little point in wasting time and bandwidth
trying to move items to the cloud that simply
won’t function in that environment.
2 Document versions can consume a huge amount
of database space. Prior to SharePoint 2013, each
version of a document resulted in a duplicate of
the object being stored separately in the database.
Over time this can result in gigabytes of storage that
serves no useful purpose. Examining each document
library and modifying version control settings to
truncate old versions can greatly reduce the amount
of data in the current on-premises database and
minimize what gets sent over the wire to Office 365.
3. Sites and workspaces that are accessed
infrequently on-premises are unlikely to be accessed
any more frequently in the cloud. These can either
be excluded from the migration process or the
content archived and the site deleted. A thorough
review of existing sites by content owners often
results in the discovery of many unused sites, the
elimination of which can provide a tremendous
amount of storage savings.
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Gain early warning of developing performance issues through alarms and alerts
Understand the relationship between SharePoint infrastructure and applications
Make the correct decisions about adding or removing servers to the SharePoint farm based on performance
Analyze historical information for trending, capacity planning, and to quantify the impact of future changes
Critical
SharePoint is being used to support complex customizations and workflows, as a result the business users have expectations for the system’s performance.
Plan future SharePoint needs based on metrics supporting growth and performance.
SharePoint has had an unexpected outage and it’s hard to understand the cause at a single point in time. (Network, Server, SQL
ADAM
The business user expects perfect and consistent service and when things go wrong it should be easy to fix
Who They are
Not experts
Just want it to work so they can do their day job
Impact
Productivity loss
Frustration with performance and outages
Damage to brand
IT is held/measured based on an SLA
Who they are
Expectation of service which is difficult to manage
Lack visibility and insight
Lacks factual data
Mostly hearsay or word or mouth
Impact
Noise and pain as a result
Financial penalty impacts and scores
Loss of credibility
The SharePoint team experienced staff, funding, tools and process to proactively manage
capacity and performance
identify problems, troubleshoot and find root cause
Provide tangible proof of problem
Especially when its not a SP problem
Network of storage
Nasty site customization or list
Impact
act proactively - instead reactive
cant predict impact of changes
waste time and resources finding root cause
loose credibility