The 3rd edition of the presentation, delivered for In Charge IT conference in Sofia, on November 21, 2013

1. Sofia Event Center
21-22 November 2013
Sharepoint 2013: Applied Architecture
from the Field (V3)
Tihomir Ignatov
Senior Consultant
Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda
What is IT
Architecture
Lessons Learned from the Field
Sharepoint 2013
Apps
Sharepoint 2013
Infrastructure
Oracle2MS
migration
Public Sector
Telco
Transport &
Logistics

3. Deployment Architecture
Network Architecture
Deployment Architecture
Software Architecture

4. WHAT IS IT ARCHITECTURE?

5. Architecture is Making ideas real
“Make everything as simple as
possible, but not simpler.”
-Albert Einstein

6. www.iasaglobal.org

7. Sharepoint Architecture… ?!?
Software
Architecture
Infrastructure
Architecture
Business Architecture
Information
Architecture
Enterprise
Architecture

8. Sharepoint (product) Architecture?!?
Consulting Architects
Org. Architects
Presales
Presales
Solution Governance
IT Architecture Tradeoff
Architecture Delivery

9. Technical Principles
1
CLOUD first
2
Configure
before
customize
3
Solutions
NOT
products

10. General Sharepoint Architecture Guidance
ALWAYS design against scenarios NOT features
Take into account the product limits and boundaries
Talk about RECOMMENDED and CURRENT instead of BEST practices
Ask Microsoft Premier support about supportability
Plan and maintain the capacity
Add the Governance plan in scope

11. WHAT IS PLA?
SHAREPOINT, LYNC & EXCHANGE
MCS, PG & CSS
DELIVERY THROUGH MCS

12. Lessons Learned – SP Apps
Customer Profile
Government Agency,
Public sector
Scenario
 Case management
 Multiple AutH
sources
 Rich reporting
 KM
 BI

13. Apps – Key Requirements
Consider your identity sources
Consider your App permissions level – hosting web/ tenant/…?
Cloud dependency – TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
Team skills – Sharepoint, ASP.NET, etc.

14. SPS 2013 APP SCENARIOS

15. Sharepoint-Hosted App
Cloud
O365 (SPO)
On premise
Sharepoint
hosted App
•
•
Sharepoint 2013
Any supported AutH sources
Client side code only

16. Auto-hosted App
ACS
Cloud
On premise
Sharepoint
Remote
Auto-hosted
App
App
O365 (SPO)
Azure PaaS
• 100% cloud scenario
• Any supported identity
• Identity through Azure ACS

17. Provider-Hosted App (Low-trust)
ACS
Azure
Internet
Any Data Center
On premise
Context
token
Provider
Remote
hosted App
Web
Sharepoint 2013
•
•
•
Any supported AutH sources
Server side code in Remote
Web
Depends on Azure ACS

18. Provider-Hosted App (High-trust)
• Any supported AutH sources
• You have to take care about remote
web identity and SSO
• Server side code in Remote Web
• NO cloud dependency
Internet
On premise
S2S
STS
Provider
Remote
hosted App
Web
Sharepoint 2013
Web server

19. User
A
E
Presentation
Layer
B
Web UI
F
BizTalk
Application
Layer
10
8
13
Web Services/Web API
I
7
Data Layer
Attached Files and
Metadata
C
G
Entity Framework
SPS and Content DBs
Custom DB
D
H

20. Sharepoint 2013
Remote Web
ADFS
Gov
Gateway
STS

21. Lessons Learned – SP Infrastructure
Customer Profile
Telco
Scenario
 Recently upgraded to SPS
2010
 They started with 2003
 No Governance
 No consistency in the
customizations, multiple
vendors
 Want to have a
structured, healthy and
well performing
environment

22. SP Infra – Key Considerations (1)
Consider the availability and resources
Plan your servers and capacity, plan also the data growth…
Take into account the skills of the operations personnel
According to the new SP Apps infrastructure plan to have a SP Web application with no
host header
Use host header site collections when you need site with unique URL
After Sharepoint deployment always deliver a Governance plan document, even in
“lite” format

23. SP Infra – Key Considerations (2)
ALWAYS setup at least 2 environments – TEST & PRODUCTION
Create a simple application to track site collection requests
Plan a process for site collections and content DBs management
Use QUOTAs

24. Recommended Topologies (1)
WFE
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Back End Services
Workflow Manager
Crawl
Admin
Analytics
Content Processing
Index Partition #0
Replica
DB
Content Databases
Search Databases
Config & Service DBs
•
•
•
•
•
No HA
All services in a single box
Single point of failure
The data is not reserved
Up to 10M searchable
items

25. Recommended Topologies (2)
WFE-2
WFE-1
Front End Services
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Distributed Cache
Back End Services
Back End Services
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager
Crawl
Crawl
Admin
Admin
Analytics
Analytics
Content Processing
Content Processing
Replica
Replica
Index Partition #0
DB-1
DB-2
Content Databases
Search Databases
Config & Service apps DBs
• There is HA
• All services and the data
are reserved
• Up to 10M searchable
items
• Recommended for
business critical scenarios
with small load

26. Recommended Topologies (3)
WFE-2
WFE-1
Front End Services
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Distributed Cache
APP-2
APP-1
Back End Services
Back End Services
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager
Crawl
Crawl
Admin
Admin
Analytics
Analytics
Content Processing
Content Processing
Replica
Index Partition #0
DB-1
DB-2
Content Databases
Search Databases
Config & Service apps DBs
Replica
• There is HA
• All services and the data
are reserved
• Up to 10M searchable
items
• Recommended for
business critical scenarios
with big load

27. Recommended Topologies (4)
WFE-2
WFE-1
Front End Services
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Distributed Cache
APP-2
APP-1
Back End Services
Back End Services
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager
APP-SRC-2
APP-SRC-1
Crawl
Crawl
Admin
Admin
Analytics
Analytics
Content Processing
Content Processing
Replica
Index Partition #0
DB-1
DB-2
Content Databases
Search Databases
Config & Service apps DBs
Replica
• There is HA
• All services and the data
are reserved
• Up to 10M searchable
items
• Recommended for
business critical scenarios
with big load and
significant search
requirements

28. Lessons Learned – Oracle2MS migration
Customer Profile
Retail
Scenario
 No experienced Oracle
resources on the local
market
 Microsoft Premier
support and consulting
are available
 More value for the
money
 Better Enterprise level
integration

29. The Transition and the Current Stage
ERP
ERP
Portal
BI
BI
Oracle
Microsoft

30. The Solution
ERP
BI
Portal

31. Architecture
DMZ
Internet
Bi2sp proxy
svc
Trusted
Network
BI FE
bi2sp svc
ERP
Portal
ERP
BI BE

32. Contacts
BLOG
E-mail
SUGBG
http://tihomirignatov.
blogspot.com
Tihomir.Ignatov@
Microsoft.com
http://www.sugbg.org

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