The goal of this lecture is to demonstrate you what SharePoint is and what are the best practices for installing, configuring and managing a SharePoint farm. During this session we will be demonstrating some of the most interesting best practices in a live demo to help you get started with it.
Topics: SharePoint editions and licensing – Preparing for a successful SharePoint project – System requirements – Planning SharePoint topology – Planning additional features – Installing and configuring – Best practices for deploying testing system in virtual environment – Governance - Backup and maintenance
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Introduction To Microsoft Office Share Point 2007 – Planning Installation Configuration And Maintenance by Toni Frankola
1. Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007
Planning, installation, configuration and
maintenance
Toni Frankola
Microsoft Team Lead
Perpetuum Mobile d.o.o.
Toni.frankola@perpetuum.hr
www.sharepointusecases.com
www.twitter.com/tonifrankola
7. SharePoint Editions
• Business Data Catalog
SharePoint Server • BI and Excel Services
• InfoPath Web Forms
2007 Enterprise • Performance Point
• Server: $4424 + CAL: $94 + ECAL: $75
• Enterprise Search
• Web Content Management
SharePoint Server • Records Management
2007 • Portal Management
• Personalization (My Site)
• Server: $4424 + CAL: $94
• Team collaboration sites
• Document Management
• Contacts, Tasks, Calendars
Windows SharePoint • Blogs, Wikis
Services 3.0 • Basic Project Management
• Basic Search
• Free
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8. Typical mistakes - Editions
Salesman: “You are a huge company, you need
MOSS Enterprise!” !?
The right edition = features you need
Many great features are built-in in WSS
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9. SharePoint 14
To be released in early 2010. (not confirmed)
64-bit architecture
Plan your hardware/software today!
Ribbon look-a-like interface
Improvements to the database structure
BI, FAST search
Silverlight, JQuery
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10. v2007 Release history
RTM in 12/2006.
Service pack 1 released in 12/2007.
Infrastructure update released in 7/2008.
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11. Updates
Not automated via Windows Update
Best practices:
Fresh installs: Start with SP1
Current: Update to SP1 + Infrastructure update
Potential problems:
Different SPs > Data transfer not possible (backups
etc.)
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12. Updates cont.
Plan carefully:
.NET 3.5 WSS SP1 MOSS Language
SP1 SP1 Packs SP1
Soon to be released:
Office 2007 familiy - Service Pack 2 (April 2009)
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13. SharePoint Designer 2007
A must have tool for every deployment
FREE as of April 1st, 2009.
Connects via Web services
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14. SharePoint 2007 and Office 2003
Application / Feature Office 2003 Office 2007
Word
Automatically updating properties NO YES
Write a blog post NO YES
Outlook
Synchronize items NO*
YES
(one way only)
Synchronize document libraries NO YES
Excel
Publishing Excel files as web pages NO YES
Powerpoint
Working with Slide Library NO YES
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16. Project approach typical mistakes
SharePoint as “One ring to rule them all”
Similar: No end user buy-in
Strictly (IT) controlled SharePoint
SharePoint as Garbage collector
Inappropriate infrastructure
No governance plan
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17. You must have a plan / need
Step by step aproach
Typical problems you are facing:
Inability to track documentation
Paper based HR processes
Help Desk request are not centralized
Contracts in Legal department
Paper based routing and approval
Inability to find documents
Centralized phone directory
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18. Project team / project approach
Implementation side Customer side
Consultant Stakeholder
Account Manager Business user
Project Manager Project Manager
Developers Power user
QA Lead (QA engineers) Trainer
Designer System engineer
Trainer End user
System engineer
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19. Planning
Assemble Project Teams, Define Roles
Establish Test Lab Environment
Define Education/Training Strategy
Review Client Software and Hardware
Create Governance Plan with Mission, Vision, and Strategy
Plan Server Configuration
Plan Security
Determine need for WSS, MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise
Plan Portal
Plan Workflows
Plan Maintenance
Plan Content and Navigation Structure
E-Book: Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
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20. Governance
Almost always overlooked
Governance plan = Operations manual for
SharePoint environment
Balance user access with IT restrictions and
enterprise compliance policies
Not an easy task
Costs more if not implemented correctly
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22. What do you need to know as good
SharePoint admin?
Windows
Networking / virtualization
AD
Basic services (like SMTP, DNS)
IIS
SQL
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23. What do you need to know as good
SharePoint admin? – Cont.
HTML
CSS
SharePoint Power user skills
Some programming skills (would be cool)
Office client tools
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24. SW / HW Reqs.
Software:
Windows 2003 / 2008
SQL 2005 / 2008
AD Recommended
Exchange is NOT required
Nice to have: Office Communicator Server 2007
Minimal configuration:
Web server and application: Dual-processor, 2.5 GHz,
2+ GB RAM
Database: Dual-processor 2.0 GHz, 2+ GB RAM
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25. Minimal Configuration
Plan storage
Use sizing tools (HP)
Beware of SMB servers
(too many services, too few servers)
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26. SharePoint Farms - Typicall
SQL
SQL
SQL
Index (App Tier)
All in one
Web Front Ends + Query
SharePoint Web + Services
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29. Typical installation mistakes – Cont.
Installing under personal admin account
Create a new account
Server admin
SQL admin (dbcreator, securityadmin)
Never, ever install SharePoint under Network
service account (or similar)
You need service accounts (usually 2-10)
Plan for administrative and service accounts
(Office SharePoint Server)
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30. Typical SQL mistakes
SQL logs growing out of control
SharePoint content databases growing out of
control
Keep them under 100GB
Add multiple nested site collections
Running on top of SQL Embedded edition
Use human-readable names for databases
(avoid GUIDs)
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31. Typical mistakes – Cont.
Your system drive runs out of space:
Log files configuration (drive, size)
Index size
Use dedicated drives for log files, index…
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33. Web application, site collection, site!?!
Farm
Servers
Web Front End, APP, SQL
Web Applications
Central Admin, SSP Admin, Content
Databases
Content, Config, SSP, Search
Site Collections
quot;Containerquot; of Sites
Sites/Webs
Internet, Intranet Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Mtg
Lists
Doc Lib, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, etc…
Items
Files, calendar items, contacts, customers, images, custom
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34. Sample site collection
Site collection topology Database topology
Intranet site MOSS_Content_Intranet
CRM sites MOSS_Content_CRM
Record Archive MOSS_Content_Records
End user is not aware of site collection (and databases) topology
http://intranet
http://intranet/sites/crm
http://intranet/sites/records
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35. Application pools
Defaults OK only for small environments
Consolidate app pools for similar content apps
Recycle during night
Warm up
Limit memory usage when necessary
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43. SharePoint Exams
For IT Pros:
70-631-Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 -
Configuring
70-630-Office SharePoint Server 2007 -
Configuring
For Developers:
70-541-Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
3.0 -Application Development
70-542-Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 -
Application Development
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44. Resources
Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]
Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk
Arpan Shah’s Blog
SharePoint Reviews
SharePoint Nick / Lightning
SharePoint Joel
Tools (BDC Meta Man)
End User SharePoint
Get The Point
SharePoint Use Cases Sharepoint Tips And Tricks
SharePoint Pod Show Stefan Goßner
Twitter / #SharePoint Eric Shupps
Ian’s SharePoint Blog
Codeplex
Michael Gannotti on
SharePoint Resource Center
SharePoint +
@Techet
To the SharePoint
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