Architecture & Capacity Planning
New features
in SharePoint 2013 includes
Ø An enhanced social experience, including
microblogging, enhanced social experience, communities, and the capability to
follow people, items and sites.
Ø More flexibility regarding how web
applications consume services through service applications
Ø The distributed cache service, which
helps relieve the workload on SQL, increase performance, and ease the technical
networking complexity of multi-SharePoint server farms
Ø A new request management service that
helps to distribute specific workloads.
Applications
that have undergone significant change includes
Ø Office Web Apps
Is now required to be installed on a separate server and is a shared
service between SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013, and Lync 2013
Ø FAST Search Server
No longer exists as a unique product (or SKU) which can be purchased
from Microsoft – it has been fully integrated into SharePoint.
Ø 2013 Workflow
While
all the goodness you came to know and love in SharePoint 2013 is still
available to you, SharePoint 2013 Workflow contains new capabilities that
require the Azure Workflow Manager.
Names, Names, My Kingdom for a consistent name!
The products
formally known as the search server, search server express, and FAST search
server no longer exist. Search server and search server express have been discontinued
as an available product. Fast server technologies have been fully integrated
into SharePoint.
SharePoint Foundation
As an administrator,
it is easy to think of the product only in terms of the features you readily
see in the browser- such as creating team sites and collaborating on content
within lists and libraries, or features such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, alerts,
and easy browser-based customizations.
Yet
underneath all that great functionality is where some of the true power of
SharePoint is hidden. Here, the foundation provides developers with a great
platform on which to build. Out of the box, it handles storage, web
presentation, authorization, user management, and has an interface into the
Windows Workflow Foundation – and because all this functionality is easily accessible
through the object model, APIs, and web services, it can greatly accelerate a
developer’s job.
SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint
Server 2013 is considered the premium SharePoint product. Compared to
SharePoint Foundation, it offers additional collaboration and social
capabilities and extends the use-case scenarios. Its robust tools enable better
aggregation and displaying of content, which makes building grandiose thing,
such as, portals much simpler, while better enabling end users to create
specific line-of-business solutions for their departments. It also introduces
additional web content management tools that enable developers to use server as
a platform for building Internet-facing websites.
This is
achieved by building on the capabilities introduced by SharePoint Foundation.
Anytime you install SharePoint server, the Foundation product is installed
automatically as well.
Standard and Enterprise
As in the
past, SharePoint Server 2013 is available primarily in two flavors, Standard or
Enterprise.
Ø Standard introduces core functionality
such as social, search and advanced web and enterprise content management.
Ø Enterprise focuses primarily on adding
functionality through new service application, business intelligence,
line-of-business integration, reporting, and Office client services such as Visio
and InfoPath Forms services.
This
functionality is provided through one of two licensing models: a client access
license(CAL) or a subscriber access license (SAL).
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License Type
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Purchase Location
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Purchase Method
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Software Assurance
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Client Access License
(CAL)
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Licensing Reseller
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Owned
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Optional(Extra)
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Subscriber Access
License (SAL)
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Service Provider
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Rented
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Included
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Hosted SharePoint aka
SharePoint for Internet Sites (FIS)
Remember that
everyone authorized to access the SharePoint server site needs a CAL.
When building
an intranet portal, it is easy to count how many employees you have and to
purchase a CAL for each one of them; but when you stand up http://www.company.com and make it available
to the world, now how many CALs do you need? There are roughly 1.8 billion
people on the internet, and potentially every one of them can visit your
website. That’s lot of CALs to buy. Luckily, this is where hosted SharePoint
comes in to play. It allows unlimited non-employee access to your SharePoint
server. The reason why non-employee is emphasized is because this license does
not cover any company employees, which has caused a lot of confusion in the
past.
If they are
employees, then only on licensing vehicle is available to them CAL or SAL. If
they are non-employees, then they can use either the per-user model or the
per-server model.
When you are
licensing SharePoint in the traditional “on-premises” fashion, you require two licenses:
Ø One license for each user authorized
to use SharePoint and one license for each server instance on which SharePoint
is running.
Ø This second license is called, oddly
enough, the server license. You can now
use this server license as the licensing vehicle for any “extranet” users of
SharePoint.
Search Server Express
This time
around Foundation has the great Search architecture as SharePoint server. No
need for a product to bridge the gap so no more Search Server.
Fast Search Server 2010
In SharePoint
2013, FAST is now been fully integrated, and no longer available as a
standalone product.
SharePoint Online
There are two
models to consider with SharePoint Online: shared and dedicated.
Ø The shared model provides you with a
slice of shared farm and enables you to use SharePoint out of the box.
Server-deployed code and customizations are not permitted but sandbox solution
and the new app deployment /consumption are available to developers.
Ø The dedicated model enables you to run
your own farm, and you can make approved customizations to the server. Any
change must be packaged in a solution package and validated by Microsoft before
being deployed to the server. All licenses are bought per user.
Additional Server Planning
Windows Server and Required Additional Software
For
production deployments, you will be installing 64-bit edition of Windows Server
2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter, or the 64-bit
edition of Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter.
Windows Vista, 7, and 8
Microsoft has
introduced the capability to install SharePoint using a standalone install, for
development purposes, on certain versions of windows vista x64 and windows 7 or
8 x64.
SQL Server
The 64-bit
editions of SQL Server that are supported are the 64-bit edition of Microsoft
SQL server 2012 or the 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
E-mail Servers and SMS Options
For
SharePoint to send this e-mail, it needs to be configured with an outbound
e-mail server. The SMTP server you point SharePoint at needs to allow anonymous
relay from SharePoint. Unfortunately, SharePoint cannot be configured to
provide authentication information when sending e-mails.
Sending
messages via e-mail is not the only way to inform SharePoint users. SharePoint
has become so cool that it can even send text messages; and because SharePoint
still is not old enough to drive, you don’t even have to worry about its
texting and driving. Once the service is configured, users can choose to have
alerts sent to e-mail or text message or both.
Hardware Requirements
Web Servers
Application Servers
SQL Servers
Mixing & matching Servers
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One Server
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Two Servers
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Three Servers
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Four or More Servers
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Server Groups
