logical architecture considerations for sharepoint 2013

Logical Architecture Considerationsfor SharePoint 2013

• Information, Logical and Physical Architectures• Farm• Service Applications• Web Applications• Site Collections• Sites• List/Libraries

Agenda

Information, Logical and Physical ArchitecturesInformation Architecture• A blueprint which states the way to organize information so it’s

easy to find by right people

• How do I structure sites?• What are the content we should keep in SharePoint?• How to manage metadata?• What policies govern the environment?

Information, Logical and Physical ArchitecturesLogical Architecture• Detailing of all components including interactions with one

another to the entire SharePoint deployment.

Information, Logical and Physical ArchitecturesPhysical Architecture• Logical architecture converted in to physical environment

including servers and other components. Also known as Topology

Farm

On-Premises Cloud Hybrid

• Federated search• LOB through BCS• Single sign-on• AD Sync

• SAAS, IAAS• Full trust

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• Vision?

Farm

Single Farm Multi FarmDesign considerations• Establish primary farm with

cross farm services and My Sites

• Scale farms for collaboration sites

• Scale to a dedicated services only farm if required (e.g. Search)

• Single SharePoint farm should not span a WAN link

Service applicationsDesign considerations• Search service has

improved a lot and now incorporates analytics service inside that.

• Possibility to use site navigation based on Managed Metadata Service

• User profile synchronization depend on the type of farm

Web Application• 1 Web application• 1 Zone (Default)

Motivation• Design of SharePoint Online• Simple

Site Collections• Host named sites vs. Path based sites

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