Curran- CAPSPUG Presentation

Real World SharePoint 2013 Implementation

Patrick Curran, MCT

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# C A P S P U G

© 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Sector

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Patrick Curran

 MCT, MCPD, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, MCSA

 Director, Federal Practice, Planet Technologies.

 SharePoint Architect.

 Co-Author of Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and

Architecting Solutions.

 Working with SharePoint since 2003.

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Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions


Agenda

1.

Introduction to ContosoPharma.

2.

Introduction to ContosoPharma IT.

3.

Review architecture and verify solution.

4.

Review supporting documentation.

5.

Review implementation of Server 2012 and SQL2012.

6.

Review implementation of WAC (OWA) farm.

7.

Review implementation of Server 2012 and SP2013.

8.

Review implementation of Workflow Manager farm.

9.

Preparing for Disaster Recovery

10.

Review a Different Production Environment

Meet ContosoPharma

We have won a bid for deploying SharePoint 2013 at Contoso

Pharmaceuticals. The winning proposal is to deploy a

SharePoint 2013 farm for 25 people growing to 100 people.

IT has already purchased 2 servers!

Let’s get started!


Meet ContosoPharma

Make sure that if you use acronyms that everyone in the room understands what you mean. Do NOT assume that even the most basic of concepts will be understood. For example, HA, means High Availability, meaning if a server or service fails that there is a continuity of operation with minimal enduser impact…

While using network load-balancing will allow for distributed load on the network, it is needed for high availability, even if the farm is only for 50 people.


Kickoff Meeting Scenario

Day 1 Conclusion:

Client would like 1 SharePoint farm, created in HA (high availability mode). Already purchased hardware (although needed specs still).

Schedule meeting with IT Staff to validate requirements without

CIO in the room.


Kickoff Meeting Scenario

Farm drawing at this point


SQL Server Always-On http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh913923(v=office.14).aspx


SQL Server Always-On


New for SharePoint 2013!

Office Web Application

(WAC- Web Access Companion) Server

• New “disconnected” Service

• Cannot be installed on a SharePoint Server


New for SharePoint 2013!

Workflow Manager 1.0

(WAWS- Windows Azure Workflow Server)

• Another “disconnected” Service

• Can be installed on a SharePoint Server

• 1 or 3 servers (not 2 or 4). Yes, only 1 or 3

• A great example of the new SharePoint application model. Workflow communications happen via the core app model technologies, CSOM and REST, and authenticates through OAuth.

Current Versions

• Workflow Manager = 1.0 Refresh

• Service Bus = 1.1


IT Meeting Scenario



This is basically the meeting to really see what is going on within the organization and to see what they really want / need. Also verify with IT any questions that were left outstanding and see if IT and the CIO are on the same page.



Make sure that if you use acronyms that everyone in the room understands what you mean. Do NOT assume that even the most basic of concepts will be understood. For example, DR, means Disaster Recovery, meaning if your primary location fails to exist that there is a continuity of operation without any or minimal end-user impact…


I am not referring to Dr Hibbert or Dr Nick when I say DR

IT Meeting Scenario

 IT Hands over Pre-Purchased server documentation



IT has been informed that a Dev environment is a good idea

 And a 3 rd server has magically been allocated to the project.

 Start conversation of SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs

Server Hardware Dell PowerEdge R720 (x3)

CPUs

Cores / CPU

Threads / CPU

Total Threads

RAM

Drive Letter

Drive Function

RAID Level

2

8

16

32

C:

Host OS & VM SQL Temp

Files

64 GB

D:

VM OS Drives

1 (Mirror)

E:

VM SQL Data

Files

F:

VM SQL Data

Files

G:

VM SQL Backup

Files

10 (Mirror/Stripe) 10 (Mirror/Stripe) 10 (Mirror/Stripe) NA

H:

Host "Hot

Spare"

NA

Individual Drive Size 146GB

Spindle Speed 15k

Total Drive Size 146GB

500GB

15k

1000GB

900GB

10k

1800GB

900GB

10k

1800GB

900GB

10k

900GB

900GB

10k

900GB

Z:

Host DVD

Drive

NA

NA

NA

NA


IT Meeting Scenario

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx#hwLocServers

 SharePoint Server Minimums (3 tier)

–

CPU: 4 cores

– RAM: 12 GB

 SQL Server Minimums (small deployment < 1,000 users)

– CPU: 4 cores

– RAM: 8 GB

Minimums Host A

CPU

Host B

24 threads 20 threads

RAM 68 GB 56 GB


IT Meeting Scenario

Oh, so you don’t want own any datacenter CALs and you don’t want to purchase any?

 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2012r2/buy.aspx#fbid=-RPCoaYVf-4

 Server 2012R2 Datacenter Processor + CAL $6,155



Server 2012R2 Standard Processor + CAL $882


IT Meeting Scenario

Host

OS

C:\ D:\

Data Drives

E:\ F:\ G H

Z:\

Backups

Hot

Spare

Temp

Drives

VM

OSs

Log Drives

NIC Team

Contoso Internal

Network

W ork fl ow

Network

Host

M achine

Ne twork


IT Meeting Scenario


2

1

Production

Cloud1 staff.contosopharma.com

wf.contosopharma.com

wac.contosopharma.com

4

3

Production

Cloud2

Development

Cloud3

5 dev-staff.contosopharma.com

dev-wf.contosopharma.com

6 dev-wac.contosopharma.com

Office

Web

Applications

Workflow

Manager

SQL2012 SP2013


Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant?

After updated drawings are handed back over to IT for review, it is determined by the client that they want one production farm in DC and another COOP farm in VA for disaster recover.

COOP = Continuity of Operations



As of April 2014, it is now supported to do an asynchronous commit of content and services databases. For a complete listing of all the databases supported review:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj841106(v=office.15).aspx




Production

Cloud1

1 staff.contosopharma.com


2 wac.contosopharma.com


Development

Cloud3




COOP

Cloud2

3 staff.contosopharma.com


4 wac.contosopharma.com


What you really want is a stretched farm…

Stretched Farm = “A single farm that has servers in multiple physical locations”

• Originally not supported for SharePoint 2013

• Must be less than 1 millisecond latency between all the SQL Servers and the front-end Web servers in one direction , and at least 1 gigabit per second bandwidth. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zwsong/archive/2011/04/04/killing-two-birds-with-onestone-sharepoint-ha-and-dr-with-stretch-farm-and-everything-you-want-to-knowabout-it.aspx

• There must be a highly consistent intra-farm latency of <1ms, 99.9% of the time over a period of ten minutes . (Intra-farm latency is commonly defined as the latency between the web front-end and database servers) http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/04/04/update-on-stretchfarm-support-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

• Distributed topologies across one or more geographic areas is not supported.

(huh?)




What does this really mean?

• I cannot find another reference other than Stefan’s that says no geographic border crossing of data.

• Latency is latency… <1ms does not care if data is traveling 1m or 1km

• Reality is that a bad switch setting or a slow network will not even allow for a supported SharePoint farm let alone a stretched farm.

Sorry Contoso

Pharmaceuticals, not supported, not doing it…




Dark Fibre : unlit fibre, meaning that there are no other lasers using that piece of glass

• Typically set as a 10GB/s link requiring 2 fibre channels 1 for TX and 1 for RX.

• Fibre bandwidth does not change latency

• You cannot defy physics, the speed of light in fibre is 300 x 10^6 m/s * 0.66 = 200 x

10^6 m/s (roughly 200km / ms or 124 miles / ms)

• If out of fibre channels, you can always increase bandwidth by multiplexing




If you are one of those, “I hate physics, can you please just tell me what I need to know” people:

Formula for distance in

0.1ms

Distance in 1ms

Copper

18000 / (180 x 10^6 m/s)

18km (11 miles)

Fibre

200000 / (200 x 10^6 m/s)

200km (124 miles)




Development

Cloud3





2

1

Production-HQ




Production-COOP

Cloud2

3

4

Review Current Documentation

 Note: At this point in time, HQ and COOP sites are in different

IP ranges.

HQ

172.20.0.xxx

COOP

172.20.8.xxx

Issues

 Requires a lot of IP addresses

 DNS replication and DHCP updating needs to happen quickly

(was not happening with ContosoPharma)



Farm drawing at this point… What’s Wrong?

Development

Cloud3





2

1

Production-HQ




Production-COOP

Cloud2

3

4


Farm drawing… Final?

Cloud3


6 wf.contosopharma.com

dev-wac.contosopharma.com

2

1

Cloud1

Office

Web

Applications

Workflow

Manager

SQL2012 SP2013


SQL Server Web Server staff.contosopharma.com


ca.contosopharma.com


4

3

Cloud2

Contoso Internal Network NIC Team

Contoso Virtual NIC

Contoso Workflow NIC

Server Management NIC

Contoso Internal Network

Server, SQL, and WAC Installation

 Have scripts prepared for setting up the VMs on the host server.

– You should have different scripts for SQL and SharePoint

 Have scripts prepared to set up the virtual server from a

“SYSPREP’d” state.

 As of April 2014 CU, SharePoint now has SQL Availability

Group cmdlets.

– Get-AvailabilityGroupStatus

– Add-DatabaseToAvailabilityGroup

– Remove-DatabaseFromAvailabilityGroup

– Trevor Seward has a nice post

• http://thesharepointfarm.com/2014/05/sharepoint-database-availability-group-cmdlets/



 Review database management for SharePoint 2013

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329(v=office.15).aspx

– Move site collections between databases

– Move all databases

 DO NOT CREATE A NLB CLUSTER ON THE SQL SERVER

ALWAYS-ON SERVERS!



 Create your SQL backup jobs now

– If you have not already started your backup and restore strategy with client, start it now.

– Do not put all of your eggs in one basket

–

Content is KING!



 Anything WAC related refer to Wictor Wilén

– http://www.wictorwilen.se/spc14-scripts-for-mastering-office-web-apps-2013operations-and-deployments

 Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013 (Steve Peschka)

– http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/23/configuring-officeweb-apps-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

 Configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet)

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431687.aspx

 Office Web Apps 2013: Patching your WAC farm with no downtime

– http://www.wictorwilen.se/office-web-apps-2013-patching-your-wac-farm-withno-downtime

 Apply software updates to Office Web Apps Server

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj966220.aspx


Server, SP2013, and WAWS Installation

 Enable all required features on the server.

 Install all SharePoint and Workflow bits.

 SYSPREP the server.

 Export the image from Hyper-V and validate.

– Create new VM run through scripts and make sure everything works.

– When new bits are updated in farm, update bits on image, sysprep again retest.

 Create all SharePoint servers in the farm based off of this image.

 Have scripts prepared to set up the virtual machine from a “SYSPREP’d” state. Including having the scripts available to add the new server to the

SharePoint Farm.



 Name your workflow instance appropriately, don’t just go with the default name of “SharePoint”

$site = "https://staff.contospharma.com"

$workflowHostUri = "https://wf.contosopharma.com:12290"

$scopeName = “SharePoint -Production"

Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite $site `

-WorkflowHostUri $workflowHostUri `

-ScopeName $scopeName



 Anything WAWS related refer to Spence Harbar

– Has an excellent 4 part blog post on Workflow

– http://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm1.aspx




 Just in case you want not as good information, here is msdn

– http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163276.aspx

 And here is TechNet

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588(v=office.15).aspx


AppFabric (Distributed Cache Service) Farm



 By default (and in SharePoint), cached items in an

AppFabric Named Cache are stored only once across the entire cluster.

–

SharePoint uses 10 Named Cache Stores

Cache Name TTL

ActivityFeed

ActivityFeedLMT

LogonToken

168 hours

168 hours

10 hours

Configuration Location

UserProfileApplication.Feed

CacheTTLHours

UserProfileApplication.

FeedCacheLastModifiedTi meTtlDeltaHours

SPSecurityTokenServiceMa nager.WindowsTokenLifeti

me

ServerToAppServerAccess

Token

24 hours (hard coded)

ViewState 31 minutes

SPWebApplication.FormDig

estSettings.Timeout + 1


Search

SecurityTrimming

Default

Access

Bouncer

1 hour

1 hour

(hard coded)

(hard coded)


 If the cache host storing the cached item crashes or is shutdown “nongracefully”, that item is no longer available in the cache.

 AppFabric is NOT SharePoint’s responsibility

 Currently at v1.0 CU5

– http://www.wictorwilen.se/how-to-patch-the-distributed-cache-in-sharepoint-2013

 Must Reads

– http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2013/03/27/appfabric-caching-and-sharepoint-1.aspx

– http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2013/03/27/appfabric-caching-and-sharepoint-2.aspx

– http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2013/05/07/guest-post-distributed-cache-service-insharepoint-2013.aspx


Preparing for Disaster Recover

Haven’t you already done this?

You have:

• SQL Always-On up and running moving data asynchronously up to Azure (or DR location of choice) to warm standby farm.

• Standby images to add servers to Farm if need be.

• Scripts have been tested and proven.

• Documentation created on what to do in case of an emergency.

• Not just tested once and forgotten, but added to and updated after each test

• Save master file in your SharePoint Farm, but DO NOT save current version in SharePoint. Have physical copies printed, .pdf’s emailed, just something to walk your team through a restore if SharePoint goes down.


Another Type of Production Farm

2

1

Cloud1 staff.vandapharma.com

3 owa.vandapharma.com

5 wfm.vandapharma.com

8


6

7

Content

Workflow

11

12

13

14

15

9

Cloud3

10

20

Services

21

22

18

19

16

Cloud2

17

Questions?

Email: pcurran@go-planet.com

Twitter: @PCfromDC

Blog: http://PCfromDC.com

Thank You!!!

Email: pcurran@go-planet.com

Blog: PCfromDC.com

Twitter: @PCfromDC


Curran- CAPSPUG Presentation

Planet Technologies

Patrick Curran

Agenda

Meet ContosoPharma

Meet ContosoPharma

Kickoff Meeting Scenario

Kickoff Meeting Scenario

New for SharePoint 2013!

New for SharePoint 2013!

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

As of April 2014, it is now supported to do an asynchronous commit of content and services databases. For a complete listing of all the databases supported review:

Sorry Contoso

Pharmaceuticals, not supported, not doing it…

Preparing for Disaster Recover

Another Type of Production Farm

Questions?

Thank You!!!

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Curran- CAPSPUG Presentation

Planet Technologies

Patrick Curran

Agenda

Meet ContosoPharma

Meet ContosoPharma

Kickoff Meeting Scenario

Kickoff Meeting Scenario

New for SharePoint 2013!

New for SharePoint 2013!

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

IT Meeting Scenario

As of April 2014, it is now supported to do an asynchronous commit of content and services databases. For a complete listing of all the databases supported review:

Sorry Contoso

Pharmaceuticals, not supported, not doing it…

Preparing for Disaster Recover

Another Type of Production Farm

Questions?

Thank You!!!

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