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

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

Software Architecture Deployment Architecture Network Architecture Deployment Architecture

WHAT IS IT ARCHITECTURE?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lessons Learned – SP Apps Government Agency, Public sector Case management Multiple AutH sources Rich reporting KM BI Case management Multiple AutH sources Rich reporting KM BI Customer ProfileScenario

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.

SPS 2013 APP SCENARIOS

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

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

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

Web server Sharepoint 2013 Remote Web Internet On premise Provider hosted App 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 S2S STS

Sharepoint 2013 Remote Web Gov Gateway STS ADFS

Lessons Learned – SP Infrastructure Telco 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 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 Customer ProfileScenario

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

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

Recommended Topologies (1) No HA All services in a single box Single point of failure The data is not reserved Up to 10M searchable items

Recommended Topologies (2) There is HA All services and the data are reserved Up to 10M searchable items Recommended for business critical scenarios with small load

Recommended Topologies (3) There is HA All services and the data are reserved Up to 10M searchable items Recommended for business critical scenarios with big load

Recommended Topologies (4) 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

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

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

The Solution ERP BI Portal

Architecture ERPPortalBI BE Trusted Network DMZ BI FE Bi2sp proxy svc bi2sp svc Internet ERP

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