Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Server Administration Jean-Francois LeSaux Lead Architect, EPM Global Practice Microsoft Corporation jeanfl@microsoft.com

Webcast Series What to expect Solution Overview and System Elements Solution Elements and Data Flow Workload Scenarios and Reference Architecture Network Communication Server Administration Maintenance and Monitoring Deployment into a Sharepoint Server Intranet Farm Disaster Recovery Virtualization

Prerequisite Knowledge Deployment of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 as a proof of concept Review Technet and MSDN material http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303399.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905469.aspx Level 300

What We Will Cover Review the logical architecture Design Goals, Farm Concepts Sharepoint Central Administration tools and best practices Shared Service Provider Administration tools and best practices Project Web Access Administration tools and best practices

Design Goals - Topology NO MORE TOPOLOGY RESTRICTIONS!!! Servers have Roles Web Front End (WFE) Application Server Database Server (Farm agnostic) You can create a Farm of any size of each Server Role (see below) There are some guidelines and best practices http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/2aa12954-2ea7-475c-9dce-663f543820811033.mspx?mfr=true

Design Goals - Administration Windows SharePoint Services Simplicity Consistency Extensibility Microsoft Office Project Server and Windows SharePoint Services Resource Optimization Role Delegation

Design Goals - Delegation Three Tier Administration Web-based Role- & Task-Delineated Controlled Delegation Secure Isolation Central Admin IT Pro Farm-level Shared Services Admin IT pro Admin Pro Instance-level Project Server Admin Admin Pro PMO Pro Site-level

Farm Concept SharePoint Farm Admin sites Servers Application servers have all services installed WFEs are always mirrors Configuration DB: Heart & soul of the farm Takes place of registry 1 per farm SPTimer Service: Heartbeat of farm (2 tier) SharePoint Administration Service Used to propagate configuration changes across farm - as box admin Shared Services A grouping of Services for Sites to use. Admin sites Central administration: 1 per farm Shared services administration: “special” content site

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Farm Administration Goals Reduce administrator time Quickly identify what must be done Rapidly locate UI to do what’s needed Single point administration Manage the application Single change updates all servers in farm Extensible platform for SharePoint admin Consistent UI experience for all products

Farm Administration Tasks Administrative task list Informs operators what must be done Explains action needed, and provides link to UI Home page topology view Quick view of farm servers and what is running on them Services on Server page Manage the components running on a single server Flat menu structure Operations: tasks affecting farm resource usage App Management: tasks specific to a single application or service within the farm Security trimming reduces UI clutter Remote administration Web-based administration UI Timer-based system updates

Central Administration

Farm Administration Best Practices Create separate system accounts to manage separate farms Request non-expiring passwords for the system accounts

demonstration Sharepoint Farm Administration Tool: Central Administration Console Administration Tasks

Shared Service Provider Shared services Grouped, high-value, resource intensive services One to many per farm Inter-farm capable (MOSS only) Shared Services must: expect to be used by multiple Web applications from multiple farms make themselves able to be surfaced in and managed via SharePoint Central Administration allow themselves to be managed by delegated administrators Windows SharePoint Services doesn’t ship with shared services, but Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides many SSP = Shared Service Provider = A Site that Provides MOSS Shared Services

Shared Service Provider SSPDefault == 1st SSP Can be changed to different SSP Cannot be deleted New, existing web apps auto-associated Content web applications ALWAYS associated to 1 and only 1 SSP* Security implications Content app pool granted rights across SSP Disassociation: Accounts NOT auto-cleaned up Account runs the ADSync and Cube Building

Shared Service Provider Customer benefits Resource optimization Security isolation Flexibility Delegation of administration Power users administer Shared Service Instance ≠ Central admin rights Can be shared across farms Watch-out Farm: SSP web app’s application pool account cannot be Network Service 1 SSP admin site allowed in a single web application \admin\ssp Central admin operators ≠ SSP site administrators Closely manage security when switching associations

SSP Administration Tasks Create and Manage PWA sites Manage other SSP related features if Sharepoint Server 2007 is installed

SSP Administration Tool

demonstration SSP Administration Tool: Central Administration Console SSP Administration Tasks

PWA Administration Tasks Manage Project Server Security Manage Enterprise Data Database Administration Look and Feel Cube Settings Time and Task Management Queue Management Operational Policies

PWA Administration

PWA Administration Best Practices Allow only a limited number of users to administer PWA Changes made in PWA Administration are global and affect all users and all objects in the PWA instance

demonstration Project Web Access Administration Tool: PWA Server Settings PWA Administration Tasks

Supportability Check TechNet for deployment guidance Service Pack 1 KB Description 942386 Project 2007 942387 Project Server 2007 942388 WSS V3 942390 SharePoint Server 2007 Post-Service Pack1 Rollup Fixes KB Description 941657 Project 2007 941426 Project Server 2007 942679 Project 2007 localization 941422 WSS V3 941274 SharePoint Server 2007 Infrastructure Update KB Description 951547 Project 2007 953750 Project Server 2007 951695 WSS V3 951297 SharePoint Server 2007 December Cumulative Update KB Description 959643 Project 2007 960313 Project Server 2007 959644 WSS V3 959637 SharePoint Server 2007 Check TechNet for deployment guidance Stay up to date with http://support.microsoft.com

For More Information… Visit TechNet at www.microsoft.com/technet For additional information on books, courses and other community resources that support this session visit

More Information… on Sharepoint The Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Solution http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint TechNet: Sharepoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2007 TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/default.aspx TechNet: Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Windows Sharepoint Services TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/default.aspx Blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint

More Information… on EPM The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution http://www.microsoft.com/epm TechNet Project Server TechCenter Project Server 2007 Planning, Architecture, Deployment and Operations Deploy Office Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007 IT Professionals webcast series Administrator role guide for Project Web Access http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/HA102403241033.aspx EPM University http://www.msepmu.com EPM Connect http://www.epmconnect.com Blogs Project Server IT Professionals Bookmarks http://blogs.msdn.com/project/ http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith http://blogs.msdn.com/shaden http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie

Session Summary Understand and leverage the administration delegation in Sharepoint/Project Server Compartmentalize the administration of the farm, SSP and PWA

Webcast Series What to expect Solution Overview and System Elements Solution Elements and Data Flow Workload Scenarios and Reference Architecture Network Communication Server Administration Maintenance and Monitoring Deployment into a Sharepoint Server Intranet Farm Disaster Recovery Virtualization

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