1. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Real World SharePoint 2013 Implementation Patrick Curran, MCT 6/07/2014 #SPSDC

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3. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Planet Technologies  Founded in 1998  Microsoft Partner with Five Gold Competencies, 11 Silver Competencies  One of only 35 Microsoft Nationally Managed Partners  Six Time Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year and Three Time Microsoft SLG Partner of the Year  Highly Skilled Staff – Microsoft Certified Masters – Microsoft MVP’s (SharePoint, Exchange) – Microsoft Certified Trainers – Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS) – 130+ Microsoft Consultants  Office Locations – DC, Denver, Harrisburg, Redmond, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)  Vertical Markets include Federal, State and Local Government, Education, Healthcare and Private Sector  Work Experience in 42 States and 33 Countries

4. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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. PCfromDC.com @PCfromDC

5. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions

6. 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

7. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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!

8. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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 end-user 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.

9. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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.

10. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Kickoff Meeting Scenario Farm drawing at this point

11. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. SQL Server Always-On http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh913923(v=office.14).aspx

12. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. SQL Server Always-On

13. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. New for SharePoint 2013! Office Web Application (WAC- Web Access Companion) Server New “disconnected” Service Cannot be installed on a SharePoint Server

14. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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.

15. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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

16. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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) CPUs2 Cores / CPU8 Threads / CPU16 Total Threads32 RAM64GB Drive LetterC:D:E:F:G:H:Z: Drive Function Host OS & VM SQL Temp FilesVM OS Drives VM SQL Data Files VM SQL Backup Files Host "Hot Spare" Host DVD Drive RAID Level1 (Mirror)10 (Mirror/Stripe) NA Individual Drive Size146GB500GB900GB NA Spindle Speed15k 10k NA Total Drive Size146GB1000GB1800GB 900GB NA

17. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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 MinimumsHost AHost B CPU24 threads20 threads RAM68 GB56 GB

18. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. IT Meeting Scenario  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2012- r2/buy.aspx#fbid=-RPCoaYVf-4 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2012- r2/buy.aspx#fbid=-RPCoaYVf-4  Server 2012R2 Datacenter Processor + CAL $6,155  Server 2012R2 Standard Processor + CAL $882 Oh, so you don’t want own any datacenter CALs and you don’t want to purchase any?

19. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. IT Meeting Scenario

20. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. IT Meeting Scenario Farm drawing at this point

21. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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

22. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? 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

23. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? Farm drawing at this point

24. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? 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-one- stone-sharepoint-ha-and-dr-with-stretch-farm-and-everything-you-want-to-know- about-it.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zwsong/archive/2011/04/04/killing-two-birds-with-one- stone-sharepoint-ha-and-dr-with-stretch-farm-and-everything-you-want-to-know- about-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-stretch- farm-support-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/04/04/update-on-stretch- farm-support-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx Distributed topologies across one or more geographic areas is not supported. (huh?)

25. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? What you really want is a stretched farm… 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…

26. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? What you really want is a stretched farm… 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

27. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? What you really want is a stretched farm… If you are one of those, “I hate physics, can you please just tell me what I need to know” people: CopperFibre Formula for distance in 0.1ms 18000 / (180 x 10^6 m/s)200000 / (200 x 10^6 m/s) Distance in 1ms18km (11 miles)200km (124 miles)

28. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Oh, So That’s Not What You Meant? Farm drawing at this point

29. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Review Current Documentation  Note: At this point in time, HQ and COOP sites are in different IP ranges. HQCOOP 172.20.0.xxx172.20.8.xxx Issues  Requires a lot of IP addresses  DNS replication and DHCP updating needs to happen quickly (was not happening with ContosoPharma)

30. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Review Current Documentation Farm drawing at this point… What’s Wrong?

31. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Review Current Documentation Farm drawing… Final?

32. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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/

33. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Server, SQL, and WAC Installation  Review database management for SharePoint 2013 –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329(v=office.15).aspxhttp://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!

34. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Server, SQL, and WAC Installation  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!

35. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Server, SQL, and WAC Installation  Anything WAC related refer to Wictor Wilén –http://www.wictorwilen.se/spc14-scripts-for-mastering-office-web-apps-2013- operations-and-deploymentshttp://www.wictorwilen.se/spc14-scripts-for-mastering-office-web-apps-2013- operations-and-deployments  Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013 (Steve Peschka) –http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/23/configuring-office- web-apps-in-sharepoint-2013.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/23/configuring-office- web-apps-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx  Configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet) –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431687.aspxhttp://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-with- no-downtimehttp://www.wictorwilen.se/office-web-apps-2013-patching-your-wac-farm-with- no-downtime  Apply software updates to Office Web Apps Server –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj966220.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj966220.aspx

36. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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.

37. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Server, SP2013, and WAWS Installation  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

38. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Server, SP2013, and WAWS Installation  Anything WAWS related refer to Spence Harbar –Has an excellent 4 part blog post on Workflow –http://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm1.aspxhttp://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm1.aspx –http://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm2.aspxhttp://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm2.aspx –http://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm3.aspxhttp://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm3.aspx –http://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm4.aspxhttp://www.harbar.net/articles/wfm4.aspx  Just in case you want not as good information, here is msdn –http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163276.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163276.aspx  And here is TechNet –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588(v=office.15).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588(v=office.15).aspx

39. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 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.

40. © 2011 PLANET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Another Type of Production Farm

41. Housekeeping… Remember to fill out session and event evaluations… Phasers set to stun, mobile devices set to silent… You must be present to win at the wrap-up…

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