1. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Overview Scale out architecture Servers, services, and topology in Central Administration Web application service and web application management SQL Server –Types of SharePoint databases –Content database tables overview

2. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Scale-out Architecture SQL Content DB Web Server Rich Clients (Office)Web Browser Load Balancer Email SQL Content DBSQL Config DB

3. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Services on Servers Server Farm can consist of one or more servers. Each server can run one or more of the following services – Windows SharePoint Services Web Application – Windows SharePoint Services Incoming E-Mail – Central Administration – Document Conversions Service – Excel Calculation Services – Office SharePoint Server Search

4. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Demo: Topology and Services 1.Examine Topology and Services section in Office Server Central Administration

5. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Web Server IIS is responsible for HTTP listening, port resolution. Sites are not related to IIS metabase information (For example http://server/courses/chemistry101 info is not stored in the metabase)

6. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Application vs. Safe Pages Application page is an a template page from _layouts virtual directory with following characteristics: –it is available within every site –only one copy of this page on the server –It is not accessible through Designer when editing a site –It is accessible through IIS Safe page is a template page that comes from site definitions (For example: default.aspx in “Team Site” template). –it exists only on sites where it’s been specified by a template or created by a user –many copies can exist on the server –It is accessible through Designer when editing a site –It is not accessible through IIS

7. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Demo: Web Server 1.Examine a website in IIS. Notice that sites and sub-sites are not stored there. 2.Find “_layouts” virtual directory – application pages 3.Examine the application pool settings 4.Examine Service Account Settings in Office Server Central Administration

8. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. SharePoint Web Application Management SharePoint Web Application is an IIS website that has a SharePoint Web Application Service running Before creating any site collections, administrator must create a new web application SERVER Web Application Web Application Web Application Web Application Site Collection 1Site Collection 2Site Collection 3

9. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Web Applications Basic Web Application – such as default web site (Training Intranet) or external site (extranet.company.com), stores site collections where end-users and site administrators work Central Administration – used by system administrators to manage the server farm Shared Services – manages features that are common to all web applications such as search, user profiles, business data catalog Personal Sites – contains personal user site collection (one per user)

10. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Demo: SharePoint Web Application Management 1.Create a new web application 2.Extend a web application 3.Examine SharePoint Web Application and SharePoint Site Management sections

11. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. SQL Server SQL Server provides unified storage by storing all user and config data with exception of search indices and site definitions (XML files) Configuration Database – info about web farm configuration Content Database (Site) –sites, lists, list items, and documents Profile Database – user profiles and audience targeting Services database – search configuration info Single Sign On (SSO) – credentials to access other line of business apps

12. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Content Databases SharePoint allows multiple content databases per web application in order to manage backup performance and ease administration (population of dbs is round-robin). In SharePoint 2003 MS recommended the content database size not exceed 50 GB. Preallocate database size in SQL Server for performance

13. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Demo: Content Database Structure 1.Examine content database tables 2.Create a new content database for a web application

14. Copyright © 2006 Pilothouse Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Database Best Practices Read-only –Editing SharePoint data directly is dangerous –Data integrity not enforced by schema –Editing stored procedures is not recommended Additive changes –New tables –It is not recommended to add foreign keys to SharePoint tables Upgrades will break your application or your changes can break the upgrade