Thursday, October 7, 2010

SharePoint 2010 - Architecture

SharePoint Foundation
  • Included with Windows server
  • features include
    • list
    • document library
    • blogs
    • wiki
    • RSS
    • alerts
  • interface with Workflow Foundation
  • accessible through object model, api, and web services
SharePoint Server 2010
  • offers additional  collaboration capabilities
  • better aggregation of content
  • SharePoint Foundation is installed with SharePoint Server 2010
  • Standard
    • social
    • search
    • content management
  • Enterprise
    • business intelligence
    • line o business integration
    • reporting
Search Server 2010
  • Provide full scale enterprise search to SharePoint Foundations
Search Server 2010 Express
  • free from Microsoft
  • add content sources
    • file shares
    • other sharepoint sites
    • web sites
    • exchange public folders
    • cannot be configured for high availability
Windows Server
  • requires 64-bit
  • server 2009 SP2 or 2008 R2
  • cannot be installed on
    • Server Core
    • Web Edition
  • needs to be included as a member of an Active Directory Domain
    • does not support local accounts for farm deployment
  • let the SharePoint install wizard install and configure additional software and services
Windows Vista and 7
  • for development purpose can be instaleed on 64-bit editions
  • Vists SP1
    • business
    • enterprise
    • ultimate
  • Windows 7
    • professional
    • enterprise
    • ultimate
SQL Server
  • requires 64-bit
  • SQL 2005 SP1
  • SQL 2008 SP1
  • SQL 2008 R2
Email Server
  • smtp server need to allow anonymous relay from SharePoint
  • cannot be configured to autenicate
Incoming Email
  • route email to list or library
Configure Incoming email
  1. install and configure smtp service
  2. configure to accept email for a domain for example sharepoint.test.com
  3. configure MX record for domain in DNS
  4. from Central Admin, enable incomeing email and specify domain
see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947(office.14).aspx

SMS Service
  • send alerts to sms
  • scope at farm or web application level
  • need to provide URL to SMS sending service
Hardware Recommendations

Moss 2007: 2core /3Ghz, 2G ram
Server 2010: 4 core / 2.5ghz, 8G ram

Web Servers
  • refered to a web front end (wfe)
  • responsible for rendering the page
  • normally not too high of cpu load
  • do use substancial amount of ram for caching and processing
Application Server
  • Query server - responding to search requests
    • large index requires cpu and memory
    • requires local optimize storage for teh query file
  • Index Server - also referred to a crawl server
    • does not store any information locally, so no storage requirements
    • additional cpu capacity for large environments
SQL Server
  • the main bottleneck in sharepoint farms is sql performance
  • 8G min and 16G to 32G
  • disk configuration is important for performance
  • store mdf and ldf on different disk. log file optimized for write
  • optimize as follows
    • tempdb
    • search db
    • content db
see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/default.aspx planning and sizing dsql deployment

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

SharePoint 2010 - Service Applications

Service Application represent the evolution of the SSP.

  • all service applications are seperate
  • all service application can be turned on and off
  • all service applications have unique user access permissions. central administration is security trimmed; users only see what they have access to

SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade

There are two methods to upgrade from SP2007:
  1. In-place
  2. database attach
  • read-only content dabase can be rendered during upgrade
  • sp2010 can redirect to sp2007 farm until upgrade completes
  • visual upgrade allows site upgraded to sp2010 to use look and feel of sp2007

SharePoint 2010 Installation

Installation
  • must be installed on 64-bit operating system.
  • must be installed on Windows 2008 SP2 or R2, or later
  • requires 64-bit version of SQL 2005 SP2 or 2008, or later
  • reprequisite installer will download and install all required software, configure IIS and other components
  • requires a farm passwphrase; needed to add or remove server from farm. Also used for encryption between farm members.
  • AD Group Policy Objects can be used to block installation
Upgrade
  • stsadm -o preupgradecheck; interrogates sp2007 content databases and alerts of potential roadblocks
    • server
    • amount of content
    • search configuration
    • features
    • solutions
    • site definitions
    • alternate access mappings
    • langage packs
    • large lists
    • orphaned data
    • view and content types that use CAML
    • database with modified schemas
  • the check is read-only; makes no changes to any database
  • powershell cmdlet test-SPContentDatabase

Monday, October 4, 2010

DOs Command To Set AD Domain Password

dsmod user "CN=,OU=,DC=" -pwd XXX

Delete Files Older Than X Days Recursely

  1. Save as vbs - deletefiles.vbs
  2. to use pass in number folder and number of days
For example deletefiles.vbs c:\temp 60

' Pass the arguments
Set objFSO = Wscript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
path = Wscript.Arguments.Item(0)

' folder to start search in... You can just use static
'path = "C:\Temp\test"


' delete files older than 2 days...
mDays = Wscript.Arguments.Item(1)

killdate = date() - mDays

arFiles = Array()
set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")


' Don't do the delete while you still are looping through a
' file collection returned from the File System Object (FSO).
' The collection may get mixed up.
' Create an array of the file objects to avoid this.
'
SelectFiles path, killdate, arFiles, true


nDeleted = 0
for n = 0 to ubound(arFiles)
  '=================================================
  ' Files deleted via FSO methods do *NOT* go to the recycle bin!!!
  '=================================================
  on error resume next 'in case of 'in use' files...
  arFiles(n).delete true
  if err.number <> 0 then
    wscript.echo "Unable to delete: " & arFiles(n).path
  else
    nDeleted = nDeleted + 1
    'start 20100630 schneiderbi
    wscript.echo arFiles(n).path
    'end 20100630 schneiderbi
  end if
  on error goto 0
next


'msgbox nDeleted & " of " & ubound(arFiles)+1 _
'  & " eligible files were deleted"


sub SelectFiles(sPath,vKillDate,arFilesToKill,bIncludeSubFolders)
  on error resume next
  'select files to delete and add to array...
  '
  set folder = fso.getfolder(sPath)
  set files = folder.files


  for each file in files
    ' uses error trapping around access to the
    ' Date property just to be safe
    '
    dtlastmodified = null
    on error resume Next
    dtlastmodified = file.datelastmodified
    on error goto 0
    if not isnull(dtlastmodified) Then
      if dtlastmodified < vKillDate then
        count = ubound(arFilesToKill) + 1
        redim preserve arFilesToKill(count)
        set arFilesToKill(count) = file
      end if
    end if
  next


  if bIncludeSubFolders then
    for each fldr in folder.subfolders
      SelectFiles fldr.path,vKillDate,arFilesToKill,true
    next
  end if
end sub

MOSS 2007 - Policy for Web application Script

This is DOS script

REM Grant AD group full Control to each sharepoint web application listed in file wal.txt
REM 20101003


set ADgroupName=""
set url=""


rem this is for single web application
rem stsadm -o addpermissionpolicy -url %url% -userlogin %%ADgroupName%%  -permissionlevel "Full Control"


FOR /F %%G IN (wal.txt)  DO stsadm -o addpermissionpolicy -url %%G -userlogin %%ADgroupName%%  -permissionlevel "Full Control"
pause