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