1. SharePoint Farm Architecture
Bringing it all together
#SPSBE09
Thomas Vochten
April 26th, 2014

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3. About Me
@thomasvochten
http://thomasvochten.com
Thomas Vochten
SharePoint Server MVP
Platform Architect
Involuntary DBA
Trainer

6. In the Wild

7. But,… we’re doing DevOps!

8. Are you
serious?

9. The G-Word

11. What we need

12. Product Line Architecture

13. Basic Building Blocks
SharePoint
Farm
Web
Application
Site
Collections
Service
Applications
Servers
IIS
Web Sites
Bindings
Application
Pools
Identity

15. SharePoint doesn’t care about IIS
Certificates
Host
Headers
Advanced
Bindings
IP
Addresses

16. Host Headers to the rescue?
Multiple web applications using the same bindings
require the use of host headers

17. The problem with Host Headers

18. Web Applications vs Web Sites
Web Application
• SharePoint
• Logical Concept Web Sites
• IIS
• Physical Concept

19. Support Limits

20. Web Sites

21. Application Pools
Application Pool
• Worker Process
(w3wp.exe)
• CPU/Memory
• Identity Web Sites

22. Support Limits

23. Application Pools
Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service Application

24. Application Pools
How many of these do you create?

25. Accounts
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26. Good Practice: Cleaning Up

29. Design Principles

30. Application Pool Content Application Pool
Central Administration Content Apps
Application Pool Application Pool
App Disc & LB Svc
Services Application Pool
Service ApplicationsSecurity Token Svc

31. Content Web Application

32. Apps Web Application

33. http://bleh
Consolidating Application Pools

34. Consolidating Web Applications

36. “Host-named site collections are the preferred
method to deploy sites in SharePoint 2013”
From: TechNet

37. Confusion
Incompatible

38. Path Based Site Collections
https://intranet.contoso.com
https://intranet.contoso.com
https://intranet.contoso.com/sites/teamA
https://intranet.contoso.com/dep/departmentA

39. Path Based Site Collections

40. Host Named Site Collections
https://intranet.contoso.com
https://mysites.contoso.com
https://community.contoso.com
https://intranet.contoso.com/sites/benefits
https://teams.contoso.com/sites/it

41. Marchitecture

42. Why Host Named Site Collections?

43. Create Host Named Site Collections
-HostHeaderWebApplication

44. Living without host headers

45. The good, the bad, the ugly
Path Based Host Named
Site Creation Central Admin or PowerShell PowerShell
Out of the box self service site
creation
Custom self service site creation
needed
URLs & Structure Inherits Web Application URL Unique URL per site collection
Multiple URLs with AAM Multiple URLs without AAM
Managed Paths at web application
level
Managed Paths at farm level
Database Mgmt Managed out of the box at the web
application level
Custom site creation provider
recommended

46. Multiple URLs
Path Based Site Collections
Host Named Site Collections

47. PowerShell Support for Multiple URLs
$site = Get-SPSite https://intranet.contoso.com
Set-SPSiteURL -Identity $site -Url https://extranet.contoso.com -Zone Default

48. Zones
Multiple URLs work even without multiple web application zones!

49. Managed Paths
https://intranet.contoso.com/projects/projectA
https://teams.contoso.com/projects/projectB

50. Certificates
If you need multiple TLD support, you need a SAN certificate!

51. Mixing Path & Host

52. Migrating to Host Named Site
Collections
$webApp = Get-SPWebapplication 'https://portal.contoso.com'
foreach($spSite in $webApp.Sites) {
if ($spSite.HostHeaderIsSiteName) {
Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is host-named' }
else {
Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is path based' }
}

53. Migrating to Host Named Site
Collections
Backup-SPSite -Identity 'https://portalOld.contoso.com'
-Path 'c:BackupportalContoso.bak'
Restore-SPSite -Identity 'https://portal.contoso.com'
-Path 'c:BackupportalContoso.bak' -DatabaseName
'portal_content' -HostHeaderWebApplication
'https://content.contoso.com'

54. Good Practices

55. Considerations

58. SSL Offloading
Requirement:
Support for custom HTTP Header “Front-End-Https:On”

59. SSL Offloading

60. Using multiple webapps with HNSC

61. Summary

62. Thank you!
@thomasvochten
#SPSBE09