3. Who am I?
.NET / SharePoint solution architect
Over 18 years experience developing business
solutions for private industry & government
Recent clients include NSERC, NRC, DFAIT,
CFPSA, OSFI, IRB, MCC
Specialize in Microsoft technologies
4. Need a clean fully-configured SP farm to:
Develop new apps and features
Test configuration changes
Demo / training
TestWindows and SharePoint updates and
upgrades
Analysis of defects eg heavy logging
5. Time consuming and expensive to build,
maintain and host multiple SharePoint farms
and configurations
Is the cloud available when I need it?
Where is my code and data held?
What is the security and privacy?
7. Tailed to development and QA needs
Pre-config virtual environments (1 or +VMs)
Many templates, esp. SharePoint 2010 & 2013
Pre-installed software already licensed
Easily to collaborate or share an isolated copy
Multi-user access for webinar / demo
Priced per environment and per 8G RAM
14 day free trial capped at 8G RAM, 2 CPUs
9. Persistent fully qualified domain name
Web access and permalink
Access local drives
SimpleVisual Studio extension to manage
environments andVMs
Environment vs machine
Single snapshot / backup
11. Pure browser-based access possible
Browser plug-in/extension for enhanced RDP
experience
Windows and SharePoint updates required in
VM
Capture snapshot with precise time-of-defect
VM state
12. Multiple environments
Multiple snapshots / backups
Projects to organize environments
Upload your ownVM
JoinVMs to corporate domain
TFS build actions including remote
compilation and deployment
13. Install/configure the infrastructure and install
the software from templates
Free 30-day / $220 of compute trial requires a
credit card
16 page lab guide with around 100 steps to
set up SharePoint 2013VM
I haven’t tried the setup, but sounds heavy
14. Targeted at advanced, multi-VM
configurations and priced accordingly
Value-add is tooling for those configurations
Bring-your-own license keys model
30 day trial capped at
750 Skytap-VM hours
5 Concurrent Skytap-VM machines
250 GB storage
16. John Calvert (Software Craft)
Johnmcalvert at hotmail dot ca
softwarecraft dot ca
at softwarecraft99
Notas del editor
Infrastructure options include:cloud vs on premisespre-configured vs build your ownrent software licenses vs buy your ownOther options include:Windows AzureSkytappossibly others
Cloud VM is different from cloud hosting, in the former you get full access to the OS, software platform eg SharePoint, and servers/serviceseg SQL, IIS, in the latter you get only limited access to a portion of the software platform eg SharePoint site collections and restricted adminCloudShare founded in 2007. used by over 50% of Fortune 100 in USASkytap founded in 2006, in 2013 has 250 enterprise customers & 2 million VMs launched
Tailored to dev & QA – full domain and OS admin accessVM Templates: http://www.cloudshare.com/products/proplus/available-machines and http://www.cloudshare.com/showcasePriced and licenses per environment which can contain multiple VMs within an overall cap for RAM, CPUs and diskAssign contributor: invite collaborators to access and modify the same environment and its VMs, under owner’s licenseAssign copy: send an isolated snapshot copy, limited lifespan 48 hrs (or 14 days if starting a new user trial), can upgrade to full fledged environment by assigning a licenseEdit environment to add RAM and disk space
Create trial account with email address ms-spug-talk@hotmail.caSelect SharePoint 2013 RTM VMShow list of standard and showcase templatesConnect via web and RDPAssign copy to johnmcalvert@hotmail.caAssign contributor to johnmcalvert@hotmail.ca
FQDNWeb accessLocal drives
Most/all modern browsers supported, MSIE, Chrome, FF, Safari (?)CloudShare claims improved RDP performance with their browser plug-inWindows Server 2008 R2 last patched May 2012SharePoint 2010 VM templates are at SP1 patch level, you will have to apply any CUs and SP2Windows Server 2012 last patch May 2013SharePoint 2013 VM templates are at RTM patch level, you will have to apply any CUs
Other features:Advanced networkingFTP access2 concurrent VM imports100 GB Max import depot10 GB shared driveFeatures not available during self-service trial:VPN accessPublic IPsPrivate branding of Skytap interface
