And answers to other Mysteries of the Universe.Just kidding about that “solving mysteries of the universe” line.
Why you need a separate Services Farm
Unless “Do I need a SharePoint Services farm?” is really your mystery question of the universe. If so, prepare to be blown away by my wisdom. (Just kidding about the wisdom part) (oh yeah… umm ask me about SP2013 at the end.)
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Session Evaluations Schedule and evaluate each session you attend via our
mobile app that can be used across devices at http://spsaturday. azurewebsites.net
You will be able to evaluate sessions added to your “My Sessions” 25 minutes before the scheduled end time
Evaluations are stored anonymously and your feedback is appreciated
The app will be the only method available to submit session evaluations for the event and we hope you find it intuitive and convenient
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Bio Marrell Sanders –
[email protected] MS Group IT Senior Web Consultant / Owner Senior SharePoint Administrator Applications Instructor @TechRevMarrell
Farm Topologies
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Standalone (Single Server) Web Front End
(WFE) Applications/CA SQL
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Single Server Farm + SQL
SQL Server
Web Front End (WFE)
Applications/CA
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Two Tier Server Farm
SQL Server
Web Front End (WFE)
Applications/CA
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Three Tier Server Farm
SQL Server
Web Front Ends (WFE)
Application Server
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Three Tier Server Farm
SQL Server
Web Front Ends (WFE)
Application Server
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Three Tier Server Farm
SQL Server
Web Front Ends (WFE)
Application Server
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Three Tier Server Farm
SQL Server
Web Front Ends (WFE)
Application Server
So we need lots of boxes. Check?
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What about Web Applications? OOB can be boring Let’s write code? Code needs to be
deployed Deploy it as Solutions
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What about Web Applications? Solution here Solution there Solution here, Solutions
there Solutions EVERYWHERE!
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Web Applications
SQL Server
(WFE)
Application Server
Farm AFarm B
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Web Applications
SQL Server
(WFE)
Application Server
Farm AFarm B
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Web Applications
SQL Server
(WFE)
Application Server
Farm AFarm B
Farm C
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Web Applications
SQL Server
(WFE)
Application Server
Farm AFarm B
Farm C
Farm D
Nothing wrong with this right?
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Any Failure Points?
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Web Applications
SQL Server
(WFE)
Application Server
Farm AFarm B
Farm C
Farm D
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Web Applications
SQL Servers
Application Servers Farm
Farm A
Farm B
Farm C
Farm D
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What do we Gain Scalability
You can keep adding servers to your Application Farm
Performance / Stability Load Balance Service Applications
across other servers in the farm Architect
Like A Boss
What’s the Catch?
Seriously what’s the Catch?
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Okay here’s the Catch Administrative Headache
How often do you change passwords? Monitoring General Juggling Cost $$$
Licensing Hardware Manpower
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Demo? Publishing/Consuming Services
Oh Btw…Guess what changes on SP2013?
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Questions? / Comments
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