exploring sharepoint 2013 - from an it pro perspective
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There’s a lot to know about the new capabilities and features of SharePoint 2013. This presentation contains some of the most compelling and important new aspects of SharePoint Server 2013 from an IT Pro perspective.TRANSCRIPT
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Exploring SharePoint 2013
From an IT Pro Perspective
About Me
Veenus Maximiuk, MCITP, MCTS, MCPD, vTS
SharePoint Managing Architect
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@SharePointVee
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Agenda
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Search & Office Web Apps
Demos
Service Applications
Architecture
Q & AUser Profile Service
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Architecture
Minimum Hardware Requirements
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Web/App Servers in Three-Tier Farm
• 12 GB RAM• 4 Cores
Database Server in Three-Tier Farm
• Small – 8 GB RAM & 4 Cores
• Medium – 16 GB RAM & 8 Cores
ALWAYS Perform Capacity Planning to determining if minimum requirements will work for your organization.
Software Requirements
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Web and Application Servers
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1or
• Windows Server 2012
Database Server
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64or
• SQL Server 2012 x64
Shredded Storage
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• More efficient document processing• Reduced number of round trips
• “Shred” document storage in SQL• The goal is to make changes equal to
the size of the change, not size of the file
How Storage Works in SharePoint 2010
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Request submitted to SharePoint
Request submitted to SQL
SQL reads full documentSends it to SharePointSharePoint sends it to user
User updates document
SharePoint reads full document from SQL
Updates are merged
Full document is written to SQL
Updates are sent to SharePoint
How Storage Works in SharePoint 2013
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Request submitted to SharePoint
Request submitted to SQL
SQL reads full documentSends it to SharePointSharePoint sends it to user
User updates document
Updates are sent to SQL
Changes are updated and stored in SQL “Shredded Storage”
Updates are sent to SharePoint
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Distributed Cache Service• Based on Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Caching
• Provisioned by SharePoint setup
• Installed on each server in the SharePoint farm
• Provides in-memory caching services to several features such as:
– Newsfeeds
– Authentication
– Page load performance
• By default, it is set to use 10% of server’s total physical memory
– Sample SharePoint Farm
• Cache Cluster of 3.6 GB RAM
– Change value using PowerShell
• Update-SPDistributedCacheSize
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SkyDrive Pro • Store and organize your private documents in a secure location in the cloud or on your company’s SharePoint servers.
• Share documents with other people in your organization and give them permission to review or edit the content.
• Synchronize your SkyDrive Pro library to your computer or mobile devices so that you can access your documents offline.
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SharePoint 2013 Workflow• Run on a server that is not part of the
SharePoint farm
• Run on a server that is part of the SharePoint farm
• Workflow Manager Ports:
– 12290 – Management Port
– 12291 – Unsecured Management Port
• Service Bus Ports:
– 9355 – Secure Deployment
– 9354 – TCP Deployment
– 9356 – Message Broker
– 9000-9003 – Internal Communication
• Registering Workflow
– Register-SPWorkflowService
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Licensing Enforcement and Assignment• Enables licensing assignment to Active Directory Security Groups
• Accessible through Windows PowerShell
User Licensing Enforcement
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Demo
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Service Applications
Service Application Changes
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New
• Access Services (2013)• App Management Service• Machine Translation
Service• PowerPoint Automation
Services• Work Management
Service Application
Enhanced
• Business Data Connectivity Service
• Excel Services Application• Managed Metadata
Service• PerformancePoint Service
Application• Search Services Application• User Profile Service
Application• Visio Graphics Service• Word Automation Services
Removed
• Office Web Applications• Web Analytics
Application Management Service
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• Provide Market Place and Corporate Catalog Services
• Marketplace
– Public
– Microsoft managed
• Corporate Catalog
– Private
– IT managed
Machine Translation Service
• Provide automatic machine translation for files, pages and sites
• Request for translation is forwarded to cloud-hosted machine translation service
• Processes requests synchronously, asynchronously, or on-demand
• You can control this via Timer Job through Central Admin or PowerShell
– $TimerJob = Get-SPTimerJob“Machine Translation Service"
– $TimerJob.Runnow()
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Work Management Service
• Provides functionality to aggregate tasks to a central location
• Tasks can be aggregated from SharePoint, Exchange, or Project Server
• Requires User Profile and Search services
• Tasks can be cached to user’s personal site
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Search
Changes in SharePoint 2013 Search
• Many changes to Search in SharePoint 2013
– UI, architecture, administration, development options
• Consolidation of FAST and Enterprise Search components
– 2013 Search architecture based on both products
• New customization model for Search
– Result Sources, Display Templates, Result Types, Query Rules
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Office Web ApplicationsImproved Office Web Apps URLs
SharePoint 2010http://sharepointdemo/accounting/_layouts/WordViewer.aspx?id=/accounting/Shared%20Documents/Budget.docx&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fsharepointdemo%2Faccounting%2FShared%2520Documents%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx%3FPaged%3DTRUE%26p5FSortBehavior3D0%26p5FFileLeafRef3Dfbb6fa52%252d91c8%252d42b3%252db7b4%252d26fc586e3e01%252eonebin%26p%5FID%3D777%26PageFirstRow%3D301%26%26View%3D%7B0B08DC31%2D658A%2D42CC%2D98CE%2D996BA18C5DD8%7D&DefaultItemOpen=1&DefaultItemOpen=1
SharePoint 2013http://sharepointdemo/accounting/Shared%20Documents/Budget.docx?Web=1
• Separated into new server product
• Provides services to:
• One or more SharePoint Farms
• Exchange Server
• Lync
• 3rd party document stores (I.e. Oracle UCM, EMC Documentum, etc.)
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SharePoint 2013 Search UI with Office Web Apps
Search UI and Integration with Office Web Apps
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Demo
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User Profile
Synchronization Options
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Lightweight LDAP approach internal to SharePoint
a.k.a Direct AD Import
“Baby” Forefront Identity Manager
Benefits & LimitationsActive Directory ImportBenefits
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• Cannot import picture attribute from AD to SharePoint
• Mapping multi value to single value or vice versa is not supported
• Mapping two different AD attributes to the same SharePoint property is not supported
Switching Between Sync Types
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Before you switch
• AD Import stores connections in the Profile DB
• UPS stores connections in the Sync DB
• Property mappings and filters are NOT moved
– Manual recreation required
After you switch
• Review, review, review!
• Run PurgeNonImportedObjects after a full import to remove items that should not be there
Set-SPProfileServiceApplication –Identity $upa -PurgeNonImportedObjects $true
User Profile & Active Directory Import Mode
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Demo
A Few Last Notes
• Stretched farms are no longer supported in SharePoint 2013
– “Stretched” means one farm in two different data centers with less than 1ms latency
– All servers in the farm must be in the same data center now
• Windows PowerShell Command Builder
– http://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html
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Questions?
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