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Notes on Deploying a Highly Available Environment Chris Testa -O’Neill Senior Consultant. Who am I. Agenda. BI Infrastructure: The End Game Architecture Preparation Preparing the SharePoint Farm Creating the SharePoint Farm Creating SharePoint Core Services - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Notes on Deploying a Highly Available Environment
Chris Testa-O’NeillSenior Consultant
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Who am I
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AgendaBI Infrastructure: The End Game
Architecture Preparation
Preparing the SharePoint Farm
Creating the SharePoint Farm
Creating SharePoint Core Services
Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint
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BI Infrastructure: The End Game
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BI Infrastructure: The End Game
After you install these features, you will be able to do the following.
Access the PowerPivot workbooks that you created in SharePoint sites.
Build interactive Power View reports based on PowerPivot workbooks in SharePoint.
Create Report Builder reports when you launch Report Builder in SharePoint
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Architecture Preparation
Ingredients
Installation Accounts
Network Infrastructure Preparation
Kerberos
Network Load Balancing
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Ingredients
Windows 2008 R2 Servers SP 1 with .Net 3.5 features enabled (others supported)
SharePoint Software SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 SharePoint 2010 August 2011 CU SharePoint 2010 prerequisite files
SQL Server 2012 Database Engine Reporting Services and Reporting Services Add-in PowerPivot for SharePoint
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Architecture preparationInstallation Accounts
Account Description Groups SQL RolesSQL Server service account Local administrators group on
the database backend instance
SharePoint Setup user account Add to the local administrators group on both Application servers and web front end
Create a SQL Server login on the database backend instance
Member of the following SQL Server security roles:o securityadmin o dbcreator
If running Windows PowerShell cmdlets, then also the db_owner fixed database role
Server farm account Domain User Account only
SharePoint Application service accounts
Domain User Accounts only.List depends on the services used
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Architecture preparation (cont)
Network Infrastructure Preparation
Port discovery of SQL Server data source• Use Configuration Manager
Active Directory Accounts• Create dedicated Service Accounts.
DNS• Register A resource record for Portal site
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Architecture preparation (cont)
Kerberos Service Principal Names (SPN)
• Exposes objects in Active Directory as a Security Object
Constrained delegation• Enables delegated security permissions on AD Security
Objects• Windows 2008 domains provides a GUI.• ADSI Editor required for Windows 2003 domains
MSAllowedToDelegateTo
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Architecture preparation (cont)
Network Load Balancing Register and A Resource record in DNS (CNAME records
causes Kerberos errors)
Configure the NLB to point to the to each of the web front ends
Configure sticky pages on the NLB (1 hour)
Demo
Preparing the BI Infrastructure
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SharePoint Preparation
Creating the database backend
Preparing the SharePoint Farm
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Creating the database backend
Install SQL Server 2012 in a Failover Cluster Database Engine Services Client Tools Connectivity Management Tools – Complete
Enable TCP/IP for remote connections and restart the service
Enable inbound access for SharePoint to the database server through Windows Firewall.
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Preparing the SHAREPOINT FARM
SharePoint Product Preparation Tool Internet connectivity Unattended Installation Manual installation
Should be execute on all SharePoint Servers that will be in the farm
Restart the servers
Demo
Preparing the SharePoint Farm
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Creating the SharePoint Farm
SharePoint Installation
SharePoint Configuration
Enabling SharePoint Logging
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Creating the SharePoint Farm
Installing SharePoint Install Office SharePoint Server on all Application
Servers and Web Front End Servers
Do Not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.
Install SharePoint SP 1
Good time to install Office Web Apps on all Servers
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Creating the SharePoint Farm
Configuring SharePoint Select a server that will host Central Administration
Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.
Use the Server Farm account to create and access the SharePoint database
PassPhrase created during the farm creation. Do not lose this passphrase
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Enabling Logging on the SharePoint Farm
Enabling logging on the SharePoint Farm Helps resolve issues during the installation of SharePoint
applications.
Use SharePoint setup account to configure
If you change the trace log path to a non-system drive, this location must exist on all the servers in the farm.
usage and health data collection logs selected information into SharePoint Logging
Logging uses system resources and can affect performance and disk usage
Demo
Creating and Configuring the SharePoint Farm
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Creating SharePoint core services
Search Service
Claims to Windows Token service
Excel Services
Create a site and site collection
Secure Store
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Creating SharePoint core services
Search Service
• Provides search capabilities for content stored in SharePoint
• Best practice to install search components on the web front end and application servers
• Create a Search Service Application
• Move components to the web front end
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Creating SharePoint core servicesClaims to Windows Token Service
Place C2WTS in local admins with the additional following rights:
Act as part of the operating system
Impersonate a Client after Authentication
Log on as a service
Start the C2WTS on the server that Excel Services is running (usually the APP server) and set the C2WTS to the C2WTS service account
In Services, Ensure that Cryptographic Services is listed in the dependencies tab for Claims to Windows Token Service.
If there are still issues with the C2WTS then run the following cmd prompt sc config "c2wts" depend=CryptSvc
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Creating SharePoint core services
Excel Services
• Makes it simple to share Excel workbooks interactively in SharePoint
• Relies on the C2WTS to be started if querying remote sources
• Add the excel service account as dbo to the WSS_Content database
• Register a managed Excel Service Account
• Start the Excel Service Application
• Create the Excel Service Application
• Note Secure Store will need restarting
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Creating SharePoint core services
Create a site and site collection
• Define the Site name and template (BI Center)
• Configure Alternate Access Mapping
• Create a site collection by using Central Administration –Must use Windows-classic mode authentication for PowerPivot (SharePoint Pros may question this)
• Add content sources and configure a search service crawl schedule
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Creating SharePoint core services
Secure Store
• Provides an alternate method of authenrication
• Used to store credential securely.
• Equivalent to SSRS stored credential
• Better off to set it up for authentication flexibility
Demo
Configuring the Core Services
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Configuring PowerPivot
ADD the excel and PowerPivot account to all local admins on the farm and add the following rights
Act as part of the operating system
Act as client after authentication
Log on as service
Install ADO.NET Data Services 3.5 SP1
Run SQL Server Setup to install PowerPivot for SharePoint on Application Server
Just setup one app server first
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Configuring PowerPivot
Configure or repair PowerPivot for SharePoint automates much of the setup
Be sure to use a dedicated account
Have the SharePoint Farm passphrase available
Activate PowerPivot Feature Integration for Site Collections in Central Administration
Repeat on the second server
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Configuring SSRS
Install Reporting Services on the application servers.
Add Reporting Services Addin on the Web Front End
Activate Reporting Services SharePoint Service Integration
Create a Reporting Services Service Application
Demo
Configuring PowerPivot and SSRS
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SUMMARY
BI Infrastructure: The End GameArchitecture PreparationPreparing the SharePoint Farm
Creating the SharePoint FarmCreating SharePoint Core ServicesConfiguring PowerPivot for SharePoint
BE PATIENT – Running setup in
parallel causes problems
Questions
@ctesta_oneillhttp://
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