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5 Pillars to Optimize Office 365 ReadinessEric Shupps, SharePoint Server MVP

Adam Levithan, Product Manager

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Agenda

Why Readiness?• Supporting Critical Business Initiatives• People Care

5 Pillars• Architecture• Network• Database• Customizations• Add-Ins/Apps

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Why Readiness?

Automated business processes with performance expectations

Reduction in speed/ Outage causes loss of revenue

Non-compliance drives organization out of business

Supporting Critical Business Initiatives

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Why Readiness?

Business User

• Want system to work

• Experience Productivity Loss

SharePoint Team

• Receive the first call

• Hands-on troubleshooting

Information Technology

• Responsible for entire system

• Dependent on SharePoint Team

People Care

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Readiness - Monitoring Your Efforts

Gain early warning of developing performance issues through alarms and alerts

Understand the relationship between SharePoint infrastructure and applications

Make the correct decisions about adding or removing servers to the SharePoint farm based on performance

Analyze historical information for trending, capacity planning, and to quantify the impact of future changes

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5 Pillars of Office 365 Readiness

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Approach to Optimization & Readiness

Add-Ins/Apps

Customizations

Database

Network

Architecture

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Architecture

Database

Search BI ServiceApps

Users

Web Web

2007 & 2010

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Architecture

Database

Users

Search BI ServiceApps

Web Web

Database

DistribCache

DistribCache

OfficeWeb Apps

Workflow

Apps

Azure

O365

2013

HybridYamme

r Delve PowerBI

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Network Optimization

Capacity

Load

Traffic Isolation

• Web• Database• Service Applications• Search• Authentication

Indexing

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Network Optimization

Migrations/Initial Data Transfer• Internal and External Bandwidth• ExpressRoute• Azure Storage

Cloud• Content Delivery Network• Geographic Distribution (WAN link balancing)• Page contents

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Database Optimization

Migration• Content archiving• Page cleanup• Data purging• Shrink files• Versions!

Operations • Disk I/O• Index

maintenance• Auto-growth• Quotas

Disaster Recovery• Database size• Available

bandwidth

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Database Distribution

• Provisioning overhead

• Data isolation

• Content storage• Query locks and

throttling

• Utilization• Recoverability

• Resource Consumption

• Availability

System Services

Site CollectionsLists

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Database Fundamentals

Physical hardware resources

Network connectivity

Disk specifications

File location

Index maintenance

High availability

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DEMONSTRATIONDiagnostic Manager

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Monitoring Databases

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Resources Including Network

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Monitoring Pages

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Customizations

Page Components

• Markup• Navigation• Images• Scripts• Code• Web and App Parts

Branding

• Styles• Resources• Master Pages• JavaScript Injection

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Page Components

Page

Page

Master Page

Layout Page

NavigationControls

PermissionsMenu

OptionsWebParts

Data Sources

File System

Database External

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Branding

Uncustomized Customized

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Add-Ins/ Apps

Dependencies• DNS• Infrastructure• Authentication• Certificates• Client Configuration• Bandwidth

Hosting Model• Provider Hosted• SharePoint Hosted

API• CSOM• JSOM• REST

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Next Steps

What are your strongest pillars?

Where do you have the most control to impact?

How do you monitor and optimize the 5 pillars?

What happens when you get to Office 365?

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Office 365 Services

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Office 365 Content Summary

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QUESTIONS

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