Module 2

Creating a SharePoint 2010 Intranet

Start the Virtual Machines

1. Start 10174A-CONTOSO-DC-B.

2. After CONTOSO-DC has completed startup, start 10174A-SP2010-WFE1-B.

3. Log on to SP2010-WFE1 as CONTOSO\SP_Admin with the password, Pa$$w0rd.

Module Overview

• Performing Initial Farm Configuration

• Configuring the SharePoint Logical Structure

• Exploring the SharePoint Web Application and Physical Architecture

Lesson 1: Performing Initial Farm Configuration

• Walkthrough: Farm Configuration Wizard

• Farm Configuration Wizard

• Service Applications: An Overview

• Managed Accounts: An Overview

Walkthrough: Farm Configuration Wizard

In this walkthrough you will:

•Run the Farm Configuration Wizard

•Identify the configuration tasks performed by the Wizard

Farm Configuration Wizard

• Applies SharePoint defaults

Service applications

Application connections

Managed accounts

• Why?

Simple, out-of-box defaults

Testing, training, development

• Why Not?

Custom farm configuration

Service Applications: An Overview

• Service applications host specific SharePoint functionality

Search Service Application

Business Connectivity Service

Managed Metadata Service

User Profile Service

Web applications connect to the service application*

• A service app’s application connection (proxy) allows connections to the service app

Web applications connect to the service app proxy*

• Connections are grouped into application connection (proxy) groups

* In fact, web applications are associated with an application proxy group, which provides connections (proxies) to one or more service apps

Service Applications: An Overview

• Architecture

MOSS 2007: Shared Service Provider (SSP)

SharePoint Foundation 2010

• Service application architecture

• Windows Communication Framework

• Extensible

• Setup and administration

MOSS 2007: SSP administration

SharePoint 2010

• Central Administration

• Remote management and monitoring

• Windows PowerShell

Service Applications: An Overview

• Flexible topology

MOSS 2007: Web app SSP All services in the SSP

SharePoint 2010

• Web app proxy group service apps

• Cross-farm service consumption over HTTPS

Service Applications: An Overview (Whiteboard)

Managed Accounts: An Overview

• What is the security and management challenge with service accounts in an enterprise?

• SharePoint managed accounts

SharePoint can change the password of managed accounts in Active Directory and the password in the service configuration

• Managing managed accounts

Registration

Password change

Password expiration and automatic password change

Lesson 2: Configuring the SharePoint Logical Structure

• SharePoint Logical Structure

• Request a Page from a SharePoint Site

• Create a Web Application

• Create a Site Collection

• Site Collection Settings

• Subsites, Site Collections, and Content Databases

• Managed Paths

• Content Databases

Content Database(s)

SharePoint Logical Structure

Web Application

Site Collection

Top-LevelSite

Site Collection

Top-LevelSite

Site Collection

Top-LevelSite

Site Collection

Top-LevelSite

Site List Library

[Folder] [Folder]

Item Document

Site

Managed Paths

Request a Page from a SharePoint Site

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

DNS

http request to 10.0.0.11:80host header “intranet.contoso.com”

SharePoint

Query intranet.contoso.com

Resolved 10.0.0.11

IIS

Content DB

SQL

http://intranet.contoso.com

Create a Web Application• Application Management Web Applications

Manage Web Applications New

• Unique URL: IP address:Port + host header Typical: User port 80 (or SSL) with host header

• Application name: based on your naming standards

• Authentication mode: Classic or Claims-Based

• Public URL: for load balancing

• Application pool Shared app pool for reduced RAM overhead

Separate app pools for process isolation

• Shared identity for simplicity

• Separate identities for manageability and audit

• Database name: based on your naming standards

• DNS: A record (not CNAME)

Load Balancing

intranet.contoso.com

intranet.contoso.com

intranetContent DB

intranet.contoso.com :80

intranet.contoso.com :80

intranet.contoso.com

intranet.contoso.com

WFE WFE

SQL

DNShttp://intranet.contoso.com

Create a Site Collection• Application Management Site Collections

Create site collections

• Ensure you’re focused on the correct Web application

• Title

• URL

Top level: /

Additional site collections: / [managed path /] SiteName

• Recommend URLs with no spaces (%20) and MixedCase

• Site definition: Template selection

Sub-sites: List is filtered based on parent site settings

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Content Database

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection Settings

• Application Management Site Collections

• Ownership, Administration, and Access

• Quotas

• Site collection locks

• Self-service site creation

• Site use confirmation and deletion

Subsites, Site Collections, and Content Databases

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

HRHR EngineeringEngineering

Content Database

Content Database

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Content Database

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

Engineering

Site Collection

Engineering

Content Database

/depts/

Subsites

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

HRHR EngineeringEngineering

Content Database

Ownership, Quotas

Multiple Site Collections

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

Engineering

Site Collection

Engineering

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Content Database

Storage

Management

Content Database

Multiple Content Databases

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Content Database

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

Engineering

Site Collection

Engineering

Content Database

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Content Database

Managed Paths

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Content Database

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

Engineering

Site Collection

Engineering

Content Database

/depts/Wildcard inclusionManaged path

http://intranet.contoso.com/depts/HR/Pages/benefits.aspx

Pages/benefits.aspx

Content Databases

• Site collections and content databases

A site collection cannot span content databases

Out-of-box tools recovery tools require restoration of a content database

• Scalability support

300 CDBs per Web application

• CDBs per SQL server dependent on RAM

200 GB per content database is supported

100 GB per site collection

250,000 Web sites per site collection

• 2,000 under any one Web site

• Create a Content Database

• Add a Site Collection to a Content Database

Create a Content Database

• Application Management Databases Manage content databases

• Ensure you’re focused on the correct Web application

• Add a content database

• Database name: based on your naming standards

Add a Site Collection to a Content Database

• Create a site in a content database

Central Administration

• Content database with most available sites

- If a tie, the content database with the lowest GUID wins

Windows PowerShell: New-SPSite -ContentDatabase parameter

• Move site collections between content databases

Move-SPSite

Content Database

Example Logical Architecture

intranet.contoso.comintranet.contoso.com

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Site Collection

Top-Level Site

Content Database

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

HR

Site Collection

Engineering

Site Collection

Engineering

Content Database

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Lesson 3: Exploring the SharePoint Web Application and Physical Architecture

• SharePoint and Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and 7.5

• SharePoint Web Application Components

• web.config

• SharePoint Root

• SharePoint Databases

• Customized vs. Uncustomized Pages

SharePoint and Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and 7.5

• HttpModules and HttpHandlers participate in all requests to the server

• ASP.NET configuration integrated in user interface

• Request auditing and error debugging

Request Tracing for 500 errors

• .NET API for IIS configuration settings

• No Metabase

Configuration stored in applicationHost.config

• Delegated configuration and administration

SharePoint Web Applications Components

• New SharePoint web application new IIS site

Port and host header binding specified when creating a SharePoint Web app

• Application pool & associated identity

Efficiency: shared app pool = shared process, overhead

Isolation: separate app pool = separate process, overhead

• Root directory is a subfolder of c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories

web.config for the SharePoint application

Virtual directories point to other folders, each with its own .NET configuration (web.config)

• HttpModules are responsible for adding the SharePoint object model properties to the memory space

web.config

• XML-based file in the root folder of each Web application or virtual directory

• Sections (XML elements) group the configuration

SafeControls: defines what controls can be used on a SharePoint page.

SafeMode: determines whether pages are allowed to execute in-line .NET code.

MergedActions: allows changes to web.config without actually modifying the file, by merging actions specified in selected and other files.

BlobCache: enables caching various file types in a location on the Web front end, rather than pulling files from the database for each request.

SharePoint Root

• Majority of SharePoint files reside in a single directory on the Web server called the SharePoint Root

•C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14

• Top-level folders

• TEMPLATE folder

• Synchronization of the SharePoint root

SharePoint Databases

• Config database: servers and services in the farm

• Service applications: one or more databases

• Web applications: one or more content databases

Plus shared content from the SharePoint root

• Content database

List items, document versions

Workflow instances

Web Part properties

Audit logs

Sandboxed solutions

User names and rights

Customized vs. Uncustomized Pages

• New site: Site definition generates initial content

Some pages are shared across sites, e.g. DEFAULT.ASPX

Page is actually stored in the SharePoint root

• Uncustomized page

Resides in SharePoint root

Content of page (e.g., definition of which Web parts appear)is stored in the content database

• Customized page

Modify the page itself using a tool: SharePoint Designer 2010

.aspx page is stored in the content database

• HttpModule analyzes URI of request, then gets page from content database or (if page is not there) SharePoint root

• Service packs overwrite files in SharePoint root

Lab: Creating a SharePoint 2010 Intranet

• Exercise 1: Creating a Web Application

• Exercise 2: Creating a Site Collection

• Exercise 3: Creating a Site Collection in a New Content Database

Logon information

Estimated time: 30 minutes

Scenario

• You have been asked to build an intranet to support communication and collaboration requirements at Contoso, Ltd. You have recently completed the installation of SharePoint 2010. You must now configure the farm using the Farm Configuration Wizard, and create the logical topology to support the initial business requirements. You are tasked with establishing a SharePoint 2010 intranet site so that business users can review the new features of the publishing site definition. Additionally, you have been asked to configure sites to meet the collaboration requirements of several divisions within the organization, so you will begin by creating a site for the Information Technology (IT) department.

Module Review and Takeaways

• Review Questions