SharePoint 2013 Administrator Skills
Shane Young and Todd Klindt
SharePoint Nerds
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Who Am I?
• Shane Young
• Rackspace in Cincinnati
• SharePoint Server MVP 8 YEARS!
• Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker • [email protected]
• Blog
• http://msmvps.com/shane
• SharePoint Consulting
• http://sharepoint.Rackspace.com
• @ShanesCows
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Who is this Todd guy?
• WSS MVP since 2006
• Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, 4th in line for the British throne
• Personal Blogwww.toddklindt.com/blog
• Company web sitehttp://sharepoint.rackspace.com
• Twitter me! @toddklindt
• Weekly Netcast
• http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast
SharePoint and its Friends
• Standard, Enterprise, or Data Center
• Still 64 bit
• http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2013forgottenprereqs
SharePoint and its Friends
• Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter
• Standard, BI, or Datacenter
SharePoint production hardware
• Windows
• SharePoint root
• All of those hotfixes & service packs for the next few years
• Some SharePoint operations spool here
• Move all possible files here (logs, etc.)
• All servers must have the same drive letters
• 12 GB for production servers in 3 tier topology
• 24 GB for all-in-one test or dev
• 8 GB for test or dev Foundation
• All servers must have less than 1 ms of latency to each other
Virtualization and Hardware requirements
• Web front ends – Sure
• Application – Be careful
• SQL – Be very, very careful
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx
Sometimes SharePoint Isn’t Enough
• Add on product for managing Project 2013 projects
• Requires SharePoint 2013 Enterprise CAL
• Requires SQL 2012
• Installs as a service application
• Licensed separately
• Read is free
• Create/edit will cost you
• Stand alone install
• Can no longer be installed on a SharePoint server
• https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/677451264
• SharePoint Server required (Excel Services)
Services by SKU
• App Management
• BDC *
• Usage and health data collection
• Subscription settings
• Machine Translation *
• Managed Metadata *
• Search *
• Secure Store *
• State
• User Profile *
• Word Automation
• Work Management
• Access
• Access 2010
• Excel
• PerformancePoint
• Visio Graphics
* = Cross Farm
= Has Database
Three tiers of SharePoint
• These are servers that host the IIS sites (web applications) that your users interact with
• You have to setup your own load balancing to direct web traffic
• Catch all for the servers in your farm that run the various services
• SharePoint is very flexible, you can spread the load any way you want
• SharePoint does the load balancing of service for you
• Search needs some extra lovin’
• Can be any supported version of SQL
• Can be cluster or mirrored or any other cool SQL trick you know
• You can have multiple SQL servers
Dos
Tres
Mas Tres
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Scaling Search example
¡Más Grande!
Four stages to a good install
• Don’t forget the forgotten Prereqs
• http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2013forgottenprereqs
• If you have any hot fixes, service packs, or language packs now is the time to install them
Setup.exe
• Must be local administrator on all SharePoint Servers
• Must have SQL Server roles of dbcreator, securityadmin, and public
• http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013ServiceAccounts
Updates
• http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013Builds
• Hotfixes
• Cumulative Updates
• Service Packs
• They break stuff
• Test in a test environment first
• Wait at least a month before putting in production
• Consider a donation to a local charity
Configuring SharePoint 2013 the Cool Way
• https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/928603161
• http://www.toddklindt.com/teched2013
Search Changes
• Rebuilt to include some FAST functionality
• Heavy reliance on PowerShell
• Architecture Changes
• Search Components
• Crawl
• Content Processing
• Analytics Processing
• Index
• Query Processing
• Each with their very own noderunner.exe
The User Profile Synchronization Service
• Almost Identical to SharePoint 2010 UPS
• Exports to AD (Top request from 2007)
• Flexible Property Mappings
• "Exports" & "Flexible" equals "a little more complex“
• “New” Active Directory Import Mode
• Only Active Directory
• Only Import
• Faster, LDAP filters
• Can switch back and forth
SkyDrive Pro
• Has NOTHING to do with SkyDrive
• Handy link
• A fancy name for your My Site Documents library
• Can use SkyDrive Pro to sync locally
• Way better than Groove or Workspaces
• Can also sync non SkyDrive Pro folders with SkyDrive Pro
• More information
• http://www.toddklindt.com/SkyDriveProSP2013
• Standalone download
• http://www.toddklindt.com/DownloadSkyDrivePro2013
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