Chief Architect & CEO Making the Most of Today’s Investment Topology Logical architecture Platform dependencies UX metaphors & user training Developer tools.
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Chief Architect & CEO Making the Most of Today’s Investment Topology Logical architecture Platform dependencies UX metaphors & user training Developer tools Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same basic topology: • WFE • APP • SQL But: • Office Web App Servers • Workflow Manager Servers And…No separate FAST servers Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same basic topology: Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same logical architecture • • • • • • Farm Web Application Site Collection Site (Subweb) List/Library Item IIS Web Site—“SharePoint Web Services” Application pool Access Services Application pool Excel Calculation Services Managed Metadata User Profile Business Data Connectivity Secure Store Service Search Application pool Web application—Published Intranet Content Http://woodgrove/ Web application—Team Sites Web application—My Sites http://team http://my http://my/personal/<user> HR Facilities Purchasing Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same platform dependencies • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 • SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 • CPU + Memory + I/O Except: • Windows 2012/SQL 2012 • Memory requirements go UP • WFE: 8GB12GB [24-32GB!] Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same UX metaphors • Site Pages • Web Parts • Ribbon • Folders/Metadata Except: • Everything’s an App Additional training required Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same developer tools • Visual Studio • SharePoint Designer Except: • SharePoint Designer Design View • Napa Tool for Office 365 Making the Most of Today’s Investment Net Result? Able to leverage much of existing investment SharePoint 2013: What’s New? Social Mobile Search Business Solutions Social How does it impact me? • More usage of personal sites • Retention and compliance considerations • New privacy settings • Governance: what should users do? Mobile How does it impact me? • BYOD gaining popularity • Internal/external connectivity • Users expecting it to work Search How does it impact me? • Topology • Content Search Web Part • Central to user experience • Users expect it to be perfect WFE Access Services SQL Business Solutions How does it impact me? • Topology: Access Services, SQL Azure, etc. • Database growth and management • Empowerment of power users What’s New in SharePoint 2013? Net Result? Identify where SharePoint 2013 can make the best impact to your business. 1. Organize Content Metadata vs. Folders Default vs. Requested Values Contributor vs. Consumer Empowerment vs. Governance SharePoint Governance: Simply the “Rules of the Road” 1. Organize Content Net result: Use governance to manage risk…will start to lead to better organization of content And better search results 2. Plan for Search Reconcile Content Sources Organize Content in Hierarchies Use Natural Language Encourage rich and consistent metadata Review Search Reports Regularly 3. Plan for Social Social features rely heavily on profiles Reliable profile information is harder than you think Invest in planning and governance in this area 3. Plan for Social: 7 Steps 1. Identify stakeholders 2. Identify how the profile information will be used 3. Identify directory services and business systems 4. Determine which properties to include 5. Determine property details 6. Determine personalization settings policies 7. Plan for capacity 3. Plan for Social Remember, My Sites is three key features: 1. Profiles 2. Personal Sites 3. Social (Newsfeeds, etc.) So…who can do what? [plan permissions] My Site Permissions* 1. Create Personal Site Enables users to create a personal site to store their documents, newsfeed, and followed content. 2. Follow People and Edit Profile Enables users to follow people from their My Site and to edit their personal profile. 3. Use Tags and Notes Enables users to use SharePoint 2010 tags and notes Option combo 1, 2, 3 1,2 1 1,3 2 2, 3 3 Personal Edit Document Document Newsfeed site profile library following creation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No MY SITE People following Site following Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Social Tags and Note Board Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes 4. Plan for Apps Define Your App Strategy Plan for Farm and Sandbox Solutions Design for the Cloud moving forward 4. Plan for Apps 5. Clean Up Top 10 List: Preparing Your Environment for SharePoint 2013 Moving to SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 Upgrades 5. Clean Up Top 10 List: Preparing Your Environment for SharePoint 2013 Clean Up 10. Delete unused or underused site collections and subwebs Why? Reduce risk and improve performance Clean Up 9. Check large lists (lists with lots of data) Why? Performance and User Experience Clean Up 8. Delete excess columns from wide lists (lists with too many columns) or remove wide lists Why? Wide lists can cause an upgrade to fail Clean Up 7. Consider moving site collections into separate databases Why? SP2010: 15,000 site collections SP2013: 5,000 site collections Clean Up 6. Remove extraneous document versions Why? Large numbers of versions can slow down an upgrade significantly Clean Up 5. Remove unused templates, features, and Web Parts Why? Platform hygiene Clean Up 4. Remove PowerPoint Broadcast sites Why? Not available in 2013 (Office Web Apps installed separately) Clean Up 3. Finish Visual Upgrades in SharePoint 2010 Why? All sites will move to 2010 experience automatically Clean Up 2. Check databases for duplicate or orphaned site collections Why? Platform hygiene Clean Up 1. Clean up Health Analyzer Issues Why? Platform hygiene Clean Up 0. Have a beer (with your users) Why? Beer is good. And you’ll learn something valuable from user community Bob’s Journey: 1. He deployed SharePoint 20072010 2. Thinking about 2013 3. Wants to prepare better than he did for 20072010 • He switched on social, but didn’t get quality participation • He switched on search, but didn’t get good results • Site content could be organized better • Little to no site governance • No ongoing 'love' 4. Wanted to understand his potential journey (before he embarks) Initial Deployment Deploy collaboration sites that connect teams, improve access to information and increase productivity Controlled Empowerment Establish governance and training that provides a wellorganized model for content management and delivery Broad Adoption Deliver advanced workloads that broaden adoption, drive compliance and reduce the cost of maintain multiple systems Business Critical Solutions Build tailored business solutions that provide insights, improve decisions and increase organizational agility Where are you in your SharePoint journey? Stop by Jornata booth 460 to take our survey…and enter for a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD! Good profiles Accurate profile info AD hygine Photos Business need Good titles Good metadata Clean content corpus Quality pruning Quality Content Communication Incentives Great Experience Clear Business need Strategy Governance Development Support Power Users Ongoing technical monitoring Ongoing content monitoring Great User Support Great Experience Clear Business need Scott Jamison Email: [email protected] Blog: www.scottjamison.com Twitter: @sjam MySPC http://myspc.sharepointconference.com