MOSS Architecture and Shared Services

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dmahugh — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:51:47 GMT

Great post, Martin! Thanks for sharing.

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EROL — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:36:51 GMT

Thanks EROL MVP SPS

2007 Microsoft Office Server System Reference Material

The Boiler Room - Mark Kruger, SharePoint MVP — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:50:51 GMT

Here is an assortment of various 2007 Microsoft Office Server System Documentation / Reference Materials...

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Riaz — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:27:21 GMT

Brilliant article, well done!

Riaz

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Smurf — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:27:59 GMT

Very informative. Keep going :)

Sharepoint 2007 Architectures

Breaking Point Blog — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:27:56 GMT

An excellent post here from Martin Kearn which starts to unravel the complexities of large-farm server...

MOSS 2007 Architecture

hello its liam (trainbloggin) — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:56:26 GMT

So I have been doing some research and work on SharePoint 2007 Architecture recently. I came across a...

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Dave Wollerman — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:19:20 GMT

I would like to see more about how the global architecture process is setup. I know of issues right now with 2003 that you "shouldn't" use shared services over a WAN and it is recommended that you have a seperate farm in each region.

My question is has 2007 fixed this problem? can we have a WFE and DB servers in europe, but use a global set of shared services servers in North America?

I am sure there is a ton of stuff 2007 can do that hasn't been published yet, but I would like to see if it is headed down a certian track.

Thanks,
Dave

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Pete Brown — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:26:10 GMT

Excellent article, helped fill in a few gaps. Looking forward to your next excellent posts :)

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Festa — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:08:16 GMT

It's all Greek to me. But not only does Mr Kearn write superb articles on bewilderingly complex issues concerning Microsoft-powered networks, he also produces a marvellous pasta bake and plays a mean bass guitar!

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MarkDurose — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:03:11 GMT

Nice article Martin, I have being looking at sharepoint recently and your blog and links to others is going to be very useful.

Regards,
Mark

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joy — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:30:53 GMT

Great!

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Jerry — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:04:07 GMT

I have a question regarding MySite.
How do you scale for millions of users?

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AtWorksLLC — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:56:59 GMT

Martin,

Nice article. I have a couple of questions regarding the use of SSPs in a WSS environemnt, and the licensing of SSPs in a multi-tier front-end architecture.

1. Do WSS 3.0 web applications have to share the same config database as the primary SharePoint server in order to use the SSPs privided by the SharePoint server?

2. What is the impact from a licensing standpoint? If WSS clients can use SSPs, do users need to have a SharePoint Server CAL?

Thanks

environment anImagine I have load-balanced Front-end web servers Do WSS 3.0 sites

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Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:55:12 GMT

In response to the lciensing questions and use of WSS ...

1) No, the farms that are consuming the shared services will have their own config and content database. They will most likely be on a different SQL server in large deployments.

2) I am not a licensing guy and cannot be sure about this (please seek an official answer from your account manager), but I think that if your WSS sites are consuming services from the MOSS SSP then your users will need MOSS CALs because they are using MOSS functionality (even if it is presented via WSS). If you are only using WSS, you dont need MOSS as a WSS only install will provide the same search engine but none of the other shared services.

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Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:59:06 GMT

In response to the My Site scalability question ...

My Sites scale the same way as any other sites ... you simply add web servers and beef up the SQL backend. There is a rule of thumb that you should not have more than 8 web servers for each SQL backend, but you can always use multiple content databases anyway.

Please refer to the planning doucments for more details http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/deploy.mspx

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Gavin Guinane — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:51:37 GMT

Very clear article Martin. Well done.

MOSS Architecture & Shared Services

Miguel Isidoro — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:25:47 GMT

Este post no blog do Martin Kearn, contém um artigo interessante sobre a arquitectura do MOSS

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Spence — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:49:33 GMT

in answer to Dave's question re SSP over the WAn, please see http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2006/10/08/Geo_2D00_distributed-Deployments.aspx

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Raju — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:53:01 GMT

Very Good.

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Sahil — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:39:39 GMT

Great article....

Helped a lot...

Well done...

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ale — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:36:39 GMT

very good and informative article..thanks dude

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Noel Dsouza — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:58:41 GMT

Can we seperate the different Tiers i.e. Web Servers,Application Servers and the database clusters using Firewall.if So what port do they use.

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kris — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:18:05 GMT

Very nice article, superb

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Noel Dsouza — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:20:54 GMT

I am not sure if this is a true 3 tier architecture .I see a direct communication between the web servers and the database servers.

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Ahmed — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:09:42 GMT

I have few doubts relating to Medium Farm Deployment.

I have 2 load balance servers one applicaiont server and one database server.

my doubt is where does the central administration go it should be in the front end servers or it should be in the Application server but since I am using query and index server in the application server and it is not recomended to use index server for central administrion then how can we configure the front end servers.

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Bon Scott — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:04:38 GMT

Is there a wat to create SharedServices? I could not find anything about this topic,...

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Lex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:35:06 GMT

Martin,

What i dont understand is the way a web-front end install relates to an SSP install. To clarify, to install on 3 separate servers, 1) sql 2005, 2) SSP 3) web-frontend Team Sites and 4) MySites, do I have to install Central Administration on servers 2),3) and 4)? Do i then have to create web-applications on 3) and 4) from their central administration web applications and associate these in the SSP server?

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valentine — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:45:58 GMT

this is great, i had installed and configured my first Moss in vs2005 and when i got to configuring SSP i was not sure what to do, but this article has cleared it all for me. Great stuff Martin, you are a life saver!!! i start my new moss role next week.

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GM — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:57:24 GMT

I have 2 load balanced WFE servers, one Application server and a clustered Database server(s).

Can I set my WFE boxes to also be Query Servers and have Search/Index Server Role on Application Server (SSP). With this setup, when a user searches for results, will the user get results even if Application server is down?

Thanks everyone, in advance for your responses.

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JoF — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:53:46 GMT

Hi Martin,

Great article.

Sorry, I'am just new with MOSS 2007. Do you have any relevant article regarding explanation on configuration steps on a server farm environment? I can clearly follow the deployment guide of MOSS (I can successfully up a site) but I would like to understand why each step is needed or important. Hope you can help me.

Thanks

Regards,

JoF@corebuilt.com

re:Shared Services Fix and Repair

kentek — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:57:39 GMT

Thanks for all you great info but I'm still in a quandary on how to repair or replace a SSP.

If one wanted to delete an SSP what would be the steps and how to test that the new SSP is working correctly?

I have a single MOSS 2007 Server for test.

Everything is pretty much working except the Shared Services site.

Can you point me to some in depth documentation?

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Satyam — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:49:01 GMT

Too good...Excellent article...

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dexter — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:36:01 GMT

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to install SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine

A Marvellous Point — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:50:51 GMT

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MOSS is my middle name — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:29:44 GMT

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