MOSS Configuration

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MOSS Configuration

• September 2007

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Server Farm Topology
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Server Farm Topology

• NOTE Stand Alone installations should be done
  for testing or demonstration purposes only. This
  type of installation cant be expanded or
  developed into a server farm configuration. Only
  way to develop into server farm is to manually
  move the databases to new SQL server and
  reinstall MOSS into server farm configuration.
• NOTE All server farm installations of SharePoint
  should be configured to use Kerberos
  authentication. Any external access should be
  done using SSL.

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Server Farm Topology

• Medium Server farm configurations

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Server Farm Topology

• Medium Server farm configurations

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Server Farm Topology

• MOSS standard services with Project Server
  installed

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Server Farm Topology

• Search Service Configuration Screen

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Server Farm Topology

• Example of Medium Server Farm Configuration
• Front End Web Servers
• Windows SharePoint Services Web Application
  Service
• Windows SharePoint Services Incoming E-mail
  Service
• Office SharePoint Server Search (Query Component)
• Application Server(s)
• Central Administration
• Document Conversions Launcher Service
• Document Conversions Load Balancer Service
• Excel Calculation Services
• Project Application Service
• Windows SharePoint Services Help Search

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• Benefits of previous Configuration
• Front End Servers return search results quickly
• Search continues to function if indexer is down
• Indexer can be configured to maximum performance
  with out affecting user experience
• Redundancy to user if one front-end server is
  down
• Gotcha
• If the index server also has the query server
  component configured it will never propagate
  indexes to any other query servers.

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Server Farm Topology

• Central Administration Redundancy
• Install Central Administration service on 2nd
  application server in farm. Configure Alternate
  Access mappings to allow access to the site.
• If Central Administration application server goes
  down without 2nd configured you can recover by
  installing new server into the farm and selecting
  the option to install Central Administration.

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Server Farm Roles

• Farm Administrator
• Administers the Central Administration
  Application
• SSP Administrator
• Administers the SSP application
• Search Administrator
• Can administer all search settings in the SSP
• User Profile Manager
• Can add import connections, manage user profiles,
  and configure MySite settings
• Audience Manager
• Can manage audiences settings in the SSP

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Server Farm Roles

• BDC Manager
• Can import application definitions to the
  Business Data Catalog
• BDC Permission Manager
• Can manage permissions for the Business Data
  Catalog
• Profile Services Permission Manager
• Can manage permissions for profile services
• Excel Services Administrator
• Can administer all Excel Services settings in the
  SSP
• Usage Reporting Manager
• Can administer usage reporting settings in the SSP

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Server Farm Roles

• Single Sign-on Administrator
• Setup, configure, and manage SSO accounts
• Enterprise application definition administrator
• Create, delete, and manage enterprise application
  definitions
• Server-level Administrators
• Local server administrators group are
  automatically added to the Farm Administrators
  SharePoint group and can perform all farm
  administrator actions.

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SSP Configuration

• Shared Service Providers Factoids
• One index server per SSP
• 50 Million documents per Index server including
  BDC
• 20 SSPs per farm limit
• Note An SSP can be associated with only one
  index server and one content index. However, an
  index server can be associated with multiple SSPs
  and have a content index for each SSP.

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Shared ServicesMultiple SSPs?

• Vast majority of installs 1 SSP
• Use cases for multiple SSPs
• Secure isolation of services and service data
• Hosted environments
• Restricted sites
• Organizational / Political concerns

Web App
Web App
CorpWeb
WinWeb
OfficeWeb
LegalWeb
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SSP Configuration

• Inter Farm Shared Services (IFSS)

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SSP Configuration

• Parent/Child relationship. Parent and child must
  exist within the same Active Directory Forest
• Parent and child must have same features and cals
• Child farms share Search, Audience, Profile, and
  BDC
• IFSS not supported across WAN links

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• Useful Links
• Plan for Security Roles
• http//technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library
  /f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr
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• Plan for administrative and service accounts
• http//technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library
  /f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr
  true
• Plan for software boundaries
• http//technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library
  /6a13cd9f-4b44-40d6-85aa-c70a8e5c34fe1033.mspx?mfr
  true