Architecture denotes the high-level structure of a software system
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It's possible to put the Application servers on different subnet than the Front End Servers
It is possible to put the Application servers on a different subnet than the Front End Servers in SharePoint 2013,
What are the advantages and drawbacks, noting that this is an Internet facing ...
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Architecting a department site with 2 TB+ of data
We are looking at the possibility of migrating 2TB+ worth of data from our network driving into SharePoint for a department site. For this question I'm assuming all data is valid and has the ability ...
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Central login page - different portals (SP2010)
I would like to have some advice for the logical structure for a corporate portal.
I really appreciate your feedback.
AS IS
At the moment we have a 'partly' public facing site. Assuming this site is ...
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What is a query server in SharePoint farm?
As per my understanding a farm consists of:
SharePoint Server
Database
Now the above SharePoint Server can be one of the following roles:
WFE
Application Server
So basically a SharePoint farm ...
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When should we separate a site collection into a different web application
we are planning a sharepoint topology and wondering if we should separate each department in a different web application or just a dedicated site collection.
What's the guide or best practice to ...
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How to scale out Reporting Services on SharePoint Integrated Mode over NLB
I have a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise farm with the following topology :-
2 WFE SERVER (behind NLB 1)
1 APP SERVER (used for Search)
1 APP SERVER (used for other service applications)
1 DB Cluster ...
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Organization Concept Design
Say I have an organization structured like so...
-- Root Host
---- Group A
------ Project of A as P1
--------- Sub Project of P1 as SP1
----------- Sub Project of SP1 as SSP1
----------- Sub ...
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Sharepoint integration endpoint (WCF)
This is an architectural question:
I want to create an endpoint for Sharepoint 2010 for outer systems. Its basic functionality is that it is supposed to broadcast info about changes done to ...
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Multi-Tier SharePoint Deployment - Read-only Web Servers
Is it possible to have the following deployment architecture for hosting SharePoint internet websites? If yes, how can I make the front-end web servers as read-only while allowing content ...
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Need a Suggestion on Sharepoint project Architecture
Actually we need to develop an intranet portal for a company. There will be a common landing page and each department will have their own subsite which will be driven through a navigation from the ...
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Being a SharePoint Architect - what all you need to know? [closed]
First let me categorize SharePoint consumer modifiers as below
End Users - people who basically browse the portal and do operations like upload, download and navigate..
Limited customization of the ...
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Is it recommended to store high volume transaction data in SharePoint Lists?
I need to devise a solution strategy for an internal application that will take inputs from rfid tags and those records will to be stored "somewhere". Now this somewhere needs to be choice a between a ...
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SharePoint 2010 Architecture
I am looking for a good book which explains me the architecture of SharePoint 2010.
Can somebody please let me know the details of the book or any material.
Thank you
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Pro/cons: Multiple lists or one big list with multiple views?
I have data that can go through different stages, during which it will have common fields and fields that are only used on specific stages.
If I e.g. have these fields: CommenField1, CommenField2, ...
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Will a service application be a good fit for this?
We've got the following scenario:
From a site a user should be able to mark a file as archived. Doing so would send a copy of the file to an external DMS (non-sharepoint). When the document has been ...
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SharePoint Architecture Design Examples
I am bit confused with entire SharePoint Process. I mean if there is a Company who never used SharePoint and they want to get one for there Organisation. They have there own team of C# developers but ...
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Architecture: How do you store single pieces of information?
I am building a solution in which each Site Collection represents a single contained unit. The members of that unit will be using SharePoint to track information that describes their unit at the root ...
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Create a QA site similar to StackExchange on SharePoint 2010 [closed]
One of our client wish to implement a smart collaboration process for its vast pool of employees around 50k located across different continents. They already have SharePoint 2010 enabled as the ...
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Why to use MS Office 2010 32 bit in SP 2010 Farm on 64 bit Windows Servers?
When I first tried to install Sharepoint Designer 2010, I initially downloaded its 64 bit version
But upon lanuching the install of SharePoint.exe, I've gotten:
Setup Error
You cannot ...
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why does SP use unmanaged code?
Or more specifically, where is that code coming from? I guess it's not from the components built on top of web forms? Is it the IIS integration? Anyone have a (link) meaningful - (not marketecture) ...
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Installing SSRS on the Sharepoint Box as opposed to the SQL Box?
We currently have two SQl boxes (2008 R2) with multiple instances on them. One for test and the other for production databases.
We also have two sharepoint servers (2010 Enterprise). One in the DMZ ...
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MSDN like application on SharePoint 2010
I have a project initiated for a client where they want a Knowledge Base Application for their line of business. The interface needed is almost a replica of MSDN Library which needs to implemented ...
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Is it Possible to Add a Button/Link to Move Site?
I'm new to SharePoint 2010 administration and I'm trying to set up a project site archive system where my users can simply click a button/link either in the ribbon or on the home page of the project ...
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hard drive configuration
A section in the TechNet article Best Practices for Operational Excellence (SharePoint Server 2010) states the following:
Separate system components into logical drives and use RAID for ...
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Sharepoint Farm - direct requests as specific servers
We have a Sharepoint Farm with 3 WFE.
We have a number of Web Applications on the Sharepoint Farm.
Is it possible that for one web application we always redirect all requests to a single WFE?
Thanks
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Books Recommended for Beginner SharePoint architect
I am a recent graduate and got a job as a junior SharePoint developer few months ago. For the last few months, I have been working on SharePoint development, e.g. webparts, .Net Forms, K2, Lists, ...
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Knowledge areas of a SharePoint Architect
In general, an Enterprise Architect is one who build the architecture which is mostly about expensive and hard-to-change decisions. In context of SharePoint,what can be all those decisions?
I think ...
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Existing sharepoint gui or new website?
Is it a good thing to build everything in the existing gui of sharepoint or is it beter to create a custom website and use sharepoint as a backend?
how can I make that decision?
I think that just ...
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Multiple instances of Sharepoint 2010 on one machine - development and staging
We will soon have multiple sharepoint 2010 projects underway. For the first project we brought up two virtual machines - one for development and one for staging. We're about to start another project, ...
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Large Scale Search Topology
I'm planning the indexing and search topology for a new customer.
This customer wants to store approximately 10 million documents in the SharePoint farm on an annual basis. These documents are to be ...
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How do I tune a SharePoint 2010 farm on VMWare?
We have a large SharePoint 2010 farm running on VMWare ESX cluster. Based on the hardware underpinning this environment and the given load (which is light), we feel like the servers are responding ...
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Using Sharepoint as a development tool?
We have been using .NET for business applications (high availability, many concurrent users) and some people here are suggesting most of these applications could be developed with Sharepoint 2010.
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Wireframing, mockup and interaction flow tools for SharePoint sites
I've been using Visio to mockup to design mockups and wireframes for sites, but I'm looking for other tools to help with the design process. I've been playing around with MS Expression Blend and ...
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Recommendation for the correct topology/architecture
I've been tasked with proposing an architecture for our new SharePoint 2010 environment. The problem is that it will be hosted externally on a server that we have full control over at a data centre.
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How do you build an app on SharePoint?
We're building a personnel system for an HR department. The final solution will be sitting in SharePoint 2007 (upgrading to 2010 in 6-12 months). We've built a data model, and now we're faced with a ...
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Choosing between API and web services
We are designing a system where we will have a service facade, behind this facade will be functionality to update SharePoint. For example to move an item from one list to another.
What we are ...
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Application architecture question
My application has 3 sharepoint parts:
a Administration page to configure the application
a timer job and
a webpart to view data from the application
I built them all into the same feature. When ...
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SharePoint Architecture - How do you do it?
I'm interested to see how different people organise their SharePoint installations in terms of Web Applications, Site Collections and Sites.
Additionally, has anyone changed their architecture as ...
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How to provide a generic service to create and update documents
Problem: We need to create a generic document repository that will store all documents within an enterprise. The repository will be used by external systems, that is other SharePoint Web Applications ...
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Service Application Fail-over
I am not seeing in the technical docs about how to deploy redundant service applications for a farm. I am seeking confirmation about my idea of having two web servers responsible for cross-farm ...
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User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL
Question :
User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL.
Can we follow the steps given below:
○ Take the backup of the existing site collection ...
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What is the SPWebService and how does it fit into the hierarchy?
I'm trying to understand the SharePoint hierarchy of objects and don't understand SPWebService .
Here is what I have:
SPFarm contains
One or (usually) multiple WebApplications, each contains
One ...
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SharePoint for Transactional Systems
Most of you in this IT World must have been building applications/solutions for Transactional Systems (Insurance/Banking/Retail) using a various Development Tool (e.g. - .NET/ASP/VB/Java) and a RDBMS ...
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Off the shelf solutions for increasing SharePoint performance?
What off the shelf solution/software do you use or recommend for enhancing SharePoint performance?
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Which site template to use for embedding existing applications?
I'm currently going through the SharePoint Planning and Architecture documentation, planning a SharePoint installation. I'm on the section "Determine Sites and Subsites".
One of the things suggested ...
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Rules of thumb for when to use a site, a subsite, or a site collection?
I am developing a company website/portal in SharePoint, and am trying to figure
out the best way to organise it into site collections, sites and subsites --
I'm confused by the terminology I think.
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Architecture of the Audience Compilation?
I went through the SharePoint Escalation team blogs and understood the basic architecture of the "User Profile Import" and still would like to know the architecture of the "Audience Compilation" and ...
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Does search work for this architecture? Query/Index server in Corporate Network, but only Web Server in DMZ
Can I have this configuration?
Corporate Network
Query Server/Index Server service running on the repository server ( I will install web server component on this machine also)
DMZ(Perimeter ...
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Restructuring a Very Large Document Library
Another question about the Very Large List I referenced in this question: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.comquestions/445/deleting-old-versions-in-a-document-library
This Document Library has over ...
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Statistics and information about large SharePoint farms
I'm looking for information and statistics about large SharePoint farms. Who runs such a farm? How many users do they have? How many documents do they manage/store? What does the farm architecture ...
