Internet facing site scenario
Stages:
1. Evaluate business problems and choose MOSS
2. Plan the site
3. Plan how the site will be maintained
4. Plan and deploy underlying infrastructure
5. Build the site and deploy
6. Configure operations
7. Maintain and modify the site
8. Maintain infrastructure
Scenario Data
Business Needs
Authenticated Users | Developers -1, Tester -1, Authors – 10 authors and editors, 3-5 web designers and graphic artists |
Corpus Size | Anticipate corpus size |
Document sizes and amount of changes | Average document size: 10 KB
Number of documents published per publishing cycle: 20 average, up to 45 Percentage increase in number of documents expected over three years: 5% per year |
Visits per day | Average 1.5 million per day Peak : 2.5 million per day Days of peak usage : Quarterly and year end closing announcements |
Performance | Acceptable time for first page load for local area users on broadband connection :2 sec |
Server farm
topologies
topologies
Integration farm | Single farm / Virtual server |
Authoring farm | 2 front end web servers and Cluster DB server |
Production farm (failover farm identical) | 3 front end web servers, 1 serving queries, 1 application server, Clustered DB servers |
Hardware and Software
Authoring Farm | Clustered DB servers | 4 3 GHz or faster processors
16 GB RAM minimum recommended 15 GB hard drive (holds corpus: 1,000,000 10 KB documents) Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition |
Front End Servers | Dual 3 GHz or faster processors
4 GB RAM minimum recommended
Available disk space to hold the index of at least .34 * the size of the corpus, plus room for the binary large object (BLOB) cache — approximately 20 MB. Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition | |
Production farm (Failover farm identical ) | Clustered DB servers | 4 3 GHz or faster processors
16 GB RAM
15 GB hard drive (holds corpus: 1,000,000 10 KB documents) Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition |
Front End Servers | Dual 3 GHz or faster processors
4 GB RAM
Available disk space to hold the index of at least .34 * the size of the corpus, plus room for the BLOB cache — approximately 20 MB. Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition | |
Index server | Dual 3 GHz or faster processors
4 GB RAM
Available disk space to hold the index of at least .34 * the size of the corpus | |
Integration Farm | Single server. 4 3 GHz or faster processors 16 GB RAM 500 GB disk space Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers | |
Scenario Roles
Role | Team | Definition |
Solution Architect | Solutions | Leads in the specifications of solution’s design and implementation |
Program Manger | Solutions | Writes the solution’s specifications and helps manage the solution creation and deployment process |
Program Manager | Core IT | Writes the infrastructure related to hosting the site and helps implement and test the infrastructure |
Content Manger | Solutions | Responsible for the site’s content and Signs off on major content decisions |
Designer | Solutions | Responsible for designing and creating site artifacts (Master Pages, Style sheets and graphics) |
Developer | Solutions | Responsible for developing software customizations |
Tester | Solutions | Responsible for testing software customizations , also responsible verifying the content in staging environment |
Service Manager | Core IT | Manages all Sharepoint IT services, responsible for service supporting the internet presence site |
IT Administrator | Core IT | Responsible for centrally administrating sharepoint services, including new service supporting for internet presence site |
IT Operator | Core IT | Responsible for operations related to site such as backing up and restoring site and managing content deployment jobs reports |
Author | Solutions | Authors content for site |
Editor | Solutions | Edits content and approves publication |
Business Decision Maker | Marketing | Senior manager ultimately responsible for success of the internet processing site; sponsors the entire project |
