Planning for Internet Presence Site

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

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