Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 provides a new suite of IT capabilities to drive improvements in both scale and resiliency. Learn the best practices to deploying and provisioning SharePoint Server 2016 with these capabilities in mind.
A session with Todd Klindt (@toddklindt) and Jason Himmelstein (@sharepointlhorn) – this will be super good!
Here are my notes:
MinRole
MinRole rocks and its actually self-healing, can be installed on 1 server (plus sql). Minimum MinRole multi-server farm requires 4, with high availability its 8. Thats a lot of (virtual) metal…
HA and Distributed Cache: do a graceful shutdown, thats per-se no HA.
There is a big change in Feature Pack 1 to support smaller environments because that has been requested so many times – good stuff!
So once the feature pack is out you can combine services and do front-end and distributed cache on one server, and application and search.
Cloud SSA / hybrid search
Indexing is the stuff when the monkey bangs the coconut on the ground to check whats inside (Todd Klindt)
Man, I will steal that quote.
Once you use it, you dont have to have a bigger topology – index is in the cloud – and enables you to externalize onPrem data repositories.
Test it on a test environment, setting up cloud search could have impact on provider hosted apps.
SQL Server Performance
Pre-Grow, Auto-Grow, Instant File Instantiation – all the stuff that speeds up your databases/sql – speeds up your SharePoint.
Load testing
Measure before you scale!
Jason told a customer case, were they improved the wrong metrics (custom code, sql performance) to then later on identify that the bottleneck was the CPU. Now they rerun the performance test and compare them with the previous baseline. There is a recording how to setup loadtesting from SPC 2014.
Summary
High expectations, high quality session – Todd and Jason are always a great combo and do great infotainment!
Go watch the session once its available!
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