The information herein and presented during the Architectural Design Session is for informational purposes only and

represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of the

Architectural Design Session. The architecture analysis conducted and presented herein is high level conceptual and further architectural analysis and design should be undertaken for any
production implementation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot
guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN
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- SharePoint 2013 Overview
- New Features
- High-level Architecture

- Enterprise Social Platform

- Unified Interactions across various devices
- Enterprise Search
- eDiscovery
Solution Architecture
SharePoint Overview
As a centralized Platform, SharePoint 2013 provides multiple pillars that can offer
various solutions
Sites
Can be used to offer collaboration experience through its Intranet and Extranet
sites
Communities
Can add the social features for the Intranet to allow employees to share their
expertise through Profiles, Blogs, Wikis etc
Content
Offering an Enterprise Content Management Platform that can fit a document
lifecycle
Search
With Fast Search Server, the Intranet will include a full fledged Enterprise Search
Engine that can search content within the organizations systems
Insights
Can be used to design and build interactive dashboards to monitor a set of KPIs
defined by the organization itself
Composites
A window to expand SharePoint even more with workflows, Integration with LOB
Systems and even with custom Development
SharePoint 2013 New Features
 High-level Architecture
External
Users

Assumptions Internet

This architecture ensures a highly available deployment

according to the Microsoft Best Practices for SharePoint
Deployments
Firewall
The environment proposed includes a staging and a
Firewall

development farms

SharePoint Services Used: SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint

Web Front End Server Web Front End Server
Web Front End Server
Central Administration
Web Front End Server Web Front End Server

Enterprise Search Servers

Web Content Management

SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint

Application Server Application Server Search Server Application Server Application Server

SQL Server SQL Server SharePoint SQL Server SQL Server

Production Search Server Staging Dev & Test
Environment Environment Environment

The information herein and presented during the Architectural Design Session is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of the
Architectural Design Session. The architecture analysis conducted and presented herein is high level conceptual and further architectural analysis and design should be undertaken for any
production implementation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot
guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN
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 Bill Of Quantity
Production Environment Required Licenses External
Users
Qty. License
Internet
11 SharePoint Server 2013
16 SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition
15 Windows Server 2012
Firewall Firewall

SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint

Web Front End Server Web Front End Server
Web Front End Server Web Front End Server Web Front End Server

Minimum HW Requirements
SharePoint 2013 Servers SQL Servers
Processor: 64-bit, @2.33 GHz four cores Processor: 64-bit, @2.33 GHz, eight cores SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
Application Server Application Server
RAM: 16 GB
Search Server Application Server Application Server
RAM: 16 GB
Hard disk: 2x450GB 15K SAS:RAID1: OS Hard disk: 2x450GB 15K SAS: RAID1: OS
2x450GB 15K SAS:RAID1: DATA1 2x450GB 15K SAS: RAID0: DATA
2x450GB 15K SAS:RAID1: DATA2 2x450GB 15K SAS: RAID0: LOGS

SQL Server SQL Server SharePoint SQL Server SQL Server

Production Search Server Staging Dev & Test
Environment Environment Environment

*The storage requirements above are the minimum required

storage and should be increased depending on the content that
will be stored in the farm

The information herein and presented during the Architectural Design Session is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of the
Architectural Design Session. The architecture analysis conducted and presented herein is high level conceptual and further architectural analysis and design should be undertaken for any
production implementation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot
guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN
THIS PRESENTATION.
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