Jimirig

Planning and installing SharePoint Farm across an enterprise network is not a trivial task. SharePoint is rarely installed in an isolated environment, and usually it interferes with the organization strategy and existing infrastructure. Many factors may affect farm design, performance, scalability and redundancy – from hardware devices in organization network, to network topology. As a result, leveraging and finding compromises among those factors helps to build consistent, reliable and flexible environment.

We look at all configuration recommendations regarding different SharePoint areas before we deploy. All information is represented in the set of recommendations about different actions you need to undertake or pay additional attention when you install and configure your SharePoint environment.

Jimirig SharePoint Engagement Process

Our engagement process lets us see what your business wants to do with SharePoint and gives us the ability to see where SharePoint or other services may fit to make business activities run more efficient and possibly save money. During the process we develop a roadmap for the content, structure, and security. Security is a very important aspect for all businesses and we emphasize on structuring the security in SharePoint to be clean and efficient, but not give certain abilities to users that SharePoint grants out-of-the-box.

We highly recommend that an IT Administrator is involved during much of the process to ensure that the IT security policies are being enforced and that the hardware to be used meets all the requirements of the software. Analysis of the existing infrastructure and a plan for SharePoint topology for redundancy is planned with IT and consulted on best practices or different levels of restoration. The term redundancy is often misinterpreted to be synonymous with availability.

There are several different topologies – from three to six servers in farm, which can be used as a baseline. Which one to choose depends on the level of redundancy and available hardware. Not all clients can afford topology with six or ten servers in farm due to budget limitation or data centre capabilities. Finding the compromise between numbers of servers, type of hosting and servers’ roles become critical task, because this choice will affect performance and extensibility of the SharePoint farm for several years ahead.