Distributed Cache should be patched separately from SharePoint (DC updatess will not come with SharePoint CUs…).

Do not use SharePoint Distributed Cache with your custom code.

Useful commands

Connect-AFCacheClusterConfiguration
Get-CacheHost
Get-AFCacheClusterHealth
Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.service.tostring()) -eq "SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService"} |fl
Get-AFCacheHostConfiguration -ComputerName XXX -CachePort "22233"
$svc=$f.Services | ? {$_.Name -eq "AppFabricCachingService"}
$svc.ProcessIdentity
Get-AFCacheAllowedClientAccount
#Stop-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance –Graceful
#Update-SPDistributedCacheSize -CacheSizeInMB 1024
#Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance
#Grant-AFCacheAllowedClientAccount -Account "domain\upsa_runas_account"
get-command -module DistributedCacheAdministration

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(see also Part1: SharePoint Workflow Manager Review)

Installation (offline) step-by-step

Ensure hardware/software requirements. Ensure/configure your server (time, time zone, IP, hostname, domain, language, region, ESC, updates, event log).

Accounts you need (for example):

• Svc-WFM-FarmAdm – domain users + local admin on WFM Servers, DBCreator and SecurityAdmin on SQL
• Svc-WFM-SBAcc – domain users
• Svc-WFM-WFAcc – domain users

DNS: wfm.contoso.kz points to Workflow Manager Server (or load-balancer)

On an Internet connected machine:

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• Subordinate integrity: Certificates for SharePoint 2013. (Spencer Harbar).
• Workflow Manager Farms for SharePoint 2013 Part One: Core Concepts, High Availability, Certificate and SharePoint considerations
• Workflow Manager Farms for SharePoint 2013 Part Two: End to End Configuration using Auto Generated Certificates and NLB

SharePoint Apps

wildcard SSL cert (*.contosoapps.com) is needed

$trustCert = Get-PfxCertificate "c:\wfm.cer"
New-SPTrustedRootAuthority -Name "Workflow Manager Farm" -Certificate $trustCert

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Configure App Management Service Instance and Service Application

purchase a domain name from a domain name provider for your apps, for example, ContosoApps.com
create a forward lookup zone for the app domain name (ContosoApps.com)
create a wildcard Alias (CNAME) record for the new domain name (*.ContosoApps.com -> Portal.contoso.com)
create a wildcard SSL certificate for app domain (*.ContosoApps.com)

Start App Management and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings services.

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What is Workflow Manager

• Formerly Azure Workflow Server/Services (AWS)
  – Same “code base” as Windows Azure Service Bus
• Windows Workflow Foundation – .NET 4.5
• Scalable and reliable workflow engine
• REST based
• Multi-tenant capable – logical construct of “scopes” provides partitioning

SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager in comparison with 2010

• Future of WF
• Decoupled from SharePoint, and supporting other consuming platforms
• Declarative only
• On Premises or Cloud
• Consistent with .NET Framework Workflow
• Much more capable
• App friendly
• Available in SharePoint Server only

Topologies

One or three servers (Service Bus and quorum implementation)

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(статья не закончена)

Как любой большой и сложный продукт, SharePoint можно использовать по-разному: начиная с самых простых сценариев и заканчивая самыми продвинутыми.

Самая большая и самая распространённая ошибка при внедрении SharePoint – это начать использовать весь его функционал сразу, да ещё и попытаться что-то разработать на этой платформе. Не по Сеньке шапка.

А какая шапка по Сеньке? В каком виде SharePoint может быть полезен в данной конкретной организации? Считаю тут уместным привнести понятие CMM ( чтобы как-то классифицировать организации).

CMM

Согласно CMM все организации…

В ноябре 1986 года американский институт Software Engineering Institute (SEI) начал разработку обзора зрелости процессов разработки программного обеспечения (для помощи в улучшении их внутренних процессов).

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