Hybrid SharePoint farm with Office 365
This solution provides a highly available deployment of SharePoint using a load balanced Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), highly available SQL always on instance and highly available SharePoint resources. It addresses the need to deliver highly available intranet capability using the latest and greatest supported platforms.
Create resource group to host all Azure-based infrastructure and services.
Create virtual network in Azure.
Deploy Windows Servers to host Active Directory services for SharePoint and SQL server service accounts and machine accounts.
Deploy SQL Server Always on for HA support for the SharePoint farm.
Deploy SharePoint Severs. In this scenario we, are using 2 Frontend with Distributed Cache and 2 Application with Search roles. This give us high availability.
Install Azure AD Connect on an on-premises server to synchronise your identities to Azure Active Directory.
Optionally configure Active Directory Federation Services on premises to support federated authentication to Office 365.
Deploy Express Route or set up a site-to-site VPN link for administrative access to the servers hosted in Azure IaaS.
Set up and provision external access to the Hybrid farm hosted in Azure IaaS
Set up and configure Hybrid Workloads between Office 365 and the SharePoint farm.
- 1 Create resource group to host all Azure-based infrastructure and services.
- 2 Create virtual network in Azure.
- 3 Deploy Windows Servers to host Active Directory services for SharePoint and SQL server service accounts and machine accounts.
- 4 Deploy SQL Server Always on for HA support for the SharePoint farm.
- 5 Deploy SharePoint Severs. In this scenario we, are using 2 Frontend with Distributed Cache and 2 Application with Search roles. This give us high availability.
- 6 Install Azure AD Connect on an on-premises server to synchronise your identities to Azure Active Directory.
- 7 Optionally configure Active Directory Federation Services on premises to support federated authentication to Office 365.
- 8 Deploy Express Route or set up a site-to-site VPN link for administrative access to the servers hosted in Azure IaaS.
- 9 Set up and provision external access to the Hybrid farm hosted in Azure IaaS
- 10 Set up and configure Hybrid Workloads between Office 365 and the SharePoint farm.
Implementation guidance
| Products/Description | Documentation | |
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Azure Resource Group |
Container that holds related resources for an Azure solution | |
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Virtual Network |
Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises data centres | |
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Storage Accounts |
Durable, highly available and massively scalable cloud storage | |
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Azure Active Directory |
Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on | |
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SharePoint Server |
Microsoft’s collaboration server product | |
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SQL Server |
Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud | |
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Load Balancer |
Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications | |
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Azure ExpressRoute |
Dedicated private-network fibre connections to Azure | |
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VPN Gateway |
Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity | |
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Azure AD Connect |
Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on | |
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Active Directory Federation Services |
Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on | |
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Hybrid Workloads |
Scales between on-premises environments and the cloud |
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