Optimizing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Citrix NetScaler

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Optimizing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Citrix NetScaler



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Optimizing Microsoft SharePoint with NetScaler

Table of Contents

Overview of SharePoint 2013

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Why NetScaler Optimization Solution for SharePoint 2013?

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Product Versions and Prerequisites

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Key Optimization Features Used

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Caching

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Compression

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Front End Optimization

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What can be optimized?

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Configuration Details

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Test Results & Conclusion

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Factors determining degree of Optimization

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Results

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Conclusion

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Citrix NetScaler is the industry leading solution to optimize, secure and control the delivery of all your enterprise and cloud services and apps, including Microsoft applications such as SharePoint 2013. Its rich feature set includes local and global server load balancing, full web app firewall security, fast application acceleration capabilities, and an easy-to-use policy framework for simple deployment with absolutely no programming required.

Overview of SharePoint 2013 Microsoft SharePoint facilitates organizations empower their users to drive their business goals, by power of connecting with your employees wherever they are, organizing people, project & information while giving the developers an opportunity to create new customized web portals by using familiar tools and internet standards. In short, SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration, content management, and extensible platform from Microsoft.

File sharing, check in, check out, reports generation and storage, document handling, library management are some of the core components of SharePoint 2013.

Why NetScaler Optimization Solution for SharePoint 2013? NetScaler? Optimization module takes care of the responsiveness of the application and better end user experience. Driving visitor engagement requires optimizing page performance for speed and responsiveness. SharePoint application's web pages are highly distributed with complex applications comprised of hundreds of assets from many domains.

Improved SharePoint performance experience by enterprise's external and internal users is the key reason for using Optimization features on NetScaler. It can be achieved by sending fewer bytes on wire, by configuring policy based rules for group of users and by reducing the load time by optimizing various web page components.

Thus we consider the varied traffic that travels across wire for SharePoint applications, as a probable source of bringing out a difference in content delivery of SharePoint apps by applying techniques like compression, caching, Front end optimization and connection reuse.

Note: For more information about NetScaler Optimization follow:



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Product Versions and Prerequisites Product Version Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Edition NetScaler NS 10.5: Build 53.7.nc or above License: Platinum

It is expected that the NetScaler has been configured and required license has been installed. To get help for this process please see the Getting Started section of the Citrix? eDocs. You can also use the NetScaler deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 - documents/products-solutions/microsoft-SharePoint-2013-with-citrix-netscaler.pdf

Key Optimization Features Used Following features are implemented to achieve optimization of SharePoint application traffic:

Caching Citrix NetScaler is used to cache SharePoint objects in order to quickly deliver frequently requested Content to users without going to the backend resources. Cached content includes downloaded documents, scripts, FrontPage content, audio, video, and image files.

Compression Citrix NetScaler identifies and compresses content that is compressible. This process improves data transmission times while saving CPU cycles on SharePoint content servers.

Front End Optimization Citrix NetScaler FEO module is a way to optimize the client side content delivery experience for various applications and websites. This technology reduces content size, minimizes server requests, and facilitates parallel delivery of content and execution of scripts.

The SharePoint testing was done for Front end Optimization (FEO), Compression and Integrated Caching. As FEO has umbrella of sub features in it, following is the list of applicable FEO features for SharePoint Application optimization.



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Applicable FEO features Image Optimization Image Shrink to attributes Image GIF to PNG conversion Image Inlining JPEG Optimization CSS Optimization CSS Minify CSS Move to head Tag CSS Image Inline Convert Import to links CSS Inline JS Optimization JS Inline JS Minify JS Move to End HTML Optimization Remove comments from HTML Miscellaneous optimization Extend page cache

What can be optimized? Here are the common content types which help build dynamic SharePoint application pages and can be optimized.

1. Content & Structure reports 2. DocLibrary for HTTP & HTTPS 3. Gallery items 4. Reusable contents 5. Survey forms 6. CSS Library 7. Microfeeds 8. Reports

Configuration Details Following are the steps required to configure NetScaler for optimization of SharePoint App traffic:

1. Configure Compression Policies for SharePoint

? On NetScaler GUI configuration page, navigate to the Optimization > HTTP Compression > Policies and configure the compression policies to handle variety of traffic. Separate compression policies can be applied to different data types.

? The binding of compression policies should be at vserver level (CS vserver or LB vserver).



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? Following content type are candidate for compression: CSS, Javascript, Images -gif, jpeg, html files (Compression once enabled, is applied automatically on html pages in request).

? The policy used in example below is: HTTP.RES.HEADER("Content-Type")=="text/javascript" || HTTP.RES.HEADER("ContentType")=="text/css" This policy filters the javascript and css in the request and applies action compression in the response.

Note: For more information regarding NS HTTP compression configuration follow:

For e.g.: To compress all javascript and css in a page following is the example

2. Configure Caching policies for SharePoint

? As pre requisite Integrated Caching should be enabled. ? Follow the path to create content groups to handle storage for different content type in

incoming traffic. NS > Optimization > Integrated Caching > Content Groups ? The default Content Group can cache all content types. ? To configure caching policies follow the path - NS > Optimization > Integrated Caching > Policies. ? The binding of cache policies should be at vserver level (CS vserver or LB vserver). ? The cache optimization caches html, scripts , frontpage content, images and documents. ? The policy used in the example below is to cache html, scripts and image content:

HTTP.REQ.HEADER("Content-Type") == "text/html"|| HTTP.REQ.URL.ENDSWITH("/.js")|| HTTP.REQ. URL.ENDSWITH("/.gif") Note: For information regarding NS-IC configuration follow:



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For e.g. To cache html, scripts and images follow the IC policy details

3. Configure FEO policies for SharePoint

Follow the steps to configure the FEO policies and action which is a step to configure all the applicable FEO features for SharePoint application traffic.

Note: For more information regarding FEO configuration follow:

? FEO policies Follow the path to configure FEO policiess NS > Optimization > Front End Optimization > Policies

? The policy used in the example below is to FEO optimize the html web pages: HTTP.REQ.HEADER("Accept").CONTAINS("html")



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? FEO Action Follow the path to configure FEO action: NS > Optimization > Front End Optimization > Action



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