The proper design and architecture of a SharePoint environment is critical to its performance and functionality, and it is subsequently vital to understand what are the best practices around SharePoint infrastructure design. SharePoint architects need to be aware of the how the installation options have changed in SharePoint 2013, how and when to virtualise SharePoint, and ways to optimise the SQL Database tier of SharePoint. This session goes right to the heart of the matter, providing for physical and virtual architecture guidelines and specific configuration settings that can immediately be used to construct new SharePoint 2013 environments