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What’s New and Different with SharePoint Server 2010?
What’s New and Different with SharePoint Server 2010?
Not everything that’s new with SharePoint Server 2010 is completely new to SharePoint. There are features and services you know from MOSS 2007 that have taken on new functionality as well as features and utilities included that are completely new in SharePoint Server 2010. That means some parts of the interface and the backend configuration will seem familiar if you have administered prior SharePoint Server versions, while others will be strangers.
The following list shows you a number of the new features available for the first time in SharePoint Server 2010:
SharePoint Central Administration Website This site is the interface for configuring the entire SharePoint Server 2010 environment. Administrators familiar with MOSS 2007 and prior SharePoint versions are familiar with this tool. For SharePoint 2010, it has been redesigned for greater ease of use, organizing common tasks and lists into functional areas,
Managed Accounts This is actually a concept borrowed from Windows Server 2008 and is new in SharePoint Server 2010. Services or groups of services have accounts on a server platform, such as the SQL Server service account, which is required to deploy SharePoint on the server farm. To minimize the administrative cost of managing all the various service accounts, managed accounts let SharePoint take control of the service accounts and manage authentication, including sending notifications to the SharePoint administrator when the password for a managed service is about to expire.
Service Applications These were referred to in MOSS 2007 as shared services providers (SSPs), were available only on SharePoint Server, and required a specific SSP setup. In SharePoint Server 2010, all services are installed by default and are available both on the server version and on Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (what was previously called Windows SharePoint Services or WSS). In MOSS 2007, when an SSP was associated with a web application, the web application carried the load for all the services contained within the SSP. Service applications in SharePoint 2010 can be individually selected, so a web application supports only the services it consumes. Additionally, you can publish a service application and share it across a single server farm or, for some services, across multiple server farms.
Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Reporting SharePoint Server 2010 comes equipped with a large number of diagnostic and performance monitoring tools, organized into different functional areas:
>Developer Dashboard This is designed to provide greater performance and tracing information that can be used to troubleshoot issues. The dashboard provides information about controls, queries, and execution time for the page-rendering process.
>Unified Logging Service (ULS) This is a troubleshooting tool that provides access to various log files and lets you filter your view to hone in on the data you specifically need.
>Usage Database This is part of the usage and health data collection system and provides information on SharePoint usage patterns.
>SharePoint Maintenance Engine (SPME) Rules This checks the administrative configuration, performance, security issues, and other areas, either periodically or on demand, and makes recommendations on how to solve potential issues. This was formerly known as the Best Practices Analyzer.
>System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Monitoring This provides real-time alerts and troubleshooting of issues in SharePoint.
>Out-of-Box Usage Reports These are the default logging and reporting tools in SharePoint.
Remote BLOB Storage Also called RBS, this is used for server farms to provide very high storage capacity by allowing BLOBs from the all_docs table and customized pages in the database to be housed in a file system outside the SQL Server database, thus reducing the amount of required storage on the SQL Server instance. Third-party RBS providers are required, and the RBS architecture is completely customizable, allowing specific RBS providers to offer targeted storage services.
Performance Controls SharePoint Server 2010 has two specific methods of managing performance. Throttling allows the administrator to control the level of SharePoint operations during times of peak demand, and list controls limit the number of queries per list, managing performance relative to the number of queries in each list containing a large number of items.
Windows PowerShell Administration This is both a new command-line interface and associated scripting language developed by Microsoft and originally released for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Version 2.0 has been released for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and is available for SharePoint Server 2010 administration. Although Cmd.exe and Stsadm.exe, which MOSS 2007 administrators are familiar with, have not been replaced for the sake of backward compatibility, PowerShell is considered the de facto command-line
tool for SharePoint Server 2010. A unique feature in PowerShell is the cmdlet. A cmdlet (pronounced “command-let”) either can be used as a single function or can be combined with other cmdlets to perform more complex actions and to automate administration. You can use the prebuilt cmdlets included with PowerShell by default or customize one or more cmdlets to suit specific needs. PowerShell, then, is not just a command shell but also a new scripting language.
Backup and Restore This functionality has been updated and can now be performed using either the Central Administration website ( ) or Windows PowerShell. New granularity has been built in, letting you back up and restore down to the site, subsite, and list levels.
Excel Services There are a number of new features in Excel Services released in SharePoint Server 2010, such as the unattended service account, allowing low-security, one-time access to Excel Services data, multiuser collaboration that lets multiple SharePoint users edit an Excel document simultaneously, and the ability to completely deploy Excel Services from Windows PowerShell. Also, trusted locations are now provided by default.
Multi-Tendency SharePoint Server 2010 now has the ability to isolate and separate information from different websites while at the same time sharing services and resources between the same sites. This is known as multi-tendency. Customers or users on a site are known as tenants, and although tenant data can be shared across multiple sites, data owned by the tenant can also be partitioned based on site subscriptions so that the data can be separated and grouped while other resources are freely shared.
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Determining a Need for Microsoft FA ST Search Server
You are a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 administrator for an enterprise-level company. The CIO has tasked you with investigating the costs and benefits of upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 as opposed to maintaining the current MOSS 2007 infrastructure.
One of the significant complaints you have heard from users of the current system is that enterprise search speed has become slower as the infrastructure has scaled up to accommodate business growth. As part of your upgrade investigation, you want to determine whether SharePoint Server 2010 will offer your organization a better-performing and richer-featured search experience.
You open a web browser on your computer, go to http://technet.microsoft.com, and locate the link to download Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. You may have to perform a search for Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. On the download page, you review the information available to see whether the features offered represent a true enhancement of enterprise search. Find the system requirements data or link on the page. Determine whether any additional hardware and software is necessary to run Microsoft FAST Search Server besides what is required to operate a SharePoint Server 2010 environment.
Once you’ve completed your research, document your findings and then close your web browser.
SharePoint Enterprise Search SharePoint search enables you to define a custom ranking model to use for search queries and uses Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to crawl and index external data. End users will appreciate the new search capacities, especially connectors for Windows 7, which allows the same search of SharePoint sites to be conducted directly from Windows 7 and offers preview and drag-and-drop options. Search query suggestions are available both while the user is typing the query and after the query run.
Microsoft also offers the optional FAST Search for SharePoint to accelerate SharePoint search in enterprise environments and to provide enhanced features to search, such as previews of actual content in search results.
This list is hardly exhaustive but does give you an idea of what to expect when you start working with SharePoint Server 2010. The subsequent chapters of this book will provide both more detailed information regarding the topics presented here and a more complete presentation of everything contained, both new and updated, in SharePoint Server 2010.
As you can see, there is a lot more to learn about what’s new in SharePoint Server 2010 than you might imagine. In many ways, Microsoft’s current incarnation of SharePoint Server is more feature rich and more challenging to administer than any of its predecessors.
Another change you’ll notice is that the Ribbon, introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista, is fully integrated into SharePoint Server 2010,
This makes it a natural fit with Office 2010. Word 2010 documents can be copied and pasted directly into a SharePoint 2010 site, and document formatting options within SharePoint are exactly the same as in Word.
Blogs and wikis, as shown in Figure 1.3, were first made available in MOSS 2007 and have been improved. SharePoint Server 2010 also provides social networking capacities, adding social tagging and ratings to the interests and expertise listings in user profiles.
The InfoPath Forms Services, also introduced in MOSS 2007, has been enhanced so that building interactive forms and publishing them to the Web is much easier.
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