sharepoint 2010 beta technical overview

Technical Overview (IT Pro)Ravikanth Chaganti

http://www.ravichaganti.com/blogDisclaimer: SharePoint 2010 is still under development and the features / functionality presented here are subjected to change.

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Introduction Deployment Upgrade Feature Overview

Agenda

Business collaboration platform for enterprise and the web Provides an IT Pro with

◦ Productivity enhancements Revamped central administration Ability to manage/monitor farm Windows PowerShell cmdlets, etc

◦ Scalable unified infrastructure Service Applications Sandbox solutions High availability and automatic failover, etc

◦ Flexible Deployment Visual Upgrades On-premise or hosted Scriptable Deployment, etc


Introduction


Collaboration

Portals

SearchEnterprise

Content Management

Business Processes and

Forms

Business Intelligence

Six PillarsMOSS 2007 vs SharePoint 2010

Communities

Sites

SearchContent

Composites

Insights

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Software Requirements◦ Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2◦ MS SQL Server 2005 x64 with SP2 or SQL Server 2008 x64◦ .NET framework 3.2 SP1

Prerequisites installer◦ manual and automated

SharePoint 2010 Setup & Configuration◦ manual and scripted

Includes farm passphrase for added security SharePoint Servers be added to AD OU; use Group Policy to

prevent unauthorized SharePoint installs

Deployment


Pre-upgrade checker◦ STSADM.EXE -o preupgradecheck

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade methods◦ In-place◦ Database attach

Visual Upgrade◦ SharePoint 2010 supports MOSS 2007 master pages and style sheets◦ Upgraded sites can exist in 3 modes

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010 Preview mode SharePoint Server 2010

Downtime mitigation◦ Read-only databases◦ Concurrent database upgrades

Upgrade


In-place

• Takes place on the same hardware as previous version

•Process can be restarted as necessary

• Requires better planning


Database attach

• Enables you to move to new hardware or farm

• Test-SPContentDatabase to test for any potential issues while attaching

• Upgrade-SPContentDatabase to perform the upgrade


Feature Overview : Central Administration site


Granular backups using central admin site◦ Recover small units of data◦ Need not restore the entire content DB

Ability to restore from unattached databases Windows PowerShell support Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite Export-SPWeb / Import-SPWeb

◦ PowerShell provides additional options such as compression, snapshots, etc

Feature Overview:Backup & Restore


Eliminates the limitations of MOSS SSP architecture More flexible than SSPs Available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 Similar to SSPs, set of services can be shared by all

sites in a farm Shared service applications across farms Service applications can be managed using

PowerShell

Feature Overview:Service Applications


Feature Overview:Search Architecture

Database servers (clusters or mirrors)

Index servers

There are two index partitions. For redundancy, a copy of each index partition (a index partition instance) is on each computer.

Admin

Combined Web and query servers

Index partition 1a

Index partition 2b

Index partition 2a

Index partition 1b

Crawler

Place the Web server role on the same servers with the query role.

Web serverQuery server

Web serverQuery server

Search admin db

Property db

Crawl db All other SharePoint databases

Crawler

Administration component is on one server.

Each server has one crawler. Both crawlers are associated with the crawl database.

One database server set for:

· Search admin database.

· One property database.

· All other SharePoint databases.

One database server set containing the crawl database, which is isolated for performance reasons.

Index server Index server


Managed Meta Data Claims based authentication Sandbox solutions Developer Dashboard

◦ Stsadm –o setproperty –pn developer-dashboard –pv OnDemand

Feature Overview


SharePoint 2010 product pagehttp://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx

SharePoint 2010 on TechNethttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx

SharePoint 2010 on MSDNhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

SharePoint Development Team on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/SharePointDev

SharePoint Developer Courses on Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

SharePoint Joel Bloghttp://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

My Twitter SharePoint list: http://www.twitter.com/ravikanth/sharepoint

My SharePoint Bloghttp://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?cat=212

References

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

http://twitter.com/SharePointDev

http://twitter.com/SharePointDev

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

http://www.twitter.com/ravikanth/sharepoint

http://www.twitter.com/ravikanth/sharepoint

http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?cat=212

http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?cat=212


Q & A


Backup


SharePoint 2010 - Communities

Communities

Sites

SearchContent

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SharePoint Communities empowers people to work together in ways that are most effective for them. Allow people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts easily.

• Blogs• Wikis• Workspaces• Surveys• Discussion Boards• Tasks• Twitter like status updates• Tags


SharePoint 2010 - SitesSites

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SharePoint Sites delivers a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. Bring users together to share information, data, and expertise across organizations.

• Increased number of out-of-box webparts• Office 2010 integration• Expanded browser support & Mobile devices• Offline access to lists• My Sites• List throttling• Silverlight support


SharePoint 2010 - SearchSearchContent

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SharePoint Search give users the ability to find the content, information, and people they need by combining an integrated, easy-to-manage platform with best-of-breed enterprise search technology.

• Thumbnails & Previews• Result sorting• People search• Result ranking based on clicks• Integration with Windows 7 desktop search


SharePoint 2010 - Content

Content

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SharePoint Content enables all users to participate in a governed, compliant content management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes it possible to expertly balance user experience with policy and process.

• Document sets to group related documents• Document IDs and ID lookup• Automatic content classification based on content

type• Version management• In-place records management• Shared content types (between farms/site collections)• Support for permalinks


SharePoint 2010 - Composites

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SharePoint Composites empowers users to rapidly respond to business needs by creating their own no-code solutions on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities.

• Sandbox solutions for deploying custom code• Out of box work flows• Improved SharePoint designer interface for rich no-

code customizations• Access services for publishing Access database on

SharePoint• Visio Services to publish Visio diagrams to SharePoint• Form services• Business connectivity Services for offline data access

and seamless access to every data source


SharePoint 2010 - Insights

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SharePoint Insights enables users to access and interact with information across unstructured and structured data sources. Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better and more agile business decisions.

• Simplified console and PowerShell to automate common tasks across Excel Services, etc

• Chart web parts• Find information across various content types

(structured & unstructured)• Improved visualizations

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