Wiley MCTS Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-667
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1. Learning the Features Offered in SharePoint Server 2010 Learn about the new and upgraded features and capacities of SharePoint Server 2010 in preparation for installing a new system or upgrading an existing MOSS 2007 platform Review Questions 17 Review Questions 1 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the viability of upgrading your production system to SharePoint Server 2010 Which of the following options are true Choose all that apply A SharePoint Server 2010 is a 64 bit only application B SharePoint Server 2010 can run only on 64 bit Windows Server 2003 64 bit Windows Server 2008 and 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 C SharePoint Server 2010 can only use 64 bit SQL Server 2008 for database services D SharePoint Server 2010 deployed as a single server can use SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 as an integrated database 2 You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64 bit hardware and software by the CEO As part of the task of preparing a report you list the advantages of 64 bit hard ware Which of the following options do you include as advantages Choose all that apply A 64 bit bus architecture supports more and wider registers improving overall applica tion performance speeds by reducing the need2. Requirements by Environment 5 ING Itanium 64 bit processor series uses a proprietary design that will not sup port any of the Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies Before you choose to install or upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 check the type of processors in your hardware Ck Not all 64 bit processors are SharePoint Server 2010 friendly The Intel Requirements by Environment You have a general idea of the new requirements for SharePoint Server 2010 however the specifics of those requirements vary depending on the type of installation you are planning Base Hardware Requirements The following are the basic minimum hardware requirements for all installation and deploy ment types regardless if deployed on a stand alone physical server with an integrated data base installation or on a per server basis for each physical server in a server farm Hard Drive 80 GB of hard drive space for the base installation plus additional hard drive space to support regular operational requirements Microsoft recommends hav ing twice as much hard drive space available as the amount of RAM for production environments Processor 64 bit processors in a quad core with 2 5 GHz per core RAM A minimum of 4 GB of RAM per physical server for development or testing envi ronments and 8 GB or more RAM for production per server Software Requirements The following requirements apply to individual physical servers regardless of whether th
3. What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 MICROSOFT EXAM OBJECTIVE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER v Installing and Configuring a SharePoint Environment Deploy new installations and upgrades If you picked up this book it s because you re committed to using and administering Microsoft SharePoint Server in some capacity Either you are a current Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS 2007 administrator who is anticipating upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 or you are planning a first time SharePoint deployment for your production environment You may also be someone who has yet to experience SharePoint but is looking to expand your skill set In any case the information presented here will both prepare you for the 70 667 TS Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configuring certification exam and be invaluable in deploy ing and managing a SharePoint 2010 environment This book is written with the student in mind but if you belong to any of the groups just mentioned you qualify as a student someone in a position to learn something new whether for the purpose of sitting an exam or to hone your administrative skills in the pro duction SharePoint arena This book has been created from the point of view of a person building a personal lab or sandbox environment but the content is equally applicable to the SharePoint administrator invested in rolling out SharePoint Server 2010 to production in the enterprise While subsequent chapters
4. A 64 bit system that is running a 64 bit edition of Windows Server can support up to 1024 GB of both physical and addressable memory SharePoint is an application that s designed to grow with a com pany s needs Its ability to use more memory means SharePoint can serve greater access and service requirements 32 bit hardware supports up to 32 processors That might seem like a lot but in a truly demanding environment particularly one where you anticipate needing to scale up based on business needs the ability to expand to a maximum of 64 processors is a great advantage The Advantages of 64 Bit Server and Database Platforms The aforementioned hardware advantages don t just apply to SharePoint Server 2010 as an application but to the Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server platforms in terms of speed security and scalability Even assuming a single physical server platform Windows Server 2008 can take advan tage of a lot more RAM and processing power than on a 32 bit machine addressing up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory by using a flat addressing model This gives SQL Server 4 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 access to almost unlimited virtual memory as well as physical memory Database servers are extremely resource intensive and any database administrator will immediately see the advantages Although the set of features available in 64 bit Windows Server 2008 is not appre ciably different from its 32 bit co
5. Server 2010 on a 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machine you can use 32 bit SQL Server 2008 for database services but not 32 bit SQL Server 2005 C You cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machine and you must use 64 bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for database services D You cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machine and you must use only 64 bit SQL Server 2008 for database services You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64 bit hardware and software by the CEO As part of the task of preparing a report you run across information stating that not all 64 bit processors are compatible with SharePoint Server 2010 Of the following options which processor type is to be avoided A 64 bit Intel Xeon processor w 2M B AMD Athlon 64 3500 processor C 64 bit Intel Itanium processor D AMD Sempron 3000 64 bit processor 10 Review Questions 19 You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64 bit hardware and software by the CEO This includes the specific minimum hardware requirements for installing Share Point Server 2010 You visit the related website at Microsoft and discover which of the fol lowing requirements Choose all that apply A A production installation
6. 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 Figure 1 2 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 informa tion 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 ten ant can also be partitioned based on site subscriptions so that the data can be separated and grouped while oth
7. required on the SQL Server itself B D For option A backup and restore can be performed from either the Central Admin istration website or using Windows PowerShell For option C FAST Search is an optional download while Enterprise Search is available by default in SharePoint Server 2010 A D For options B and C both Excel Services features were available in MOSS 2007 Note This information was available to the reader who followed Exercise 1 2 visited http msdn microsoft com en us library ee557323 office 14 aspx and then clicked the link What s New Excel Services B C D For option A Word Automation Services is a shared service new in SharePoint Server 2010 Note This information was available to the reader who followed Exercise 1 2 visited http msdn microsoft com en us 1library ee557323 office 14 aspx and then clicked the link What s New Word Automation Services Overview A B D BCS does not allow access to external systems from within Microsoft Office 2007 applications Note This information was available to the reader who followed Exercise 1 2 visited http msdn microsoft com en us library ee557323 office 14 aspx and then clicked the link What s New Business Connectivity Services BCS A B C Answers A B and C all describe SharePoint features that are new in SharePoint Server 2010 For option D the answer is bogus A C For option B SharePoint offers no such social networking capacity For optio
8. to write persistent data to memory B 32 bit systems can support only 8 GB of RAM while 64 bit systems can support up to 512 GB of RAM C 32 bit systems support 32 processors in a hardware server while 64 bit systems sup port up to 64 processors D The minimum amount of RAM required to install and work with SharePoint Server 2010 in a testing environment is 4 GB 3 You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64 bit hardware and software by the CEO As part of the task of preparing a report you describe how much virtual memory a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can access Which of the following is true A A 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 8 terabytes of virtual memory B A 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory C A 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 32 terabytes of virtual memory D A 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 64 terabytes of virtual memory 18 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to 64 bit SharePoint Server 2010 As part of your investigation you look into the security advantages of upgrading to a 64 bit hardware an
9. will address the specific information you ll need to know about how to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 and to deploy a first time installation you need to first take some time to understand just how different SharePoint Server 2010 is from MOSS 2007 It s not a matter of simply launching an upgrade execut able and following a wizard There s a whole new world of hardware and software require ments to learn and understand New Requirements Overview Before launching into the specifics of the certification exam domains it s important to take some time to get to know the basics of SharePoint Server 2010 Even if you re familiar with MOSS 2007 Microsoft s latest release of SharePoint has a lot of new features and contains perhaps a few surprises In a nutshell these are the new requirements for SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 is a 64 bit only application SharePoint Server 2010 will be able to run only on 64 bit Windows Server 2008 or 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 SharePoint Server 2010 will be able to use only 64 bit SQL Server 2008 or 64 bit SQL Server 2005 for database services New Requirements Overview 3 There are a number of other specifics but before you continue you must have access to both the required Windows Server and SQL Server versions as well as a 64 bit hardware platform If you are using 32 bit hardware in either your production or testing environment you will not be abl
10. 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 14 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 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 sug gestions 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 pre vi
11. L Server versions will need to be upgraded Choose all that apply A 32 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 B 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 C 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3 D 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You are currently looking into the required and optional software to be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 in order to deploy SharePoint Server 2010 as a fron tend web server or application server Which of the following options are optional software for those server types Choose all that apply A 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 in order to work with PowerPivot workbooks B Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add in for SharePoint Technolo gies SSRS C Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1 0 x64 D Microsoft Server Speech Platform 20 11 12 13 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 As part of your feasibility study you must review the various desktops and web browsers available in corporate headquarters to deter
12. Microsoft Office 2010 client Microsoft Silverlight 3 0 Level Il Web Browsers Level II web browsers provide only basic functionality allowing users to read and write in SharePoint sites and perform basic site administration However since ActiveX controls are not supported users will not have access to full SharePoint 2010 functionality The following list is a breakdown of the various operating systems and browsers that support SharePoint Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard Apple Safari 4 x Mozilla Firefox 3 5 Windows XP Internet Explorer 7 64 bit Internet Explorer 8 64 bit Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7 64 bit Internet Explorer 8 64 bit Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Internet Explorer 7 64 bit Internet Explorer 8 64 bit Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Internet Explorer 8 64 bit Requirements by Environment 9 UNIX Linux 8 1 Mozilla Firefox 3 5 The following list includes the optional software Microsoft Office 2010 client Microsoft Silverlight 3 0 For the non Windows operating systems Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Silverlight won t be available The previous list also assumes that the client computers will be running Microsoft Office 2007 although the official client compatibility information published by Microsoft doesn t explicitly state this In Exercise 1 1 I will show you how to determine your readiness to install SharePoint Determi
13. SharePoint Search 2010 Client Computer Requirements The following sections give the requirements that you may not have anticipated Although the Microsoft Windows operating systems you would expect to be supported Windows XP and newer are indeed sufficient the major issue is in web browser support To take advantage of all of SharePoint Server 2010 s authoring and publishing features only certain web browsers are supported Microsoft categorizes web browser functionality relative to SharePoint into two levels We ll discuss them in the following sections Level Web Browsers Level 1 web browsers are browsers that can take advantage of advanced features offered by ActiveX controls and that can provide full functionality on all SharePoint sites including the SharePoint Central Administration website The following list breaks down the various operating systems and browsers that support SharePoint Windows XP Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 3 5 Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 3 5 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 3 5 Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 3 5 Windows Server 2008 R2 Internet Explorer 8 32 bit a Mozilla Firefox 3 5 The following list includes the optional software
14. Shell Administration v2 0 is currently available for use as the de facto command line interface and scripting language in SharePoint Server 2010 D List controls can be used to manage the number of queries sent to lists to improve performance particularly lists containing a large number of items You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 As part of your feasibility study you are exploring new and upgraded fea tures of the SharePoint platform Which of the following are true Choose all that apply A Backup and restore functions in SharePoint Server 2010 have been completely trans ferred to Windows PowerShell to allow new granularity in the process B In Excel Services the new unattended service account allows one time access to Excel Services data to low security users C Enterprise Search now exclusively uses FAST Search to accelerate search functions in large enterprise environments D Trusted locations are provided by default in SharePoint Server 2010 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You are currently reviewing material regarding how Excel Services has changed Which of the following options are true Choose all tha
15. T Search Server can be accessed directly from within a Microsoft Office 2010 application Answers to Review Questions 23 20 You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the new features in SharePoint Server 2010 as related to a possible plan to upgrade from MOSS 2007 Among the new features and services you ve added to your report which of the following statements have you discovered Choose all that apply A B SharePoint Server 2010 social networking features let you add social tagging and ratings to the interests and expertise listings in user profiles SharePoint Server 2010 social networking features let you directly access third party social networking sites and applications such as Facebook and Twitter Note This information was available to the reader who followed Exercise 1 2 visited http msdn microsoft com en us library ee557323 office 14 aspx and then clicked the link What s New User Profiles and Social Data Representational State Transfer REST is a service in SharePoint Server 2010 that lets you create a spreadsheet or diagram and publish the data in SharePoint and then when you update the original spreadsheet or diagram the data is almost immediately updated in SharePoint SharePoint Enterprise Search uses connectors for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that let you conduct the same search of SharePoint sites from the desktop as you can from within SharePoint S
16. cyclopedia of knowledge or just wnte down dai How To Use This Wiki Library Editing wiki pages To see the commands available click you can type text o click Stop Editing or simply n of the page You can n edit the page b sutomatically king Edit Page When you are editing o when you re done you only need to Documents Creating wiki links Site Pages You can link to another page in t page names that start with what new name If you t Shared Documents linking to a page in a subfolder or an item in another the link Lists You can link to man Calendar iO A link to e vasks A link to page named Dog n this site er called Animals in the Shared e a link to a page and have th e the display text For example t the page name type a pipe character after the page name and eate the link labeled Home Page that points to the page named E Recycle Bin To display double opening or closing brackets without making a link type a backslash before the two brackets For example or H All Site Content Creating pages There are two main ways to create an Page in your wik t oast and th reate a page bec ate a link page te the pace This s the recommended way t copie to find the page when another page links to it Links to The InfoPath Forms Services also introduced in MOSS 2007 has been enhanced so that building interac
17. d software platform Which of the follow ing do you report as advantages Choose all that apply A Windows Server 2008 offers greater buffer overflow protection because the first parameters of a procedure call are passed in buffers B Windows Server 2008 offers greater buffer overflow protection because the first parameters of a procedure call are passed in registers C 64 bit processors include hardware support for data execution prevention DEP to prevent any malicious executables from running D Microsoft Patch Guard prevents any kernel mode drivers in Microsoft only applica tions from extending or replacing kernel services in Windows Server 2008 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You discover that 64 bit Windows Server 2008 includes Windows and Windows 64 bit WOW64 translation layer which emulates a 32 bit operating system allowing a mixed 32 bit 64 bit environment to coexist One of your interns asks about the possibility of mixing 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machines with their 64 bit counterparts in a SharePoint Server 2010 upgrade What is true about this suggestion A Although you cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machine you can use 32 bit SQL Server 2005 and 2008 for database services B Although you cannot install SharePoint
18. e 64 bit applications on a 32 bit platform but you won t see any of the advantages offered by the software The software environment won t have the necessary hardware to execute all of its potential much like putting high test fuel in a 1970s vintage Volkswagen beetle Performance may be improved somewhat but you really need to join elements together that provide the most advantage which means running 64 bit applications on 64 bit hardware 64 bit Windows Server 2008 does include the Windows on Windows 64 bit WOW64 translation layer which emulates a 32 bit operating system so running a mixed 32 bit and 64 bit environment is possible Although this may seem like an advantage if you need to run a legacy application on a 64 bit platform in fact this doesn t work with any of the 64 bit SharePoint applications and services This means you cannot run a mixed 32 bit 64 bit environment such as 64 bit SharePoint Server 2010 using 32 bit SQL Server 2005 The dis advantage from an up front cost view is the requirement to upgrade all of your software and hardware platforms if you want to run SharePoint Server 2010 Although this may seem terribly unfair of Microsoft its analysis of SharePoint test data and feedback from customers running MOSS 2007 has indicated that the performance and scalability advantages far outweigh the initial cost of upgrading Whether you agree with this decision or not the reality of 64 bit is here and it s here to stay
19. e to install or upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 Also earlier versions of Windows Server and SQL Server will not be adequate At this point you may be questioning the rationale of Microsoft in making decisions relative to a 64 bit platform It s important both to understand why 32 bit hardware and server environments are no longer supported and to learn about other changes and compat ibility issues If you currently administer MOSS 2007 in the enterprise you likely already run 64 bit hardware and may even have upgraded to 64 bit Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 If the advantages of running 64 bit aren t apparent to you and especially if you re lamenting how moving from 32 bit is going to stretch your personal or professional budget you ll need to learn more about why Microsoft moved in this direction To find out the basics of x86 64 bit architecture visit http en wikipedia TE org wiki 64 bit and http en wikipedia org wiki X86 64 The Advantages of 64 Bit Hardware Comparing 64 bit hardware to 32 bit hardware is a little like comparing a mid range sedan to a high end sports car Each has its purpose and does well in the area it s designed for but the sports car will go a lot faster when asked Bus architecture supports more and wider registers and improves overall application per formance speeds by reducing the need to write persistent data to memory The most memory a 32 bit system can support is 4 GB of RAM
20. er resources are freely shared What s New and Different with SharePoint Server 2010 13 FIGURE 1 2 A Backup and Restore page in Central Administration 2 Backup and Restore Windows Internet Explorer 12 xj x 2 gt Gg Favertoa 55 E Supgested ates 4 Web Shoe Galery Bf dup end Restore x L Defaut Site Home A Q me Pope Sefeiye Tobe e SRarePoint 200 Central Administration Backup and Restore Central gt Fam Acininis trator Application Mensgement Systam Setungs Monitoring amp ard Restore Recowur dala from an ur Security Upgrade Ganeral Ap Settings Configuration Waerds ag a a O E nemet arotetedmea oE Pas Rm s PAD xamon e Real World Scenario Determining a Need for Microsoft FAST 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 accom modate 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
21. erver 2010 24 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Answers to Review Questions 10 11 12 13 A D In option B Windows cannot use 64 bit Windows Server 2003 and in option C Windows can also use 64 bit SQL Server 2005 for database services A C D In option B 32 bit systems can support only 4 GB of RAM while 64 bit systems support up to 1024 GB of RAM B A 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine can use up to 1024 GB of physical memory and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory B C Option A is in error because procedure calls are passed in registers not buffers Option D is incorrect because Microsoft Patch Guard prevents any kernel mode drivers in third party applications from extending or replacing kernel services not Microsoft applications C You must use 64 bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for database services You cannot use any 32 bit server or database server platform Both 64 bit SQL Server 2005 and 2008 are acceptable options C The Intel Itanium 64 bit processor uses a proprietary design that will not support any of the Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies used by SharePoint Server 2010 C D For option A the minimum required hard drive space is 80 GB not 60 GB For option B the minimum processor requirement is quad core not dual core though the other stated processor requirements in the answer are correct A B C SharePoint Technologies SSRS is optional and needed on
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23. ews 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 In Exercise 1 2 you will explore the new SharePoint 2010 features Explore Other New SharePoint Server 2010 Features 1 Open a web browser then go to http msdn microsoft com en us library ee557323 office 14 aspx or search for What s New In SharePoint Server 2010 at http msdn microsoft com 2 When the web page loads select one or more of the following links on this page and review the content What s New Business Connectivity Services BCS What s New Enterprise Content Management ECM What s New PerformancePoint Services What s New Excel Services What s New User Profiles and Social Data Word Automation Services Overview 3 After reviewing the desired content make these pages favorites in your web browser and then close your web browser 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 chan
24. ey are stand alone installations or individual servers deployed in a server farm All the information presented represents the minimum requirements Database Server in a Farm The following is the required software in a farm chose one of the following 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3 and with Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 and with Cumulative Update 2 installed with Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 A Single Server with an Integrated Database The following is the required software for an integrated database choose one of the following 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard All of the following are required regardless of the Windows Server 2008 type Web Server IIS role Application Server role Microsoft NET Framework version 3 5 SP1 SQL Server 2008 Express with SP1 Microsoft Geneva Framework Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1 0 x64 Microsoft Filter Pack 2 0 Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 Windows PowerShell 2 0 CTP3 SQL Server 2008 Native Client Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD NET ADO NET Data Services v1 5 CTP2 Also the following list includes the optional software 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 if you want to work with PowerPivot workboo
25. ge you ll notice is that the Ribbon introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista is fully integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 as shown in Figure 1 2 What s New and Different with SharePoint Server 2010 15 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 FIGURE 1 3 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Ribbon Bib BG D gnm 2 A R G A Edit Check Out Edit Rename E mail a Make Incoming Library Library View AIl Properties Page X lt Delete Page Link Homepage Links Settings Permissions Pages Edit Manage Share amp Track Page Actions Page Library 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 FIGURE 1 4 Default wiki page in SharePoint Server 2010 Give Feedback LAB SP2010 jmpyles Browse Default Site How To Use This Wiki Library First default site created after installation TEE Search this site 2 Recently Modified How to use this wiki library Home You can use this wiki library to share knowledge bra collaborate with your tasm on a design areste an instrudion guide build n an easily accessible and modifiable format an en
26. hich of the following options are true Choose all that apply A Shared services provider SSPs have been renamed to service applications in SharePoint Server 2010 B Service applications are supported under SharePoint Server 2010 but not under Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 formerly known as Windows SharePoint Services or WSS C The SharePoint Central Administration website design remains unchanged between MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 D SharePoint Server 2010 Performance Controls includes throttling to allow the adminis trator to control SharePoint operations levels during peak demand periods 14 15 16 Review Questions 21 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 As part of your feasibility study you are exploring new and upgraded fea tures of the SharePoint platform Which of the following are true Choose all that apply A Remote BLOB Storage is used for server farms to provide high storage capacity by allow ing BLOBs to customized pages stored on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to be housed in a separate file system outside the Windows Server system B SharePoint Server 2010 comes equipped with a large number of diagnostic and performance monitoring tools including the developer dashboard and usage database C Windows Power
27. ication 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 provid ers 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 What s New and Different with SharePoint Server 2010 11 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 FIGURE 1 1 A SharePoint Central Administration website Home Central Administration Windows Internet Explorer 12 xj go x ours E ga Favertes 93 suggested ates Web She Galery Ljrone Cenrel Acmnerabon B A 9 mee Pages Sefety Took Give Feedback lt SharePoint m0 Central Administration Central ZS manage Application Mensgement Syston Settings Cantign eppings Monitoring mapping Confguretio
28. ity of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You are currently reviewing material regarding Business Connectivity Services BCS Which of the following options are true Choose all that apply A Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Server 2010 used to be called Business Data Catalog in MOSS 2007 B Business Connectivity Services provides read write access to external data from web services databases and other external systems from within SharePoint Server 2010 C Business Connectivity Services provides read write access to external data from within Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications D Business Connectivity Services provides read write access to external data from within Microsoft Office 2010 applications only You are the CIO for an enterprise level company You have been asked to prepare a report on the new features in SharePoint Server 2010 as related to a possible plan to upgrade from MOSS 2007 Among the new features and services you ve added to your report which of the following statements have you discovered Choose all that apply A The Ribbon first introduced in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 has been fully integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 B The content from Word 2010 documents can be directly copied and pasted into a SharePoint Server 2010 site C Document formatting options in a SharePoint Server 2010 document are the same as those found in Word 2010 D Microsoft FAS
29. ks Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add in for SharePoint Technologies SSRS if you want to use Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft Server Speech Platform if you want to have phonetic name matching func tion correctly in SharePoint Search 2010 Frontend Web Servers and Application Servers in a Farm The following is the required software for frontend web servers and application servers in a farm choose one of the following 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard All of the following are required regardless of the Windows Server 2008 type Web Server IIS role Application Server role Microsoft NET Framework version 3 5 SP1 Microsoft Geneva Framework Requirements by Environment 7 Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1 0 x64 a Microsoft Filter Pack 2 0 Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 Windows PowerShell 2 0 CTP3 SQL Server 2008 Native Client Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD NET ADO NET Data Services v1 5 CTP2 The following list includes the optional software 64 bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 if you want to work with PowerPivot workbooks Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add in for SharePoint Technologies SSRS if you want to use Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft Server Speech Platform if you want to have phonetic name matching function correctly in
30. ly if you want to use Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010 A B No 32 bit database server is supported by SharePoint Server 2010 and no version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is supported The database servers listed in options C and D are both acceptable and will not need to be upgraded A B D Each is an optional software package and not necessary to run SharePoint Server 2010 as a web server or application server For option C Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1 0 x64 is a required package and must be installed for the aforementioned SharePoint server roles A B C For option D Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 32 bit will support advanced features but IE 8 64 bit will not B C D For option A this server web browser platform combination can take full advantage of ActiveX controls A D For option B service applications are supported under both SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 For option C the SharePoint Central Admin istration website has been redesigned for greater ease of use organizing common tasks and lists into functional areas 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Answers to Review Questions 25 B C D For option A Remote BLOB Storage is used for server farms to provide high storage capacity by allowing BLOBs from the all_docs table and customized pages in a database to be housed in a file system outside the SQL Server database reducing the amount of storage
31. mine which ones will be able to take full advantage of SharePoint Server 2010 s advanced features offered through ActiveX controls Which of the following desktop and web browser combinations will be able to use the advanced features Choose all that apply A Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 B Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7 C Windows 7 with Firefox 3 5 D Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 64 bit You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 As part of your feasibility study you must review the various desktops servers and web browsers available in corporate headquarters to determine which ones will have access to only the basic functionality of SharePoint services due to a lack of ActiveX support Which of the following desktop web browser combinations have this limitation Choose all that apply A Windows Server 2003 with Internet Explorer 7 B Apple Mac OS X with Apple Safari 4 C Windows Server 2008 R2 with Internet Explorer 8 64 bit D Unix Linux 8 1 with Mozilla Firefox 3 5 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 As part of your feasibility study you must review new and upgraded fea tures in SharePoint W
32. n D the SharePoint Enterprise Search connector is available only for Windows 7 not for Windows Vista
33. n Wizards Configuration Wizards A A enO Eye 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 infor mation 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 configu ration 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 12 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 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 s
34. ne Your Readiness to Install SharePoint Server 2010 in a Single Server Deployment 1 Open a web browser and go to http technet microsoft com en us library cc262485 aspx 2 Review the information on this page to determine whether your current hardware and software meets the minimum requirements for a SharePoint Server 2010 instal lation as shown here Favcetes Teos Hele Se frvortes 45 GB sugaetes ster E Get More nat ons r Winsone t konma He em view tS gt mi Hendmacand acters x A D E me Payer Siye Tube eg eg eian ina Micresoft TechNet SharoPoint Products Home SharsPort Server 2010 SharePeint Foundation 2010 BEES forums esate rma i Miner Frendly Warana S add To fuuss Sod Dive he Rata and Siva Pantha girly re Ternat Ubrary 2 Overview ka Mogae nen and Cours Vicrogot ShareFont Server 20 0 provides for 2 number of natala on scenarie Currently mese nstalsbiors incude single server wh a A Wien tatanane nein lar ne an encimeranins ar muhpasrarcar rarm nen lehne Hardwire recuirerents Wih servers application siruers ane singh servir installations the foluming tabe aspiy bath tw nsta ladora on 2 angle gerver mith bul in CLD in a muhpe server tam metala on aae ond to serwera runig Prusemcr sh fase coves nan 4 08 or deveozer or sauron use T 803 or prodction use in a angle aerver or multicle server farm Sec rty and Updat
35. requires a minimum of 60 GB of hard drive spaces plus additional space on the drive to support regular operational requirements B The minimum processor requirements are 64 bit processors in dual core with 2 5 GHz per core C A minimum of 4 GB of RAM per physical server for development or testing purposes D A minimum of 8 GB of RAM per production server You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You are currently looking into the required and optional software that must be installed on a single server with an integrated database for a SharePoint Server 2010 test deployment Which of the following software packages must be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine in order to successfully install SharePoint Server 2010 Choose all that apply A Microsoft NET Framework version 3 5 SP1 B Microsoft Geneva Framework C Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft NET D SharePoint Technologies SSRS You are the DBA for your enterprise level company and you are meeting with the CIO and CEO to plan your company s efforts to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 You are tasked with inventorying the database servers in the server infrastructure and reporting on how many Microsoft SQL servers must be upgraded to support the proposed SharePoint deployment Which of the following SQ
36. siness 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 rede signed for greater ease of use organizing common tasks and lists into functional areas as you can see in Figure 1 1 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 authent
37. t apply A Excel Services is a shared service that lets you load calculate and display Microsoft Excel workbooks on SharePoint Server 2010 B The Excel Web Access web part is one of two primary interfaces for Excel Services added in SharePoint Server 2010 C Excel Web Services for programmatic access was added in SharePoint Server 2010 D SharePoint Server 2010 has enhanced Excel Services so you can now edit and save a workbook programmatically 22 17 18 19 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010 You are currently reviewing material regarding Word Automation Ser vices Which of the following options are true Choose all that apply A Word Automation Services is a shared service first introduced in MOSS 2007 B Word Automation Services provides unattended server side conversion of documents into formats supported by Microsoft Word C Word Automation Services can now save documents in PDF format D Word Automation Services supports all automatic tasks that execute when a document opens including recalculating all field types and XML mapping You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environ ment and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibil
38. tive forms and publishing them to the Web is much easier Representational State Transfer REST is a new architectural style for SharePoint that lets you create Excel spreadsheet or Visio diagram data publish the data and then update the orig inal documents and have the web published versions reflect the changes almost immediately Access Services offers similar functionality letting you quickly create publish and update a database application through a web browser 16 Chapter 1 What s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Summary In this chapter you were introduced to SharePoint Server 2010 including many of its new features and upgrades from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS 2007 The requirements of the hardware and software platform for SharePoint Server 2010 include 64 bit server hardware and 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Standard or 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 and 64 bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 The advantages of running SharePoint Server 2010 in a 64 bit environment include increased performance and scalability A wider base of client computer operating systems and web browsers is supported by SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 can use optional FAST Search for SharePoint to enhance per formance and features on enterprise level search SharePoint Server 2010 can now be administered through Windows PowerShell 2 0 as a command line interface and scripting language Exam Essential
39. torage capacity by allowing BLOBs from the all_docs table and customized pages in the data base 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 tar geted storage services Performance Controls SharePoint Server 2010 has two specific methods of managing per formance 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 asso ciated 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 pro nounced command let either can be used as a single function or can be combined with
40. unterpart there are some important security consid erations 64 bit Windows Server 2008 offers greater buffer overflow protection because the first parameters of a procedure call are passed in registers Since the correct values have to be assigned in the registers and both addresses and variables have to be aligned on the stack the data buffer is less likely to become congested and thus present a secu rity concern 64 bit processors made by AMD and Intel include hardware support for data execu tion prevention DEP to prevent any malicious executables from running even in the unlikely event of a buffer overflow Also Microsoft Patch Guard prevents any kernel mode drivers in third party applications from extending or replacing kernel services in Windows Server 2008 It s intuitively obvious that more processing power and more physical and virtual mem ory support equals better but in terms of scalability having access to so much more memory than is supported on 32 bit platforms means that both Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server can load large amounts of working data entirely in memory Users and admin istrators should notice no apparent performance lags as workload demands increase over time even if the demands increase dramatically This also results in decreasing the need for as many application servers since larger loads can be handled by fewer servers Considerations of 32 Bit and 64 Bit It s certainly possible to install som
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