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1. a E E Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide Microsoft Microsoft Copyright This is a preliminary document and may be changed substantially prior to final commercial release of the software described herein The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication This white paper is for informational purposes only MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES EXPRESS IMPLIED OR STATUTORY AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user Without limiting the rights under copyright no part of this document may be reproduced stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise or for any purpose without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation Microsoft may have patents patent applications trademarks copyrights or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft the furnishing of thi
2. M Rating Usage Usage data collection settings Log file location C Program Files Common Files Microsoft Shared Web Server Extensions 14 LOGS Maximum log file size ce v Enable health data collection INE abriam Click the link below to edit the health logging schedule Ee een the health logging Eon oe DON Health Logging Schedule Figure 14 Usage Logging A new addition to server diagnostics is the developer dashboard This dashboard displays detailed information for each page load and therefore helps troubleshoot 29 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft performance issues This dashboard is disabled by default and can be enabled for each Web application independently through the use of Windows PowerShell Reliability and Monitoring A new addition includes the SharePoint Maintenance Engine SPME The SPME is a new and improved version of the Best Practices Analyzer It periodically or on an on demand basis checks the administrative configuration performance best practices and security issues and makes recommendations to resolve potential issues Available only to users who have farm administrator credentials the results are accessible through Central Administration via the Review Problems and Solutions link in the Monitoring section and the Health Status section and they are also available in SCOM The SPME maintains a list of rules called Health Rule Definitions This list is created by the system to
3. Note Stsadm is still available to perform backups to maintain backward compatibility It is recommended that all new backup plans incorporate Windows PowerShell in place of Stsadm Central Administration vs Windows PowerShell SharePoint Server 2010 uses two different tools to configure backup and recovery Central Administration provides a user interface where SharePoint Administrators will be prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be backed up e SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Backup and Restore Central Farm Backup and Restore Administration Perform a backup Restore from a backup Configure backup settings Application Management View backup and restore history Check backup and restore job status System Settings i b Granular Backup Monitoring Perform a site collection backup Export a site or list Backup and Restore Recover data from an unattached content database Check granular backup job status Security Upgrade and Migration General Application Settings Configuration Wizards Figure 20 Backup and restore user interface 40 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command line tool that provides SharePoint administrators a way to perform backup and recovery with additional options such as file compression or working with SQL snapshots Listed below are a few of the benefits available when working with Windows PowerShell e Windows PowerShell scri
4. dollar sign denotes a variable in Windows PowerShell The semicolon means You are done running this cmdlet process the next cmdlet This is the same as starting a new line in Windows PowerShell Get Content usernames txt This cmdlet reads each line of the file Usernames txt and stores them as objects The pipe symbol means Send the output of the preceding cmdlet to the next cmdlet ForEach Object New SPManagedAccount password Spassword username litwareinc S_ Set SPManagedAccount identity _ autogenerate confirm SFalse The ForEach Object cmdlet tells Windows PowerShell to run all cmdlets inside the braces on each object separately until it processes all objects In Steve s case this means Take each username one at a time and process them New SPManagedAccount password Spassword username litwareinc _ The first step in that process is to define each account as a managed account The New SPManagedAccount is passed the Spassword variable Steve entered earlier and for the user name it uses the current username object from the text file This is represented by the variable which Windows PowerShell automatically created when you got the objects from the text file Finally the semicolon is used to say This cmdlet is done move to the next Set SPManagedAccount identity S_ autogenerate confirm SFalse This cmdlet takes the created managed account of _ and automatically generates a new password f
5. This setting is at the site level allowing for a very granular flexible experience a SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard Visual Upgrade As part of upgrade administrators can offer visual upgrade to their customers When users control visual upgrade the initial data upgrade will preserve the SharePoint user experience including layout command organization and style After upgrade farm administrators site collection administrators or site owners can update their sites to the latest SharePoint user experience New sites created after upgrade will always use the new SharePoint user experience Change existing SharePoint sites to use the new user experience Administrators control the user experience for end users Preserve customized pages but update template and application pages to use the new Reset all customized pa ir original templates This option will delete modifications From s ges cannot be undone Preserve the look and feel of existing SharePoint sites and allow end users to update their sites user experience lt Back Cancel Figure 1 Visual Upgrade Options Upgrade Logging The logging capabilities have been expanded and standardized allowing for easier more consistent reporting on the upgrade process This includes the creation of a unique log for each upgrade Also an errors only log is generated which reduces the need to look through the full logs to di
6. as a way to provide rich data to users SharePoint Server 2010 provides a Web Part that allows users to quickly integrate their Silverlight applications into SharePoint Server 2010 This makes it easier for organizations to use SharePoint Server 2010 to store data and use Silverlight to create dashboards and other applications to provide tools to report and interact with critical data The Silverlight Web Part will issue a token to the clients which will then pass that token to the Silverlight server The server will then use this token to request data from the server running SharePoint Server directly This token passing process will allow the Silverlight interactivity to remain secure because SharePoint Server 2010 requires the token to return data to the Silverlight server while remaining efficient because the server running SharePoint Server will not have to proxy the connections Conclusion At its core the principal uses for SharePoint Products and Technologies site provisioning Web Parts collaboration document management Web management and so on haven t changed What has changed is the amount of out of the box functionality that can be leveraged within an organization that has implemented this solution From a business perspective SharePoint Server 2010 solves the need for a centralized solution that can be used in conjunction with existing software and applications By leveraging Microsoft Business Connectivity Services SharePoin
7. d rePoint Databa than the jn 4 0 8 0 Maximum Schema arePoint Upgrade SPContentData schema Version 14 0 4427 1000 Maximum 7 1000 SharePoint Administration SPContentDatabase Current Schema 1 14 0 4427 1000 Maximum Schema Version 14 0 4427 1000 xinum SharePoint Schema Y Failover Server e a content ver that You can choose to is used in conjuction with SQL database mirroring Database Capacity Settings Specify capacity settings for this database Failover Database Server AAA Number of sites before a warning event is generated 006 Maximum number of sites that can be created in this database 15000 Figure 27 Configure a content database for failover database server www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft SQL Snapshots SharePoint Server 2010 backup and export take advantage of SQL snapshots When a Windows PowerShell command is run by using a SQL snapshot the first thing that happens is that a snapshot of the database is created and then the remaining command is executed against the SQL snapshot This provides a method that will reduce the load on the production databases For more information about SQL snapshots refer to the following link Database Snapshots http go microsoft com fwlink Linkld 156753 Search and Index Backup and Restore SharePoint Server 2010 has the ability to back up search and index databases by using a point and t
8. from an unattached content database In other words if you need to restore data from a backed up content database you can browse the content of that content database as long as it is attached to a computer running SQL Server even if it is not necessarily associated with SharePoint Server Administrators can browse the content database back up a site collection or export a site or list After the content has been located and saved into a separate location it can quickly be restored to the production database The new backup and restore functionality will be covered in more detail later in this guide 14 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Database Name and Authentication Database Server Specify the content database server and content database name to connect to 14alphasql Use of Windows authentication is strongly recommended To use SQL authentication Database Name specify the credentials which will be used to connect to the database Database authentication Windows authentication recommended C SQL authentication Account Password Operation to Perform Choose operation Select an operation to perform on the content database you selected You can browse the rose content content of the content database perform a site collection backup or export a site or list EIA C Backup site collection C Export site or list Figure 6 Connect to a content database The security model in SharePoint Server 2010 has been expanded to all
9. help ensure that the SharePoint environment is properly configured and healthy An example of a rule definition is shown below Health Analyzer Rule Definitions The server farm account should not be us d Version History AQ Alert Me Edit Run Item Now Manage Actions Health Title The server farm account should not be used for other services Scope Any Server Schedule Weekly Enabled Yes Repair Automatically No Version 1 0 Version 1 0 Close Created at 9 4 2009 3 09 PM by CONTOSO administrator Last modified at 9 4 2009 3 09 PM by CONTOSO administrator Figure 15 Health Rule SharePoint Server 2010 will ship a management pack for SCOM It provides real time alerts and troubleshooting in the context of larger infrastructure It watches events monitors performance counters and takes corrective action where necessary The management pack for SharePoint Server 2010 understands and discovers topology 30 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft grabs events from ULS the Windows Event Log usage database and SPME and is integrated with ULS Remote BLOB Storage For farms with large storage needs Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 has implemented remote BLOB storage RBS With RBS it is possible to have BLOBs from the all_docs table and customized pages in the database stored in a location outside of the database such as on file system allowing for a reduction in the amount of Microsoft SQL Server databa
10. information such as e Servers and total amount of content e Search configuration e Alternate access mappings 6 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e Features e Site definitions e Language packs It will also expose potential issues including e Large lists e Data orphans e CAML views and CAML content types e Modified content databases that have improper schemas e Missing upgrade dependencies All of this information will be collected and then output into an htm file you can view from your browser This process is read only It does not change your environment so you can run it often not only before upgrading but also just to check the general health of your environment Any automatic fixing of your environment will occur at upgrade time and not during pre upgrade scanning If you are already running SharePoint Server 2010 and would like to check whether your content databases are Office SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2010 databases you can use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet The cmdlet Test SPContentDatabase can be run against the databases of either version It will test a specific database referenced against a specific Web application It identifies current or potential issues such as e Data orphans e Missing site definitions e Missing features e Missing assemblies This cmdlet is meant to complement the pre upgrade checker report and is also read only preventing any disruption of your data while
11. instance Windows PowerShell Administration Windows PowerShell is the new command line interface and scripting language specifically designed for system administrators that will be used for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 administration Although both Cmd exe and Stsadm exe environments will be maintained for backward compatibility SharePoint Server 2010 command line administration will use Windows PowerShell For practical purposes you can view Windows PowerShell as complementing Cmd exe in the Windows administration context and superseding Stsadm exe for SharePoint administration You might ask yourself What s so unique about Windows PowerShell Well unlike most command line systems that accept and return text Windows PowerShell supports and uses XML and objects XML and object support is a pretty major change that brings entirely new tools and methods to greatly improve control efficiency and productivity for developers and administrators Windows PowerShell is built on top of the NET common language runtime CLR and the NET Framework Windows PowerShell is not an updated version of Cmd exe or MS DOSO it s a complete command line system that is far more powerful than any previous Windows based command line prompt environment Cmdlets Windows PowerShell introduces the concept of a cmdlet pronounced command let A cmdlet is a single function that can be used separately or combined with other cmdlets to perform complex tas
12. of these core cmdlets The following two sample scenarios describe how an administrator might use Windows PowerShell in SharePoint Server 2010 to help manage work efficiently To get a list of all cmdlets you can use the built in Windows PowerShell cmdlet Get Command First open the SharePoint 4 0 Management Console from the Start menu under Administrative Tools Type the following at the prompt and press ENTER Get Command noun sp After you have the complete list you can page through it and look for commands that interest you After you find a command you would like more information about you can use the built in Help for additional information Type the following at the prompt and press ENTER Get Help cmdlet This will give you the simple help You can also add a full or detailed string to the end of the command to get additional information 36 www microsoft com sharepoint Administrator SharePoint 2010 Management Console PS C Users Administrator gt Get Help New SPWebApplication full Figure 19 Show Help Content for Windows PowerShell Cmdlets Scenario Provisioning of Managed Accounts Steve has just completed the installation of SharePoint Server 2010 and is preparing to configure the farm He has put in a request to the Active Directory administrators to have all necessary service accounts provisioned All of these accounts were created by using the same password Steve now needs to set up all of these accoun
13. the site collection site or list that you wish to browse First start by selecting a site collection then you will be able to select a site that belongs to that site collection and you have the option to choose a specific list under that site Operation to Perform Choose operation Select an operation to perform on the content database you selected You can browse the content of the content database perform a site collection backup or export a site or list e Backup site collection C Export site or list Previous Next Cancel Figure 26 Browse content from an unattached database www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Scenario Using Windows PowerShell to Script Backing Up All Site Collections Individually Jennifer is an overly cautious SharePoint administrator who doesn t have complete faith in the database backups that are being performed each night by her database administrators She would prefer that she had her own backups just in case Looking at her options she can do a full farm backup by using the user interface but she doesn t want to VPN in every night at midnight to start the job so that is out She could set up a Windows PowerShell script to do the farm backup each night by using Backup SPFarm and then schedule that by using Task Scheduler but that backup is best served for disaster recovery and that is what the database administrators are protecting So she settles on using a Windows PowerSh
14. you are testing for issues Upgrade Methods There are two primary methods for upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 in place and database attach The in place method is used to upgrade an existing Office SharePoint Server 2007 server to SharePoint Server 2010 and the process can be restarted as necessary if issues arise While the database attach 7 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft method would allow you to backup a Office SharePoint Server 2007 database and attach it to your SharePoint Server 2010 Web application SharePoint Server would then upgrade this database and make it available through the Web application Additionally there is support for single click installations to be upgraded by using in place upgrade and then migrated from a Windows Internal Database deployment to take advantage of remote BLOB storage RBS covered later in this guide Downtime Mitigation Several features have been introduced in SharePoint Server 2010 to allow for upgrade to occur with little to no outages and at the same time to allow for quicker upgrade windows The first feature is the use of read only databases which was made available starting with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 SharePoint Server 2010 now recognizes a content database has been made read only from within SQL Server and will trim the user interface as if all site collections were marked read only This allows users read access to t
15. 00 0 80 0 608 6 46 6 26 61 ASP NET Requests Queued 06 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 8 0 16 0 32 0 64 0 82 0 1090 81 ASP NET Request Wait Time 18 0 580 0 100 0 200 0 400 0 800 0 1000 0 200 9 0 4000 0 15000 81 Figure 16 Windows PowerShell Commands for Monitoring Controlling Large List Activities SharePoint Server 2010 has the ability to support up to 50 million items within a SharePoint list however as lists grow in size they can become increasingly slow to return queries that include many results To provide users with consistent server response SharePoint Server 2010 provides several different settings that will restrict the queries that can be run against a large list These settings can be configured for each Web application and will control the following e The number of results that can be returned in a user query The default value is 5 000 items 32 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e The warning level for site administrators that their list is close to the threshold limit This warning is displayed on the list settings page The default value is 3 000 items e The number of query results that can be displayed for a site administrator This allows site administrators to access a larger data set than other site users The default value is 20 000 items e The maximum number of unique scopes in a list The default value is 50 000 items e The number of lookup columns that each list can include The default val
16. 2010 has changed the way themes work making them easier to customize Users who have created a custom theme in Microsoft Office PowerPoint might notice that the interface to create themes looks very similar In fact it is very similar It is actually possible to import PowerPoint themes directly into SharePoint Server Additionally themes can now be applied to all subsites from this interface The new themes functionality in SharePoint Server 2010 will make it faster and easier than ever before for administrators to create and deploy a customized user interface 49 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Select a Theme Default no theme Azure Berry B a oe m l d P Construct E HN EI Convention m IN m m io ES Graham BENENSEENENENN Grapello A A A O Pi Mission Modern Rose Hyperlink Followed Hyperlink Municipal i aramiibe siam Pinnate Heading Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Pinnate Body Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Summer Vantage Viewpoint Customize Theme Text Background Dark 1 BM Selecta color Heading Font Fully customize a theme by selecting individual colors and Fonts X Verdana Text Background Light 1 Select a color Body Font Text Background Dark 2 a Select a color Verdana z Text Background Light 2 Select a color Accent 1 Select a color Accent 2 Select
17. Below is an example of a scaled out search architecture Combined Web and query servers BF Neb server 5 A Wis eb server Place the Web server role on the same servers Query server Query server with the query role There are two index partitions For redundancy a Index partition 1a index partition 2a copy of each index partition a index partition instance is on each computer Index partition 2b Index partition 1b Index servers 2 index server 2 index server Administration component is on one server 3 3 Each server has one crawler Both crawlers are IER Guate Es associated with the crawl database Database servers clusters or mirrors One database server set for e Search admin database e One property database e All other SharePoint databases One database server set containing the crawl database which is isolated for performance reasons Crawl db All other SharePoint databases Property db Search admin db Figure 10 Search Architecture 19 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Improving Search Performance Many times the administrator is tasked with improving different aspects of the overall search process The following table highlights some options available to the administrator based on the new search architecture Aspect to improve Full crawl time and result Add crawl servers crawlers and crawl databases freshness Each crawl database can contain content from independent sources Each c
18. EER RTE 52 3 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Abstract This evaluation guide is designed to give the IT pro an introduction and overview of the features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta that are most pertinent to installing managing and configuring the SharePoint farm It begins with a brief introduction and a summary of what s new followed by a more in depth discussion of the most relevant features The ultimate goal of this guide is to provide the IT pro with the understanding necessary for installing and evaluating SharePoint Server 2010 This guide is intended for the Windows Server administrator Office SharePoint Server 2007 administrator Web server administrator or any IT pro involved in server administration This evaluation guide is subject to change For the latest information about SharePoint Server 2010 go to http www microsoft com sharepoint Introduction Welcome to the IT pro s Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide The goal of this guide is to help you gain sufficient knowledge and understanding to evaluate this product from Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the Web The platform empowers people and enables them to connect through an integrated set of rich features This common collaboration environment provides a unified infrastructure which helps organizations cut costs while allowing them to rapidly respond to b
19. Framework They have optimization built into their protocol using binary streams instead of XML for data transfer Test results show improvements in network throughput with this change Examples of service applications are described in the following sections Search SharePoint Server 2010 Search includes new features and a new architecture that enables a more scalable topology Search capability continues to be pervasive and integrates very well with the new social networking features The new architecture scales to approximately 100 million items and search can be used in a multi tenant hosting environment Search management has been improved by consolidating search administration to a single dashboard in the user interface and administration can be scripted by using Windows PowerShell Password management can be achieved by using managed accounts Search performance and functionality can be monitored and there is also support for System Center Operations Manager SCOM monitoring and alerting Search reporting has been improved by using built in and extensible search analytics and reporting engine 17 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Search Service Search uses the new services architecture described earlier This new architecture allows farms to connect to multiple farms to consume cross farm services In large environments an entire enterprise services farm which is a farm that hosts the most commonly used cross farm serv
20. a color B Select a color Accent 4 BN Select a color Accent 5 BN Select a color Accent 6 B Select a color Hyperlink EE Select a color Followed Hyperlink EN Select a color Preview Theme Click the button to open a new window and preview the selected theme applied to this site Loo Preview Figure 28 Theme in SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer is a powerful tool for customizing SharePoint sites and adding functionality With any tool deployed in an organization applying an effective governance plan is key to ensuring responsible use of the tool SharePoint Server 2010 gives administrators added control over how SharePoint Designer is used in each Web application Administrators can control the following options e Enable SharePoint Designer Controls whether SharePoint Designer can be used at all e Enable Detaching Pages from the Site Definition Determines whether pages can be detached from the site definition SharePoint Designer only allows customization of a page when the page is put into advanced editing mode This will greatly reduce the number of pages that will be detached from the site definition e Enable Customizing Master Pages and Layout Pages Controls whether site administrators are allowed to customize master pages and layout pages 50 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e Enable Managing of the Web Site URL Structure Specifies whether site administrators c
21. an in less than one hour Lesson learned If Stsadm exe can do the operation Windows PowerShell can do it too and generally more efficiently Managed Accounts To reduce the load of managing various service accounts in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 the concept of managed accounts has been introduced Much like managed accounts in Windows Server 2008 they allow SharePoint Server to take control of all the service accounts you use After SharePoint Server has control of these accounts it can either manage their passwords automatically changing them as necessary or it can notify you when an accounts password is about to expire allowing 39 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft you to make the change yourself This functionality will greatly reduce the burden on the SharePoint farm administrator who is responsible for maintaining these various accounts and should prevent unnecessary downtime due to expired accounts Backup and Restore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a broad range of levels for performing backups including the entire farm farm configuration information site collections subsites or lists Backups can be done by using the Central Administration pages or Windows PowerShell Using the backup and restore features available in SharePoint Server 2010 gives SharePoint administrators a powerful set of tools that allow them to manage their environment with minimal downtime and operational costs
22. an manage the URL structure of their site Contoso Team Site SharePoint Designer Settings Use this page to manage the SharePoint Designer Settings fo Home o Documents Allow Site Dwners and Designers to use SharePoint Designer in sites in this site collection fs Iv Enable SharePoint Designer Site Pages and Designers to edit the site N t Designer Site Collection Administrators will Shared Documents Lists Calendar O Enable Detaching Pages from the Site Definition Tasks Discussions g Allow Site Owners and Designers to Customize Master Pages and TeamiDiscussi n Pages C Enable Customizing Master Pages and Layout Pages 5 Recycle Bin E All Site Content Allow Site Owners and Designers to See the Hidden URL structure of their Web Site O Enable Managing of the Web Site URL Structure Spe i WI OK Cancel Figure 29 SharePoint Designer Settings Master Pages While SharePoint Server 2010 still relies on master pages for implementing a custom look and feel to sites there have been some enhancements made Through the Web interface or by using SharePoint Designer a site owner will be able to apply branding to their site independent of other sites This allows the administration of look and feel to be delegated as appropriate For branding of application and system pages this role will fall to the server administrator Administrators will be able to specify whether the system pages in the _Lay
23. as name value pairs that give specificity to the cmdlet noun when invoked the cmdlets return output objects The returned objects in turn have properties that are displayed as name value pairs The figure below shows the Windows PowerShell command line window when the Get SPSite cmdlet has been invoked The cmdlet uses a URL parameter in the form uRL http localhost to identify the specific SPSite object it will retrieve The cmdlet then provides an equivalent name value item that identifies the return object A cmdlet is not an executable it is an instance of a NET Framework class and therefore it returns objects rather than a text stream These objects can be passed or piped to another cmdlet as input in sequence In this way cmdlets can be chained together providing enormous flexibility 35 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Verb Noun Parameter Name Parameter Value PS gt Get SPSite URL http localhost URL SiteTemplate SiteOw ner PS gt Each row represents an output object Figure 18 Windows PowerShell command http lt localhos s STS Redm ond JD ce lue Property Val Property Name As you can see Windows PowerShell is not just a new command shell It is also and perhaps more importantly a new scripting language Windows PowerShell is installed natively with over 100 core Windows cmdlets The library of SharePoint Server 2010 cmdlets which presently number over 300 will be installed on top
24. ated technologies Active Directory Federation Services formerly known as Geneva Server Windows Cardspace formerly known as 25 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Cardspace Geneva and Windows Identity Foundation formerly known as the Geneva Framework Why use this new system Identity drives very important aspects of an application such as identifying who the user is authentication what permissions the user is granted authorization and how the application interacts with the user personalization All applications work with identity today but usually in their own way Often integrating these applications can be a very difficult process Claims based identity provides a common way for applications to acquire identity information from users inside their organization in other organizations and on the Internet Identity information is contained in a security token often simply called a token A token contains one or more claims about the user Think of it as metadata about the user that stays with them throughout their session Claims based authentication opens the door to great possibilities in SharePoint Server 2010 Greater flexibility for authenticating users against multiple repositories within the same Web application and a more personalized experience based on the claims or information about the user provided in the token Service Applications Conclusion Service applications are a modular set of services that will
25. e additional perspective about the capability 47 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft All site collections for a single site subscription must reside in the same Web application Multiple site subscriptions can be hosted in a single Web application Multiple site subscriptions can share the same database Administrators define which services are available and activated for each tenant The subscription ID for a tenant is used to map the service to the site collections Multiple tenants can share service data For example multiple branches of an organization can share profile data In this case the multiple branches share a data partition within the profile service Service data can be partitioned for each tenant ensuring that customer data is not exposed to other tenants In this case data for a single tenant is contained within a separate data partition for the service Administration Administrators can host multiple tenants on the same farm and centrally manage the deployment of services and features Tenants can manage the configuration of administrator delegated features and control the functionality of their site collections Administrative functionality is aligned with common hosting roles as summarized in the following table Role Description Hosting company Manages the farm level settings and hardware Controls database configurations Installs all new approved features and solutions Can brand t
26. e farm without applying the updates to the databases for a temporary period This allows the scheduling of downtime for the database upgrade portion of the update or the use of the downtime 11 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft mitigation technique of using a read only database to avoid an outage while rolling in updates SharePoint Central Administration Web Site The Central Administration Web site has been redesigned in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to provide a more familiar experience and make it easier for users to find what they are looking for The home page for Central Administration groups major functional areas together and lists many of the most common tasks Each of the major areas Application Management Monitoring and so on is represented on the Home page and can be accessed by clicking its name or by clicking the corresponding link from the navigation at the left side of the page E SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Central Administration E Application Management Yew System Settings Resources Roplicsdon Manadenient Le manege web applications YA 3 Manage servers in this farm y no favorite links to Create site collections dT Manage services on server ew link click Add System Settings Manage service applications Manage farm features pO Manage content databases Configure alternate access Monitoring x mappings Backup and Restore Monitoring Y Add new link Security Review problems and solutions Backu
27. e site is selected there are additional options for the site and for specific lists From this page the administrator can also choose to export security and select the different versions that will be exported with the site or list 42 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Readiness No export is in progress G Timer service is running Site Collection Site Collection http moss Site fv List Announcements jntains the site then select a contain it and then select File location Filename Specify the destination For the export package overwrite ex isting files Example backup SharePoint export cmp Export Full Security e 2 O x ort f sec rity Export Full security of the site including author editors created by times and modified by times Export full security This also includes all users in the sites Export Versions Export versions Select the on history information to include for files and list items You can include all versions All Versions the last m ersion the current version or the last major and last minor versions Start Export Car Figure 23 Export a site or list in the user interface Similar to the site collection backup Windows PowerShell provides some additional parameters including the use of SQL snapshots compression and logging SYNTAX Export SPMeb Identity lt SPWebPipeBind gt Path String AssignmentCollectio n lt SPAss
28. ected this term will be visible but not enabled TAXONOMY TERM STORE English E ie Managed Metadata Service Language LO System Select a lanquage of the labels for the term you would like to edit English 4 ContosoData E 3 TT Description help users know when to use this term and to a gst similar ti 4 Office Client 4 7 Word A J Word 2000 Default Label Word XP Enter one label as the default For this language outlook Word 2003 Other Labels Word 2007 Enter synonyms and abbreviations For this term You can entera add new labe Word 2010 word or phrase per line Excel Member Of 4 Term Set Name Term Set Description Parent Term Source Term Owner Publisher Product Office Client c CONTOSO Administr PowerPoint Groove SharePoint Workspace J Access Infopath Save Gance SharePoint Designer Figure 11 Manage Terms Managed Metadata Service Connection The connection provides access to the service When you create a managed metadata service a connection to the service is automatically created in the same Web application as the service Web applications can have connections to multiple services Several properties are specified as part of the connection Values for each of these properties must be specified as part of configuring the service connection Default keyword location Specifies that the term store will be used to store new managed keywords This provides the capability for
29. ed in an external data source such as Microsoft SQL Server and other relational databases SharePoint Server and Web services External content types are created by using SharePoint Designer 2010 Visual Studio 2010 and by importing an application model that contains one or more external content types into a BCS service application SharePoint Server and Office Integration BCS data can be accessed by using a Web browser and displayed inside SharePoint sites by using Web Parts and external lists Business data can be exposed as Office Word document properties and inserted into documents Users can interact with business data by using the familiar Microsoft Office Outlook interface and take the data offline by using the new SharePoint Workspace the new Groove application External content types can also be consumed natively by Microsoft InfoPath 2010 Microsoft Access 22 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft 2010 and other Office applications via custom code SharePoint search can also use the BCS to index external data therefore Office applications and SharePoint Server use the BCS to access external data by using external content types Managed Metadata Service The managed metadata service is a service application that enables the use of managed metadata and allows you to share content types across site collections and across Web applications The service publishes a term store and content types and the metadata is consum
30. ed via the managed metadata connection A managed metadata service and connection are created when the metadata service application is created Managed Metadata Service Application Creating the service application requires the administrator to specify the database to be used as the term store When you create new managed terms or when users add managed keywords these terms are stored in the database Like other service applications the managed metadata service can be published to provide access to other Web applications When a service application is published a URL to the service is created The administrator of another Web application can create a connection to your service by using this URL In addition to sharing metadata you can also use the managed metadata service to share content types By creating a new managed metadata service and specifying a site collection as the content type hub you can share all content types in the site collection s content type gallery You can create multiple managed metadata service applications This provides the capability to share multiple term stores and content types from multiple site collections Each service must specify a different term store during the creation process and a new database will be created if it does not exist 23 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft SEARCH PROPERTIES Dutlook Available for Tagging her this term is available to be used by end users For Vv i unsel
31. eir day to day activities As you can see with the native capabilities available with SharePoint Server 2010 it is easy to understand the level of anticipation that has led up to this release 53 www microsoft com sharepoint
32. ell script that will take advantage of the cmdlet Backup SPSite to back up individual site collections This will give her a great deal of flexibility for recovery The script she used is Get SPWebApplications Get SPSite ForEach Object FilePath c backups _ Url Replace http Replace bak Backup SpSite Identity path Filepath Farm Backup and Restore SharePoint Server 2010 has built in capabilities for backing up the entire farm to provide recovery for a catastrophic failure This interface can be accessed from within Central Administration for ad hoc backups and recovery or it can be scripted by using the Windows PowerShell cmdlets Backup SPFarm and Restore SPFarm respectively A new addition to the catastrophic backup scenario is the capability to do a configuration only backup The configuration only backup outputs an XML file that can be used to restore all settings in the farm This could be used for recovery of the farm or to build a different farm entirely by using the same settings This is possible because all settings that are backed up are non machine specific Read Only Databases SharePoint Server 2010 has the ability to recognize read only SQL databases Whenever SharePoint Server is connected to a SQL database that has been placed in read only mode SharePoint Server will security trim all site collections in the database so that they are read only to all users removing all add a
33. etion Monitoring Specify quota templates Configure quotas and locks Change site collection administrators View all site collections Backup and Restore Configure self service site creation Security Service Applications Upgrade and Migration y 3 OUT LI Manage service applications Configure service application associations General Application Settings f Databases Configuration Wizards Manage content databases Specify the default database server Configure the data retrieval service Figure 8 Application Management The key limitation of the SSP architecture was that it was configured by using a set of services and all Web applications associated with the SSP bore the overhead of all the services even if they weren t being used To change the service configuration for a particular Web application a new SSP would have to be created The service application architecture allows a set of services to be associated with a given Web application and a different set of services to be associated with another Web application Also the same service application can be configured differently in different Web applications therefore Web sites can be configured to use only the services that are needed rather than the entire bank of services Similar to the SSP model in Office SharePoint Server 2007 a single set of services can be shared by all sites in a farm if this is a requirement The figure below shows the Manage Service Applicatio
34. ettings categories Configuration Wizards 27 Diagnostic Logging Select a category Category Event Level Trace Level 3 All Categories gj Access Services gj Document Conversions gj Document Management Server g eApproval Excel Services gj Excel Web Access g 7 InfoPath Forms Services gy Master Data Services Office Search Server g 7 Office Server g 7 Office Web Apps a PerformancePoint Service gj Secure Store Service g 7 SharePoint Foundation en SharePoint Portal Server g Visio Graphics Service g Web Analytics Services g Web Content Management an Word Automation Services g WSS Search Diagnostics Least critical event to report to the event log Least critical event to report to the trace log zx Figure 12 Diagnostic Logging www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft 1 000 800 600 Miliseconds 400 e a 200 E 1 A z L 5 8 2009 2 50 PM 5 8 2009 3 10 PM 5 8 2009 3 30 PM 5 8 2009 3 50 PM 5 8 2009 3 00 PM 5 8 2009 3 20 PM 5 8 2009 3 40 PM 5 8 2009 4 00 PM MM Add Completed ME Chunk Processing MM V ord Breaking III Wait MA Standard Properties MA Process Words OnDataChange Filtering MA Filter Initialization BN Protocol Handlers Figure 13 Crawl Activity Report Diagnostics The Unified Logging Service ULS includes improvements to manageability log fi
35. from production and restores it to his new computer running SQL Server On this SQL Server he takes advantage of the Windows PowerShell cmdlet Test SPContentDatabase to report any potential issues with attaching the content database to his newly provisioned Web application From the output of this command he finds he has not installed all of the necessary Features on his new server He is now able to install the necessary Features avoiding a failed upgrade With all of the necessary pieces now in place Randy performs his first upgrade by using the Windows PowerShell cmdlet Upgrade SPContentDatabase After the upgrade concludes he reviews the errors only upgrade log and then the full upgrade log which gives him both a focused picture of any issues that occurred and the line by line story that he can review to get a better understanding of what happened during the upgrade process With the upgrade cmdlet successfully completed he now can open the site and review his content The first thing he notices is that his site looks exactly as it did in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm thanks to the Visual Upgrade features To see what his site will look like with the SharePoint Server 2010 look and feel he goes into Site Settings and selects the preview option This gives Randy the opportunity to confirm that everything looks appropriate with the new visuals applied If he is happy with the results he can make the change permanent if he feels he wi
36. gement shared service applications taxonomy multi tenancy sandbox solutions content type syndication and policy These topics are discussed in greater detail in the guide but it is worth mentioning them now because it is important to realize how features in SharePoint Server can provide solutions Solutions generally utilize several features together and it is easy to overlook the solution capability when discussing features individually Another very important solution is high availability This is discussed in the next section High Availability Several feature improvements targeted at the database level and the search service help achieve high availability architecture Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 leverages the underlying Microsoft SQL Server high availability technologies such as log shipping snapshots and database mirroring and now includes automatic failover Other features such as read only content databases unattached database backup and restore and configuration database backup and restore provide much more granular control and manageability of the SharePoint farm s data Now it s time to discuss some of features beginning with SharePoint deployment and upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment and Upgrade System Requirements As one would imagine a powerful application such as this requires a server environment capable of supporting it As such the requirements for your infrastructure will draw u
37. harepoint Microsoft Summary of What s New Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes numerous new capabilities and features only some of which are highlighted in this guide Here is a brief summary of what s new IT pro productivity SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer Backup and restore configuration data Site collection migration Content recovery down to the site and list level Content restore of site or list Windows PowerShell snap ins and commands Scalable unified infrastructure Shared service applications Hosting and multi tenancy architecture with site subscriptions Claims based authentication Profile synchronization High availability automatic failover Content type syndication Sandbox solutions Policy Flexible deployment Prerequisite installer Visual Upgrade Configuration wizards Scriptable deployment On premise or online Before we begin the discussion of each of the features let s briefly mention how these features can be used to provide governance a very key topic for IT pros 3 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Governance Governance in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the set of roles responsibilities and processes that you put in place in an enterprise to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint Server There are several new features in SharePoint Server that help the IT pro deliver governance metadata creation and mana
38. he Tenant Administrator pages Hosted company Purchases space features and bandwidth from hosting administrator company Controls the architecture of customer sites but not the content Reviews usage statistics Hosted company Owns site collection 48 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Installs or removes features and solutions Configures features and services Reviews usage statistics Tenants administer their sites by using a site template titled Tenant Administration which is associated with a subscription ID This site template is hidden and can be granted to tenants only by a farm administrator Branding There have been a number of changes related to branding the user interface added to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Themes In previous versions of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation known previously as Windows SharePoint Services themes were a common way to change the look and feel of the site Administrators could go to the Site Settings page and select from one of several themes Although this was a quick and easy way to make your site look different from the default site often the themes available out of the box didn t match the corporate brand for a particular organization In those cases the options were either to create a custom theme which required some development and modification of files on the server or a company would just have to accept what was available SharePoint Server
39. he content while the upgrade takes place Another advancement to reduce the amount of time an upgrade will take is that SharePoint Server 2010 supports performing several database attach upgrades at the same time Through the use of multiple Windows PowerShell sessions multiple databases are upgraded which means the amount of data upgraded at one time is limited only by your SQL Server resources Finally for customers who have such extreme amounts of content that completing the upgrade within a reasonable window is not possible there is another option This option involves using alternate access mapping redirections to direct traffic between a SharePoint Server 2010 farm and Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm based on the requested URL by using client side 302 redirects Visual Upgrade To mitigate the impact of the upgrade on the user community SharePoint Server 2010 supports Office SharePoint Server 2007 master pages and cascading style sheets By default after a content database is upgraded the sites will be displayed with the Office SharePoint Server 2007 visuals giving the user their familiar look and feel An upgraded site can then exist in one of three states Office SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010 preview mode and SharePoint Server 2010 This allows the site 8 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft administrator to preview how the site looks with the SharePoint Server 2010 user interface before committing to it
40. ices including search can be deployed A dedicated search farm which is a farm that is optimized to provide search can also be implemented Search Architecture Search in SharePoint Server 2010 has been re architected to allow greater redundancy within a single farm and improvements to scaling up and out The query architecture and the crawling architecture can be scaled out separately based on the needs of an organization thus providing greater flexibility Query Architecture The query architecture includes query servers index partitions which reside on query servers and property databases An index partition represents a portion of the entire index and therefore the index is the aggregation of all index partitions Partitioning the index allows different portions of the index to be spread across query servers Administrators decide on the number and configuration of each of the partitions At least one server in a farm must host the query role and more query servers can be added to increase performance Two or more query servers provide redundancy based on the configuration of index partitions For example a farm with three query servers can be configured so that each query server has an index partition that represents one third of the index Redundancy for the query servers can be achieved by creating a second instance of each index partition on another query server Deploying index partitions across query servers can help balance
41. ify the content database server and content database name to connect to Use of Windows authentication is strongly recommended To use SQL authentication specify the credentials which will be used to connect to the database Database Server mossvtc Database Name Operation to Perform Select an operation to perform on the content database you selected You can browse the pM Database authentication Windows authentication recommended C SQL authentication Account eoo Password po Choose operation c Browse content content of the content database perform a site collection backup or export a site or list C Backup site collection C Export site or list Next Cancel Figure 25 Recover data from an unattached database After you point to the unattached content database you will be able to browse back up or export the content The same level of backup granularity is available for both attached and unattached content databases The process for selecting the content and options for backup will be the same as above which is illustrated below 2 fRarePoint 2010 Central Administration Browse content Central Administration Application Management System Settings Monitoring Backup and Restore Security Upgrade and Migration General Application Settings Configuration Wizards 44 Use this page to browse the contents of a site collection Site Collection E Site Collection Select
42. ignmentCollection gt 1 CompressionSize lt Int32 gt Confirm lt SwitchPa rameter gt Force lt SwitchParameter gt HaltOnError lt SwitchParameter gt Ha 1tOnWarning lt SwitchParameter gt IncludeUserSecurity lt SwitchParameter gt I ncludeVersions lt LastMajor CurrentUersion LastMajorAndMinor A11 gt 1 It emUrl lt String gt 1 NoFileCompression lt SwitchParameter gt NoLogFile lt SwitchP arameter UseSqlSnapshot lt SwitchParameter gt HhatIf lt SwitchParameter gt lt CommonParameters gt Figure 24 Export a site or list in Windows PowerShell To restore the site or list the Import SPWeb Windows PowerShell command is used Recover Data from an Unattached Content Database In SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint administrators will be able to restore site collections sites and lists from unattached content databases What does this mean SharePoint administrators can simply do a SQL Server restore of the content database to any computer running SQL Server then tell SharePoint to connect to it Now they can browse the contents of the database and then back up or export the content they need This eliminates the need to build a second farm for granular recovery After the backup 43 www microsoft com sharepoint or export is finished they can the restore that content to the appropriate place in their SharePoint site and delete the restored database Database Name and Authentication Spec
43. ime approach This will allow SharePoint Administrators to restore the search administration crawl and query databases SharePoint Server will then be able to complete an incremental crawl based on all content that has been modified since the backup was taken This will eliminate the requirement to complete a full crawl if the search database needs to be restored Multi tenancy and Hosting Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 has the capability to isolate and separate data from different Web sites while sharing service application resources across these same sites This capability is called multi tenancy Multi tenancy of services creates a true hosting environment and makes it possible to share service resources across customers tenants while partitioning data based on site subscriptions Site subscriptions group tenant data across all site collections owned by the tenant and provide the ability to separate and group each tenant s data in an otherwise shared environment Administrators can centrally deploy and manage features and services while giving tenants full control over the usage and experience Site Subscriptions Multi tenancy relies on site subscriptions and subscription IDs Site collections for each tenant are grouped together by site subscription based on a common subscription ID The subscription ID is used to map features and services to tenants and also to partition service data according to tenant The following key points provid
44. ion can be accessed by a single click 5t g A Manage Features L Blocked File Types y v v Y v Y O el X E ay ME lv Eel E Managed Paths A User Permissions Mew Extend Delete General Auth X Self Service Site User Anonymous Permission X Settings 9 Service Connections Providers Creation Web Part Security Policy Policy Policy Contribute Manage Security Policy Figure 3 Ribbon Interface In addition to the more obvious changes to the user interface there are several new pieces of functionality hiding among the menus As you can see in the screenshot of the Central Administration home page a new page named Configuration Wizards has been added Wizards are designed make the configuration process easier by guiding users through the steps to configure functionality gt EEN pas C Ty SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Configuration Wizards Kontal EN Farm Configuration Administration DN Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard Application Management System Settings Monitoring Backup and Restore Security Figure 4 Configuration Wizards page The Farm Configuration Wizard is available by default This wizard takes users through the process of specifying the accounts that each service will run under It is possible for additional wizards to be added by third party vendors or by developers to assist with configuring other areas of SharePoint Server 2010 Clicking the Backup and Restore link display
45. ite collection as the hub of the content types it is sharing IT publishes the service and provides the service s URL to all departments A connection to IT s managed metadata service is created The second requirement that all keywords be stored centrally can be satisfied when each site collection connects to the service hub by specifying that managed metadata service as the default keyword store This scenario illustrates how the metadata service can be configured so that all departments have access to a centrally managed set of metadata defined in the Document Base content type and all keywords can be centrally managed and stored in a single location IT s term store so all departments can use all of the keywords Claims based Authentication SharePoint Server 2010 incorporates a new more powerful and flexible authentication model that works with any corporate identity system including Active Directory directory services LDAP based directories application specific databases and new user centric identity models such as LiveID This model uses claims based authentication and a new product code named Geneva Claims based authentication is built around the concept of an identity and is based on standards WS Federation WS Trust and protocols like the Security Assertion Markup Language SAML An identity is a set of information about a user such as name e mail address department and so on Geneva is actually three rel
46. ite collection will include the top level site and all subsites When backing up the site collection through Central Administration a SharePoint administrator identifies the site collection and provides a destination for the storage of the backup file 41 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Readiness No si on backup is in progress g Time s running Site Collection Select a site collect Site Collection http moss Select a site collection hos File location Filename Specify the destination for the backup package IE rePoint Site1 bak Start Backup Cancel Figure 21 Back up a site collection The same operation can be completed by using the Backup SPSite Windows PowerShell command Note that additional parameters are available including using a SQL snapshot SYNTAX Backup SPSite Identity lt SPSitePipeBind gt Path String AssignmentCollect ion lt SPAssignmentCollection gt 1 Confirm lt SwitchParameter gt 11 Force lt Switc hParameter gt NoSiteLock lt SwitchParameter gt UseSqlSnapshot lt SwitchParame ter gt WhatIf lt SwitchParameter gt lt CommonParameters gt Figure 22 Windows PowerShell command for backing up a site To restore the site collection the Restore SPSite Windows PowerShell command is used Export a Site or List Through Central Administration a SharePoint Administrator can configure a backup of a subsite or list As seen in the image below after th
47. ks and automate administration Windows PowerShell provides a set of pre built cmdlets fully supports cmdlet customization to suit your environment and supports various customizable Windows PowerShell providers that make available specific sets of cmdlets 34 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft A cmdlet is a simple command used for interaction with any managed application including the operating system It is analogous to such shell commands as Cmd exe but the processing of Windows PowerShell commanas is very different The traditional shell generally processes commands as separate executable programs Each program has to parse the input distinguish between positional and named parameters bind values to the correct parameters format the output and display the output In contrast Windows PowerShell processes commands as instances of a NET class focusing on the simple cmdlet model You provide the parameters and validate the values and then furnish details of object types and formatting Windows PowerShell does the rest of the work parsing the parameters binding them to their values formatting the output and displaying the output Cmdlet names are comprised of verbs and nouns which denote their functional properties For example the cmdlet name Get SPSite combines the verb command Get with the noun object SPSite to name the cmdlet that retrieves a specified SharePoint SPSite object or collection Cmdlet nouns take parameters
48. le improvements correlation ID tracing and Windows PowerShell scripting Event throttling is one of the enhancements to manageability It is configured on the Diagnostics Logging page illustrated earlier Event throttling controls the severity of events that are captured in the Windows event log and the trace logs As the severity decreases the number of events logged will increase Events are categorized and the administrator can change the settings for any single category or for all categories Updating all categories will lose the changes to individual categories Event Log Flood Protection EVFP can also be enabled on the same Web page When EVFP is enabled repeating events are detected and suppressed until conditions return to normal The ULS now contains all application log events and third party logging software can be integrated into the ULS The logs have been reduced in size by more than 50 percent by using the NTFS file system compression The trace log can also be located in a specified location and the storage duration and amount of storage can also be configured Correlation IDs that are associated with each request help troubleshoot errors related to the request SQL Profiler traces will also show correlation IDs to further assist in the 28 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft troubleshooting SharePoint Server 2010 includes several Windows PowerShell cmdlets for retrieving information and configuring the ULS SharePoi
49. ll After the application has been created the administrator will associate the application with a database and a service account The application can also be partitioned for multi tenancy if necessary The external data source instance specifies particular connection and authentication information for an external data system Essentially an application model describes an external data source The model is a collection of metadata that provides a framework for converting operations requested by SharePoint Server or a client application into requests that are specific to a given external data source More specifically the application model contains the XML descriptions of one or more external content types External Content Types An external content type represents a reusable description of an object that can be used in a composite application such as Customer Order or Contact recall that these were formerly called BDC entities The external content type also includes the object s data fields the methods to create read update or delete that object actions that users can take on the object and information that supports connecting to the external data source where the object is stored Notice that both read and write capability is included which is an improvement over the BDC capability in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Also batch and bulk operation support is available External content types represent data that is stor
50. ll need to make adjustments to the site he can turn preview off and return to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 interface The feature is set at the individual site level allowing Randy to make very granular choices He can also use Windows PowerShell to script the changing of the visuals After Randy finishes working with the various business content owners to validate the upgrade process and works through any issues he is ready to plan his production upgrade schedule His plan is to notify his users and then take his Office SharePoint 10 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Server 2007 farm and set all of the content database to read only from within SQL Server Not only will this set the data to read only preventing any data inconsistency during the upgrade window it will trim the user interface by taking away New or Edit functionality for all users which helps avoid confusion After all databases are read only Randy will perform a backup of the databases and restore them to his new computer running SQL Server With the databases in place he can then begin attaching the databases by using Windows PowerShell During testing he confirmed his hardware was powerful enough that he could open multiple Windows PowerShell windows each one upgrading a different database all at the same time This allowed him to shorten his upgrade window With all of his company s SharePoint content upgraded and available Randy then had DNS updated to reso
51. lve all of his Web applications to the new farm His content owners then confirmed the production upgrade was successful and switched their visuals to SharePoint Server 2010 as appropriate Each content owner had previously determined the necessary course of action for moving to the new visuals and the time frame for making the change Randy has set a hard date of 30 days before he will use Windows PowerShell to force all visuals to the SharePoint Server 2010 look and feel Randy has had a very successful upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 thanks to his using out of the box SharePoint tools and performing lots of planning and testing Because he worked out the kinks throughout the testing phase he was able to accomplish the upgrade with minimal impact on his business users Patch Management Improvements While upgrade is used to move from version to version updating also called patching uses the same principles to move from build to build To allow control and flexibility of the update process several capabilities are available The update management user interface and update reporting cmdlet allow for the monitoring of updates throughout the farm There are also update status health rules that will alert an administrator to inconsistencies To allow for more flexibility while applying updates in farm scenarios SharePoint Server 2010 supports backward compatibility of updates This will permit an administrator to apply updates to the servers in th
52. nd edit functionality from the sites even for 45 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft administrators This feature will provide the tools to help mitigate downtime during upgrades and server maintenance For example a secondary farm can be created and log shipping can be used to keep it current with the production environment DNS can then be updated to point to the secondary environment where all content databases are set to read only The production farm can be upgraded or updated without users accessing it After it is complete and brought back online DNS can be updated again to point to the production farm Using this approach will allow users to have full read access to their data during the upgrade process SQL Mirroring SharePoint Server 2010 supports SQL mirroring natively This allows a farm administrator to configure the SQL environment to mirror a SharePoint content database Whenever a new database is created the SharePoint administrator will be prompted to enter the failover server SharePoint will then communicate with the witness server and issues are discovered SharePoint Server will fail over to the hot backup of the environment Database Information Database server Database status Ready z o Offline no new UNT Site Collections can be created Database ean Only No Database authentication Windows authentication Database Yersioning and Upgrade Use this sectio nto check the vers s of this
53. ns page ribbon Site Actions amp Browse Service Applications se AA l i six ae 9 ig XE 9 Mew Connect Delete Manage Administrators Properties Publish Permissions T T Create Operations Sharing Figure 9 Service Application Management user interface 16 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft By publishing a service application you can share it across server farms This capability does not apply to all service applications and some services can be shared only within a single server farm Services that support sharing across farms can be run in a central farm and consumed from regional locations From the ribbon you can also see that a service application can connect to other service applications published by other server farms This sharing capability allows some services to be hosted locally while sharing those of other farms Additional improvements for the service application model include e The services architecture is extensible allowing third party companies to build and add services to the platform e Services are managed directly in Central Administration rather than a separate administration site e Services can be monitored and managed remotely e Services can be managed and scripted by Windows PowerShell e Shared services communications take place over HTTP S Shared services do not directly access databases across farms e Most new services are built on the Windows Communications
54. nsure that all of the components required to deploy SharePoint Internet Information Services NET Framework and so on have been installed If they haven t the prerequisite installer will download and install the components needed for the SharePoint Server 2010 installation Optionally you can specify that the installer pull files from a local path to avoid the trip to the Internet After the prerequisite components have been installed you have two options for installing SharePoint Server 2010 use the graphical user interface GUI or script the installation by using configuration files and Windows PowerShell The GUI provides a simple step by step process where users can specify the configuration they want Using Windows PowerShell is a bit more involved but in the end it usually proves to be the 5 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft better choice By scripting the installation you can ensure that all of your servers running SharePoint Server have identical configurations Scripted installations are also advantageous from a disaster recovery perspective If a server goes down you can reinstall SharePoint Server quickly by using a previously created script Both methods are fully supported Another new aspect of the installation process is the addition of a farm passphrase This is a password that is used to encrypt all communications across the farm The farm passphrase is required before you can remove a server from the SharePoin
55. nt Server 2010 logs feature usage and performance information into the usage database This logging is done by the usage service application and is enabled by default Administrators can read query and build reports directly from the usage database because the schema is public As such third party applications can also write their data to the usage database The types of events that are logged are shown in the figure below and include page requests feature use search query usage site inventory usage timer jobs and rating usage Because the usage database tracks feature usage and licensing information the administrator can track the use of enterprise features against the number of enterprise client access licenses purchased to help ensure compliance e eas Point Central Administration C alth data collection ETET ONNO Usage tracking will log e on your SharePoint system Use the Usage Reports once the collected data has been proc ed to better und Central Warning this page is not encrypted for secure communication User names passwords and any other information will be sent in clear text For more Administration information contact your administrator Usage data collection Application Management Vv Enable usage data collection System Settings Monitoring Backup and Restore Upgrade and Migration Events to log M Content Import General Application Settings Configuration Wizards onsider turning on ing For these
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57. or it The confirm SFalse string suppresses the command from prompting Steve to confirm the password change Now Steve has configured all of his managed accounts and can use them for such things as configuring service applications and application pool identities without regard to their actual passwords Windows PowerShell Out Performing Stsadm Scenario Nicole needs to activate a feature across 5 500 site collections By using Windows PowerShell to run the Stsadm command she came up with the following script to automate the work 38 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft foreach site in get spsite limit 5000000 Webapplication WebApp Write Host Activating feature solutionName on site url Write Host stsadm o activatefeature url site url filename featureFileName stsadm o activatefeature url site url filename featureFileName if lastexitcode ne 0 Write Host Something went wrong activating the site feature Exit code lastexitcode n ForegroundColor Red failure true error Clear When she ran the script in her test environment she found it took more than 12 hours to run Nicole then decided to look for a better way of doing things After talking to Grant she found out there was built in cmdlet to do this exact task She then tried this script Get SPSite Limit ALL WebApplication WebAppNameorUrl Enable SPFeature FeatureldOrName url Url The script r
58. outs folder are rendered by using the site master pages provided by site owners or by default master pages available across the system In Office SharePoint Server 2007 pages rendered from this directory used application master This presented a challenge to organizations who wanted to create a custom user interface because application master is a system file and there was no option to option to use a custom master page for this The only options available were to modify the system file or to 51 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft style the page by using a custom theme It should be noted that customizing application master was not recommended because in the event that something unfortunate happened to this master page none of the system settings for a site could be accessed Not only does SharePoint Server 2010 add greater flexibility for how to apply branding to these system pages it also provides a fail safe mechanism If there is an error in the master page used for pages in the _Layouts SharePoint will reference the default master file so that system pages can still be accessed Additionally it is now possible to use Windows PowerShell to specify a customer master page to system error pages login pages confirmation pages and other non site specific pages By combining all of these options creating a consistent brand across SharePoint is now easier than ever Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight continues to become more important
59. ow administrators more control over the management of service applications In Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm administrators had the ability to manage services on the server Farm administrators can now click a service application and be presented with several options for managing the service including specifying administrators for the service and setting permissions Service applications will be covered in more detail later in this guide Service Applications Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 implements a new more flexible shared service model compared to its predecessor Office SharePoint Server 2007 This new model is referred to as service applications The service application architecture is now also built into Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 in contrast to the Shared Services Provider SSP architecture that was only part of Office SharePoint Server 2007 A key benefit here is that all services are installed by default and there is no SSP setup The figure below shows the Applications Management page in Central Administration illustrating the Service Applications option 15 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft 2 SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Application Management Central ul Web Applications Administration Q Manage web applications Configure alternate access mappings Application Management j Site Collections System Settings e T Create site collections Delete a site collection Confirm site use and del
60. p and Restore UnarsdstsndiHia etis Check job status f Perform a backup Sparade and Migrauon view Web Analytics reports Restore from a backup General Application Perform a site collection backup Satungs f ET Security Configuration Wizards w Manage the farm administrators Upgrade and Migration SY group i a Convert farm license type Configure service accounts Bi Check product and patch installation status General Application Settings Check upgrade status Configure send to connections T Configure content deployment Configuration Wizards paths and jobs AN Manage form templates Figure 2 Central Administration Although the user interface has changed slightly users will find many of the menus to be familiar with some new available options and functionality One of the places where this is more obvious has to do with how Web applications are managed Web applications are still created by following the same process but the process is now managed through a ribbon interface on the Manage Web Applications page The ribbon makes it easier for users to view or change details about a Web application by supplying all the options so they are one click away In Office SharePoint Server 2007 many of these tasks required the user to click a different menu and reselect the Web application 12 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft each time Now users simply select the Web application and then all of the options for managing the Web applicat
61. pon the latest server and application technologies To implement a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment your infrastructure must leverage the following minimum requirements 4 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64 bit operating system with Service Pack 2 SP2 or later OR Windows Server 2008 R2 e Microsoft SQL Server 2005 64 bit with SP2 or later or SQL Server 2008 64 bit e Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 with SP1 installed Level 1 Internet browser options running on the Windows operating system e Windows Internet Explorer 7 32 bit e Internet Explorer 8 32 bit e Firefox 3 x 32 bit Level 2 Internet browsers options e Internet Explorer 7 64 bit e Internet Explorer 8 64 bit e Firefox 3 x on non Windows operating system e Safari 3 x For the complete and updated list of prerequisites for installing SharePoint Server 2010 see Determine hardware and software requirements SharePoint Server 2010 http go microsoft com fwlink LinkId 2166546 on the Microsoft TechNet Web site Installation For administrators who have previously installed SharePoint Server the installation options for SharePoint Server 2010 will be familiar In fact a number of enhancements help make the installation process easy for all users To start Microsoft has added the prerequisite installer Before installing SharePoint Server 2010 run the prerequisite installer and it will scan the system to e
62. provide SharePoint administrators with needed flexibility to provide only necessary functionality to Web applications within the farm or the enterprise They can be scaled out to achieve maximum performance or combined into groups to maximize resources Because each one can be assigned and administered separately SharePoint administrators will be able to delegate as appropriate Health and Monitoring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes a number of features that provide the administrator with tools for monitoring the health and performance of the SharePoint farm These features are categorized into the following groups diagnostics reliability and monitoring and reporting The following table shows the various categories and their corresponding features 26 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Category Functionality Diagnostics Unified Logging Service ULS Usage database Developer dashboard Reliability and Monitoring SharePoint Maintenance Engine SPME Rules System Center Operations Manager SCOM monitoring Reporting Out of box usage reports SCOM reports SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Central Administration Event Throttling Application Management o yo events captured in the it log and the As the rity the number of ed will increase System Settings Monitoring Backup and Restore Security Upgrade and Migration General Application S
63. pts can be developed and scheduled with Windows Task Scheduler whereas Central Administration is used for single use backups and restores e Windows PowerShell has the advantage of running against SQL snapshots instead of the production database One of the parameters of the Windows PowerShell command will cause a SQL snapshot to be generated and then Windows PowerShell will run the action against the snapshot instead of the production database This will reduce the resource impact of the backup operation on the production environment e With Windows PowerShell SharePoint administrators will have more granular control of options for the backup or restore The remainder of this section will identify when additional features are made available through Windows PowerShell commands that are not available through the standard user interface For more information about Windows PowerShell see the Windows PowerShell section of this guide and refer to the following link Server Management http go microsoft com fwlink LinkId 2156748 Granular Backup and Restore SharePoint Server 2010 provides several new features that provide a granular level of backup for various components of site content This includes content at the site subsite and list level This level of granular backup provides SharePoint administrators with the ability to quickly and flexibly backup and restore content to meet user demand Back Up a Site Collection Backing up a s
64. rawl database can have several crawlers associated with it and those crawlers can be distributed among multiple crawl servers Multiple crawlers and associated crawl databases allow you to crawl multiple content repositories Query response time Add query servers and index partitions to improve query latency caused by high peak query load Isolate the property database from crawl databases by moving it to a separate database server if high query latency is caused by database load Add index partitions Each index partition can contain up to 10 million items and can be cloned by deploying multiple instances across several query servers Query throughput increases when you add query partition instances Query functionality availability Deploy redundant query servers redundant query partitions and partition instances Use clustered or mirrored database servers to host crawl and property databases Content crawling and indexing Use multiple crawlers per crawl server and use redundant crawl functionality availability servers Add crawl databases Crawlers associated with a given crawl database can be distributed across crawl servers for availability and load distribution FAST Search for SharePoint FAST Search for SharePoint is a new Microsoft product that is integrated with SharePoint Server 2010 to provide high end search capability It is highly efficient and can search a huge corpus of data extremely fast It features an outs
65. red After three unsuccessful checks the server enters a throttling period and will remain in this state until a successful check is completed Requests that were generated prior to the server s entering throttling mode will be completed This will in theory keep users from losing 31 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft any current work when the server begins to throttle requests Any new HTTP GET and Search Robot requests will generate a 503 error message and will be logged in the event viewer While the server is in a throttling period no new timer jobs will be started Throttling can be configured per Web application and is enabled through the Central Administration user interface or through a Windows PowerShell command After throttling is enabled the Windows PowerShell commands Get SPWebApplicationHttpThrottlingMonitor and Set SPWebApplicationHttpThrottlingMonitor are used to view and adjust the throttling thresholds The image below is an example of the Get SPWebApplicationHttpThrottlingMonitor Windows PowerShell command cmdlet Get SPWebApplicationHttpThrottlingMonitor at command pipeline position 1 Supply values for the following parameters Identity http moss Category Counter Instance AssociatedHealthScoreCalculator Category Counter Instance AssociatedHealthScoreCalculator Category Counter Instance AssociatedHealthScoreCalculator Memory Available Mbytes 1000 0 500 0 400 0 300 0 200 0 1
66. s document does not give you any license to these patents trademarks copyrights or other intellectual property Unless otherwise noted the example companies organizations products domain names e mail addresses logos people places and events depicted herein are fictitious and no association with any real company organization product domain name e mail address logo person place or event is intended or should be inferred 2009 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved Microsoft Access Active Directory InfoPath Internet Explorer MS DOS Outlook PowerPoint SharePoint Visual Studio Windows Windows PowerShell and Windows Server are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies All other trademarks are property of their respective owners Microsoft Contents A O 1 TV ER CLIC Fo Mcr n n n e e nR en 1 Summary of What s INBW 4e e A A A enn ER Re 3 A TT De E Cc E ET 4 A a A i a a eeen i 4 Deployment and Upgrade ssssssssssssssssssesressssssssstteseessssstttseessssssteteressssstrteeesssssstteesesssssttteeeesssssrtterensssssree 4 System REC A A 4 InstalldtloU arcada dd iae teeth dadas 5 Upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 sese 6 Preparing for Upgrade tesco steeed ue mde ee e ire iab obi etes ute teclas 6 Upgrade Methods RTT 7 Downtime MIDA IO Nit tl ccika 8 Visual O oie tee MM LM M M M eae 8 Upgrade Logging ieena eana das 9 eC Scena POPE en estes ET 9 Patch Management Improveme
67. s another new set of features Previously the ability to perform granular backups such as backing up a site collection site or list was only possible by using the Stsadm command line tool New in SharePoint Server 2010 is the ability to perform these granular backups directly from the Backup and Restore page in Central Administration 13 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Backup and Restore Central mE Farm Backup and Restore Administration EL Perform a backup Restore from a backup Configure backup settings Application Management View backup and restore history Check backup and restore job status System Settings T s i wi Granular Backup Monitoring is Perform a site collection backup Export a site or list Backup and Restore Recover data from an unattached content database Check granular backup job status Security Upgrade and Migration Figure 5 Backup and Restore Page A complete disaster recovery plan not only includes the ability to restore servers and databases but also how to recover smaller units of data like a single document In the past this scenario proved problematic recovering a single file often required an administrator to restore an entire content database to a separate SharePoint farm Moving whole databases around and restoring them to new farms was a lot of work to recover a small amount of data SharePoint Server 2010 has added the ability to recover data
68. scover issues Upgrade Scenario To better understand the upgrade process consider the following scenario Randy has been tasked with upgrading his Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm to SharePoint Server 2010 while incurring as little downtime as possible It will be acceptable for the data to be read only during the upgrade Randy will be deploying SharePoint Server 2010 on new hardware and will be performing the upgrade by using the database attach method To begin the process Randy has tested and updated the server running Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 and all applicable cumulative updates Now he can run Stsadm exe o preupgradecheck He uses the output to verify that his farm 9 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft is ready to be upgraded He does discover some issues where he is not following SharePoint best practices around large lists and is able to examine the list and find solutions Because preupgradecheck is a read only tool it is safe for him to run it often confirming his progress as he works to mitigate the issues that have been raised Now that Randy has his databases in good shape he begins building SharePoint Server 2010 on his new hardware After he has established this farm configured all necessary service applications and provisioned his required Web applications he can begin the process of testing upgrade Because he has chosen the database attach method he performs a backup of his database
69. se storage To use RBS a provider is necessary The RBS provider architecture is completely pluggable meaning that third party vendors can create and sell their own RBS providers and deliver specific capabilities For example a third party backup vendor could use an RBS provider as part of their backup and restore capability The RBS architecture provides another degree of freedom for the storage of content Its intention is to be used natively by SharePoint during the upgrade process and by third party vendors that provide storage benefits as a service Performance Controls Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides two different performance controls that can be configured to help increase server performance and protect server resources during peak usage times throttling and list controls Throttling provides a way to control server resources and is designed so that the server can be protected from overload during peak business hours Large list settings provide a way to limit the different queries within a list to ensure that performance is not degraded when users query a list that contains many items Throttling Through throttling settings SharePoint Server 2010 provides a way for administrators to determine the level at which the server will go into throttling mode Every five seconds a job runs that checks server resources compared to configured levels By default Server CPU Memory Request in Queue and Request Wait Time are monito
70. sharing and managing a common set of keywords across site collections Default term set location Specifies where to store term sets when new site columns are created This provides the capability for sharing and managing a common set of terms across site collections Use content types Makes content types associated with this managed metadata service available to users of sites in this Web application 24 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Push down content type publishing updates from the content type gallery to subsites and lists by using the content type Whether to update existing instances of the changed content types in subsites and libraries Example Scenario Consider a company that has four departments IT HR Products and Legal IT HR and Legal each have their own site collection that serves as each department s portal while there are several product team site collections one for each product team All these site collections are contained in the same Web application Two governance requirements have been specified for managing metadata All documents that are created must include a core set of properties and all keywords must be stored centrally To meet the first requirement IT creates a content type called Document Base at the root site collection of its department portal IT adds columns to Document Base for all of the required properties Then IT creates a managed metadata service application and specifies the root s
71. stems and allows people to take actions and make decisions within the context of the problem at hand The configuration and administration of the BCS is primarily accomplished by using the BCS application but some configuration is also done by using the Secure Store Service application The BCS application is a shared service that takes advantage of the shared services architecture discussed above As mentioned multiple BCS applications can be configured independently by different sets of administrators and multiple instances of the same service can run on the same farm each having a unique set of administrators A specific application can be shared across server farms so that an instance can be run in a central farm and consumed from regional locations so that a composite application could be made available across these locales The first step in using the BCS is to create a new service application and model Business Data Connectivity Service Application and Model A new Business Data Connectivity Service application is created by using one of the following methods e Selecting services while running the Initial Configuration Wizard and choosing the Business Connectivity Service 21 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e Adding the Business Data Connectivity service application by using the New button on the Manage Service Applications Web page ribbon in the Central Administration site as illustrated earlier e Using Windows PowerShe
72. t Server 2010 can natively 52 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft connect to existing sources of information With the multi tenancy feature organizations have more control with hosted environments from the hosting side of things in addition to the client side For an administrator this release has made drastic improvements toward a solution that is not only manageable but is easy to maintain The integration with Windows PowerShell allows for more administrative control a more efficient command line and improves productivity The new Central Administration interface makes it easier to locate and configure settings for your environment SharePoint Server 2010 has incorporated more performance controls and logging and reporting options in addition to a much desired improvement on the native disaster recovery options The revamped service applications feature ensures greater flexibility with regards to the shared services being used within the environment Lastly even the user has a better experience The user interface is more closely related to Office applications an interface with which users today are very familiar The introduction of claims based authentication allows for a better user experience as organizations incorporate a variety of user applications and Web based solutions And getting back to some of the business advantages a centralized solution is a one stop shop for users who need to access information related to th
73. t e E E 31 Controlling Large List Activities a mele d cedi eed aciei e n cedes 32 Windows PowerShell Administration so ase ah ob pP be Mp dota pd 34 A e RUM O PM e EE 34 Scenario Provisioning of Managed Accounts 37 Windows PowerShell Out Performing Stsadm Scenario sss 38 Managed CC AGS essais s uo mda e rd a mds cautes ctm bp tuti ES SER 39 Backup and Restore eie tite a aaa 40 Central Administration vs Windows PowerShell e 40 Granular Backup and REStOres e des qe pe A nS 41 Back UO ey Site Coleco eiie eub s aeneus 41 ExDOL Ta SMS OSEA AE 72 e A RR mts 42 Recover Data from an Unattached Content Database eee 43 Scenario Using Windows PowerShell to Script Backing Up All Site Collections A O A E 45 2 www microsoft com sharepoint Farm Backup and Restore ss jacuisse aos 45 Redd OnlviDatabases s su doute biu pdt EM gebe aas 45 SOLIVIFPOPIPICI du O A e a a t a S C E AD 46 SQL SnapshioEs do agas stupor min tope dette deb clr pede b ded et tsi NM HE 47 Search and Index Backup and Restore eese ttn ntnntntenns 47 M ltistenancy EO SEIN Cuestas diti des tet eden i edil ot teli tice 47 Site SUDSChI DTOFP Sianna instet e po e e dpt Due idit 47 o educunt a e M Eun Ud Ener e ED EE eee 48 o Reperene ne caterer a eae uS MIL UII LS EIL MU en ren Metre Ne 49 THEMES ad 49 sharePomtDesidere e o a M MOM HM EM EM M M A et 50 Master Page PR D 51 A E EE E 52 Eoia e0 a meee EE E e
74. t farm or add a server to the farm The passphrase can be changed through Windows PowerShell by the administrator Other changes allow network administrators to organize and manage servers running SharePoint Server on the network Active Directory markers make it possible to add new servers running SharePoint Server to an organizational unit OU in Active Directory when they are installed on the network This makes it easier for network administrators to keep track of all servers running SharePoint Server within their domain Administrators can use Group Policy to manage farm proliferation on the network for example to prevent SharePoint from being installed on unauthorized servers This gives administrators tighter control over the SharePoint environment and increases their ability to enforce governance policies Upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 So many people have invested so much in Office SharePoint Server 2007 the same level of investment has been made in upgrade processes and strategies for moving to SharePoint Server 2010 These investments were made in all phases from preparing to upgrade to customizing the post upgrade environment Preparing for Upgrade The first investment was released in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 with the addition of the Stsadm exe operation preupgradecheck This operation can be run on your Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm to report on farm and server data It will identify key
75. tanding search user experience out of the box granular control of user experience and relevance powerful content processing capabilities and platform flexibility and scaling to handle the most challenging search applications FAST Search for SharePoint is not part of the Technical 20 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft Preview it will be available with the public Beta The FAST Search Site template is included with the Technical Preview However it will not function without FAST Search servers so it should not be used with the Technical Preview Business Connectivity Services Microsoft Business Connectivity Services BCS provide the capability to connect SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 client applications to external data sources such as SQL Oracle SAP Web services or custom applications BCS can also be called the new BDC because is replaces the Business Data Catalog introduced in Office SharePoint Server 2007 but it includes much more capability The BCS is actually a platform that provides a SharePoint based framework for creating composite applications which are built by combining services and functionality from other enterprise applications to address the collaborative needs of users These composite applications use the Office client user interface in addition to the functionality of the application This helps people perform their tasks within the familiar user interface of the Office and SharePoint Server sy
76. tensible so third party companies can build services and add them to the platform Flexible deployment by providing a quick and simple installation and configuration process The upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 is smooth and predictable We ve also introduced functionality that allows you to manage how your users use SharePoint For example you can now safely allow site administrators to upload custom user code by using Sandboxed Solutions You also have more governance control If you want to maintain a centralized SharePoint deployment versus a more decentralized approach you can either block those deployments through Group Policy or track them by using Active Directory marker support SharePoint Server 2010 provides a very large number of features and a detailed accounting of each feature is well beyond the scope of this document This guide will describe some of the most compelling improvements and new additions to the SharePoint Server 2010 platform for IT pros With this evaluation guide the IT pro will be able to properly evaluate these new features and readily describe their capabilities to their colleagues clients and business partners Next we will briefly discuss a summary of the new features followed by a brief summary of how these features can be used to achieve functions such as governance and high availability Then we will move on to the details of each of the pertinent features www microsoft com s
77. the query processing load provide redundancy and increase query performance The query server receives a query and forwards the request to all query servers to process across all index partitions The query server then merges the results to display to users Crawling Architecture The crawl server hosts the crawling architecture which includes crawlers crawl databases and property databases The search architecture can be scaled out based on crawl volume and performance requirements At least one crawler component is 18 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft present and it is the responsibility of each crawler to crawl content Each crawler is associated with a crawl database and the crawled content and history are stored in the crawl database Multiple crawlers can be used to crawl different content simultaneously This improves performance and can also provide redundancy Crawlers reside on crawl servers populate index partitions and propagate the partitions to query servers Property information is stored in the property database The number of property databases depends on the volume of content that is crawled and the amount of metadata that is associated with the content The index role must be hosted on at least one server in the farm Two or more crawl servers provide redundancy based on how crawlers are associated with crawl databases Additional crawl servers can be added to increase performance and to scale for capacity
78. ts as managed accounts this will be covered in more detail later in this guide This way SharePoint Server can change their initial passwords to something that only SharePoint Server knows and SharePoint Server can automatically change the password in the future as required by domain policy This will greatly reduce the password management load on Steve because after he configures the accounts as managed he is no longer in control of their passwords SharePoint Server 2010 will handle everything Steve begins by creating a text file that includes one account per line for all of the accounts he needs to configure He names the file Usernames txt Steve can then run the following Windows PowerShell command password Read Host What is the password for all accounts assecurestring Get Content usernames txt ForEach Object New SPManagedAccount password password username litwareinc _ Set SPManagedAccount identity _ autogenerate confirm False To better understand what Steve is doing look at the command in the pieces that make up the whole Spassword Read Host What is the password for all accounts assecurestring The Read Host cmdlet causes the user to be prompted to enter a password For Steve this is the password the Active Directory administrator originally configured for all of the accounts The password is then saved to the variable password as a secure string The 37 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft
79. ue is 6 lookup columns These settings are configured for each Web application They can be accessed through the General Settings option on the Web application ribbon Resource Throttling OK Cancel List View Threshold List View Threshold 5000 Operations that exceed this limit are prohibited Object Model Override Allow object model override C Yes e No o T 3 for particular queries List View Threshold for List View or auditors Auditors and Administrators and administrato Specify the maximum zo006 s that an time Fo grant sul through Security List View Lookup Threshold List View Lookup Threshold e query can involve Figure 17 Resource Throttling Although the settings described above apply to all lists within the Web application additional settings are available and can be configured to override the Web application settings 33 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft e Allowing object model override will allow for a query to be programmatically written against a list where the query threshold is not applied e Enabling a daily time window for large queries will provide a way for administrators to configure a specific window of time where the query thresholds are not applied e A Windows PowerShell command that will restrict specific lists from being queried through the object model this would cancel out the object model override mentioned above for a specific list
80. usiness needs SharePoint Server 2010 can be deployed onsite also called on premises or as hosted services and can be deployed by using virtualization technology or live instances Whether on premises or hosted deploying SharePoint Server requires the IT pro to be heavily involved Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes a large number of improvements to features that the administrator is familiar with and it also includes many new features Specifically SharePoint Server 2010 provides the IT pro with e IT pro productivity by improving the administrative experience and by giving the administrator deeper operational insight This increase in productivity is 1 www microsoft com sharepoint Microsoft facilitated by a new streamlined Central Administration Web site new capabilities to manage and monitor the SharePoint farm and Windows PowerShell support just to name a few features Scalable unified infrastructure that includes better control over server resources for example to improve the performance and management of large lists and data management and protection by using high availability We have also introduced a new scalable services architecture that allows you to effectively manage and centralize services like Search My Sites and Taxonomy These service applications can be managed through Central Administration and they can be managed and scripted by using Windows PowerShell as well The new services architecture is ex

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