Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Understanding and Configuring Workflow Services, Search and Disaster Recovery

• Workflow Services• Search• Disaster Recovery• Hands-on-Lab: Out-of-the Box Workflows,

Search & Indexing and Backup & Restore

Agenda

Workflow Services

Workflows

• A way to automate business processes within SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 comes with a number of OOB WF

• You can create custom WF using– SharePoint GUI for simple WF– SharePoint Designer 2010– Visual Studio 2010 for very sophisticated WF– Visio 2010 SharePoint WF template

Workflows

• What’s new?– New tools– Site workflows and reusable workflows– New actions– New event handlers– Workflow status using Visio services– State machine WF and Sequential WF– etc.

Workflow Design Tools

Professional developer

Business Analyst/Process

Designer

Designer/IW/Power User

Declarative Declarative WorkflowsWorkflows

.wsp.wsp

.vwi.vwi

Visio 2010

Visio 2010

SharePoint Designer 2010

• 3 types of WF

• Import/Export to Visio

Types of Workflows

• List Workflow– Associated with a list– Much like MOSS 2007 Workflows– Can be created in SPD 2010– Can be imported/exported from Visio

• Reusable Workflow– Can be assigned to content type– Can be exported to .wsp for use in other sites– Can be imported/exported from Visio– Can be created in SPD 2010 & VS2010

• Site Workflow– Not bound by a list– Manually Started or via OM– Can be created in SPD 2010 & VS2010

Search

Enterprise Search• What’s new?

– For users• New search query capabilities: boolean query syntax (AND, OR),

prefix matching (i.e. Micro* for Microsoft and microchip), autosuggestion, federated search connectors for searching from Windows 7 directly etc.

• Search results: refinement panel, people search improvements, phonetic search, relevance improvements etc.

– For administrators• centralized search UI, Farm Configuration Wizard• Search service administration independent of other shared

services• Improved performance and throughput• etc.

Search Products Portfolio

SharePoint Server for Internet Sites

FAST Search for SharePoint Internet Sites

SharePoint Server

FAST Search for SharePoint

FAST Search for Internal Applications

FAST Search For Internet Business

Solutions for Internet Business

Solutions for Business Productivity

Integrated with

SharePoint

Stand-alone

Entry-LevelSolutions

Search ServerSearch Server

Search Server Express

Search Server Express

Search Architecture

Search Administration

Search Site

Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery• 2 Backup systems

– farm

Disaster recovery• 2 Backup systems

– granular

Farm Backup

Backup using STSADM

Examples of backup using PowerShell• Full backup of configuration settings:

Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\file_server\share\Backup -BackupMethod full -ConfigurationOnly

• Backup the farm using 10 Backup threads and place into C:\Backup folderBackup-SPFarm -Directory C:\Backup -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force

• Backup a specific site collection:Backup-SPSite http://server_name/sites/site_name -Path C:\Backup\site_name.bak

Hands-on-Lab