SHAREPOINT 2010: NEW FEATURES FOR IT PROFESSIONALS

Presenter: Michael Ralph

New Horizons Baltimore

Agenda

Introductions SharePoint 2010 Discussion Q&A SharePoint Certifications Leaning support from New Horizons

Introductions

Your name Your organization’s name Your role within your organization Your SharePoint related issues Your expectations for today’s seminar

Overview

Architectural Changes Service Applications Business Continuity PowerShell for SharePoint Performance Monitoring

Architectural Changes

Software SharePoint is 64-bit Requires 64-bit Windows Server 2008 Requires 64-bit SQL Server

Digital Asset Support Silverlight Media Player (Not streaming) Media web parts Audio & video content types

Architectural Changes (cont'd)

Logical Changes No Shared Services Provider List and library size increase

(30 Million!) LOB integration Claims based authentication

Physical Changes Tab strips and ribbons WFEs synchronize deltas and

log usage data more efficiently

Can use SQL Snapshots, SQL Server DB mirroring, and SQL Server backup/attach

Architectural Changes (cont'd)

Multi-tenancy Isolation of data, operational services, and

management A tenancy might be a department, division, or

organization Services and site collections can be grouped by

Tenancy Office Web Applications

Web based Office applications Condenses common functionality Creates an internal version of multi-user cloud

computing

Service Applications

Service Application Model replaces the SSP

Each service is implemented individually Consists of one or more databases Runs in its own web app for isolation, or it

can be shared Can delegate administration Can be used by one one web app or shared

by many web apps or farms!

Service Applications (cont'd)

Service Applications (cont'd)

Access Services Business Data Connectivity Excel Services Managed Metadata Service PowerPoint Service Application Search Service Usage and Health Data Collection Visio Graphics Service Web Analytics Service Word Viewing Services Custom SA services can also be created

Business Continuity

Backup & restore has been improved Backups can use

Central Admin System Center Data Protection Manager SQL Server Backup

Granularity Farm Services Site Collections Sites Lists

Business Continuity (cont'd)

Support for SQL Server DB Mirroring Support for Read-Only Databases Site deletion is a timer job

PowerShell for SharePoint

Over 600 cmdlets (and growing!) Can replace stsadm Runs in the SharePoint 2010 management Shell Farm administrators can be given permission to

the Management Shell Two types of commands:

Local: Must be run on the individual machine Examples:Start-SPServiceInstance, Connect-

SPConfigurationDatabase Global: Runs once for the farm

Examples:Set-SPWebApplication, New-SPSite

Performance Monitoring

Large list control List throttling limits the number of rows

returned in large lists 5000 items for users – 20000 for admins On by default Views should be created with filters to

prevent too many rows returned on a page Limits can be exceeded:

By developers programmatically (admin override) A "happy hour" can be scheduled

Performance Monitoring (cont'd)

Http Request Throttling Sets thresholds for specific performance

counters Server monitors counters every 5 seconds. If

counter is exceeded 3 times, throttling begins 503 (server busy) error returned to browser

Health Score 0-9 performance scale Lets clients know how often to communicate

with server

Performance Monitoring (cont'd)

Developer Dashboard Shows page load statistics Helps diagnose a problem web part or long

list load time Health and Web Analytics Reports

Run from Central Administration Detailed reports on page usage and page

load latency

Review

Architectural Changes Service Applications Business Continuity PowerShell for SharePoint Performance Monitoring