SharePoint 2010 – WSS 2010

The Last part of the series will focus on Video demos & training for SharePoint Server 2010. The following table contains links to all Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 video demos that are intended for IT professionals:

Demos

Getting Started

Deployment

Operations

Inline videos

Inline videos are short videos that are included in operational topics. The videos help to avoid mistakes when attempting to complete potentially confusing operations.

Hope you enjoyed the series and are ready to jump into the ArchITecture Planning exercise, all the very best !!!

Tags: Architecture, System Administration

Part 2 of this series will focus on Planning Worksheets for SharePoint Server 2010. Below are the links to worksheets that you can use to record information that you gather and decisions that you make as you plan your deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Planning worksheets by tasks:

Planning worksheets by tITle:

Part 3 will focus on Video demos & trainings for SharePoint Server 2010, till then have a great time !!!

Tags: Architecture, System Administration

Taxonomy managed in another tool outside of the SharePoint environment may be imported into SharePoint 2010 (news, sITe). Although Terms and Term Sets can be created manually using the functionalITy provided by the Term Store Management Tool, a significantly simpler approach to taxonomy creation is through importation.

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Tags: Architecture, System Administration, Taxonomy

So your ready for SharePoint Server 2010? To help you in proper planning & archITecture design I have put together the information to develop conceptual, logical, and physical designs for configuring SharePoint Server 2010 features, servers, and topologies. This post also provides recommendations for system designs based on customer scenarios and includes information to help IT pros design a highly reliable, consistently available, and scalable system.

Part 1 of this post will cover the downloadable resources in the form of Technical Diagrams, Planning worksheets, video demos & trainings to get you started. So lets dive in to the first topic:

Technical Diagrams:

Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or Microsoft Visio 2010 files (.vsd), PDF files, and XPS files. You might need extra software to view these files.

SharePoint 2010 Product Deployment:

Presents such deployment-related information as the different deployment stages and environments, plus a flowchart that illustrates the steps for installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 Products.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183024)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183025)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183026)

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products:

Describes and illustrates the services archITecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167090)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167092)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167091)

Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products:

Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167093)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167095)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167094)

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010:

Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167087)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167089)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167088)

Extranet Topologies for SharePoint 2010 Products

Illustrates the specific extranet topologies that have been tested wITh SharePoint 2010 Products. Provides a comparison of ISA Server, Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG when used as a firewall or gateway product wITh SharePoint 2010 Products.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187987)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187988)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187986)

Hosting Environments in SharePoint 2010 Products:

Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting archITectures.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167084)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167086)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167085)

Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products:

Compares and contrasts the search technologies that work wITh SharePoint Products 2010:

• SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Search Server 2010 Express
• Search Server 2010
• SharePoint Server 2010
• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167731)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167733)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167732)

Search Environment Planning for SharePoint Server 2010:

Walks through primary archITecture design decisions for search environments.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167734)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167736)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167735)

Search ArchITectures for SharePoint Server 2010:

Details the physical and logical archITecture components that make up a search system and illustrates common search archITectures.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167737)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167739)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167738)

Design Search ArchITectures for SharePoint Server 2010:

Walks through the inITial design steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search archITecture.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167740)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167742)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167741)

Business ConnectivITy Services Model:

Microsoft Business ConnectivITy Services are a set of services and features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that support integrating data from external systems into solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. This model poster describes the archITecture of Microsoft Business ConnectivITy Services in SharePoint Server 2010 and provides information about how to create solutions that are based on the service.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165565)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=136956)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165571)

Content Deployment in SharePoint Server 2010:

Describes the content deployment feature in SharePoint Server 2010. IT includes information about the following:

• Overview of content deployment
• Description of content deployment paths and jobs
• When to use content deployment
• Alternatives to content deployment
• Illustrates common content deployment farm topologies
• Illustrates and explains the overall content deployment Process

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179391&clcid=0×409)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179523&clcid=0×409)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179524&clcid=0×409)

SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning:

Covers planning for an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. IT includes information about the following:

• Upgrade requirements: Hardware, operating system, and database
• Upgrade process: specific steps to follow before, during, and after the upgrade

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167098)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167099)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167100)

SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches:

Helps you understand the in-place, database attach, and hybrid approaches to upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• See the farm topologies before, during, and after upgrade
• Compare the advantages of each type of upgrade approach

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167101)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167102)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167103)

SharePoint Server 2010 – Test Your Upgrade Process:

Explains the methodology for testing the upgrade Process before upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• Understand the goals for testing your upgrade process: customizations, hardware, timing, planning
• See specific steps to follow for testing your upgrade Process

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167104)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167105)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167106)

SharePoint Server 2010 – Services Upgrade:

Covers upgrading services from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• Considerations for specific services: Personalization, Search, InfoPath Forms, Excel, Business Data Catalog, Single Sign-on
• In-place upgrade wITh services
• Database attach upgrade wITh services

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167107)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167108)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167109)

SharePoint Server 2010 – Upgrade Parent and Child Farms:

Covers the Process for and considerations to keep in mind when you upgrade farms that share services (parent and child farms).

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190984)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190985)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190986)

Getting Started wITh Business Intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010:

Covers an overview of business intelligence in SharePoint Server and provides you wITh the following information.

• An overview of each business intelligence service and when you might use the service.
• ArchITecture for application of the business intelligence services and how they work together in a topology.
• A list of possible data sources for each business intelligence service.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167082)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167170)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167171)

Databases that support SharePoint 2010 Products:

Describes the Microsoft SQL Server databases on which SharePoint Server 2010 runs.

Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187970)

PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187969)

XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=187971)

Part 2 coming soon.

Tags: Architecture, System Administration

Recently I started to look into some more detail at PowerShell and the SharePoint
2010 Snap-in. As a small exercise I wanted to create something (somewhat) usefull.

I came up wITh a small sITe structure install script for SP2010.

Read more: <a tITle=”http://stefvanhooijdonk.com/2010/03/02/power-of-powershell-and-the-sharepoint-snap-in/” href=”http://stefvanhooijdonk.com/2010/03/02/power-of-powershell-and-the-sharepoint-snap-in/”>http://stefvanhooijdonk.com/2010/03/02/power-of-powershell-and-the-sharepoint-snap-in/

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In SharePoint 2010 there are quITe a few interesting changes to the User Profile System.
In this post I will outline some of them.

Profile types

You can specify sub-types for profiles. For each profile property you can configure
for which types the property is used. A user will be able to see or edIT only those
properties that are linked to their Profile type:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_8.png”><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_3.png” width=”584″ height=”112″ />

In the Profile list or Profile property list you can filter the list by profile sub-type:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_16.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_7.png” width=”584″ height=”89″ />

Organization profiles

You can now import organizations from your profile store. This includes options for
importing organizations in a hierarchy. The organization profile system also supports
specification of Profile Types, so different types of organizations can have different
properties.

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_10.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_4.png” width=”584″ height=”48″ />

The hierarchy is specified by selecting a parent organization in an organization profile.
You can also specify the leaders of an organization and the members of that organization.
This will link the specified user profiles to this organization:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_18.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_8.png” width=”584″ height=”248″ />

Property Synchronization

Profile properties can now be exported as well. This allows for users to edIT a property
value which is then updated in your identITy store such as Active Directory:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_20.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_9.png” width=”584″ height=”168″ />

This sync is one way only, so a property can be imported or exported, but there’s
no option to keep the two values in sync in a bi-directional way. Export to BCS sources
is also not supported.

Term store used for choices

Properties that are defined wITh choices are linked to the Term store. So there’s
a single management system for choice fields across the SharePoint farm:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_24.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_11.png” width=”584″ height=”178″ />

The property will use the configuration of the Term set to define if users are allowed
to use fill-in choices.

Multiple import connections

In SharePoint 2007 you were only able to import from one primary store. So importing
from 2 or more Active Directories or a custom user database was not supported. In
2010 this is supported. You can now specify more then 1 import connection to import
accounts from AD as well as a LDAP or BCS store.

Import filters

You can specify exclusion filters for your import connections. This will allow you
to filter out user or organization profiles when importing from you identITy store:

<a href="http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_26.png”><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" tITle=”image” border=”0″ alt=”image” src=”http://www.sharepoint2010blog.nl/content/binary/WindowsLiveWrITer/SharePointServer2010UserProfileSystem_9B47/image_thumb_12.png” width=”584″ height=”192″ />

Conclusion

The SharePoint team has done quITe a big overhaul on the user profile system. A lot
of pain points from MOSS 2007 have been solved, the system allows for more granualarITy
in configuration of the profiles and has been integrated nicely wITh new functionalITy
such as the Term store (a.k.a. Managed Metadata Service)

Tags: System Administration

There is a “small” error in the Application Pool configuration of SP2010:

“Unfortunately when creating a Web Application, SharePoint 2010 uses the SharePoint
only property Display Name for the STS application. The STS application is required
as part of every SharePoint 2010 Web Application and lives at /_vti_bin/sts.

As the Web Application is being provisioned SharePoint uses the display name, SecurITyTokenServiceApplicationPool.
This of course doesn’t exist in IIS and so the loading of this application pool for
each web application will fail every time IIS starts up. This will result in a 5048 Warning
from WAS wIThin the System Event Log (for each Web
Application)”

Read more here: <a tITle=”http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/16/application-pool-mis-configuration-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx” href=”http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/16/application-pool-mis-configuration-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx”>http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/16/application-pool-mis-configuration-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

via <a href="http://twITter.com/harbars” target=”_blank”>@harbars

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Digging Deeper into the 2010 Caching Options: Part 2: I posted the second part of a multi-part articl… http://bit.ly/aJhB3g – #SharePoint

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troubleshooting sharepoint 2010 search services.. sharepoint 7 x 1 eu

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When you provision a web app in SP2010, you can choose it to use Claims Based Auth or Classic Auth right through the GUI.  However, after you have provisioned a web app, there is no GUI to switch from Classic to Claims based. So the below powershell script will let you convert a SP2010 website to claims based auth after it has been provisioned.

   1: $w = Get-SPWebApplication "http://sp2010"

   2: $w.UseClaimsAuthentication = "True";

   3: $w.Update()

The user running the above script should be a member of the SharePoint_Shell_Access role on the config DB, and a member of the WSS_ADMIN_WPG local group.

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