Hello again from Las Vegas! Here are some picked up bits from day 2 of the conference
· The October 2009 SharePoint Cumulative Update will include a better preupgrade check in STSADM. As you may recall, SP2 added a –preupgradecheck command line switch to generate a complete report on your farm and highlight any gaps in your 2010 readiness.
· Sat in on a good discussion on deployment best practices with EMC. Some interesting ideas to keep in mind for organizations considering the nee multitenant functions for chargeback models. Although some firms use strictly disk-based chargeback, other base their rates on feature activation, user count, site count, etc.
· Long term document management and grow unwieldy. Remember that given normal growth rates, a document disposal plan of 10-30% really slows down ten year growth rates for your content.
· SharePoint 2010 comes with a new site template – the Document Center. The Document Center is optimized to store up to 500,000 documents. It includes all the new features, like rating and tagging, and in place records management. But it also adds home page elements such as unique document ID’s, “Newest” document and “Highest Rated” summaries.
· The new Content Organizer can be used to migrate large legacy file shares. As you document are migrated into the new server, the organizer can use rules and filters to route the documents to selected libraries, create folders-on-the-fly, and set new metadata properties.
· Some of the presentations suggest InfoPath 2010 will be the best way to touch up a list form. Others recommend SharePoint Designer. Deciding between InfoPath and SPD is not a simple decision – in part based on the need for Enterprise CALs to render InfoPath forms. I’ll be covering this more in a detailed post in the coming weeks.
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