I’ve gotten to look at SharePoint 2010 for a few weeks now. Here are some key thought points about its server infradstrucuture:
· SharePoint 2010 offers a new central service application called the Managed Metadata Service. MMS lets an IT professional delegate this service to a knowledge manager, who can then use it to define a library of content tags and hierarchies to share across your SharePoint farm.
· SharePoint 2010 will be a 64 bit only platform. Direct upgrades from 32 bits servers to 64 bit servers will require some advance prep work. The basic requirements:
o Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 X64
§ SQL Server 2005 x64 SP3 CU3
§ Or
§ SQL Server 2008 x64 SP1 CU2
· On the client side, Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox and Safari will all be supported. However, IE6 will not be supported, so IT shops that had been deferring that upgrade should plan accordingly.
· SharePoint 2010 will provide a server based version of most Office applications – Office Web Access, or “OWA”. [It's going to be hard to stop thinking only of web access to Exchange as “OWA”!] In part, this enables simultaneous multiuser editing of Office documents:
o Excel in OWA, not client
o Word/PowerPoint on client only if file opened from a shared document library
o OneNote client or OWA
· The 2007 Shared Services Provider has been broken up. Each of its elements is now a “Shared Service Application”, and you can mix and match them singly or in groups, as needed, to match your farm’s actual needs. [No need to deploy Visio Services if you don’t use it.]
· Site subscriptions are a new element. Site subscriptions are groups of site collections, and you can delegate administrative control over a range of sites as a result. Although this was designed for shared hosting providers in a multitenant environment, this could also prove useful in large decentralized enterprises.
· There is some support for more granular restores from a content database backup. Administrators will be able to browse the backup and identify a list or library to pull out without attaching and mounting the entire database.
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