This document provides a technical overview of SharePoint 2010 for IT professionals. It discusses new features including improved central administration capabilities for managing farms, the use of service applications to provide shared services across farms, and enhanced backup and restore functionality using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. The document also covers SharePoint 2010 deployment options such as in-place and database attach upgrades and how to mitigate downtime during upgrades.

1. Technical Overview (IT Pro) Ravikanth Chaganti Disclaimer: SharePoint 2010 is still under development and the features / functionality presented here are subjected to change. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog

2. Introduction Deployment Upgrade Feature Overview http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Agenda

3. Business collaboration platform for enterprise and the web Provides an IT Pro with Productivity enhancements Revamped central administration Ability to manage/monitor farm Windows PowerShell cmdlets, etc Scalable unified infrastructure Service Applications Sandbox solutions High availability and automatic failover, etc Flexible Deployment Visual Upgrades On-premise or hosted Scriptable Deployment, etc http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Introduction

4. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Six PillarsMOSS 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 MOSS 2007 32bit & 64bit 64bit only

5. Software Requirements Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 MS SQL Server 2005 x64 with SP2 or SQL Server 2008 x64 .NET framework 3.2 SP1 Prerequisites installer manual and automated SharePoint 2010 Setup & Configuration manual and scripted Includes farm passphrase for added security SharePoint Servers be added to AD OU; use Group Policy to prevent unauthorized SharePoint installs http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Deployment

6. Pre-upgrade checker STSADM.EXE -o preupgradecheck SharePoint 2010 Upgrade methods In-place Database attach Visual Upgrade SharePoint 2010 supports MOSS 2007 master pages and style sheets Upgraded sites can exist in 3 modes Office SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010 Preview mode SharePoint Server 2010 Downtime mitigation Read-only databases Concurrent database upgrades http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Upgrade

8. Process can be restarted as necessary

10. Test-SPContentDatabase to test for any potential issues while attaching

12. Granular backups using central admin site Recover small units of data Need not restore the entire content DB Ability to restore from unattached databases Windows PowerShell support Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite Export-SPWeb / Import-SPWeb PowerShell provides additional options such as compression, snapshots, etc http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Feature Overview:Backup & Restore

13. Eliminates the limitations of MOSS SSP architecture More flexible than SSPs Available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 Similar to SSPs, set of services can be shared by all sites in a farm Shared service applications across farms Service applications can be managed using PowerShell http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Feature Overview:Service Applications

14. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Feature Overview:Search Architecture

15. Managed Meta Data Claims based authentication Sandbox solutions Developer Dashboard Stsadm –o setproperty –pn developer-dashboard –pvOnDemand http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Feature Overview

16. SharePoint 2010 product pagehttp://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx SharePoint 2010 on TechNethttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx SharePoint 2010 on MSDNhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx SharePoint Development Team on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/SharePointDev SharePoint Developer Courses on Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ SharePoint Joel Bloghttp://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx My Twitter SharePoint list: http://www.twitter.com/ravikanth/sharepoint My SharePoint Bloghttp://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?cat=212 http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog References

17. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Q & A

18. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Backup

19. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Communities SharePoint 2010

20. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Sites SharePoint 2010

21. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Search SharePoint 2010

22. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Content SharePoint 2010

23. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Composites SharePoint 2010

24. http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog SharePoint 2010 - Insights SharePoint 2010