Friday, July 17, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peaks - IT Professionals

Central Admin
There is a new Central Admin Site, with a new look-and-feel and the Ribbon. More options exist in the Quick Launch (including something called Configuration Wizards).

The Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is part of SPPT 2010, in Central Administration > Monitoring > Health Status: Review Problems and Solutions. Not only are issues listed, but guidance is provided on how to manage the issue. Also, issues may be automatically managed through the use of BPA Rules. Rule Definitions specify how this automatic issue management works. Rule Definitions list issues, whether to fix issues automatically, the scope of the rule (all servers, this server, etc.), scheduling, and schedule enabling/disabling.

More reports are available:
  • Web Analytics
  • Administrative Reports
  • Information Management Policy reports
  • Health Reports
  • Usage Logging
  • Diagnostic Logging
Also, logs may be saved to a file system OR to a new logging database!

Large Lists
List Views may now be limited to an arbitrary number of items (default=5000). Several limits may exist: a hard limit, a soft limit (warning issued) and a separate limit for administrators. We can specify if the View will enable or prohibit viewing All Items. I'm not sure if the All Items view would be truncated or not. If "prohibited", the user is advised to create a new view. Also, an exception time, or "daily window for large queries" is available, to bypass the Large Lists rules.

Unattached Content Databases
SharePoint can now look at content databases that are not used by the system: migrated databases, staging systems, backups, etc. We can browse the data in Unattached Content Databases, back it up, or extract a site or list from it. Export options include exporting all versions, or only the current versions of items, or only major versions of items. Backups and exports can save the security applied to objects.

Upgrades
After an upgrade from 2007, the functionality of SPTT 2010 exists, but the visual interface is still 2007. Options in Site Settings include previewing the new UI (is this applied on a site-by-site scope?). Limited functionality of the 2010 UI exists, and may be rolled back. The full 2010 UI is provided when the administrator upgrades the interface irreversably.

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