Some more newly published SP2010 material on Microsoft Downloads

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Dirk

Some more interesting downloads I happened to stumble upon while reviewing the latest downloads on the Microsoft Downloads site

 

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

Brief Description:

This guidance provides technical information about key areas of SharePoint 2010 application development. It contains a written guide, reference implementations with source code and documentation, and a library of reusable source code components.

Overview:

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when designing and developing applications for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010. The guidance focuses on the building blocks that every developer needs to understand to become an effective SharePoint developer or architect. The guide is provided as a Help (.chm) file and has four core areas: application foundations, execution models, data models, and client models. Eight reference implementations illustrate the core concepts covered in the guide. The reusable class library provides code to help developers build more manageable, flexible, and testable applications. Source code is provided for all reference implementations and for the reusable library. The reference implementations have automated setup scripts to configure the applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64b55569-2168-4545-8b7c-f185b2cf967d&displaylang=en

 

 

Planning and Deploying SharePoint Server 2010 User Profiles for My Site Web Sites

Brief Description:

Prescriptive guidance about profile synchronization and My Site planning and administrative tasks for SharePoint Server 2010.

Overview:

This whitepaper provides prescriptive guidance about profile synchronization and My Site planning and administrative tasks for SharePoint Server 2010. The whitepaper uses a combination of real-world scenarios, step-by-step instruction, and screen shots.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cd93bc74-d923-4dc9-b112-715d5ddb64fd

 
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Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dirk

Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents. I came across these through some of the tweets that I am following.

Thanks to Andreas Glaser for tweeting about these documents

 

Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Brief Description:

Technical information about the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Overview:

This document includes technical information about the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provider for Windows PowerShell and other helpful reference information about general settings, security, and tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3b9fa1b-0300-489e-8d67-f14deb4c3a56&displayLang=en

 

 

Operations guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Brief Description:

Operate and maintain servers, server farms, sites, and solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Overview:

This document describes how to operate and maintain your servers, server farms, sites, and solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=944519e8-e130-4e7a-8a8d-978b10af77c1

 

 

Operations guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Brief Description:

Operate and maintain your servers, server farms, sites, and solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Overview:

This document describes how to operate and maintain your servers, server farms, sites, and solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=71434993-e26f-43be-b1bc-1dcae65d46b5

 

 

Planning guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Brief Description:

Information and guidelines for planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Overview:

This document provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=10104e47-7dfe-4ae5-a9ea-459e6aebd34e

 

 

Planning guide for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

Brief Description:

Information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Overview:

This document provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=206a9f99-c42d-42b2-9094-a3b2ef4fcd12

 

 

Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

Brief Description:

Guide for administrators and IT professionals for upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

Overview:

This document is designed to guide administrators and IT professionals through the process of upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1c001579-1712-4e75-98a4-aa179021e140

 

 

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interesting new blog –> Pascal Benois

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Dirk

for those of us that are always interesting in SharePoint blogs from Microsoft engineers with a lot of experience in the field, I am glad to be able to tell you that Pascal Benois, a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Belgium has (finally [:D]) found the time to start blogging

Find his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/pabenois/

Have fun blogging Pascal !  

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Document your SP2010 Farm configuration

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dirk

I was passed a link today by Thomas Vochten, that leads to a Technet Article containing a pretty neat Powershell script for documenting a SharePoint 2010 farm configuration.

The script will output several XML files containing specifi farm configuration settings. Ideally you could have a single XML file created on a daily basis and windiff the files to check for any changes in the farm.

Find the original article on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff645391(office.14).aspx

 

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SharePoint 2010 Knowledgde articles

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dirk

So you took the step of installing your first SharePoint 2010 server or farm. You install the server, but not everything goes smoothly or doesn’t work as expected. What’s next? Well, a good place to start is to use the knowledge base that Microsoft tools use, such as the System Center Operations Center (SCOM) Knowledge articles. These are the articles that typically show up in SCOM, provided that you have installed the SharePoint 2010 Management pack,  if it has encountered an error on your SharePoint installation or farm.

The knowledge articles can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee513133(office.14).aspx

Thanks to Neil Hodgkinson (@Nellymo) for providing this tip and link on Twitter

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SP2010 Create site without template

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Dirk

I often let my users decide which site template they want to use for their new site collection. In SharePoint 2007 i did this by creating a site collection using stsadm without specifying a site template. this caused the first user to have to select the site template to use. There was no possibility to create a site collection without specifying a site template through central admin.

Now in SP2010, the possibilty to not specify a site template has been built in to Central Admin. When creating a new site through Central Admin, notice that there is now an entry in the Custom tab, called ‘ < Select Template Later … >‘

Now when your user hits his/her new site collection, he/she will get redirected to the templatepick.aspx page and has to pick a site template.

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SharePoint 2010 Multi Tenancy

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

SharePoint 2010 allows you to host multiple tenants or customers in a Hosting Mode. This is exremely interesting if you are thinking of your SharePoint environment as an infrastructure hosting platform for all your customers. Customers being either external customers or even internal divisions, departments for which you would like to define separate services. Multi Tenancy also provides more information with regards to chargeback to your customers. Furthermore you get a tenant administration website that you can delegate to your customer for allowing him/her to create new site collections assigned to him/her s a tenant.

I have seen a demo yesterday by Spencer Harbar at #spevo for enabling multi tenancy. It requiores a lot of Powershell scripting, but while researching this topic on the web, I stumbled upon a series of blog posts by Steve Pechka that nicely describe the steps for setting this up:

Find them here:

 

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SharePoint 2010 RTM bits available on Monday April 26th?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

I just heard Mike Watson say in his SharePoint IronMan session at #spevo that the RTM bits for SharePoint 2010 will most probably be available on MSDN and Technet as of Monday April 26th.

Let’s hope he is right so we can start downloading, installing, upgrading, … (Hmm, can we upgrade from Beta to RTM? Will need to check this[8-|] ). Anyway sounds like next week is going to be a busy week….

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SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: software boundaries and limits

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

in a Mike Watson session yesterday at the SharePoint Evolution Conference (#spevo at Twitter), Mike mentionned this new document published by Microsoft recently, specifying the software boundaries and limits to take into account when plaaning your SharePoint 2010 infrastructure.

His slides included the following interesting table showing the capacity guidance differences between 2007 and 2010:

Higher capacity guidance

2007

2010

Content DB Size

100 GB

200 GB

File Size

2 GB

2 GB

DB’s per webapp

100

300

Site collection size

100 GB

100 GB

List items per view

2000

5000

Get the full document at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66438e41-5733-448a-bd76-a8052b394fe2

An interesting figure I was wondereing about was the maximum number of web applications per WFE for which the guidance document now specifies a maximum of 10 Application Pools per WFE. For 2007, I have always been told to not exceed 8 web applications / application pools, which makes the new guidance for 2010 not much better. If you are hosting a lot of web applications on a single farm, then planning the application pools will be a major step in the planning process.

 

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SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cheat Sheet by Dmitry Sotnikov

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

Dmitry recently posted an interesting 3 page reference card describing how to get started with PowerShell for SharePoint. Not having taken the blue pill yet, I reealy need to get this information drilled down very soon.

Go find the document at http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/sharepoint-2010-powershell-cheat-sheet/

Thanks Dmitry !

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