Dogfood Conference 2010 - What Every SharePoint 2010 Administrator Must Know

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Veenus Maximiuk SharePoint Managing Architect

• Quick and simple installation and Configuration Wizards configuration

• Smooth and predictable upgrade Visual Upgrade

• Manage and control custom code Sandboxed Solutions

• Improved governance features Managed Service Accounts

Flexible Deployment

• Manage and Control Server Large List Management Resources

• Improved Business Continuity High Availability Management

• Scalable Services Architecture Service Applications

Scalable Infrastructure

• Improved Administration Experience Streamlined Central Admin

• Deeper Operational Insight Management and Health Monitoring

• Robust Scripting Environment PowerShell Support

IT Pro Productivity

Feature examples:

OS requirements for SharePoint 2010 Windows Server 2008 SP2 or later

Windows Server 2008 R2

Must be 64 bit

SQL requirements SQL Server 2005 SP3 or later

SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU2 or later

SQL Server 2008 R2

Must be 64 bit

Pre-Upgrade Checker

SharePoint 2010 Pre-Upgrade Checker Ships with SharePoint Server 2007 SP2

14+ rules to find potential upgrade issues Informational: e.g. Servers in farm, Data size

Error: e.g. Orphaned sites, DB schema modifications

Extensible rule set for 3rd parties and MSFT

Does NOT make changes to the live database

Provides links to KB’s to fix various issues

Useful also as a 2007 Farm health check tool

Installation

Simplified System Preparation tool

Wizard based initial configuration

Scriptable Using PowerShell

Block and Track Group Policy to block

Windows 7

AD Service Connection Point to track

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\SharePoint

Choose Index Location during Install

Index location can be changed later, but more difficult

Use Easy to remember port for Central Administration (i.e. 8888)

Use Common Database Naming Convention

Upgrade Options In-Place Upgrade

Upgrades existing databases and servers

Simplest approach but incurs farm downtime

Suitable for small or single server deployments

Database Attach and Upgrade SharePoint Server 2007 farm remains available

Only moves content, no configuration settings

Suitable for large deployments and new H/W

Upgrade Improvements In-Place upgrade experience improved

In-Place Upgrade will be re-startable

Improved Content DB attach performance Upgrade multiple DB’s in parallel

Clearer logging & reporting Including progress reporting

Upgrade automatic fix-up capability

New pre upgrade checking tools

Visual Upgrade

No post upgrade change to site look & feel Default upgrade behavior

Prevents “mixed version” sites

Site or farm admin can choose when to switch

Flip between existing and new UI

New UI is “pinned” if/when it’s customized

Not intended to be a long term solution

Flexible Deployment

IT Pro Productivity

Feature examples:

Management Improvements

Web Based Administration Ribbon, cleaner and easier to navigate

Delegated access to specific features

SharePoint Health Analyzer Built in Maintenance Engine

Built in and custom Rules, Actions and Alerts

Service Password Management SharePoint Manages it’s own passwords

Detects domain password policy

Command Line Management PowerShell Support

652 PowerShell cmdlets

Superset of Administration UI

Extensible Platform

In-line Discoverability

Optimized for Batch Operations

Remoteable

STSADM Still available

Flexible Deployment

IT Pro Productivity

Feature examples:

List Resource Governors

By default if >5000 items will be returned for a specific view the request is “handled”

Error message will provide actionable guidance

Different scenarios, different approach Managed such as records management

Metadata navigation

Unmanaged such as a list on a site List views

SharePoint Service Applications

SharePoint Foundation

Project Server

Scalable Unified Infrastructure

Central Admin Site collection, Site or List Backup and Restore

Unattached Database Content Recovery No recovery farm needed

Move Site Collections between Content DB’s and Farms (Can do some of this SP2 today)

Configuration settings only back up

Support for Read Only DB’s (In SP2) UI trimmed appropriately

Problem: Running the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard

An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56).

Resolution:

Download and install KB976462 for Windows Server 2008 R2 or KB97183 for Windows Server 2008 and run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard.

$cred = Get-Credential

New-SPManagedAccount –Credential $cred

Problem:

Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM Date: 07/11/2010 11:52:52 Event ID: 10016 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: DOMAIN\SP_Farm Computer: Computer.Domain.Local Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}………….

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