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SharePoint 2010 Fight Night

Admin vs. Dev

Referee: Mike Watson

Senior Product Manager

Quest Software

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Referee Mike Watson’s Credentials

• Creates third-party solutions for profit at Quest Software

• Created & established best practices for the Center of Excellence (CoE) at Microsoft

• Wrote and evaluated product guidance as a SharePoint Customer Advisory virtual Team member (CAT)

• Evaluated third-party solutions for SharePoint Online

• Contributes to articles, whitepapers, books, and co-authoring a book on SharePoint 2010

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Agenda

• The 2007 Fight• The SharePoint 2010 Rematch

–What’s new for Admin–What’s new for Dev

• Conclusion• Q&A

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The 2007 Fight

Developer• Got too many requests to

do common, simple stuff• Suffered lack-luster docs• Visual Studio integration

was an afterthought• Lots of manual effort• Everything required

server touch• Everything required

elevation

Administrator• Suffered lack-luster docs• Had his/her hands full just

trying to keep servers up• Lots of manual effort• Often handed code to run

without any insight into what the code did

• Had no clue how code was affecting their environment

• Often had to say “NO”!

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The 2010 Fight!The fighters learned new tricks

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What’s New for Administrators

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Command & Control

• Throttling – Tell end users to leave you alone. Your busy!

• Large List controls – tell end users they’re crazy trying to make that query, but admins, no problem!

• SharePoint designer – maybe not• Developer Dashboard – Learn just how bad your

developers are. • Sandboxing – More like prison for unsavory code.• SQL Resource Governor – The nuclear option!

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What’s New for Developers

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Capability & Flexibility

• More GUI capability – Fewer assemblies• SPDesigner – Better and free-er than ever• Developer Dashboard – Devs, See just how bad

you really are!• Client-OM – Access SharePoint via script w/o

web services• Sandboxing – Deploy code without dreaded

conversations with Administrators

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Summary• In SharePoint 2007

– Dev lacked guidance and made a mess. – Admin didn’t have controls and blocked most Dev

efforts• In SharePoint 2010

– Dev can get more done without ever talking to Admin– Dev has better tools and guidance increasing Admin

confidence– Admin has more control than ever before

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And the Winner by TKO is….

The Business

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What is Deployment Advisor?

A tool created specifically to instill confidence in SharePoint, its

administrators, their managers, and ultimately end users.

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What is Deployment Advisor Specifically?

Identify & resolve• Performance

bottlenecks• Security

vulnerabilities• Service outages• Support issues

Recommend and compare • SharePoint & SQL

configurations• Hardware• Windows, IIS,

ASP .NET settings

Track & manage• Change• Utilization• Storage growth• Customization• Site proliferation

Report on• Inconsistencies• Changes• Uptime• Health• Usage

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Features

Community driven, ever-growing set of built-in rules & best practices

An easy to deploy, easy to use console built specifically for SharePoint

Manage any number of servers and farms including non-SharePoint servers

Supports WSS 3.0 & WSF2010, MOSS 2007, SharePoint Server 2010

No server needed. Runs on XP

Supports Windows 2000 & SQL 2000 and above

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Extensible, Open, Community Driven

Benefit• Ships with hundreds

of community approved rules and best practices

• Ignore & Modify rules

Extend• Import best practices

from Subject Matter Experts and the community

• Create your own rules using Powershell & powerGUI

Contribute• Rate and rank

community contributions

• Create/upload rules and solicit feedback

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How Deployment Advisor Works

• Install components on any server or client

• Netcontrol framework can run local or remote

Install

• Select any SharePoint server

• Agent pushes small webservice to server

Connect • Web service collects info about farm and stores in remote DB

• Data is loaded into console and analyzed real-time against configured rules and best practices

View

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Benefits of Deployment Advisor

Administrators

• Increase uptime

• Reduce failures

• Improve Visibility

Managers

• Report health & availability trends

• Track & manage change

Consultants

• Engage customers

• Market knowledge

• Find work

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Licensing• Licensed per front-end web server• No license required for SQL

– Only monitors SQL servers containing SharePoint databases

– Value add: All Best practices, reporting, and maintenance

• No license required for Windows– DA can scan/compare non-SharePoint servers, identify

risks and report. All value add

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Upcoming Events

• Tonight - #SharePint #ShareCurry Nottingham User Group

• Nov 26th - Quest WebParts Day Amsterdam• Jan 18th- 19th - SharePoint Conference 2010 –

Amsterdam• Feb 10th - 12th – SPTechCon – San Francisco• Apr 19th – 21st – SharePoint Evolution – London• Apr 25th – 28th – TEC2010 – Los Angeles

http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com/Lists/Events/AllItems.aspx

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Q&A