SharePoint 2010 Administration Part 1 – SPC 2009 Presentation Highlights

Presented By: Todd Klindt and Shane Young.

• SharePoint Containment Hierarchy (Self Proclaimed Worlds Greatest Slide)
  • Mostly Standard Stuff
    • Site Collection remain in in a single Content Database
    • Service Applications instead of Shared Service Provider
      • More flexible
      • Service Application Databases (per services)

• Pre-req installer
  • Interrogates Systems
  • Checks for things you need
  • Automatically goes to the internet to pull down and install pre-reqs
    • Configurable so that you can point to a specific workstation or server to get the pre-reqs from.
• Installing bits very similar to 2007 install
  • Farm Passphrase – helps address issues having to do with installation account being deleted.
• Farm Configuration Wizards in Central Administration (that's right Wizards as in multiple)
  • Initially one but extensible.. can create more.
• Managed Accounts
  • Keep Service Accounts secured
  • SharePoint can manage password changes
    • Automatically change based on domain policy or other rules
      • Weekly, Monthly, etc.
    • Cool interface
      • See next time SharePoint will change the password
      • See last time SharePoint set the password
  • Ribbon in Central Admin
    • Changes depending on the object you have selected (i.e Web Apps)
• Web Applications
  • When creating and specifying databases can specify failover server
    • SQL Mirroring Aware
  • Can specify which services (service connections) a web application is consuming.
  • Very easy to find Anonymous Policy button in ribbon
    • Similar buttons for other web app policies such as “User Policy”
  • Specify Preferred Timer Job Server per web application

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