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Contents
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................. 1
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 1
Summary of What’s New ............................................................................................................................ 3
Governance ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
High Availability ............................................................................................................................................. 4
Deployment and Upgrade ......................................................................................................................... 4
System Requirements .............................................................................................................................. 4
Installation ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 ................................................................................ 6
Preparing for Upgrade ....................................................................................................................... 6
Upgrade Methods ................................................................................................................................ 7
Downtime Mitigation .......................................................................................................................... 8
Visual Upgrade ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Upgrade Logging ................................................................................................................................. 9
Upgrade Scenario ................................................................................................................................ 9
Patch Management Improvements .................................................................................................. 11
SharePoint Central Administration Web Site .................................................................................... 12
Service Applications ................................................................................................................................... 15
Search .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Search Service ..................................................................................................................................... 18
Search Architecture ........................................................................................................................... 18
Crawling Architecture ....................................................................................................................... 18
Improving Search Performance .................................................................................................... 20
FAST Search for SharePoint ................................................................................................................. 20
Business Connectivity Services ........................................................................................................... 21
Business Data Connectivity Service Application and Model .............................................. 21