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Governance
Governance in Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 is the set of roles, responsibilities,
and processes that you put in place in an enterprise to guide the development and use
of a solution based on SharePoint Server. There are several new features in SharePoint
Server that help the IT pro deliver governance: metadata creation and management,
shared service applications, taxonomy, multi-tenancy, sandbox solutions, content type
syndication, and policy. These topics are discussed in greater detail in the guide but it is
worth mentioning them now because it is important to realize how features in
SharePoint Server can provide solutions. Solutions generally utilize several features
together, and it is easy to overlook the solution capability when discussing features
individually. Another very important solution is high availability. This is discussed in the
next section.
High Availability
Several feature improvements targeted at the database level and the search service help
achieve high-availability architecture. Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 leverages
the underlying Microsoft SQL Server™ high- availability technologies such as log
shipping, snapshots, and database mirroring, and now includes automatic failover. Other
features such as read-only content databases, unattached database backup and restore,
and configuration database backup and restore provide much more granular control
and manageability of the SharePoint farm’s data. Now it’s time to discuss some of
features beginning with SharePoint deployment and upgrading from Office SharePoint
Server 2007.
Deployment and Upgrade
System Requirements
As one would imagine, a powerful application such as this requires a server environment
capable of supporting it. As such, the requirements for your infrastructure will draw
upon the latest server and application technologies. To implement a Microsoft®
SharePoint® Server 2010 environment, your infrastructure must leverage the following
minimum requirements: