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What’s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010
EXERCISE 1.1 (continued)
4. Review the instructions for installing SharePoint Server 2010 as a single hardware
server installation using a built-in database solution.
5. Save both links as favorites in your web browser and then close your web browser.
The information gathered in the previous exercise will help you determine your readiness
for installing and working with SharePoint Server 2010 either in a home or small lab envi-
ronment or in a sandbox testing environment at your business.
What’s New and Different with
SharePoint Server 2010?
Not everything that’s new with SharePoint Server 2010 is completely new to SharePoint. There
are features and services you know from MOSS 2007 that have taken on new functionality as
well as features and utilities included that are completely new in SharePoint Server 2010. That
means some parts of the interface and the backend configuration will seem familiar if you have
administered prior SharePoint Server versions, while others will be strangers.
The following list shows you a number of the new features available for the first time in
SharePoint Server 2010:
SharePoint Central Administration Website This site is the interface for configuring the
entire SharePoint Server 2010 environment. Administrators familiar with MOSS 2007 and
prior SharePoint versions are familiar with this tool. For SharePoint 2010, it has been rede-
signed for greater ease of use, organizing common tasks and lists into functional areas, as
you can see in Figure 1.1
Managed Accounts This is actually a concept borrowed from Windows Server 2008 and
is new in SharePoint Server 2010. Services or groups of services have accounts on a server
platform, such as the SQL Server service account, which is required to deploy SharePoint
on the server farm. To minimize the administrative cost of managing all the various service
accounts, managed accounts let SharePoint take control of the service accounts and manage
authentication, including sending notifications to the SharePoint administrator when the
password for a managed service is about to expire.
Service Applications These were referred to in MOSS 2007 as shared services provid-
ers (SSPs), were available only on SharePoint Server, and required a specific SSP setup. In
SharePoint Server 2010, all services are installed by default and are available both on the
server version and on Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (what was previously called
Windows SharePoint Services or WSS). In MOSS 2007, when an SSP was associated with a
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