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What’s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Monitoring This provides real-time alerts
and troubleshooting of issues in SharePoint.
Out-of-Box Usage Reports These are the default logging and reporting tools in
SharePoint.
Remote BLOB Storage Also called RBS, this is used for server farms to provide very high
storage capacity by allowing BLOBs from the all_docs table and customized pages in the data-
base to be housed in a file system outside the SQL Server database, thus reducing the amount
of required storage on the SQL Server instance. Third-party RBS providers are required, and
the RBS architecture is completely customizable, allowing specific RBS providers to offer tar-
geted storage services.
Performance Controls SharePoint Server 2010 has two specific methods of managing per-
formance. Throttling allows the administrator to control the level of SharePoint operations
during times of peak demand, and list controls limit the number of queries per list, managing
performance relative to the number of queries in each list containing a large number of items.
Windows PowerShell Administration This is both a new command-line interface and asso-
ciated scripting language developed by Microsoft and originally released for Windows XP
SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Version 2.0 has been released for Windows 7 and Windows
Server 2008 R2 and is available for SharePoint Server 2010 administration. Although
Cmd.exe
and
Stsadm.exe, which MOSS 2007 administrators are familiar with, have not been replaced
for the sake of backward compatibility, PowerShell is considered the de facto command-line
tool for SharePoint Server 2010. A unique feature in PowerShell is the cmdlet. A cmdlet (pro-
nounced “command-let”) either can be used as a single function or can be combined with
other cmdlets to perform more complex actions and to automate administration. You can use
the prebuilt cmdlets included with PowerShell by default or customize one or more cmdlets
to suit specific needs. PowerShell, then, is not just a command shell but also a new scripting
language.
Backup and Restore This functionality has been updated and can now be performed
using either the Central Administration website (Figure 1.2) or Windows PowerShell. New
granularity has been built in, letting you back up and restore down to the site, subsite, and
list levels.
Excel Services There are a number of new features in Excel Services released in SharePoint
Server 2010, such as the unattended service account, allowing low-security, one-time access
to Excel Services data, multiuser collaboration that lets multiple SharePoint users edit an
Excel document simultaneously, and the ability to completely deploy Excel Services from
Windows PowerShell. Also, trusted locations are now provided by default.
Multi-Tendency SharePoint Server 2010 now has the ability to isolate and separate informa-
tion from different websites while at the same time sharing services and resources between
the same sites. This is known as multi-tendency. Customers or users on a site are known as
tenants, and although tenant data can be shared across multiple sites, data owned by the ten-
ant can also be partitioned based on site subscriptions so that the data can be separated and
grouped while other resources are freely shared.
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