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The first session wasn’t really worth blogging about but there are many enhancements and new capabilities in the User Profile space. It sure seems like MS has listened to the users and customers regarding the Profile Stores. Profile Store: There are now hierarchies in the user profile such as sub...
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MOSS 2007 brought user profile management to the table where an individual was able to manage information about themselves, but more importantly helped others find a person that had a specific skill set, spoke a language, or was part of the organizational hierarchy to make strategic decisions. ...
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Much like the rest of the new server platforms for Microsoft (Exchange, SQL, etc) PowerShell is the new command shell that will providing administrators the ability to perform functions throughout their SharePoint farm. In SharePoint 2010, there will be over 500+ Cmdlets that will ship out of the...
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In SharePoint 2007, the patching scenario was confusing at best when starting to deal with MOSS with all of the different types of updates out there. Now because SharePoint 2010 will be x64 only, that will help a little with patching and upgrades, so administrators won’t be downloading the incorrect...
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The SharePoint and Commerce Server session really started by talking about what Commerce Server brings to the table with it’s integration capabilities for SharePoint. They stressed the fact that with the two products Commerce Server is really setting a platform where SharePoint hosts the presentation...
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Attending my second extranet session for the conference they first reminded people of the design considerations that need to be addressed before an extranet development. Things like account management, single sign-on, network access and anti-virus. When defining an extranet there are three main...
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Much like SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 has many challenges for performance planning because of the types of services that are provided as well as the multiple types of clients that are accessing content. With all of these services provided in SharePoint 2010, the web application and SQL layers of...
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Vision services is a brand new offering for eCal. So, what is it? There were a lot of demos and code snippets but here are the highlights of the session. Share Diagrams in SP –> Build data driven visualization -->Integrated with SharePoint applications Browser viewable diagrams that are driven...
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More and more companies are having to think how to push SharePoint across the physical boundaries that have, in the past, caused pain around latency. When looking at the different types of deployments for geographically distributed environments t here are three types of scenario’s when dealing...
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Day 2 did not have quite as much hype for me. Coming down off of day one with the big keynote and all the new feature announcements, day 2 was a little more humdrum. I did see some good use of the new client object model using Silverlight, jQuery, and even WPF. The new Business Connectivity Services...
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When you start to think about upgrading to SharePoint 2010, the first thing you can do to help the success rate of your migration is to start testing early from both the administration point of view, but also content owners and end users. We have learned from our pains when upgrading SharePoint...
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The My Site architecture brings together information based on different contexts. The base components that make up the MySite architecture are: My Network My Profile My Content The My Network and My Profile sections live on the MySite host site where the My Content section lives within an individuals...
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Once the beta is out to public there will definitely be more precise document for installation for FAST for SharePoint here are some highlights if you are planning or thinking about a FAST installation. Like with a lot of other admin function in SharePoint 2010 PowerShell comes through loud and clear...
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Claims is a new authentication method that SharePoint 2010 can utilize. This allows a single authentication store for multiple types of authentication (Windows NTLM, SQL FBA, LDAP, etc) which allows all of these types of authentication to access SharePoint under a single URL. The sign-in process...
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Spencer Harbar ( harbar.net ) lead the session on Best Practices for Extranets which reminded me of the MNSPUG / IASPUG presentation I did a couple months ago around Building Extranet with SharePoint . For extranet solutions, there is no “one size fits all” best practice for what will work best for your...