Archive for the ‘SharePoint 2010’ Category

Microsoft has clarified the position on SharePoint 2010 Accessibility, those of us who have worked with public facing internet services will at some point have been told ‘SharePoint is not accessible’ and then been asked to add third party plug-ins or make serious customisation will appreciate some of the efforts Microsoft has made in this [...]

The SharePoint Team have cleared up the confusion around Operating System support for SharePoint 2010 on their blog. In Summary: SharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) (NOT Itanium) versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2.  SharePoint will not install at all on 32 bit Windows, or any earlier version of [...]

From SharePoint Joel SP2 had a number of enhancements designed around making it easier to upgrade to SharePoint 2010.  One such new feature that wasn’t popularized is your ability to find and remove corrupted, broken sites known as orphans. As I’ve mentioned in the past, with SharePoint being split across multiple databases, it is quite [...]

Microsoft have made some huge improvements in the integration into System Center with SharePoint 2010 and some new management Packs, the following info can also be seen on the SharePoint Blog Management Packs allow users to monitor SharePoint 2010 with System Center Operations Manager. SharePoint Foundation Management Pack and SharePoint Server 2010 Management Pack enables [...]

The SharePoint Blog has a good post on upgrading from Portal to 2010, details are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/01/04/planning-for-upgrade-from-sharepoint-portal-server-2003-to-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sharepointteamblog+%28Microsoft+SharePoint+Products+and+Technologies+Team+Blog%29

Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November. ​ Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Please review the preliminary system requirements to [...]

Following on from my SharePoint in under a minute post, here is the more complex version based on content from the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Describing SharePoint 2010 in 1 Sentence, 8 Categories and 40 Feature Areas SharePoint is a broad solution so we often get asked how we would describe it in a sentence. [...]

A quick guide to the important information about SharePoint 2010. Naming MOSS is dead, it is no more. There are now two principle versions of SharePoint:- MOSS 2007 maps to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 or ‘SharePoint 2010′ WSS 3.0 maps to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 or ‘SharePoint Foundation 2010′ MOSS for Search maps to [...]