Few Notes on SharePoint 2010 - 1

This is a collection of few notes on SharePoint 2010 sourced from Internet.

Setup Prerequisites

MSF2010 requires the following configuration. If they are not met, setup will fail.

• 64-bit Windows Server 2008 SP2 or greater (server core version not supported)
• 64-bit Windows Vista or greater (no product support)
• SQL Server 2005 SP3 CU2/SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU2/R2, 64-bit. 32-bit SQL Server is not supported.
• The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or greater
• Windows PowerShell version 2 or greater.
• The setup run-as account must be a member of the local administrators group.
•  Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.x (IIS 7.x) or greater with IIS 6.0 management compatibility component installed.
• ASP.NET 3.5 server extensions enabled.
• Geneva Framework, IDFX
• Speech
• Synch Framework
• Filter Pack
• ADO.NET (for LINQ - Language-Integrated Query)

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products

New Search Features

 Features for End Users

• Faster search results
• Enhancements for relevance of search results
• New User interface elements
• More “social” search experience
• Sugestions while typing search queries
• Suggestions after executing queries
• Connectors for Enterprise Search in Windows 7
• Improvements for search results display
• People search
• SharePoint Server 2010 provides enhancements to increase the relevance of search results

Features for IT Professionals

• Improved scalability and reliability
• Easier to setup in simple environments
• Setup Wizard
• Profile Import no longer relies on search
• Connector framework
• Exchange
• Notes
• EMC Documentum
• IBM File Net
• Open Text
• Better logging
• Determine if a page has been crawled.
• View errors/success/warning by host name.
• Filter, sort and search the logs.
• Prevent an item from returning in search results from the crawl log.
• Re-crawl an item from the crawl log.