Few Notes on SharePoint 2010 - 2

Service Applications

With SharePoint 2010, Shared Service Providers are dead and the new Service Application model takes over. A brief note on the challenges with SSP and overview of Service Applications is below.

Challenges with SSPs in MOSS 2007
  • Web applications were limited to consuming from single SSP
  • Deploying SSPs was difficult
  • SSPs were tied to a single farm
  • SSP management and troubleshooting was difficult
  • Shared services were not extensible
Service Applications Overview
  • Service applications replace the MOSS 2007 SSP
  • The service application framework is now in MSF2010
  • Many-to-many relationship between web applications and service applications
  • Service applications offer improved scalability, load balancing and fault tolerance
  • Service applications can be consumed across farms
  • Windows Powershell support 

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