Wednesday, October 21, 2009

SPC303 – SharePoint 2010 IT Pro Overview

The IT Pro has many new features that are Cool in SP2010. Scalability, ease of management and support have been baked into the product.

Powershell is definitely a “must use” tool for SP2010. It seems to feature all over the place and that is not a bad thing.

The biggest change from a software infrastructure is the Services Architecture that now provides for solid and extensible Metadata Management model outside of the Web Application and Farm level; about time I say.

So you can create and manage metadata asset items outside of the Site Collection / Web App / Farm and have them published and consumed across multiple farms, now we are starting to talk about a scalable architecture for information management.

As well as a new and cool services architecture the way that you administer this architecture and other system features has also had a massive revamp and the SharePoint admin now has a good UI to manage all the necessary parts of the software and content infrastructure.

SharePoint 2010 is coming of age and the release is a significant shift in the services and capabilities that are provided. For the other vendors out there it is time to start watching you back.

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