I've been trying to keep up to date with the latest coming from Vegas. Twitter has been on fire, newsgroups spreading the word, blogs heating up and just a lot of knowledge hitting the web. I realised I cant keep up :-)
So I've decided to keep a record of some of the most interesting and important pieces of information I've managed to read or get my hands on thats coming out of SP Conference 2009 - some are Microsoft and some from other sources.
So, whats the News coming out from Vegas? Well for starters, if you missed the official website, check it out SPC. Theres Steve Ballmer's keynote on-demand. Check that video out! Very cool!
The product is massive and each segment is its own world. Support for larger lists (lists can scale to tens of millions and archive hundreds of millions items). Document sets to closely model your related documents. Digital Asset Management under the WCM (Web Content Management) is new. Metadata based navigation is now available. SQL 2008 R2 + SharePoint 2010 will allow for storing of docs in remote blobs (RBS's) that could be recommended for deployments over 5 TB. Users can use Visio Services to visually create Workflows. SP 2010 Content Organizer can automatically move document storage location based on assigned metadata.
Records Management and Governance - Compliance across everything is supported. What a relief and it has multi-stage disposal and e-discovery.
Sites have the Office UI Ribbon, Office Client on the Web, SharePoint Workspace for offline content and Mobile enhancements.
The next version of Office for Mac will support SharePoint Integration - neat if you're a Mac!
Couple of websites resources:
Joel Oleson's YouTube video of Tom Rizzo
The "SharePoint Wheel" has evolved:
I came across a website, www.bink.nu that has links to Microsoft Download and provides some decent content for planning ahead for SP 2010 - Check tem out:
Enterprise Search Planning for SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes primary architecture design decisions for search environments.
Design Search for SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes the steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search architecture.
SharePoint Server 2010 Search Architecture
This model describes the physical and logical architecture components of the search system.
Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010
Discusses the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
Introduction and overview of SharePoint Server 2010 for IT pros.
SharePoint Enterprise Search
Compares and contrasts search technologies in SharePoint 2010 Products
Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.
Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products
Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.
Services in SharePoint Products 2010
Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.
Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.
Upgrade planning poster
Describes requirements and considerations for planning to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010
Upgrading services poster
You need to give special consideration to the issues involved when you upgrade services from the previous version of SharePoint Server.
Upgrade testing poster
To help ensure a smooth transition to SharePoint Server 2010, perform a trial upgrade to find issues likely to surface during the actual process.
Upgrade approaches poster
This model describes the three basic approaches to upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010: in-place, database attach, or a hybrid of the two.
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So until the next instalment... lots to read.
-- MarcL