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Service Pack 1 Released for Office and SharePoint 2010

Service Pack 1 was released today on the Microsoft Download Center for Office, Project Server, Fast Search, and SharePoint 2010. The "Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010" white paper and the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office servers Service Pack 1 Changes.xlsx describes in detail features that are included in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Briefly, service pack 1 for SharePoint includes:

  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2011 Code Name “Denali”
  • Shallow copy functionality
  • Improvements to storage management (StorMan.aspx)
  • Cascading filters for Performance Point services
  • Recycle bin: Lets you restore a site collection or a web that was deleted
  • Remote Backup Systems (RBS) and shallow copy can decrease downtime and increase efficiency by moving pointers to databases instead of moving databases
  • You can see which folders are taking up valuable space with the improved Storage Management feature in site settings
  • Integrated community content in the Access Application Part Gallery.
  • Better alignment between Project Server and SharePoint Server browser support.
  • Improved backup / restore functionality for SharePoint Server
  • The Word Web Application extends printing support to “Edit Mode.”
  • Project Professional now synchronizes scheduled tasks with SharePoint task lists.
  • Internet Explorer 9 “Native” support for Office Web Applications and SharePoint
  • Office Web Applications Support for Chrome
  • Inserting Charts into Excel Workbooks using Excel Web Application
  • Support for searching PPSX files in Search Server
  • Visio Fixes scaling issues and arrowhead rendering errors with SVG export
  • Proofing Tools improve spelling suggestions in Canadian English, French, Swedish and European Portuguese.
  • Previously unreleased fixes
  • Previous SharePoint Server 2010 updates that were released through June 2011, and all the cumulative updates that were released through April 2011s
  • Previous SharePoint Foundation 2010 updates that were released through June 2011, and all the cumulative updates that were released through April 2011

Server Pack 1 Download Links

Below are the links for service pack 1 for SharePoint, Fast Search, Project, and Office 2010:


Microsoft SharePoint 2010

It is recommend that you always install SharePoint Foundation 2010 patches before you install SharePoint Server 2010 patches. Additionally, you should always test updates on your development and staging environments before try it on production. Make sure you have an outage and disaster recovery plan to cover all your bases. The recommended order of installation is as follows:

Update Foundation first:

Then SharePoint Server:

Then run the Configuration Wizard (PSConfig) one time on all boxes. After you have successfully updated SharePoint, you can install any related product downloads below:


SharePoint Designer 2010


Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable


Indexing Connector for Documentum


Microsoft Fast Search


Microsoft Project 2010


Microsoft Office 2010


Check out the official blog of the Office Sustained Engineering and Release team for more information on service pack 1 for SharePoint 2010.

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Service Pack 1 Announced for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

There was some big SharePoint news released today from TechEd North America 2011. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is scheduled to be released at the end of June. Initially, Service Pack 1 will be offered as a manual download from the Download Center and from Microsoft Update and than 90 days after release will be made available as an Automatic Update. The service pack will include all Public Update and Cumulative Update releases to date as well as the following new changes:

  • Outlook fixes an issue where “Snooze Time” would not reset between appointments.
  • The default behavior for PowerPoint "Use Presenter View" option changed to display the slide show on the secondary monitor.
  • Integrated community content in the Access Application Part Gallery.
  • Better alignment between Project Server and SharePoint Server browser support.
  • Improved backup / restore functionality for SharePoint Server
  • The Word Web Application extends printing support to “Edit Mode.”
  • Project Professional now synchronizes scheduled tasks with SharePoint task lists.
  • Internet Explorer 9 “Native” support for Office Web Applications and SharePoint
  • Office Web Applications Support for Chrome
  • Inserting Charts into Excel Workbooks using Excel Web Application
  • Support for searching PPSX files in Search Server
  • Visio Fixes scaling issues and arrowhead rendering errors with SVG export
  • Proofing Tools improve spelling suggestions in Canadian English, French, Swedish and European Portuguese.
  • Outlook Web Application Attachment Preview (with Exchange Online only)
  • Office client suites using “Add Remove Programs” Control Panel, building on work from Office 2007 SP2

For more information on the upcoming service pack visit the Microsoft Office Updates website and The Microsoft Office Blog.

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Amazing SharePoint Twitter Feeds To Stay Connected

Staying up to date with all the latest information and news about SharePoint can be hard. There are so many sites and blog postings each day and it takes time to search though them all to find information that is relevant to you. That is why I follow Twitter feeds to get current information about SharePoint that other people have found interesting. I let other people do the searching for me and in 140 characters or less determine if I should take the time to read an articles. Not only does it save me time, but I get exposed to all sorts of hot SharePoint topics through Twitter conversions.

Below are amazing SharePoint Twitter feeds that I follow to stay connected with latest SharePoint information and news:

What Twitter feeds do you follow to stay connected with the latest SharePoint information and news? Leave a comment below or send a reply to @the14folder on Twitter. I would love to hear your suggestions.

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What’s New in SharePoint 2010?

Below is a summary some of the new and exciting features, enhancements, and general improvements you can expect inside SharePoint 2010:


New in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010:

Alerts Enhancements
  • Alerts can now be delivered as e-mail or as a Short Messaging Service (SMS) message.
  • The alert system can be programmatically customized with mobile messaging service providers.
Business Connectivity Services
  • You can create, read, update, delete, and query external line-of-business systems and do batch and bulk operations which reduces round trips dramatically.
  • You can create content types for external data and services.
  • There are more connective options including "plug and play" custom connectors and out-of-the-box connections to databases, Web/WCF services, .NET connectivity assemblies, and custom data sources.
Client Object Model
  • There are three new client APIs for interacting with SharePoint 2010 site; .NET managed application (Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or later), Silverlight applications (Microsoft Silverlight 2.0), and ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript).
Events Improvements
  • Event handlers will be available for add and delete events on lists, add events on Web sites, and after events can now be either synchronous or asynchronous.
List Improvements
  • You can create a SharePoint lists that reads and manipulate data from an external data sources such as a SQL Server data table.
  • You can easily create relational lists using lookup fields and have cascading deletion.
  • Lists can now have duplicate or non- duplicate list items.
  • Lists can have custom column validation equations using VBScript.
  • Lists can now have navigation hierarchies and filters based on content types meaning you can have a document library that is broken down into sub-categories based on metadata in your content types.
Microsoft Synch Framework
  • The new Microsoft Sync Framework will allow SharePoint developers to synchronize offline files and data from external applications, services and devices with libraries or lists in SharePoint 2010.
Mobile Device Development Enhancements
  • Mobile Web Part Adapters in SharePoint 2010 allows developers to create adapter controls for Web Parts that you want to make available on mobile pages.
  • Mobile messages can now be sent as Short Messaging Service (SMS) message or Outlook Message Service (OMS) through the SharePoint API.
Query Enhancements
  • A new LINQ to SharePoint provider enables your code to query SharePoint lists from server code by using LINQ syntax.
  • CAML queries will now supports joining multiple lists in a single query and you can specify what list fields to include in the results.
  • Web Services will still be a part of SharePoint 2010, but only for backwards capability support. For best performance and usability, it is recommended that you use either the client object model or the ADO.NET Data Services Framework.
Ribbon Menu
  • SharePoint 2010 will have use the popular ribbon menu system from Office 2007 to replace the old style of the publishing tool bar control and some administrative menus.
  • Central Administration screens will also use a ribbon menu system.
  • You can customize the ribbon with a Feature or through a user custom action.
Sandboxed Solutions
  • Sandboxed Solutions are partially trusted solutions that are limited to using subset of the Microsoft SharePoint namespace and can be monitored by farm administration for CPU execution time, memory consumption, database query time, abnormal terminations, critical exceptions, unhandled exceptions, and data marshalling.
Service Application Framework
  • The Service Application Framework replaces the Shared Services Provider in MOSS 2007
  • The Service Application Framework is an API that manages services and enables them to be load balanced and shared between computers on a server farm.
  • The Service Application Framework has over 20 built in services and can be extended by developers for their applications.
Silverlight Integration and the Fluid Application Model
  • Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is now automatically installed with SharePoint 2010. Silverlight Web Parts allow Silverlight applications to be easily intergraded into your site pages.
  • Fluid Application Model is a new concept in SharePoint 2010 that allows non-SharePoint applications hosted on another server to be made available to all Web applications in a farm. Web site users with contributor rights can add Web Parts that host non-SharePoint applications to their page.
UI Improvements
  • Content and application pages now contain the same content placeholders and application pages now reference the site master page.
  • The CSS has been divided into multiple files to enable more targeted customization scenarios and to improve page loading performance.
  • More cross-browser support thanks to Silverlight.
  • SharePoint 2010 says it be WCAG 2.0 AA complaint.
  • You can choice between using the old SharePoint 2007 user interface or using new SharePoint 2010 user interface that uses Silverlight and the ribbon menu system.
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint
  • Windows PowerShell for SharePoint is a new command-line tool and a supporting scripting language from Microsoft that complements Cmd.exe in the Windows administration context and that supersedes the Stsadm.exe administration tool.
  • Although both Cmd.exe and Stsadm.exe will be maintained for backward compatibility, all current and future development of scripts and administrative files in SharePoint Foundation should use this new scripting technology.
Workflow Improvements
  • New workflow actions, Pluggable workflow services provide a mechanism for workflows to interact and receive data from external sources, more workflow events (WorkflowStarting, WorkflowStarted, WorkflowCompleted, WorkflowLoading, WorkflowUnloading, and WorkflowPostponed), site based workflows, high privilege workflows, and reusable declarative workflows.
InfoPath Forms Services
  • You can generate a simple InfoPath form that puts data into a custom list by clicking on the "List" properties in the ribbon and then the "Customize Form" menu item.
  • With InforPath 2010 it is easier to build rich forms declaratively with little to no code and more client-side validation.


New in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010:

Enterprise Content Management
  • Site administrators can create rules in the "Content Organizer" section of SharePoint 2010 to redirect files to another folder, library, or record center based on the metadata of a file.
  • Document Sets applies metadata to entire collection of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or other types of document content.
  • Document Sets support templates and versioning.
  • Document ID services adds a unique identifier to all documents throughout the site collection so you can retrieve documents by an ID no matter where it is stored.
  • You can create folder metadata.
  • In-Place Records Management incorporates record management capabilities in any site collection. You no longer have to use a Records Center site template to manage your documents.
  • Enterprise content types can be used in multiple site collections in the same or different farms.
  • Large page libraries allow more pages and folders to be store in one library than in SharePoint 2007. Libraries will scale to tens of millions and archives to hundreds of millions of documents. This mean you don't have to break down your site into sub sites to maintain performance.
SharePoint Enterprise Search
  • You can define a custom ranking model to use for search queries by creating a ranking model schema.
  • The SharePoint Search Connector Framework enables you to create search connectors to connect and crawl custom content repositories like external web sites, file servers, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Documentum and FileNet.
  • SharePoint Search a new phonetic search algorithm and spell check so you don't have to worry about spelling words or names correctly.
PerformancePoint Services
  • Performance Point Server will now be part of SharePoint Server 2010 and will allow business users to create dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs). (Side Note: If you have enterprise edition of MOSS 2007 you can run Performance Point Server 2007. Check Microsoft website for more details.)
Excel Services
  • Excel services now includes richer pivoting, slicing and visualizations like heatmaps and sparklines.
  • Use Excel and PowerPivot, also known as "Gemini", to quickly manipulate millions of rows of data into a single Excel workbook for ad-hoc reports without having to create or edit an OLAP cube.
  • You can use the REST API and the ECMAScript object model to manipulate your Excel workbooks.
Visio Services
  • Like Excel Services, Visio documents can now be rendered within a web browser when they are hosted in SharePoint.
  • Business user can create workflow outlines in Visio and export them to SharePoint designer to add the business logic and additional rules.
User Profiles and Social Data
  • The Microsoft.Office.Server.ActivityFeed namespace provides new functionality for programmatically publishing and gathering the activities of site users.
  • The Microsoft.Office.Server.SocialData namespace provides new functionality for programmatically creating and aggregating social tags, ratings, and comments.
  • The Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles provides new functionality that enables you to create role-specific properties for any type of user profile. For example clients vs employees.
Word Automation Services
  • The Word Automation Services provides server-side conversion of documents into other formats including .pdf, .xps, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm, .doc, .dot, .rtf, .mht, .mhtml, and .xml.

Note: The SharePoint 2010 is still in beta and is subject to change. This content is also subject to change.

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What Has Changed In SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 is packed full of new features, feature enhancements, and general improvements that is really hard to know where to start. For those of you who have worked with SharePoint 2007 there have been a number of terminology changes and software products that have been integrated into SharePoint 2010. Below is a high level overview of some the changes you will see between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010:

SharePoint 2007
SharePoint 2010
The 6 Pillars of SharePoint 2007:
Collaboration,
Portals,
Enterprise Search,
Enterprise Content Management,
Business Process and Forms,
and Business Intelligence.
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The 6 Pillars of SharePoint 2010:
Sites,
Communities,
Content,
Search,
Insight,
and Composites.
Windows SharePoint Services
(WSS)
=
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
(SharePoint Foundation 2010)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
(MOSS)
=
Microsoft SharePoint Server
(SharePoint Server 2010)
SharePoint 32-bit
<
SharePoint 64-bit
(Microsoft SharePoint Foundation & Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 only come in 64-bit edition and must run with Windows Server and SQL Server 64-bit editions.)
Shared Service Provider
=
Service Application Framework
Business Data Catalogue
=
Business Connectivity Services
Microsoft Office Groove
<
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
(Microsoft Office Groove 2007 has been integrated into SharePoint 2010 as Microsoft SharePoint Workspace)
Web Services
<
ADO.NET Data Services Framework
(Although web services will be maintained for backward compatibility, all current and future development of services in SharePoint 2010 should use ADO.NET Data Services Framework.)
PerformancePoint Server
<=
PerformancePoint Services
(PerformancePoint Server 2007 is no longer being supported and has been integrated into SharePoint 2010 as PerformancePoint Services.)
Cmd.exe and Stsadm.exe
<=
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint
(Although both Cmd.exe and Stsadm.exe will be maintained for backward compatibility, all current and future development of scripts and administrative files in SharePoint 2010 should use this new scripting technology.)
SharePoint System Files are in the 12 Folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\
=
SharePoint System Files are in the 14 Folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\
Search Database,
Shared Service Provider Database,
Shared Service Provider Administration Site Content Database
< =
Application Registry Database,
Business Connectivity Services Database,
Search Service Admin Database,
Search Service Crawl Database,
Search Metadata Database,
Session State Service Database,
State Service Database,
Taxonomy Database,
User Profile Database,
SharePoint Foundation Usage Database
(The Shared Service Provider in SharePoint 2007 will be broken into multiple databases in SharePoint 2010 for flexibility and maintenance.)
Content Query Webpart
=
The content query webpart now has the ability to filter query results based on the query string or current page content values.
Single sign-on (SSO)
< =
Secure Store Service (SSS) Maintains an encrypted database that maps the identities of SharePoint users, groups, or process accounts to the external credentials required to access external systems.

For more information about changes between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 visit TechNet's Changes from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Note: The SharePoint 2010 is still in beta and is subject to change. This content is also subject to change.

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