What you missed at sps2010 admin (I and II)

SharePoint 2010

Installation system requirements
- Windows Server 2008 sp2 or R2, x64
- SQL 2005 sp2 or SQL 2008 sp1 CU2, x64

SharePoint has a Prerequisite Installer.
It can use internet or local shares.
It can be configured with XML or used out of the box.
It even has a log.

Installation requires a passphrase, which removes account dependency.

You can use the 2007 wizard to customize the bits.
And, there is a shiny new wizard for farm config after farm is up. Configures all the new services.

Content DB has SQL server failover. It won't configure failover for you, you do that yourself. SPS senses when the server stops responding and begins to direct queries to the failover box.

The install is so easy a COW could do it.

Geneva or Claims will make Kerberos look easy, per Todd and Shane. This may not be true as others have had it working for a year.

powershell list limit overrides the object model override which overrides the GUI limit. Admins get last laugh. Boooo.


http req monitor / throttle protect during peak loads. Checked every 5 seconds.

Developer Dashboard
- See stored proceedures, page load times broken down by component, etc.
- May be set to "on", "off" (for everyone but Site Col Admins), and "on demand."
- Stsadm -setproperty command. (if you know the command, please leave it in the comments)

Performance Monitoring
Admin performance monitoring in c/a can set limits for list sizes.
There is a limit for users and a seperate limit for admins.
You can also Turn http req throttle on/off.

Event log flood protection!
Compressed logs!
Garbage removed.
And...correlation IDs.

SQL Logging - an aggregate of all logs from all the servers in the farm.
SQL Logging schema will be published. Not only can you query it, you can also develop on it, too. Get this: it's supported!

Timer jobs
Timer jobs now have a progress bar. They also have server affinity, a "run now" option, and history (status, duration, etc).

Patch Levels
You can run servers and db's at different patch levels (stay within compatibility boundary).

Starting Again

OK. I'm going to start blogging again, but only because the SharePoint conference is around the corner.

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