Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

About the Authors

About the Technical Editors

Credits

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Who This Book Is For

What This Book Covers

How This Book Is Structured

What You Need to Use This Book

Conventions

Source Code

Errata

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Chapter 1: What’s New in SharePoint 2010

Installation

Central Administration

Service Applications

Windows Identity Foundation and Claims

Health and Monitoring

Managing SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell

Managed Accounts

Recovering from Disaster

The New and Improved User Experience

Summary

Chapter 2: The New and Improved User Experience

Browser Support

Changes to the SharePoint 2010 User Interface

Creating a Site

Lists and Libraries in SharePoint 2010

Working with SharePoint Pages

Using Site Templates in SharePoint 2010

Multilingual User Interface

Summary

Chapter 3: Architecture and Capacity Planning

What’s in a Name?

Other Servers

Hardware Requirements

Terminology

Controlling Deployments

Summary

Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010

The Prerequisites Installer

Running Setup.exe

Using the SharePoint 2010 Wizards

Central Administration Post-Setup Configuration

Step-by-Step Install

Creating Something Users Can Use

Summary

Chapter 5: Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Upgrade Considerations

In-Place Upgrade

Database Attach

Hybrid Upgrades

Database Attach with AAM Redirect

Other Upgrade Options

Patching SharePoint 2010

Summary

Chapter 6: Using the New Central Administration

A Quick Overview of the New Central Administration Interface

First Things First

Central Administration Categories

Summary

Chapter 7: Understanding the Service Application Architecture

Farewell to the Shared Services Provider

Service Application Fundamentals

Service Application Administration

Multi-Tenancy in SharePoint 2010

Summary

Chapter 8: Securing and Managing Site Content

Reviewing the Terminology

Administration Hierarchy in SharePoint 2010

Understanding Permissions

Permission Levels

Security Groups

Granting Permissions

Web Application Policy

Summary

Chapter 9: Claims-Based Authentication

Claims-Based Identity

SharePoint Authentication Options

Creating Claims-Based Web Applications

Summary

Chapter 10: Administering SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell

Introduction to Windows PowerShell

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and Other Hosts

Commands

Basic PowerShell

Using SharePoint Commands

Summary

Chapter 11: Managing Navigation and Understanding Governance

Navigation

SharePoint Governance

Summary

Chapter 12: Configuring SharePoint 2010 for High Availability Backups

Determining Your Business Requirements

Content Recovery

Disaster Recovery

High Availability

Summary

Chapter 13: Using Features and Solution Packages

Using SharePoint 2010 Features

Solutions

Summary

Chapter 14: Configuring and Managing Enterprise Search

The Different Versions of Search

SharePoint Foundation Search

SharePoint Server and Search Server

FAST Search

Summary

Chapter 15: Monitoring SharePoint 2010

Unified Logging Service

Summary

Chapter 16: Managed Metadata Service Applications

Advantages of the Managed Metadata Service

New Managed Metadata Service Features

Getting Started with the Managed Metadata Service

Managed Metadata Services

Content Types

Summary

Chapter 17: Social Computing and SharePoint 2010

The User Profile Service Application

Tags and Notes

My Sites

Wikis and Blogs

Ratings

Outlook 2010 Social Connector

People Search

Summary

Chapter 18: Integrating the Office 2010 Clients with SharePoint 2010

Office 2010 Application Commonalities

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with Word 2010

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with Excel

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with PowerPoint

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with Outlook

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with InfoPath

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Visio

Integrating SharePoint 2010 with OneNote

Integration with Access 2010 and Access Services

SharePoint 2010 Workspace

Publishing Links to Office Client Applications

Managing Office 2010 and SharePoint through Group Policy

Summary

Chapter 19: The Office Web Applications

OWA Overview

Deployment

OWA Installation

OWA PowerShell Activation

Summary

Chapter 20: PerformancePoint Services and Business Intelligence

PPS Features and Terminology

PPS Installation and Configuration

Introduction to Dashboard Designer

Importing PerformancePoint Server 2007 Content to PerformancePoint Services 2010

Summary

Chapter 21: New Content Management Capabilities in SharePoint 2010

Managed Metadata

Document Sets

Document ID Service and IDs

Content Organizer

Summary

Chapter 22: Working with SharePoint Designer 2010

Who Should Use SharePoint Designer?

Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

Overview of the New UX

Restricting Access to SharePoint Designer

What Can You Do with SharePoint Designer 2010?

Summary

Chapter 23: Branding SharePoint 2010

What Is Branding?

Understanding Your Requirements

SharePoint Versions and Publishing

Types of SharePoint Sites: Internet versus Intranet

Branding Basics for SharePoint 2010

Summary

Chapter 24: Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

Capability Overview

Architecture

Creating a BCS Solution

Service Applications That Use BCS

Design Considerations for BCS Solutions

Upgrading the Business Data Catalog to BCS

Summary

Chapter 25: Building Workflows in SharePoint 2010

Why Use Workflow?

Windows Workflow Foundation

Workflow Basics

Configuring Workflows Using the Browser

Workflow Tools in SharePoint Designer 2010

Workflow Visualization Using Visio Premium 2010

Using Visual Studio 2010 to Create Workflows

Selecting a Workflow Method

Summary

Professional SharePoint® 2010 Administration

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I’d like to dedicate this book to my wife, Jill. Without her support, strength, and tolerance for how crazy book writing makes me, this would have never been possible. Not only did she put up with the hours I spent writing this book, and taking care of our daughter, she was pregnant the whole time, giving birth a couple of days before I submitted my last content. Simply amazing. When our children grow up well adjusted and normal it will be because of her. Thanks Babe, love you so much.

—Todd

This book is dedicated to Baby Grant. Hi buddy. You are nine months old as I write these words. I hope one day you will knock the dust off this book and read this, but since there is no cow that goes moo or ghost that says boo it might be a few years from now. When you do, realize you can be or do anything you want in life. It just takes hard work and dedication. Your mother and I love you.

—Shane

To Rosemary; my wife, companion, and friend.

—Steve

About the Authors

Todd Klindt has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, and was an amateur computer nerd before that. After finding out in college that his desire for food and shelter and his abilities at programming were not compatible, he decided to try being an administrator instead. He got his MCSE in 1997 and spent a lot of time taming Windows Server, Exchange Server, and the unlucky SQL Server here and there. In 2002 he was tasked with setting up a web page for his IT department. He couldn’t program, and he couldn’t design with HTML to save his life. He found SharePoint Team Services on an Office XP CD and decided to give it a shot. Turns out SharePoint was just what the doctor ordered. As each version of SharePoint was released, Todd became more and more enamored with it. In 2005 Todd was awarded Microsoft’s MVP award for Windows SharePoint Services. Since then he has written for a couple of SharePoint books, a couple of magazine articles, and had the pleasure of speaking in more places than he can believe. To pay the bills he’s a SharePoint consultant and trainer with SharePoint911. He can be found on Twitter dispensing invaluable SharePoint and relationship advice as @ToddKlindt. For the web 1.0 folks he also has a blog at http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. Todd lives in Ames, Iowa with his lovely wife Jill, their two daughters Lily and Penny, and their two feline masters, Carlos and Louise.

Shane Young has over 14 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past six years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant, author, and trainer. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane has been awarded the SharePoint Server MVP designation for five consecutive years. He is also a renowned speaker at national and international Microsoft conferences. He is the author of several of the leading SharePoint 2007 and 2010 SharePoint Training courses, several Microsoft whitepapers, numerous books, and various SharePoint 2010 videos. You can contact Shane on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter@ShanesCows, via email at shane@sharepoint911.com, his blog at http://msmvps.com/shane or through his company’s website at http://www.SharePoint911.com. Shane lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Nicola, his son Grant, and their two dogs.

Steve Caravajal is a Principal Architect with the Microsoft Corporation. Steve has 23+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting, and training. At Microsoft, Steve’s focus includes architecting enterprise solutions that include SharePoint, Office, and custom .NET applications. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 10 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Mathematics, a Doctoral degree in Chemistry and Computer science, and he is an Adjunct Professor at a couple of local universities. Steve has several patents and published articles, speaks at conferences and has written two previous books: SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions, and Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration. He has also written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET.

About the Technical Editors

Jennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, project management, governance, and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She has worked with a range of companies at different points in the lifecycles of their SharePoint implementation. She is passionate about SharePoint, and loves using the out of the box features to bring immediate ROI to the organization. Jennifer is involved in the SharePoint community and is one of the founding members of the Columbus Ohio SharePoint Users Group. You can learn more about Jennifer by viewing her blog at http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/jennifer/default.aspx.

Jeff DeVerter has been working with SharePoint since 2003, which was early in the “v2” product line. He has been involved in several disciplines within SharePoint, including System Planning and Architecture, Governance and Taxonomy, end user development, Security Planning and Implementation, and Training.

Jeff is currently the architect of Rackspace Hosting’s SharePoint offering. Before joining Rackspace, Jeff worked with Fortune 100 Financial Services companies including World Savings (Golden West Financial) and USAA (United Services Automobile Association), where he worked as an Enterprise Architect over Collaboration and Enterprise Search.

Credits

Acquisitions Editor

Paul Reese

Project Editor

Sara Shlaer

Technical Editors

Jennifer Mason

Jeff DeVerter

Contributing Authors

Bill Baer

Darrin Bishop

Chris Caravajal

Randy Drisgill

Ryan Keller

Jennifer Mason

Larry Riemann

Laura Rogers

John Ross

Production Editor

Eric Charbonneau

Copy Editor

Luann Rouff

Editorial Director

Robyn B. Siesky

Editorial Manager

Mary Beth Wakefield

Associate Director of Marketing

David Mayhew

Production Manager

Tim Tate

Vice President and Executive Group Publisher

Richard Swadley

Vice President and Executive Publisher

Barry Pruett

Associate Publisher

Jim Minatel

Project Coordinator, Cover

Lynsey Stanford

Compositor

Craig Johnson, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Proofreaders

Nancy Bell and Beth Prouty

Indexer

Johnna VanHoose Dinse

Cover Designer

Michael E. Trent

Cover Image

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Acknowledgments

Thanks again Nicola. You should get some kind of Wife of the Year award as you deal with me writing these darn books or working around the clock to meet some insane deadline. I never understood how you did it and now you also manage to take care of our new son Grant as well. Just crazy if you ask me. I love both of you more than you can imagine.

I wasn’t going to call out the dogs, Tyson and Pugsley, but since they are staring at me right now I feel I have to. Thanks boys! You have kept my feet warm all of the long nights it took to get this book out the door.

A big shout out goes to my friends at Microsoft. There are far too many to name but all of you have been part of my 2010 learning curve and I couldn’t have written this book without each of you being along for my journey. I look forward to working with all of you for years to come.

To my fellow authors Todd and Steve: When do we write the next one? HA. Every time we finish one of these things you promise me never again. I will say it now: You guys are liars. So let’s get to work. Next one we will blame on Steve.

I want everyone who reads this to know I think Jennifer Mason is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. She was the primary tech editor on this book and also a contributing author. How she managed to make heads or tails of all the details of SharePoint 2010 we threw at her I will never know. Of course, I still haven’t figured out how she ate donkey meat either, so I guess I will live unknowing. If she ever runs for president be sure to vote for her. Thanks Jen.

To all of the contributors along the way: I owe you a debt of gratitude. Your additions, ideas, reviews, etc. are a huge part of this book and I am guessing it is impossible for me to express my thanks, so I will not even try. You guys were amazing. Jeff, you get a little extra thank you for getting those tech edits done overnight during the final push. You must have had a time machine or something; I couldn’t have done it.

Normally I would also thank all of the employees of SharePoint911 for their help, but each of them ended up pitching in to get this book out the door so they got thanked in the previous paragraph. Cannot give them too much praise, it might go to their heads.

To the entire team at Wiley: Thanks for letting me be part of another successful book project.

Last but not least is Sara. You should be nominated for sainthood after seeing this book through. The frantic pace at the end, translating our chapters from rubbish into English, and being patient with our childlike attention spans are your three miracles. Where do I sign you up? Thanks Sara.

I love you little Sparky!

—Shane

What can I say that Shane already hasn’t? There was a large cast of people who came together to make possible the book you’re holding in your hand, or the e-book that’s on your screen. While Steve, Shane, and I are the pretty faces of the book, the other folks are the show ponies. None of this could have been possible without them.

First I want thanks some friends who helped write chapters. Darrin Bishop was the brains behind the PowerShell chapter. He’s not that bad, for a developer. I also want to send a shout out to Bill Baer for helping with the chapter on high availability. Bill knows more about keeping SharePoint running than I know period. I can only imagine his hat is the secret to his powers.

My fellow SharePoint911ers deserve a round of applause as well. They helped tremendously, picking up the slack when we needed help. Thanks everyone.

Once the chapters were written, the tech editors, Jen and Jeff, had to try to sort out the mess that was sent to them, which was no small feat. Thanks for keeping us honest.

At some point I probably should acknowledge those other jokers whose names follow mine on the cover, Shane and Steve. I can’t believe after having written one book together already we convinced ourselves to do it again. If I’m going to write a book, I want it to be with those yahoos. They’re great to bounce ideas off of, and when my motivation is low, one of them is always ready and willing to mock me until I get back into action. Thanks guys. Couldn’t have done it without you. You ready to start our next one yet?

And finally, Sara. Every word Shane wrote about Sara is true. If I get to vote for sainthood, Saint Sara will be a reality. Thanks for your guidance, Sara.

—Todd

Well, I guess we (Todd, Shane and I) didn’t learn our lesson, and we wrote another book together. Working with these guys is like herding cats, excepts cats are easier. Having said that, I would do it again, but this time I would ask Todd and Shane to actually write something. It’s been great guys; let’s do it again.

Besides these two jokers, our technical editors, Jen and Jeff, deserve a lot of credit for keeping us honest. And a very special thanks to Sara, our editor; she is the person that brought it all together. Suffice it to say that without her this book wouldn’t have happened. Putting up with Shane and Todd is extremely difficult, and Sara handled it well. Needless to say that we were behind schedule most of the time but Sara always provided the encouragement and kick in the pants when we needed it, and in a way that wasn’t as painful as it might have been. So Sara, thank you so much for all your help.

Finally, how can I possibly thank enough the most important person in my life, my wife Rosemary. She always stands beside me, even when I overextend myself and end up being really grumpy. Being together for 33 years seems like only yesterday; I hope she will put up with me for at least 33 more.

—Steve

Foreword

The past three years have been an amazing journey for us here in the SharePoint group at Microsoft, and it’s been a humbling experience to have been part of the team that delivered SharePoint 2010 into the hands of customers and partners across the globe.

I’ve worked on the team since before the release of SharePoint Server 2007. I’ve been deeply involved with our attempts to learn how customers deploy and use the software, and been active in the efforts we make to get feedback from customers and partners on what really works, and most importantly, where we can improve.

I really believe that since the 2007 release we’ve listened and learned and made significant changes and investment across the platform to release a product that has been shaped by you, the people on the front line deploying, configuring, and managing SharePoint on a daily basis—and this release has your fingerprints all over it.

So why should you buy this book?

Well, the deployment and admin landscape of SharePoint 2010 has changed in several ways, from governance to service architecture to security, and anyone tasked with installing and managing SharePoint 2010 should have a great reference book on a shelf within reaching distance of their desk to get the most out of this new release.

Shane, Todd, and Steve cover these changes and updates in an easy-to-read style, but in the depth you’ll want to get your job done with confidence. They cover everything from architecture and planning, governance, how to use Windows PowerShell with SharePoint, security, taxonomy, Enterprise Content Management, and the list goes on. It’s 800+ pages packed full of SharePoint 2010 IT professional guidance and advice that I’m sure will become a well-thumbed trusted advisor.

I’ve known Shane, Todd, and Steve for as long as I’ve worked in the SharePoint team. Shane and Todd are MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals), and all three have been deeply involved in pre-release programs for SharePoint 2010 for at least 18 months prior to its release, so they certainly have the credentials to put their names on the front of this book.

Reading this book will give you the advice and guidance to plan, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2010, whether you’re a seasoned SharePoint Server 2007 admin or fresh out of school with SharePoint 2010. I know that I’ve learned a few things myself by reading it, and I’m sure you’ll learn a lot as well.

—Richard Riley

Group Product Manager, SharePoint

Redmond, WA

May 2010

Introduction

It seems just yesterday we were all feverishly hitting F5 on MSDN or TechNet, hoping, praying for those SharePoint 2007 downloads to appear. Fast-forward three years and now we have SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2007 seems so quaint and antiquated compared to the shininess of SharePoint 2010. We have been using SharePoint since it was a wee lad in 2001 and our fascination with it has continued to grow with each version. In this book we packed in every SharePoint 2010 administration nugget we could. Most were learned after taking and retaking many classes at the school of hard knocks. It’s our hope that we can share some of these lessons with other like-minded SharePoint 2010 administrators.

Who This Book Is For

Are you a SharePoint administrator who wants to know more about SharePoint 2010? Are you a SharePoint power user who wants to know how to translate your SharePoint 2007 prowess to SharePoint 2010? Are you trying to pretty up SharePoint so that it doesn’t look like SharePoint? Are you a SharePoint developer who has a devil of a time communicating with those blasted administrators? Then this is your book. This book was written mainly by SharePoint administrators, but we brought in experts in other areas to round it out. We brought in developers to help explain Features and Solutions with more definition. We brought in branding experts to explain how branding has changed in SharePoint 2010 and demonstrate all the marvelous things you can do. We brought in end user experts to cover all the different ways to leverage the Office clients with SharePoint 2010. They even covered workflows for us, at no extra charge. While this book was written with the SharePoint 2010 administrator in mind, it covers a variety of topics that are of interest to people in all areas of SharePoint.

What This Book Covers

From start to finish, this book is all SharePoint 2010. While no book can cover everything, we gave it the old college try. The focus is mainly on administrative topics. We cover some SharePoint 2010 theory to get the foundation built. We show you the new SharePoint 2010 user interface so that you can get around without too much fumbling. Then we cover the behind-the-scene changes in architecture to get you ready for the next part, installation. We walk you through the installation and upgrade next and show you all the options you have.

After you’re comfortable with installation and noodling around in the interface, we start exploring different chunks of functionality that SharePoint 2010 has to offer. All the fan favorites are here: Search, claims, the taxonomy service, Business Connectivity Services, Enterprise Content Management, and even social computing. It’s all in here.

Having the functionality isn’t enough; we also cover how to administer the server, both with Central Administration and our new best friend, Windows PowerShell. A functional website is nice, but having a good looking, functional website is even better. Our branding chapter can make that dream a reality.

We’ve tried to make sure this book is well rounded. To that end, we covered some non-traditional administrator topics, like how to build workflows, use SharePoint Designer, and how the Office clients and SharePoint 2010 interact. These lean more toward power user topics, but the questions still come to the administrators and it’s up to us to make it all work.

We even reached across the aisle and enlisted the help of a developer to get the scoop on how Features and Solutions have been improved in SharePoint 2010. Normally we wouldn’t associate ourselves with developers, but for the sake of making this book complete we did it, and we don’t regret it.

How This Book Is Structured

We organized this book so that it could be read front to back, like a romantic novel. Don’t read the last chapter first — you’ll ruin the ending. The first three chapters are SharePoint 2010 theory, outlining changes and explaining new terminology. Then we cover installation in excruciating detail. After you have SharePoint 2010 installed, the rest of the book covers discrete areas of functionality in each chapter. While you could stay up all night reading it cover to cover, you can also use it as a reference book. Did the boss just see Business Intelligence in bold print in a trade rag and decide your SharePoint 2010 installation needs it? No worries; read Chapter 20 and get up to speed on it.

What You Need to Use This Book

Having a SharePoint 2010 installation to noodle around with while reading this book will definitely come in handy. This will enable you to follow along with the examples in the book, and maybe you’ll provide helpful feedback for a subsequent edition.

If you don’t have a SharePoint installation yet, you can follow the directions in Chapter 4 and install one. Microsoft has a trial license available for SharePoint Server, so all you’ll need is a willing Windows 2008 server and some time.

Having some knowledge of SharePoint 2007 will help too, but it’s not necessary. Where we can, we compare the SharePoint 2010 experience with the SharePoint 2007 one. If you’ve used SharePoint 2007, you’ll find those comparisons helpful.

This book was written against a Release Candidate build of SharePoint 2010. While our SharePoint 2010 prowess is above reproach, our ability to predict the future is not so hot. We’ve done everything we could to make sure that what you read here matches the final product for SharePoint 2010. In cases where things are different, we blame sunspots, or maybe volcanoes.

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Chapter 1: What’s New in SharePoint 2010

What’s In This Chapter?

New installation and upgrade features

Changes to Central Administration

The impact of the Ribbon

It’s been said before, but these are exciting times. We don’t yet have the flying cars we were promised years ago, but we have SharePoint 2010. Seems like a fair trade. When flying cars do come around, I’m sure they’ll be complicated to use at first. SharePoint 2010 is the same; it’s a little complicated under the hood. Consider this book your mechanic’s guide. The next several hundred pages will cover the deep technical details that SharePoint administrators will need to get SharePoint 2010 up and running and purring like a kitten.

This chapter serves as a jumping-off point. It covers some of the bigger changes that SharePoint 2010 has to offer. It’s a teaser to really get you excited about SharePoint 2010, from the administrator’s point of view. Once your appetite is whetted, you can read up on these topics in more detail in later chapters, which provide the nitty-gritty details of SharePoint 2010’s functionality. There’s a lot to get excited about, so we’d better dig in.

Installation

Of course, before you can see any of the great new things that SharePoint 2010 can do, you have to install it. This section covers what’s new in the SharePoint 2010 installation process.

System Requirements

Before you can install SharePoint 2010, make sure you meet all of the system requirements. The minimum requirements for installing SharePoint 2010 are a 64-bit operating system running either Windows Server 2008 with SP2 or later or Window Server 2008 R2. The OS will need at least .NET 3.5 with SP1 installed as well. On the database back end, SharePoint 2010 requires SQL Server 2005 with SP2 or later or SQL Server 2008. SQL must be 64-bit also.

There is no 32-bit version of SharePoint 2010, not even for demonstration environments. It’s all 64-bit now. Fortunately, any hardware on which you would install SharePoint 2010 these days is 64-bit capable. The 32-bit environment is comfortable, like an old pair of shoes, but now is a great time to move to 64-bit if you haven’t already. In addition to being necessary to run SharePoint 2010, it also brings a lot of benefits like better CPU utilization and support for RAM over 4GB. Once you start using SharePoint 2010, you’ll see why that last point is very important. 4GB is the bare minimum of RAM necessary to make SharePoint 2010 bearable to use, and 6GB is a better starting point.

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