Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes new features and enhancements to current functionality. The following figures show an overall comparison in components between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007.
Some key additions and improvements in each feature area of SharePoint Server 2010:
· Sites
o Read/Write Capabilities with Line-Of-Business Integration, with external systems.
o Web Analytics: collect, report, and analyze the usage and effectiveness of your SharePoint 2010 deployment.
o Contextual Ribbon, Silverlight – robust user interface.
o Office Web Apps – edit Microsoft Office documents in web browser.
· Communities
o Organization Browser: visualize the structure of the organization.
o Tagging: helps socialize contents within and without enterprise.
· Content
o Document Sets: a content type manages a single deliverable that includes or spans multiple documents.
· Search
o FAST Search Service Integrated: crawl, process, and index content, to provide search results for that content in response to requests from protocol clients.
o Thumbnails, Previews, and View in Browser: many options for viewing in search results.
· Insights
o KPI Details: a web part for viewing details of KPI.
o Chart Web Parts: new web parts that visualize data for better look to make better decisions.
o PerformancePoint Services: enables you to create rich, context-driven dashboards that aggregate data and content to provide a complete view of how your business is performing at all levels.
· Composites
o Business Connectivity Services: based on Business Data Catalog, BCS offers connectivity with 4 different kinds of external systems – web services, databases, .NET connectivity assemblies and custom data sources.
o Visio Services, Access Services: new services that help connect Office Visio and Access with SharePoint 2010.
o Sandboxed Solutions: enables site collection administrators to install custom solutions in SharePoint Foundation without the involvement of a higher-level administrator.
Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010
You can choose between two basic upgrade approaches when you upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: in-place upgrade and database attach upgrade.
· In-place upgrade: the configuration data for the farm and all the content in the farm is upgraded on the existing hardware, in a fixed order. When you start the in-place upgrade process, Setup takes the Web server offline and the Web sites are unavailable until the upgrade is finished, and then Setup restarts the Web server. After you begin an in-place upgrade, you cannot pause the upgrade or roll back to the previous version.
· Database attach upgrade: you upgrade only the content for your environment and not the configuration settings. Using a database attach upgrade approach is useful when you are changing hardware or want to reconfigure your server farm topology as part of the upgrade process.
You can also combine these two types of upgrade in hybrid approaches that reduce downtime during an upgrade.
· Hybrid approach 1: Read-only databases - gives users continuous read-only access to their data while you upgrade. The content databases in the original farm are set to read-only, and copies of the databases are upgraded on a new farm.
· Hybrid approach 2: Detach databases - enables you to speed up the upgrade process by detaching and attaching databases to upgrade multiple databases at the same time.
References
[1] SharePoint 2007 vs. SharePoint 2010, http://www.rharbridge.com/?page_id=103
[2] Introducing Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/03/21/introducing-web-analytics-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
[3] Document Sets in SharePoint Server 2010, MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559339.aspx
[4] [MS-FSO]: FAST Search System Overview, MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee629339.aspx
[5] Plan search service applications (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint), http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg405120.aspx
[6] What is PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010? , http://blogs.msdn.com/b/performancepoint/archive/2009/10/20/what-is-performancepoint-services-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx
[7] Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010, MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536577.aspx
[8] What's New in SharePoint Server 2010, MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557323.aspx
[9] Upgrade and Migration for SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft TechNet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee517214
[10] Upgrade process overview (SharePoint Server 2010), TechNet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262483.aspx
[11] Upgrade in place to SharePoint Server 2010, TechNet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263212.aspx
[12] Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010, TechNet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299.aspx
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