- Posted by Prashant on November 23, 2009
I have been playing around with MOSS 2010 and one thing a lot of developers have asked me is how does it experience just from the Administration perspective. Ironically if you want to know about the new features, Sharepoint administration site is a great place to start. It would need many BLOG articles to cover all the new features, tips and tricks. Since a lot of Sharepoint experts are already blogging about the new features and coding techniques; i have chosen to give techy users and stakeholders a sneak peek into the look n feel of new MOSS 2010 features. Please note i have installed it in a stand alone mode in a virtualized environment. Lets start with the Administration site screen shots:
1) Admin Site Home Page: As you can notice the left menu options are exactly same as the options on the main page.
2) Sharepoint Admin - Manage Applications: This is the place to go to for creating Applications, site collections, manging site quotas and content databases. All of you who have configured Sharepoint server farm in in complex extranet/intranet/internet scenarios must be aware of the nightmare alternate access mappings (AAM); well they are healthy and can be configured from this page. The most wanted search services, user profile services, excel services, document converters now known as word automation services are available here. Also the new VISIO graphics services, Web Analytics Service Application, managed meta data service and performance point service applications can be configured from this page. To summarize; Microsoft has organized all data access besides MOSS managed databases to this one location.
Manage Service Applications
3) Sharepoint Admin - System Settings: This allows the operations people to manage the servers (i.e. search server, front end web server, SSRS integrated mode and etc...) in a Sharepoint farm. Admins can use this page to configure email settings besides managing farm features and siolutions.
4) Sharepoint Admin - Monitoring: Central location to manage and access all the admin reports. Admins can also create scheduled jobs that run custom scripts (i.e. back up) from here.
Rest to follow.... I will keep editing this posting and adding rest of the Sharepoint central administration screen shots here.