SharePoint 2010 Fight Night Admin vs. Dev Referee: Mike Watson Senior Product Manager Quest Software 2009 Quest Software, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Referee Mike Watson s Credentials Creates third-party solutions for profit at Quest Software Created & established best practices for the Center of Excellence (CoE) at Microsoft Wrote and evaluated product guidance as a SharePoint Customer Advisory virtual Team member (CAT) Evaluated third-party solutions for SharePoint Online Contributes to articles, whitepapers, books, and co-authoring a book on SharePoint 2010 2
Agenda The 2007 Fight The SharePoint 2010 Rematch What s new for Admin What s new for Dev Conclusion Q&A 3
The 2007 Fight Developer Got too many requests to do common, simple stuff Suffered lack-luster docs Visual Studio integration was an afterthought Lots of manual effort Everything required server touch Everything required elevation Administrator Suffered lack-luster docs Had his/her hands full just trying to keep servers up Lots of manual effort Often handed code to run without any insight into what the code did Had no clue how code was affecting their environment Often had to say NO! 4
The 2010 Fight! The fighters learned new tricks 5
What s New for Administrators 6
Command & Control Throttling Tell end users to leave you alone. Your busy! Large List controls tell end users they re crazy trying to make that query, but admins, no problem! SharePoint designer maybe not Developer Dashboard Learn just how bad your developers are. Sandboxing More like prison for unsavory code. SQL Resource Governor The nuclear option! 7
What s New for Developers 8
Capability & Flexibility More GUI capability Fewer assemblies SPDesigner Better and free-er than ever Developer Dashboard Devs, See just how bad you really are! Client-OM Access SharePoint via script w/o web services Sandboxing Deploy code without dreaded conversations with Administrators 9
Summary In SharePoint 2007 Dev lacked guidance and made a mess. Admin didn t have controls and blocked most Dev efforts In SharePoint 2010 Dev can get more done without ever talking to Admin Dev has better tools and guidance increasing Admin confidence Admin has more control than ever before 10
And the Winner by TKO is. The Business 11
What is Deployment Advisor? A tool created specifically to instill confidence in SharePoint, its administrators, their managers, and ultimately end users. 12
What is Deployment Advisor Specifically? Identify & resolve Performance bottlenecks Security vulnerabilities Service outages Support issues Recommend and compare SharePoint & SQL configurations Hardware Windows, IIS, ASP.NET settings Track & manage Change Utilization Storage growth Customization Site proliferation Report on Inconsistencies Changes Uptime Health Usage 13
Features Community driven, ever-growing set of built-in rules & best practices An easy to deploy, easy to use console built specifically for SharePoint Manage any number of servers and farms including non-sharepoint servers Supports WSS 3.0 & WSF2010, MOSS 2007, SharePoint Server 2010 No server needed. Runs on XP Supports Windows 2000 & SQL 2000 and above 14
Extensible, Open, Community Driven Contribute Rate and rank community contributions Create/upload rules and solicit feedback Benefit Ships with hundreds of community approved rules and best practices Ignore & Modify rules Extend Import best practices from Subject Matter Experts and the community Create your own rules using Powershell & powergui 15
How Deployment Advisor Works Install components on any server or client Netcontrol framework can run local or remote Connect Select any SharePoint server Agent pushes small webservice to server Web service collects info about farm and stores in remote DB Data is loaded into console and analyzed real-time against configured rules and best practices Install View 16
Benefits of Deployment Advisor Administrators Increase uptime Reduce failures Improve Visibility Managers Report health & availability trends Track & manage change Consultants Engage customers Market knowledge Find work 17
Licensing Licensed per front-end web server No license required for SQL Only monitors SQL servers containing SharePoint databases Value add: All Best practices, reporting, and maintenance No license required for Windows DA can scan/compare non-sharepoint servers, identify risks and report. All value add 18
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