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 ...
