FSU SharePoint Users Group Presents:
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Upgrade Preview
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Introduction
• Florida State University will be upgrading all ITS-provided
SharePoint 2007 intranet sites to SharePoint 2010 in
January.
• All current sites will be able to access the full features of
SharePoint 2010 and will retain all content and data.
• A brand new look and theme will be available to all current
sites, and will be an optional feature that site
administrators can choose to use.
SharePoint 2010 Feature Preview
By: Jamey Baxter, College of Medicine
Tallahassee SharePoint Experts Exchange Group
Technical Improvements
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Greatly improved performance
Improved UI
Office Integration
MySites
Workflows
InfoPath
FAST Integrated Search
Data Integration
Development
Behind the Scenes Improvements
• Much better database back-end design
• Uses Ajax style windows to reduce post-back to
servers
• Better implementation of services
• More standard compliant CSS and HTML
• This equals a much faster and consistent
SharePoint experience
Better OS and Browser Support
• Behaves better with multiple operating systems
• Improved support for Safari, Firefox, Opera, and
Chrome
• Some things are still Windows only
Improved Content
• Silverlight is used to add a little “life” to certain
areas
• More library, list, and site templates that cover a
much broader scope of use
Navigation in SharePoint
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Use the folder icon to navigate the site and get back
to the intranet home page
Microsoft Ribbon
• Site Actions button is on the upper left side.
• Microsoft Ribbon design similar to Microsoft Office
applications.
Document Co-Authoring
• Multiple users can edit the same Word document at
the same time.
Work with Files in Browser
• View and Edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint
documents in browser.
Work Offline
• Take SharePoint content offline and then sync the
content back to the server once they are online
again. Similar to your My Documents.
Work with Outlook
• Work with SharePoint documents, lists, contacts
within Outlook
• Sync content with Outlook
Social Media and Your MySite
• Your space to share and store files
• Newsfeeds, tagging, colleague listing, your profile
page, etc.
Workflows
• Automate a series of tasks to accomplish a goal
• Visio integration for viewing workflow status
Workflows
• Out of the box are improved and customizable
• Can be moved much more easily
• Can be designed using a combination of
• Out of the box
• SharePoint Designer
• Visual Studio
• Visio
Microsoft InfoPath
• All New/Edit forms are now InfoPath Web Forms
• Can be customized with SharePoint Designer or
InfoPath
• InfoPath web forms are much improved which lets
you reach more users
• InfoPath forms have been improved
• Sorry. There is still no non-Windows based InfoPath
client
FAST Search
• Now included with SharePoint 2010
• Much faster
• Filter results
Data Integration
• BDC (Business Data Catalog) has been replaced by
the BCS (Business Connectivity Services)
• Can be two way connection between SharePoint
and an external data source
• Treats external data almost the same as internal
data
• Good for building interfaces for external data or
simply displaying information
Development
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SharePoint Designer 2010
Visual Studio 2010
Visio 2010
Internet Explorer 9
InfoPath 2010
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Information
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TIMELINE
 December 1st 2011: Preview versions of current SharePoint 2007
intranet sites are available to preview event participants.
 December 5th 2011 – January 13th 2012: Preview versions of
current SharePoint 2007 sites are available to all site
administrators for review and verification.
 Monday, January 16th, 2012: Official migration of current
SharePoint 2007 intranet sites will occur. Expected downtime will
be approx. 4 hours.
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PREVIEW SITES IN SHAREPOINT 2010
 Copies of all SharePoint 2007 intranet sites are now available for
site review in the SharePoint 2010 environment.
 These copies are for testing purposes only, and will not be the final
upgraded versions of current intranet sites.
 These include any sites which have the
“[department].intranet.fsu.edu” naming convention (i.e.
https://president.intranet.fsu.edu).
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PREVIEW SITES IN SHAREPOINT 2010
 Copies are snapshots of the sites as they were on November 21st,
2011. Any changes to the intranet sites since then will not be
available in the preview versions.
 Preview versions are completely separate copies of live intranet
sites. Changes to preview sites will not affect live data.
 Extranet sites (i.e. https://extranet.fsu.edu/sites/[department]) are
not included in this upgrade.
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PREVIEW SITES IN SHAREPOINT 2010
Preview sites may be accessed using the following URL format:
https://[department].sp10intranet.fsu.edu/
EXAMPLE
https://president.intranet.fsu.edu/ (current)
https://president.sp10intranet.fsu.edu/ (preview)
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PREVIEW SITES NOTES
 Site administrators can activate the SharePoint 2010 visual
enhancements by navigating to Site Actions  Site Settings 
Visual Upgrade and selecting the Update All Sites button.
 Site collection administrators can activate the FSU Custom Theme
and layout by navigating to Site Actions  Site Settings  Site
Collection Administration  Site Collection Features and
enabling the Florida State University Custom Theme feature.
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PREVIEW SITES NOTES
 Certain types of hyperlinks will not work correctly in the 2010
preview sites. If the hyperlink is an absolute link in the 2007 site
(i.e. http://www.server.com/subsite/index.aspx), it will still point to
the same location. This can make navigation links (like menu links)
point to the original 2007 site instead of the 2010 site.
 Relative hyperlinks (i.e. /subsite/index.aspx) will correctly point to
the updated location in the 2010 preview site.
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PREVIEW SITE ISSUE TRACKING
 Please contact ITS SharePoint Team through the FSU Service
Center at http://servicecenter.fsu.edu during the site preview
period to report any issues or problems encountered with 2010
preview sites.
 Please include the URL of your site, specific page, web part, or list
in your submitted comments that is causing an issue.
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Questions & Answers