What’s new in SharePoint 2010 SP1
What's new in SharePoint 2010 SP1
With all the latest buzz on the release of SharePoint 2010 Service Pack1, here is what SharePoint 2010 SP1 adds:
Site Recycle Bin: With this new feature, administrators can restore site collections and/or sites that have been accidentally deleted by their owners. How often does this happen? Hopefully not too often. But when it does, having recoverable copies without getting out backups is a plus. We've had the Recycle Bin feature in SharePoint for lists, libraries, and documents for while now; this is a nice additional safety net.
Broader browser support: SharePoint 2010 SP1 adds support for IE9 in Internet Explorer 8 Standards Mode, as well as for Google Chrome.
Shallow Copy: This new feature allows you to move site collections to new content databases without having to move all the Remote Blob storage content. Thus, only the ownership information is moved, without having to copy the unstructured data in the file store. The Move-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet has been enhanced to allow this feature
StorMan.aspx (Storage Space Allocation page: StorMan.aspx has been reintroduced in SharePoint 2010 SP1. It was removed from the original version of SharePoint 2010. Now that it is back, it adds the ability to display better information to users regarding their quota information. That makes it easier for users to clean up their sites by deleting content they may not need.
Support for SQL Server "Denali" (aka SQL Server 2011) ): Given that SharePoint is heavily integrated with SQL, it stands to reason that new features in the forthcoming Denali version of SQL Server will only make SharePoint 2010 better.
Cascading filters in PerformancePoint Services: Filters values can now be passed from one filter to the next.
Improvements in SharePoint 2010 Service Pack1
As some of you already started testing the release of SharePoint 2010 Service pack1 and there is already enough fuss about this Service pack 1. Personally I feel that the SP1 release and the June CU for SharePoint 2010 releases added more fuel to the problem.
I have stressed this enough to install the Service pack 1 and then install the June CU.
Please see the link below for more detailed info on the improvements and various blogs posts by SharePoint MVP's.
How to Install a software update for SharePoint Foundation 2010
Recently we encountered some issues with the SharePoint updates. Even though the previous update procedures may be quite successful you may somehow find new or additional issues after the updates. Please see the below link from Technet explains the procedures for various SharePoint Server 2010 updates.
Click Here to see the Procedure for Updates
SharePoint Security Update
Microsoft announced a security advisory that affects many SharePoint deployments.
Recently Microsoft announced Security Advisory 2416728 (Vulnerability in ASP.NET) and SharePoint. The vulnerability affects the following SharePoint versions
- SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint Foundation 2010
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
Microsoft has posted an out-of-band security update that should be applied ASAP on the SharePoint web front-end servers for affected deployments. The SharePoint team blog is the best source for more information:
SharePoint Team Blog
SharePoint Search Errors-Event ID-3083
Today when I tried to install the .NET Framework 3.5 security updates, I got the following errors in the event log:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Office Server Search
Event Category: Gatherer
Event ID: 2436
Date: 8/2/2010
Time: 1:59:12 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MOSSSERVER
Description:
The start address http://MOSSSERVER cannot be crawled.
Context: Application 'SharedServices1', Catalog 'Portal_Content'
Details:
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
When you start to analyse these errors you will find a Knowledge base article on the Microsoft homepageKB887993. Within this article they describe authentication issues to access web pages.
Use the second method to apply following registry key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
“DisableLoopbackCheck”=dword:00000001
When you applied above registry value you get a second error within your event log:
Offline files are crawled unexpectedly in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft Support)
Offline files are crawled unexpectedly in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Office SharePoint Server 2007. You set the CrawlOfflineFiles registry entry to 0. In this scenario, Offline files are crawled unexpectedly.