The stakes have never been higher for these age old enemies as they battle for SharePoint 2010 supremacy in this no holds barred, grudge match. In SharePoint 2007, the admin blocked every attempt to deploy code, resulting in a decisive victory over dev. Dev, now leaner and stronger, is hungry and eagerly awaits this rematch on the SharePoint 2010 card. Fans won’t be disappointed as these old rivals duke it out in this epic battle.

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SharePoint 2010 Fight Night
Admin vs. Dev
Referee: Mike Watson
Senior Product Manager
Quest Software

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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

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Agenda
• The 2007 Fight
• The SharePoint 2010 Rematch
–What’s new for Admin
–What’s new for Dev
• Conclusion
• Q&A

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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”!

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The 2010 Fight!
The fighters learned new tricks

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What’s New for
Administrators

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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!

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What’s New for
Developers

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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

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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

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And the Winner by TKO is….
The Business

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What is Deployment Advisor?
A tool created specifically to instill
confidence in SharePoint, its
administrators, their managers,
and ultimately end users.

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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

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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

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Extensible, Open, Community Driven
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
Contribute
• Rate and rank
community
contributions
• Create/upload rules
and solicit feedback

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How Deployment Advisor Works
• Install components on any
server or client
• Netcontrol framework can
run local or remote
Install
• Select any SharePoint
server
• Agent pushes small
webservice to server
Connect • 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
View

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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

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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

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Upcoming Events
• Tonight - #SharePint #ShareCurry Nottingham User
Group
• Nov 26th - Quest WebParts Day Amsterdam
• Jan 18th- 19th - SharePoint Conference 2010 –
Amsterdam
• Feb 10th - 12th – SPTechCon – San Francisco
• Apr 19th – 21st – SharePoint Evolution – London
• Apr 25th – 28th – TEC2010 – Los Angeles
http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com/Lists/Events/AllItems.aspx

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Q&A