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Enterprise Collaboration and Social Computing in SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes enterprise collaboration and social computing tools such as collaboration sites, Enterprise Wikis, My Sites, and social content technologies such as blogs, wikis, and really simple syndication (RSS).

These features enable users to easily capture and share the knowledge and expertise that is needed to do their work.

 

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Key Content

Read People working together drive business results to learn about the value of corporate social networks or business communities in the work environment. My Sites and other collaboration features are built on a database of properties that integrates information about people from many kinds of business applications and directory services.

Collaboration sites

Collaboration sites store information that individuals and groups can collectively author, share, and revise.

Enterprise Wikis

An Enterprise Wiki is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of information across an enterprise.

User profiles

To provision My Sites, enable features such as social tagging and newsfeeds, and create and distribute profiles across multiple sites and farms, you must first enable and configure the User Profile service.

Profile synchronization

If you plan to use social computing and collaboration features, such as My Sites or People Search, in SharePoint Server 2010, you will likely want to integrate profile information that you have stored in a directory service such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) or a business system, such as SAP or Siebel, with SharePoint Server 2010.

Note: You must restart the User Profile Synchronization service after installing Service Pack 1. For more information see the Start the User Profile Synchronization service section in the Configure profile synchronization article in the library.

My Sites

My Sites enable users to easily share information about themselves and their work, which encourages collaboration, builds and promotes expertise, and targets relevant content to the people who want to see it.

Social tags and notes

Social tags enable users to tag and track the information they are most interested in.

Finding people

People search enables users to find other people in the organization not only by name, but also by many other categories, such as department, job title, projects, expertise, and location.

Models

Models are posters that detail a specific technical area. These models are intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. You can download and modify the files to illustrate how you plan to incorporate SharePoint Server 2010 in your own environment.

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products

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This model describes the updated services infrastructure in SharePoint 2010 Products.

  • See architecture examples for a single farm
  • See a description of service applications

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Cross-farm services in SharePoint 2010 Products

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This model describes services shared across farms in SharePoint 2010 Products.

  • See the process for deploying services across farms
  • See architecture examples: enterprise services farm, specialized-service farms, cross-organization farms

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