Newly published content for SharePoint Foundation 2010
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010
This article contains a list of new or updated content for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. This article is updated regularly.
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Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the statement about Firefox support.
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Update alerts by using Windows PowerShell (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the parameters of the Invoke-AlertFixup command.
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Configure forms-based authentication for a claims-based Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated several code samples.
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Content type and workflow planning (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added links to newly-published white paper about changing core content types.
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Support and licensing for Windows Azure (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes required information about deploying SharePoint 2010 Products on Windows Azure.
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The Security Token Service is not available (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added a new resolution: Install the missing assemblies into the global assembly cache manually.
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Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added mobile browser support matrix.
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Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added Windows XP to the list of supported operating systems for Internet Explorer.
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Configure People Picker (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated information about restricting People Picker to search only users within a particular organizational unit (OU). Only a single site user directory path can be set at a time for a site collection.
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Databases require upgrade or not supported (SharePoint Foundation 2010) and Databases running in compatibility range, upgrade recommended (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the Resolution to: Upgrade databases to SQL Server 2008 R2.
Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the browser support matrix.
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Upgrade-SPContentDatabase Updated the description of this cmdlet.
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Timer job reference (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added text indicating that timer job schedules may change when SharePoint Foundation service packs or cumulative updates are installed.
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Plan authentication methods (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Clarified why you would choose to implement each of the supported authentication methods and authentication modes.
Security and protection for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Updated to include information about Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification.
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Update alerts by using Windows PowerShell (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Revised the procedure by adding a step for dot sourcing to run the script.
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Understanding the Logging Database (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products logging database, how to view monitoring information, and how to export monitoring information into Microsoft Excel.
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Manage permission policies for a Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated information about the maximum number of site collections per Web application.
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Plan for claims-based authentication or classic-mode authentication (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides guidance about whether to use claims-based authentication or classic-mode authentication when you create a SharePoint Foundation 2010 Web application.
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Plan authentication methods (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated to clarify that you have to set network load balancing to single affinity when using claims-based authentication.
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Some content databases are growing too large (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the rule definition to prevent new sites from being added to the databases, and then moving some site collections to other databases.
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Database has large amounts of unused space (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by shrinking the database.
Databases exist on servers running SharePoint Foundation (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by moving the databases to a separate server.
Databases require upgrade or not supported (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by installing software updates.
Databases running in compatibility range, upgrade recommended (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by installing software updates.
Databases used by SharePoint have outdated index statistics (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the rule definition so that the configuration is automatically repaired.
Databases within this farm are set to read only and will fail to upgrade unless it is set to a read-write state (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by setting the databases to read-write.
Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by freeing disk space on the database server computer or decreasing the number of days to store log files.
One or more servers is not responding (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by connecting the server to the network, restarting the SharePoint 2010 Timer service (SPTimerV4), or removing the server record from the SharePoint topology.
The Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service is not running in this farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by starting the Application Discovery and Load Balancer service on at least one server in the farm.
The local machine is not joined to a SharePoint server farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by creating a new farm or adding this computer to an existing farm.
The Security Token Service is not available (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by restarting the Security Token Service application pool.
The timer service failed to recycle (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the schedule for the Timer Service Recycle job so that it does not conflict with other long-running timer jobs.
Web.config files are not identical on all machines in the farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by making the Web.config files identical on all front-end Web servers in the farm.
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Configure Information Rights Management (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure Information Rights Management (IRM) in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and how to implement a Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) server.
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Install and configure RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Corrected the msiexec syntax for installing the RBS client library on all additional Web and application servers.
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Automatic update setting inconsistent across farm servers (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added permissions information.
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Alternate access URLs have not been configured (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the default zone URL.
Plan for administrative and service accounts (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the accounts that you must plan for and describes the deployment scenarios that affect account requirements for SharePoint 2010 Products.
Product / patch installation or server upgrade required (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by deploying updates or upgrading.
Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the requestFiltering settings in the Web.config file.
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How to configure AD FS v 2.0 in SharePoint Foundation 2010 Added link to a video that illustrates procedures in this article.
Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added a list of supported mobile browsers and a change to the guidance for Safari 4.04 on non-Windows operating systems.
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Application pools recycle when memory limits are exceeded (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to change the application pool recycling settings in Internet Information Services (IIS).
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Accounts used by application pools or service identities are in the local machine Administrators group (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the user account to a predefined account, or to a domain user account that is not a member of the Administrators group.
Plan administrative tasks in a least-privilege environment (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure and maintain a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 environment by using least-privilege administration.
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Plan for backup and recovery (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Prepare to back up and recover (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Recover content from an unattached content database (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Restore a site collection (SharePoint Foundation 2010), and Restore-SPSite Added a note about restoring a backup that you made before the farm was upgraded to SP1 to the farm after it is upgraded to SP1.
Restore pre-SP1 backups to an SP1 farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides information and procedures for restoring a backup that you made before the farm was upgraded to SP1 to the farm after it is upgraded to SP1.
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Overview of security features in SharePoint Foundation 2010 Explains the security features that are available in SharePoint Foundation 2010.
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New-SPUser Changed one of the values of the Permission Level parameter from Full to Full Control.
Plan for backup and recovery (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Corrected the upper size limit for performing a site collection backup from 85 GB to 100 GB.
Plan for disaster recovery (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Corrected information about the Application Registry service application.
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Database attach upgrade video (SharePoint Foundation 2010) New videos available showing database attach upgrade process.
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Back up a site collection (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Removed warning about UseSqlSnapshot parameter. This warning is not valid for Service Pack 1 and newer.
Configure Basic authentication for a claims-based Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Configure Basic authentication for a classic-mode Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Configure Digest authentication for a claims-based Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010), and Configure Digest authentication for a classic-mode Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the IIS configuration procedure.
Plan for RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added note about the 200GB limit for RBS-enabled content databases. Removed the "Alternatives to using RBS" section.
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Best practices for operational excellence (SharePoint Foundation 2010) New article with best practices for keeping Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 working well operationally.
Managing Multi-Terabyte Content Databases with SharePoint 2010 (white paper) Provides guidance and procedures for administering content databases in three size ranges: up to 200 gigabytes (GB), 200 GB–4 terabytes (TB), and larger than 4 TB.
Scale out collaboration sites (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides guidance and procedures for scaling out collaboration sites that are larger than 200 GB when you are using Remote BLOB Storage.
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Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Foundation 2010 Updated with steps to set read-only databases back to read-write.
Checklist for database attach upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated with steps to set read-only databases back to read-write.
New for SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (white paper) Describes the features that are included in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and provides guidelines to help ensure your solutions work with current and future releases of SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Restore a deleted site (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Restore a deleted site collection (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Get-SPDeletedSite, Remove-SPDeletedSite, and Restore-SPDeletedSite These articles describe functionality available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 to enable an administrator to restore a deleted site or site collection.
Updated for SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
Move-SPSite Updated to document the RbsProviderMapping parameter, which was added in SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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Claims-based authentication with Microsoft UAG 2010 (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to authenticate users from a partner organization through a server that is running Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) to a server that is running SharePoint Foundation.
Allow or prevent Contributors ability to edit scriptable Web Parts (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to allow Contributors to edit scriptable Web Parts.
Contribute permission level overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Explains the tasks that users who have the Contribute permission level can complete.
Remote BLOB Storage in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (video) Explains the basic concepts of Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) in SharePoint Foundation 2010.
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Downloadable content for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Added eReader formats available for the downloadable book, Getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010.
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Best practices for virtualization (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides best practice guidance for deploying and operating SharePoint Foundation 2010 in a virtual environment.
Recover content from an unattached content database (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides information about how you can restore or copy content — such as sites, site collections, lists, or document libraries — from a content database without having to attach the content database to the farm.
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Plan for Kerberos authentication (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added guidance about planning for SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployments that require Kerberos authentication for security, client identity delegation, and low network traffic.
Plan for backup and recovery (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Corrected information about Data Protection Manager. You cannot use Data Protection Manager to back up or restore RBS by using the FILESTREAM provider.
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Configure resource points for sandboxed solutions (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to use Windows PowerShell to configure resource points to restrict the resources consumed by sandboxed solutions.
Configure sandboxed solutions service tiers (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to improve the performance, security, and reliability of your sandboxed solutions by configuring tiers for the sandboxed solutions service.
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Plan sandboxed solutions (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added a section about how to plan sandboxed solutions service tiers, and updated information about planning resource usage quotas for sandboxed solutions.
Sandboxed solutions overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added descriptions of tiers, quotas, and resource points, and added an illustration of tiers within the sandboxed solutions service.
Install and configure RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Revised BLOB store provisioning syntax, revised Remote BLOB Store (RBS) installation syntax, added details to procedures, and reorganized the article.
Overview of RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added information about RBS components.
Plan for RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added information about the limits of RBS.
New resource center
Operations and Manageability for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Find resources to learn about operations and manageability in SharePoint Foundation 2010 in two areas: server and farms, and services and solutions.
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Design sample: collaboration sites (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes a practical implementation of logical architecture components to achieve a workable design.
Logical architecture components (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Discusses the planning considerations for each of the logical architecture elements that make up a solution design.
Best practices for extranet environments (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes planning and design recommendations for extranet environments in which users outside the internal network are given access to sites.
One or more categories are configured with verbose trace logging setting Provides information about this SharePoint Health Analyzer rule. The article describes the cause and includes a procedure that helps to ensure that diagnostic logging settings are configured correctly.
Identify users and analyze document usage (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to analyze the way people in your organization create and use documents to help you structure your document libraries and sites.
Document management overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the document management planning process.
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Manage site collection storage limits (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added steps to configure settings for sandboxed solutions.
Resume upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Clarified a parameter for the passphrase for resuming an in-place upgrade.
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StorSimple RBS performance in SharePoint 2010 (white paper) Explains the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) feature and analyzes how its performance affects key attributes of a SharePoint farm, such as database size, database backup size, transaction response times, and backup and restore times.
Database maintenance for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Provides information and guidelines for how to maintain the databases that host data and configurations for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
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Sites and site collections overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Clarified guidance for how to choose a search template.
Maintain RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Revised the "Running the RBS Maintainer" section.
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Regional settings (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Lists the regional settings for SharePoint Foundation 2010: locale, time zone, sort order, calendar, and currency.
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Plan for RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated with information about alternatives to RBS and the costs and benefits of using RBS.
Overview of RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated with additional information about RBS providers.
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Building Windows Phone 7 applications with SharePoint 2010 Products and Unified Access Gateway (UAG): white paper Contains information for administrators and developers to understand how to develop and configure Windows Phone 7 applications to work with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products and Microsoft Forefront Unified Gateway Access (UAG).
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Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added information about support for Internet Explorer 9.
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Health monitoring cmdlets (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the health monitoring Windows PowerShell cmdlets introduced in the February 2011 Cumulative Update.
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Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the list of minimum requirements.
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Mobile device troubleshooting (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Contains information for troubleshooting mobile device issues.
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Harden SQL Server for SharePoint environments (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated with information about Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
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Move site collections between databases (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added a note about the implications of auditing data during the site collection move.
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Configure Client Certificate Authentication (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure client certificate authentication for SharePoint Foundation 2010.
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Add-SPShellAdmin Updated to advise that this cmdlet is intended only for use with a database that uses Windows authentication.
SharePoint 2010 Products administration by using Windows PowerShell Added a section about scripts and execution policies.
Virtualization support and licensing (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated to clarify support and licencing requirements for virtualized farm servers.
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Plan for disaster recovery (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated to clarify that asynchronous mirroring or log shipping is not supported for the Business Data Connectivity database.
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Plan for mobile devices (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the features that enable users to work with content in SharePoint Foundation 2010 by using their mobile devices. It also summarizes important questions to consider when you deploy these features.
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Plan sandboxed solutions (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Changed Resources per Point and Absolute Limit for InvocationCount resource from <TBD> to 100.
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People Picker and claims provider planning (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes the People Picker control and how it works, its relationship to authentication and claims providers, and includes considerations for planning for People Picker. This section includes the following articles:
Configure People Picker (SharePoint Foundation 2010) and Peoplepicker-peopleeditoronlyresolvewithinsitecollection: Stsadm property (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describe how to configure the People Picker control to filter and restrict the results that are displayed when a user searches for a user, group, or claim.
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Configure Basic authentication for a classic-mode Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure Basic authentication for a SharePoint Foundation 2010 classic-mode Web application.
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Services architecture planning (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated with information about how to implement cross-farm service applications.
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Configure Basic authentication for a claims-based Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure Basic authentication for a SharePoint Foundation 2010 claims-based Web application.
Configure Digest authentication for a claims-based Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure Digest authentication for a SharePoint Foundation 2010 claims-based Web application.
Configure Digest authentication for a classic-mode Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Describes how to configure Digest authentication for a SharePoint Foundation 2010 classic-mode Web application.
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Configure external access for mobile devices (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated information about how to configure Forefront Unified Access Gateway to support Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010.
Configure mobile views (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added procedures for changing the redirect behavior of a mobile browser or adding a supported mobile device by modifying the compat.browser file.
Install a software update (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Adjusted steps and diagrams for in-place update processes.
Restore a Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added content about object cache user account settings and updated SQL Server procedures.
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Microsoft Press: Using Windows PowerShell to Perform and Automate Farm Administrative Tasks Provides an excerpt from "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion" that explores the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and how to use Windows PowerShell to accomplish some basic administrative tasks.
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Multilingual user interface overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Updated the limitations section with information about shared components and site templates that are not enabled for the multilingual user interface.
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Migrate a farm deployed on a failover cluster environment (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Provides guidance for the migration of a farm that is hosted on a failover cluster to another cluster.
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Deploy language packs (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Added a note that you must deactivate and then reactivate any language-specific features before you use the new language pack.
New downloadable content
Visio stencils for architecture and planning posters Download the stencils the SharePoint Content Publishing team used for their technical diagrams to create or customize diagrams for your organization.