Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
This evaluation guide is designed to give the IT professional an introduction and overview of the SharePoint Server 2010 features that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and configuring the SharePoint farm.
Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products (requires Microsoft Visio)
This technical diagram compares the enterprise search capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft Search Server 2010 and Microsoft Search Server Express 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010.
Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This enterprise search model steps you through design decisions based on where users and content are located and presents four different designs for geographically dispersed deployments.
Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes the logical and physical components of the crawl architecture and the query architecture for the search system in SharePoint Server 2010. The new components enable more redundancy within the server farm and each of the crawl components and query components can be scaled out separately based on the needs of the organisation.
Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This model outlines four major steps to achieve a design for search in a SharePoint Server 2010 deployment. Starting with identifying business requirements, corpus volume, and key performance metrics, each successive step helps to refine the starting-point architecture.
Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010
This article discusses the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010.
Business Connectivity Services Model
Use this model to learn about Business Connectivity Services, including, typical solutions based on Business Connectivity Services, architecture and security
Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, including planning which servers to start services on.
Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
This model describes and illustrates the services architecture in SharePoint 2010 Products, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.
Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
This model illustrates how to deploy services across farms based on SharePoint 2010 Products to provide centralised administration of services.
Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products
This model summarises the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
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How can this formula be applied in a Dashboard Designer scorecard?
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