SharePoint 2010 Timer Jobs undergo changes are in the management and in configuration.
Firstly, the most significant change you will see is that the number of Timer Jobs – new 21 jobs been added. If for an ordinary SharePoint 2007 application we had 39 Timer’s Job, then we have 60 Jobs for SharePoint 2010
Secondly, you are able to edit job properties - setting when the jobs starts via interface (not STSADM) and start job immediately.
Thirdly, UI interaction of Timer Jobs management are improved – jobs are sorted by status, able to modify the definitions from any screen.
You can read detailed overview of Timer Job changes on our www.SharePoint-SandBox.com portal.
In these days SharePoint 2010 is announcing at SharePoint Conference 2009. There are a lot of materials being prepared by MVPs and others,who had access to the Tech Preview of the SharePoint 2010 last 5 months and we will start releasing new info after conference finishes. But for now, I’d like to summarize the info officially published by MS
- SP2010 TechNet Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx
- SP2010 MSDN Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx
- Posters http://bink.nu/news/sharepoint-2010-documentation.aspx
- SharePoint 2010 Forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
And follow us in tweeter via #spc09 hashtag (I’m using http://twitterfall.com/ to monitor twitter events)
When you consider using Windows Server 2008 R2 for your SharePoint 2007 platform you need to put additional effort to configure and install SharePoint properly.
There are a few actions you need to undertake for the successful deployment of SharePoint on R2.
1) You can only install SharePoint 2007 SP2 on R2 version. Unfortunately, MS doesn’t provide SharePoint 2007 SP2 slipstream package, so you need to create one by yourself (Take into account, that you need to delete everything from the “\Updates” folder in case of using SP1 slipstream)
2) After you complete installation you will find that whenever you are trying to open the Central Administration the login and password are requested, regardless of your efforts to add Central Administration to the Trust Zone and set the option to logon automatically with the user’s name/password. This is a new change in security of Vista and Windows 7. To remove the login prompt you need to add a key “AuthForwardServerList” to the windows registry. Read the following guidelines.
3) When you create a new site and try to open it you can find the situation when login dialog box is prompted, but you end up with the white screen after you entering credentials three times. Usually, you navigate to c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ folder, open the “hosts” file and add an alias for your site to solve this problem. But, under some circumstances this wont help you in R2, and moreover, your can’t open the site via “localhost” name. The solution is to add the alias not only to host file, but in “lmhosts.sam” as well
As you know, Microsoft will release SharePoint 2010 public version soon, and there is no space for 32bit versions anymore. All server stuff come in 64bits only – Windows Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 and etc, so, we need to be ready for this.
I recommend to watch New Zealand TechEd session “Upgrade Planning and Guidance OFC306” that describes how to plan you 32bit –> 63 bit migration for SharePoint Farm