The basic structure of SharePoint 2010

This series of articles is designed to help you better understand SharePoint 2010. Having a SharePoint 2007 experience can help you understand this series of articles more easily, but I'll try to make it easy for readers without SharePoint 2007 experience to read it.

The following figure is a SharePoint 2010 Basic architecture diagram that briefly describes the basic structure of SharePoint 2010.

When we say "SharePoint 2010", we actually include both the SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 products. SharePoint Foundation is known as Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) in previous releases. SharePoint Foundation is the infrastructure component of SharePoint Server, and SharePoint Server relies on SharePoint Foundation. We can install only SharePoint Foundation in the system without installing SharePoint server (for example, for price reasons), but if we install SharePoint Server directly, the default installation is on SharePoint Foundation.

If not explicitly noted in this article, SharePoint 2010 includes SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 by default.

SharePoint 2010 is completely based on the x64 schema and no longer contains the x86 version. This also determines the hardware and software environments required by SharePoint 2010:

1. Server hardware must support x64;

2. The operating system of a SharePoint 2010 server must use Windows Server 2008 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 x64;

3. The database used by the SharePoint 2010 server must be SQL Server SP2 x64 or SQL Server 2008 x64.

If you want to upgrade your existing SharePoint 2007 system to SharePoint 2010, first, you must migrate the SharePoint 2007 system to the x64 environment, including hardware, operating systems, and databases, before you can smooth the SharePoint 2007 Upgrade to version 2010.

To facilitate SharePoint developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a way for developers to install them into 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. This allows developers to use visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint Application development in their own development environment where Windows Vista or Windows 7 is installed. (later articles will detail how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista and Windows 7.) ）

SharePoint is a. net/asp based. NET technology Web application platform. SharePoint 2010 is based on the. NET Framework 3.5 SP1 version. Yes, although the development of SharePoint 2010 will primarily use Visual Studio 2010, it uses and relies on. NET 3.5 SP1 rather than. NET 4.0.

Office 2010 (in this series, Office 2010 refers to the Office 2010 family of client software, such as Word, Excel, SharePoint Designer, and so on), and SharePoint 2010 is better integrated. This is reflected in:

1, SharePoint Designer 2010 features richer, for example, it built a more powerful workflow designer, and can be directly connected to the database through business connectivity services;

2. In Visio 2010, you can design a SharePoint 2010 workflow directly, and then export the designed process to the Workflow Designer for SharePoint Designer 2010;

3. Groove 2007 becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010, which now synchronizes document libraries and list data from SharePoint sites to clients for offline access while allowing users to edit document library and list data locally. Then sync to the SharePoint site.

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