Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Administrative Improvements

Overall, features available to SharePoint administrators have been improved. The Central Administration user interface has been streamlined and made more visually intuitive. With it you can perform regular administrative tasks such as managing Web application security, configuring, monitoring and analyzing, and managing Service Applications.

The Shared Services Provider (SSP) previously included as part of the administrative interface in SharePoint Server 2007 no longer exists in SharePoint 2010. Instead, a new and flexible configuration model, namely Service Applications, has been introduced to provide services to Web applications on a needs basis. Default services provided by Service Applications are installed as ...