SharePoint 2010 has many new features, among them, the Developer Dashboard. This is a dashboard for analyzing the execution and performance of the current page. The information provided will execution time of queries and events to more general information as the user logged on or page state.
This article details how to enable this feature and use it.
When you add a document of unknown type for SharePoint, a neutral document icon appears in the document librairie near the file.
This article describes how to add a custom icon.
To index the documents, the indexing service use filters for specific file types. Microsoft includes many of these filters with the basic installation (Word, Excel, ...) but there is no filter installed by default for indexing PDF files. The consequence is that none of PDF documents is indexed so it is impossible to do research on those.
This article describes how to install the PDF iFilter to index PDF documents.
The concept of security for accounts is very clear: to give only the rights required to accomplish a task and no more. This concept should apply to accounts of human users but also to service accounts.
SharePoint 2010 services accounts are no exception to that concept. This article describes the accounts required and what rights to assign them to optimize the security of a server farm in SharePoint 2010.
After installing your development environment, you can complete it by the installation and configuration of SMTP and POP3 services.
The interest is to have opportunities to send and receive emails from your SharePoint 2010 environment in general and more particularly to use SharePoint alerts and contributions by email.
The creation of a SharePoint 2010 site is the logical continuation of the installation of a SharePoint server. The operation is very similar to its predecessor, SharePoint 2007.
This article describes the steps for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008.