Why Upgrade to 2010 & Different Approaches for

[ Why Upgrade ? & Different Approaches] This document contains Reasons to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint 2007.

Why Upgrade & Different Approaches

Why Upgrade?

• License getting expired : If License of MOSS2007 is getting or already has expired, than apart from going for getting it renewed, we can go for SharePoint 2010 which offer you a huge variety of New WebParts and Features
• Connect and Empower people: SharePoint 2010 enables people to access resources from anywhere and at any time, which let them work efficiently and promptly. SharePoint 2010 integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office enhancing user experience for accessing, editing and publishing SharePoint sites
• Cut Costs with a unified Infrastructure: SharePoint 2010 optimizes IT resources by lowering the total cost of ownership. It does this by combining key business collaboration solutions with SharePoint 2010 and further leveraging the common platform to execute solutions for intranet, extranet, and internet presence.
• Rapidly Respond to Business Needs: SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to shorten the time between understanding a business need and delivering business productivity solutions for it.
• Reduce Cost as dependency on MSOffice on Client Side Office is removed: Microsoft Office Web Applications allows users to work on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote in the browser with the ability to do co-authoring on the Web and the Client Microsoft Office 2010.
• SharePoint 2010 UI: SharePoint 2010 UI is much more powerful with inclusion of Ribbon and support for Silverlight and AJAX which allows users to reduce learning curve. SharePoint is more clicks and page post backs. You will find consistent user interface across all levels.
• Advanced Searching: Search is powerful that ever with FAST Search which allows them to find information and saw preview of search results without even opening the documents. Search results provide easier and most flexible filtration and having the ability to include federated search from Google or Bing makes search results efficient.
• Fast Search – If you are a sales executive looking for a particular type of presentation or company resource. Just type in a keyword. Fast Search will search not just titles, keywords or description, but the actual documents themselves. And it knows, based on your role, what you might be interested in (Sales).
• List Joins - We will finally be able to query lists and join them.
• Significantly improved user experience - The Microsoft Office ribbon, Silverlight and client object model, better CSS, etc...
• Visio diagram --> SharePoint Designer Workflow --> SharePoint Workflow - completely seaming-less and not an ounce of C#
• Built in support for database mirroring
• PowerShell
• Corporate Taxonomy: It is huge! And if you don't know what it is, read about it. In today's world, organizations are literally flooded with information. Forget storing your documents on a file share somewhere. SharePoint 2010 allows you to categorize, contextually search, and easily find whatever you are looking for.
• Logging database with windows event logging and health reporting
• Reusable Workflow Templates: Single Workflow can be used multiple times by associating it with multiple lists & libraries.
• Wild Card Search: Enhancements to search allow employees to perform complex queries from SharePoint or the Windows 7 desktop. The queries can now include wildcards, Booleans, and free-text, as well as pre- and post-query suggestions
• Graphical Output in form of Charts without using 3^rd party tools: The SharePoint 2010 charts can be customized in various different ways and because of that can be a really powerful way to visualize data for your business. Whatever you would like to visualize, SharePoint 2010 Chart Web Part can help you – moreover, its configuration and customization is very easy
• Support for Mozilla FireFox: SharePoint 2010 supports both internet explorer as well as the 3.x versions of Mozilla firefox.
• Better Security Model: SharePoint Server 2010 incorporates a new, more powerful and flexible authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory services, LDAP-based directories, application-specific databases, and new user-centric identity models such as LiveID
• Maintenance: As far as the maintenance is concerned. There are many improvements. The administration is simple and one way which means you don’t have to go to many places to do it. Backup and restore has been improved which allows us to take backup at any level of SharePoint Implementation. Configuration, Site, List etc. The restoration form these backups is also lot easier than before. Administrator can take backup of SharePoint databases on the fly using the SQL Snapshot and restore it to same SharePoint farm to restore any part of it at any time.

Upgrade Approaches

There are two ways of moving from MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010.

1. Perform a database attach upgrade

2. Perform an in-place upgrade

Note -- We have successfully implemented a Migration project using Perform a database attach upgrade

Other Technical benefits of SharePoint 2010

• Web Analytics: SharePoint 2010 includes a Web Analytics service so that enterprises can monitor site usage and search terms. For companies drowning in unused sites (e.g., a project site goes live, is used intensively for two months, and then never used again), this capability will be invaluable in helping them clear out the deadwood. In addition, it will help companies understand how their employees are using SharePoint—the first step in optimizing site design, terms, and so on
• Visio Integration: Business users can use familiar tools to create the outline of a workflow and then export that workflow to a SharePoint Designer workflow for configuration.
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM):
• Social Networking sites like My Sites with Tagging functionality: One of the top features is the Social Features of SharePoint 2010. Now all users can get together easily and share information and knowledge using the Face book like functionality available at MySite
• Enhancing SharePoint 2010 with Silverlight: SharePoint 2010 has evolved incredibly over previous versions and now offers native support for Silverlight. In turn, Silverlight can create a very powerful experience for your end user, creating vastly dynamic and compelling business applications or media-rich Internet solutions. The convergence of SharePoint and Silverlight is growing and is extremely powerful.
• Improved WIKI: SharePoint 2010 is completely a WIKI application which allows people to share information and produce knowledge lot easier than before. Creating WIKI pages on the fly and allowing other people to comment results in fast collaboration and knowledge development.
• Improved Blogs: Blogs have been improved to provide blogging from Office word or Live Writer allows users to publish personal or enterprise blogs very easily.
• Integration with Performance Point Server: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 BI Stack extends the capability to develop BI Dashboards and KPI. Using Performance Point Services users can easily create dashboards, KPIs, Scorecards, Graphs and many more types of reporting. Microsoft Power Pivot for Excel enables end users to build rich Pivot tables that can get data from any data source in the company.
• Inbuilt DAM (Digital Asset management ) Support : SharePoint 2010 Supports Digital Asset Management of Videos, Images etc. and users can simply drag and drop images and videos on the pages and play for others.

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Small Comparison Chart of MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010:

MOSS 2007 SharePoint 2010 Does not support SilverLight SharePoint 2010 supports SilverLight without needing any additional configuration, along with SilverLight web part. Business Data Catalogue (BDC) in MOSS 2007 gets data from external source (LOB Data) but data is read only. In SharePoint Server 2010, BDC is known as BCS (Business Connectivity Services). It allows read from and write to data, from external source (LOB Data). Unable to integrate with Sandboxed Solutions. Site administrators can safely custom user code by using Sandboxed Solutions through SharePoint Server 2010. Does not display Ribbon interface like MS Office 2007. SharePoint Server 2010 displays Ribbon interface allowing users to manage various options for applications upfront. MOSS 2007 supports only internet explorer and not Firefox SharePoint 2010 supports both internet explorer as well as the 3.x versions of Firefox . Some functionality including Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete are present in the content and structure pages. The functionality such as Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete in the available in Document Libraries. Users cannot use PowerPoint themes to tweak the sites’ visual appeal In SharePoint 2010, users can change the site’s visual appeal with the help of PowerPoint themes. Activity feed, profile picture and social feedback aren’t available on My Site Activity feed, profile picture and social feedback are available on My Site. Users cannot use benefit from out of box Vision Web parts to deliver vision diagrams within browser. SharePoint 2010 users can deploy the out of the box Visio web parts to deliver Visio diagrams. Folders cannot be used in 2007 SharePoint 2010 helps users organize metadata at folder level

Only reasons to Stay back on 2007

5 Reasons You Might Consider Waiting While it ultimately may come down to your timelines,

• Timeline
• Requirements addressed with 2007
• Data Center or Hardware Standards Requirements Your companies ability to support 64 bit Windows Server 2008 or SQL 2008 (or SQL 2005 SP2)
• Company adoption standards of products or even specifically Microsoft products
• Lack of knowledge on licensing & release date for planning