User Interface Changes

Customers familiar with the previous version of SharePoint will notice some major changes to the user interface in SharePoint 2010.
 

The new changes are:

1. Ribbon UI – all managements and changes are done via the new Rubbon UI interface that we know by Office 2007 that is called Fluent UI now. This user interface concept has been adopted by SharePoint 2010 to provide a seamless, familiar and responsive user experience across the entire Office suite
2. Multilingual UI – SharePoint 2010 provides different localization of the interfaces. Compating to SharePoint 2007 when you can localize only content, SharePoint 2010 provides you multilingual support for Ribbon, menus and site navigation. Moreover, site owners can configure fields within lists to support multiple languages.
3. Compliance and Accessibility – app pages are XHTML, WCAG 2.0 AA complaint. Unfortunately, SharePoint still categorize browsers on two levels. - Level 1 and 2 browser support. Level 1 browsers are: IE7, IE8, FF – all 32bit browsers where 100% of functionality is guarantee; Level 2 browsers are IE7-IE8 x64, Safari, FF on other platforms, with some limitations in rendering and behaviour.  IE6 is not supported
4. Validation of List and Libraries – each item in a list or library now supports item-level and list-level validation. For instance, a list owner can configure a validation to disallow the start date of an event item, stored in one column, to be after the end date of the event, stored in another column
5. Office Web Services - SharePoint 2010 features rich out of the box integration with Web versions of the most popular Office client applications so people can access documents, spreadsheets, presentations and notes without worrying the machine they are on has the latest Office client installed
6. Old Look and Feel - the stadard 2007 theme is supported, and is defaul when you perform migration from SharePoint 2007
7. [new] Themes no longer exist in Windows SharePoint Services "14" and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, so any customizations and design work that you have done with themes will not be imported into the new interface
8. [new] Two way of UI changes – customization of UX or simple via API that become possible with SharePoint 2010
9. [new] Office Web Services is a replacement for the Office client and installing on the top of SharePoint 2010 to provide all functionality of the Office 2010 over the Web, thus allowing users to collaborate and edit documents interactively together.
10. [new] 10 New and 4 removed Templates - the following templates have been added to SharePoint 2010:  GroupBoard, Visio Process, Bugs, Charitable Contributions, Projects, Enterprise Seach Center, Basic Search Center, FAST Search Center, Enterprise Wike . The next ones have been removed: Site Directory, Search Center with Tabs, Search Center, Collaboration Portal
11. [new] Validation of the user’s input into list columns (formula based)
12. [new] Configuration Wizards in Central Administration simplify the most popular command actions, for example – Farm Configuration Wizard

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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

So, those 21 new timer jobs are:

1. Application Addresses Refresh Job
2. Audit Log Trimming
3. Delete Job History
4. Document ID enable/disable job
5. Document ID assignment job
6. Enterprise Server Search Master Job
7. Health Analysis Job
8. InfoPath Forms Services Maintenance
9. Password Management
10. Prepare query suggestions
11. Product Version Job
12. Query Logging
13. Secure Store Service Timer
14. Solution Daily Resource Usage Update
15. State Service Delete Expired Sessions
16. Timer Service Recycle
17. Web Analytics Trigger Workflows Timer Job
18. Windows SharePoint Services Usage Data Import
19. Windows SharePoint Services Usage Data Processing
20. Word Conversion Timer Job
21. Workflow

Timer Jobs management belongs to the “Monitoring” group of SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, that provide two options “Review job definition” (was “Timer job definition”) and “Check job status” (was “Timer job status”)

The new features of all these screens is “Timer Links” menu, that allows you to manage all jobs from the single screen, so you don’t need to navigate back to the Central Administration to switch on another screen.

Check Job Status changes

Changes of job status screen are minimal:

1. You can see the jobs grouped by status – Scheduled, Running and History, instead of just a list of all jobs.
2. Ability to edit the job property from the status screen – all jobs are hyperlinks. Previously you can’t do this.

Review Job Status changes

No changes – the same screen with the list of all jobs.

Edit Timer Job

The change of edit time jobs are in the ability to change the time when the job starts via UI (previously you should do this via STSADM) and run job immediately

PowerShell Commands

STSADM console command is still supported in SharePoint 2010 but the main accent id made on PowerShell (there are about 500 new commands). Thus, you can use the following PowerShell cmdlets to manage your Timer Jobs:

• Disable-SPTimerJob
• Enable-SPTimerJob
• Get-SPTimerJob
• Set-SPTimerJob
• Start-SPTimerJob

Distribution

In 2010 you have the ability to specify a dedicated server for Timer Jobs in addition to the aforementioned features you also have status bars available in the UI that represent the progress of a particular job.  Timer Jobs are covered in native backup and restore as well.

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