Challenges in MOSS 2007
Moss 2007 Shared service provider were a big improvement but were also there is limitation in
Search, User Profiles, Excel, BDC
No Custom SSP in MOSS 2007
Webapplication were tied to specific SSPand tied to a single farm.
Changes from WSS 3.0 foundation to sharepoint 2010 foundation
New services model is much more flexible
Tied to single farm or shared across farm which means allows centralized investments for services
Like web analytics and business intelligence.
Easily scaled out for Load balancing high demand service application.
Creating Custom Services
Developers are free to create their own services
Allow developer to provide richer integration between a 3rd party system and Sharepoint
Allow for sharing data across SP sites.
When to create custom services
Shared data across sites and sitecollection
To Execute long running operation
When not to create services
Data or features are specific to a particular sharepoint site of site collection or site templates.
