Changes from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the features that have been deprecated or removed from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Deprecated features are shipped in SharePoint Server 2010 for compatibility with previous product versions. These features will be removed in subsequent versions.
In this article:
Deprecated features
Features removed from SharePoint Server 2010
Deprecated features
The following features are shipped with SharePoint Server 2010 but will be removed from subsequent versions.
Stsadm command-line tool
Description: The Stsadm command-line tool has been deprecated.
Reason for change: The Stsadm command-line tool will be superseded by Windows PowerShell 2.0.
Migration path: The Stsadm command-line tool is included to support compatibility with previous product versions. You should use Windows PowerShell 2.0 when performing command-line administrative tasks.
Site Directory feature
Description: The Site Directory provides a list of links to all sites within a site collection.
Reason for change: This functionality will be replaced by the social features of the User Profile service.
Migration path: Use the Tags and Notes feature to search on any tag that has been entered into the system and see the sites associated with it, as well as other tags and notes that are associated with that site. For a more structured approach to lists of links, every site collection comes with the ability to create lists of links, and workflows so that editorial control can be defined. A script or timer job can create and update a custom links list, or you can staple a feature to the Create Site Collection page in Central Administration.
Scorecard export to Reporting Services
Description: SharePoint Server 2010 no longer supports exporting a scorecard to SQL Server Reporting Services.
Reason for change: This functionality had a low adoption rate.
Business Data Catalog
Description: In Office SharePoint Server 2007, external data was integrated into solutions by using the Business Data Catalog, which was a shared service in the context of the Shared Service Provider framework.
Reason for change: In SharePoint Server 2010, external data is integrated into solutions using the new Business Data Connectivity service, which no longer runs in the context of the Shared Service Provider framework and instead fits into the new shared services framework of SharePoint Server 2010.
Migration path: The Business Data Connectivity service object model is not backward compatible with the object model used in the Business Data Catalog. To support the upward compatibility of Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog solutions with SharePoint Server 2010, an additional service, the Application Registry Service, is available in SharePoint Server 2010 that supports the object model used in the Business Data Catalog. We recommend that new solution development not be done on the Application Registry Service, which is provided only to guarantee upward compatibility of 2007 Microsoft Office system solutions.
Features removed from SharePoint Server 2010
The following features and functionality are no longer available in SharePoint Server 2010.
32-bit operating systems
Description: SharePoint Server 2010 requires a 64-bit operating system. Running SharePoint Server 2010 on 32-bit operating systems is no longer supported.
Reason for change: SharePoint Server 2010 has numerous features that benefit from the performance provided by 64-bit operating systems.
Migration path: Install SharePoint Server 2010 on 64-bit operating systems.
Side-by-side installation
Description: The ability to perform side-by-side installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 on the same server is being removed. This change is related to the removal of support for gradual upgrade.
Reason for change: Compatibility and performance issues prevent side-by-side installation.
Migration path: Perform upgrade-in-place installation on the same hardware, or perform database attach to a new farm. Use new hardware if both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 versions of a farm must exist at the same time.
For more information, see Perform a database attach upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010.
Gradual upgrade
Description: Support for the gradual upgrade feature is being removed as part of the removal of side-by-side installation.
Reason for change: Compatibility and performance issues prevent side-by-side installation.
Migration path: Use the read-only database capability of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the database attach upgrade capability of SharePoint Server 2010 to minimize downtime.
For more information, see Using AAM URL redirection as part of the upgrade process (SharePoint Server 2010) (white paper).
For long upgrade periods where you must maintain both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 versions of a farm, you can use the alternate access mapping (AAM) URL redirection capability provided in SharePoint Server 2010. Upgrades that use AAM URL redirection are performed by using database attach upgrade command-line operations instead of timer job-based events that are scheduled from the user interface (UI).
For more information, see Using AAM URL redirection as part of the upgrade process (SharePoint Server 2010) (white paper).
Office Web Components
Description: SharePoint Server 2010 no longer supports Office Web Components (OWC). The PivotChart, PivotTable, and Trend Chart report types are no longer available as options in the SharePoint Dashboard Designer.
Reason for change: This is a 2007 Microsoft Office system feature that is now replaced by the features available in Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 in SharePoint Server 2010.
Migration path: In SharePoint Server 2010, use Excel Services instead of Office Web Components.
Web discussions
Description: Web discussions enable users to add comments about documents and pages without modifying their actual content. SharePoint Server 2010 does not support Web discussions.
Reason for change: This feature was deprecated in Office SharePoint Server 2007 because of its low adoption rate. The feature has now been removed from the product.
**Migration path:**The Note Board feature in SharePoint Server 2010 now provides this functionality.
SQL Server 2000 data sources
Description: SQL Server 2000 data sources are no longer supported in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: SQL Server 2000 does not fully support many of the newer data features available in SharePoint Server 2010.
Migration path: Use data sources that are on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
ODBC data sources
Description: ODBC data sources are no longer supported in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: Newer and more versatile database connection options have replaced the functionality of ODBC.
Migration path: ODBC is no longer listed as an option for connecting to a data source. Use another data connection type.
Version 3 themes
Description: A theme is a set of colors, fonts, and decorative elements that enable you to quickly change the appearance of a site. The functionality provided in the version 3 themes is not available in the newly designed version 4 themes.
Reason for change: Version 4 themes are redesigned to simplify the process of generating themes. The new architecture is not compatible with the architecture of version 3 themes.
Migration path: Version 3 themes are still supported if the UI mode is kept at version 3. Version 3 themes are not supported in version 4 UI mode.
Storage Management page
Description: The Storage Management (storman.aspx) page is now removed from the Central Administration Web site.
Reason for change: This feature can cause dramatic performance issues in a SharePoint farm. Site administrators who use this feature were often unaware of the performance slowdown that it was imposing on users.
Migration path: Site administrators can no longer use this feature.
Web bot software agents
Description: A Web bot software agent is a dynamic object on a Web page that is evaluated when the page is saved or, in some cases, when the page is opened in a Web browser. Search crawlers and indexers are examples of Web bots. Developers can no longer use Web bot entry points and users cannot add Web bots to SharePoint Server 2010 sites.
Reason for change: This functionality is replaced by Web Parts.
Migration path: Use Web Parts instead of Web bots.
E-mail enabled groups and Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management service (DMS)
Description: The Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management service (DMS) connects SharePoint sites to an organization's user directory to provide enhanced e-mail features. If a SharePoint farm is using DMS, users cannot enable SharePoint groups to use e-mail.
Reason for change: The type of authentication used in DMS is being replaced with claims authentication.
Migration path: This feature is not available in SharePoint Server 2010. Use claims authentication instead.
For more information, see Plan authentication methods (SharePoint Server 2010).
Permissions for sub-webs
Description: When you assign a permission level to a parent site, that permission level is inherited by all sub-webs of the parent site by default. In Office SharePoint Server 2007, if you wanted a sub-web to have different permissions from its parent, you could edit the inherited permission level definition at the sub-web scope. The result was that you would have two permission levels with the same name but different permissions, depending on their scope. For example, suppose you assigned the Design permission level to a parent site, but you want to change the permissions on a sub-web so that users will not be able to apply style sheets to pages in that sub-web. In Office SharePoint Server 2007, you could edit the Design permission level on the sub-web itself, remove the Apply Style Sheets permission, and save the permission level as Design. It would not be possible, just by looking at permission levels, to determine that the sub-web actually had a different set of permissions than its parent site.
Migration path: In SharePoint Server 2010, if you want to give different permissions to a sub-web, you must assign a separate permission level to the sub-web. Site collections that are upgraded from Office SharePoint Server 2007 and have these unique permission level structures will continue to work. However, the user interface in SharePoint Server 2010 does not have a way to edit an inherited permission level at the sub-web scope, so you cannot change them or create new permission level definitions of this type. If you have a specific business need for continuing to use the Office SharePoint Server 2007 process, use the SharePoint Server 2010 object model.
Shared Services Provider (SSP)
Description: Shared Services Providers (SSPs) do not exist in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: Service applications replace this functionality.
Migration path: Use service applications for many of the features that were supported and configured in SSPs.
Internationalized domain names
Description: Although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 supported internationalized domain names (IDNs), SharePoint Server 2010 does not.
Reason for change: Support of internationalized domain names (IDNs) has been deprecated.
Migration path: If you currently use IDNs with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and you plan to upgrade or migrate to SharePoint Server 2010, you must stop using IDNs, delete all IDN settings, and then set up an environment that does not use IDN before doing so.
Site directory template
Description: This site template is not available as an option in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: The functionality provided in this template is now replaced by Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions.
Migration path: Use the social tagging features in SharePoint Server 2010 to get much of the functionality provided by the site directory template. For more information, see Social tagging overview (SharePoint Server 2010) and Privacy and security implications of social tagging (SharePoint Server 2010).
News portal template
Description: This site template is not available as an option in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: The functionality provided in this template is now replaced by Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions.
Migration path: This template can still be accessed and used programmatically by developers. It is also still available as options in the UI if the SharePoint Server 2010 farm is upgraded from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use the publishing sites template to replace this template.
Collaboration portal template
Description: This site template is not available as an option in SharePoint Server 2010.
Reason for change: The functionality provided in this template is now replaced by Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions.
Migration path: This template can still be accessed and used programmatically by developers. It is also still available in the UI if the SharePoint Server 2010 farm is upgraded from Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use the publishing sites template to replace this template.