I sure learnt alot, these notes are what made sense to me.

General

• Authentication is now claims based, (the Geneva framework). This means that you can authenticate users from non AD scenarios, eg: Hotmail and Gmail accounts.
• Can export lists and libraries now.
• Share Content Types across site collections with Content Type Hubs.
• Visio is not a web application, it is a viewing service.
• PowerPoint Broadcast site part of Enterprise Features. It’s one broadcast site per service.
• Need Publishing Features enabled to leverage the Search Centre.

Installing

• Must have Windows Server 2008 and SP2 to install SharePoint now.
• Always choose ‘Server Farm’ and ‘Complete Install’ in the wizard.
• It’s 3 installs on separate disks – one for SharePoint, one for the operating system and one for the log and index files, (separate LUN’s etc).
• Need to manually install Powershell v2 before installing SharePoint.
• Office and FAST are seperate installs.
• The Chart Control Framework is a pre-requisite for built in charting capability.
• The Prep Tool installs what you need in the order you need them.

Managing

• Farm passphrase automatically manages server passwords.
• Managed Accounts is for service accounts password changes, it can generate passwords based on your password policies.
• Don’t use one service account for everything!
• There is no more SSP, they are now Service Applications – not to be confused with Services. Developers can write their own Service Applications. Service Applications are automatically configured with the farm config wizard. Need to publish a service to make it available outside the farm.
• Can share search, user profiles, BCS and web analytics across the farm.
• Feature Usage reporting available – reports on how many people are using Standard and Enterprise Features.
• Site Inventory available – reports on sizes of databases, (for charge out models).
• Resource throttling available to enforce a threshold of X on the 50 million capacity of lists and libraries.
• My Sites and User Profiles are different things. You can have User Profiles without My Sites.
• Don’t have spaces when adding new profile properties.
• It is possible to write back to AD now, need sync rights and field rights.
• Audiences are all about AD properties.
• Can restore data from unattached content databases, eg: backups.  Extract the list via the tree view and restore to the current database.

Upgrading

• Plan your upgrades from 2007 to 2010!!
• Need 3 times the SQL storage space during the upgrade.
• Deleting features will cause issues, ie: templates that have been used and the template removed from the master list. Will get ‘missing features’ errors.
• Document your environment before upgrading!! Topology, services on server, site hierarchy, etc.
• Branding may be affected (if ghosted), as tables are no longer in the layout, managed with div’s now.
• Need to install the Fantastic 40 as a solution package. Needs to go from the 12 hive to the 14 hive.
• The Bug Database template does not work on 2010, it has a bug! (LMAO).
• Upgrade options are in place, database attach, hybrid 1 (read only databases), hybrid 2 (detached content databases).
• The recommended upgrade process is the database attach. Need to redefine the SSP’s though. If you need to upgrade to the same hardware, do a backup then uninstall and reinstall the software.
• Refer to Technet’s Upgrade Resource Centre for more information.

If I got any of this wrong, please feel free to help me right.