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SharePoint 2010 SP1 has brought with it an amazing feature using which site collections administrators can restore sites and subsites which were accidentally deleted. Before SP1 we had to go through a painful process of restoring the database from a backup. But the admin can simply go to the second level recycle bin and select the subsite that was deleted and restore it just like any other content inside the recycle bin. In the above picture Sub is the name of the subsite that was deleted. The site collection administrator can see this in the recycle bin. He can select it, click on Restore Selection and the site is back. Very simple process, isn't it ??

SharePoint 2010 Sp1 has brought some great enhancements to the SharePoint product. One of those is the Storage Management feature. This page is located at /_layouts/Storman.aspx You can go to this page from SiteSettings->StorageManagement Using this you can monitor 1. All the folders in your site and the amount of space they are using. 2. Percentage of size occupied in the total contents of its parent folder. 3. Percentage of size occupied in the total size of the site. You can even click on an individual folder to open the contents in it and check the data for the files and sub folders inside the folder. Indeed a very useful feature for sites with large amounts of content.

SharePoint 2010 introduced a new concept called Managed Accounts. Now in SharePoint 2010, administrators can register a managed account which will be used by the farm or specific web applications. The advantage of using the Managed account is that 1. Managing the account is easier. Can be done at one place using Central Admin. 2. Password changes can be automated. 3. Emails can be sent when the password is about to expire. To register a new managed account, go to central admin->Security->Configrue Managed Accounts The admin can specify the settings and register a new managed account using the above UI. Next time a new web application is created, the admin can select this managed account instead of typing the id and password for the service account. So when the password has to be changed for the managed account, the admin can go to the list of managed accounts, edit it and change the password. Even better, the admin can configure automatic password change for this manag

Microsoft released the first service pack for SharePoint 2010 recently. Some of the improvements in the SharePoint Server SP1 are listed below 1. Support for IE9 2. Better crawl performance for search 3. Improved storage management - lets you monitor the storage for the folders in your site collection 4. Recycle Bin which will retain the deleted site collections. Site collections deleted by mistake can easily be recovered using this feature. 5. Support for SQL Server 2011.