Best Practices

• Understanding the basics of service applications and which ones are available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 can help architects and decision makers determine whether SharePoint Foundation 2010 might meet their needs.

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 offers feature-rich search capabilities, but this is only a subset of the search tools and capabilities of the Search Service application included with SharePoint Server 2010 Standard and Enterprise.

• Business Connectivity Services (BCS) can be extremely useful for accessing data stored in other databases and services, but generally requires developers who are trained in SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010.

• Managed Metadata Services should be strongly considered by any ...

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