What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Understanding the service applications architecture
• Understanding the existing service applications in SharePoint 2010
Due to the complexity of the topics discussed, some figures in this book are very detailed and are intended only to provide a high-level view of concepts. Those figures are representational and not intended to be read in detail.
Service applications are a new concept in SharePoint that have replaced shared services providers. Understanding service applications is an important part of administering SharePoint 2010. You already worked with some service applications in earlier hours. In this hour you look at service applications in detail.