No more SSP in SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Providers (SSP’s) are replaced by Service Applications. Services are no longer combined into a SSP. Services are running independent as a service application.

Benefits the new Service Model provides:

• A more effective targeting of services to the Web apps you’ve created (Web apps consume services on an individual basis)
• Each Web app can use any combination of the available Service Apps
• You can deploy multiple instances of the same Service Apps – giving each one a unique name
• This model also allows Cross-Farm Service Apps
• You can also write your own services that take advantage of the SharePoint infrastructure!

 
With this new Service model, comes some new terms

Service: A set of bits installed on a SharePoint 2010 farm that’s capable of providing some functionality
Service Application: A specific farm-level configuration of the Service in SharePoint. For example, the specific configuration of Office Web apps Service in your new SharePoint 2010 farm.
Service Machine Instance: A machine-level instance of the Service running on an app server
Service App Proxy: A pointer to a Service App that exists on the WFE
Service Consumer: A SharePoint feature, such as a web-part, that talks with the service and makes its functionality available to an end user

What Service apps are NEW and what actually they do?

You’ve seen from the above that the architecture has been modified and they are lots of NEW Services available in SharePoint 2010. I’ve provided a brief list of some of the new Services and what they do below:

Access Services – Allows viewing, editing, and interacting with Access databases in a browser.
Managed Metadata Service – Provides access to managed taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, social tags and Content Type publishing across site collections.
Secure Store Service –Provides capability to store data (e.g. credential set) securely and associate it to a specific identity or group of identities.
State Service – Provides temporary storage of user session data for Office SharePoint Server components.
Usage and Health data collection – This service collects farm wide usage and health data and provides the ability to view various usage and health reports.
Visio Graphics Service – Enables viewing and refreshing of published Visio diagrams in a web browser.
Web Analytics Service Application – Enable rich insights into web usage patterns by processing and analyzing web analytics data .
Word Conversion Service Application – Provides a framework for performing automated document conversions