New Features in SharePoint 2010

High Level Features in SharePoint 2010:

Sites:

ü  Ribbon User Interface

ü  SharePoint WorkSpace (Sync Framework)

ü  SharePoint Mobile

ü  Standard Support

Communities:

ü  Rating

ü  Inline editing support for Wiki Pages/Blogs

ü  RSS Activity Feeds (Similar to Alerts but feed based)

Composites:

ü  Business Data Connectivity Services

ü  External List

ü  Silverlight and AJAX Support

ü  Workflow (Site Level and Workflow draft)

ü  SharePoint Designer Changes

ü  Visual Studio 2010 Support

ü  Event receivers enhanced (Site deletion/Web App Provision/Deletion etc.,)

ü  User Interfaces

ü  API Enhancement - LINQ to SharePoint/ COM & REST/ATOM

Search:

ü  Social Relevance and Ranking

ü  Phonetic Search (examples B2B etc.,)

ü  Better Search Navigation

ü  FAST Integration

ü  Extensible framework - Search Connector Framework

Insight:

ü  Performance Point Services

ü  Excel Services

ü  Visio Services (Web Browser Support)

ü  2D/3D Chart Web parts

ü  SQL Server BI Technologies Integration

ü  Power Pivot

Content:

ü  Audio/Video content types for streaming

ü  Digital Media Assets for DRM (Digital Rights Management)

ü  Document Set

ü  Tagging/Tag clouds & Taxonomies

ü  Social Bookmarking

ü  Org Browser

ü  Profiles- Other directories integration