SharePoint 2010

What's new in SharePoint 2010?

Overview:

New User Interface including the new Ribbon: A streamlined new user interface including the ribbon is an intutive and contextual web user interface that makes users more effective, reduces training, provides better performance and lowers cost.

Web Edit: Web Edit allows users to easily customize a site, making it possible to respond more quickly than ever to changes in your dynamic business environment.

Silverlight Web Part: The Silverlight Web parts lets you quickly and securely integrate Silverlight applications and rich media into your site taking the user experience to another level.

Rich Theming: Combined with Web Edit, rich theming allows you to skin your SharePoint site using your favourite office client themes. Change the colors and fonts to customize the site to turn your "SharePoint" site into "your" site.

Multiple Browser Support: Experience the richness of SharePoint across multiple browsers. By supporting Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, SharePoint allows the broadest reach for connecting people together and allows them to work in new and dynamic ways.

Visio Services: Visio Services lets you share data linked diagrams in real time with a high fidelity and interactive experience so that everyone can access consistent and upto date information, even those who don't have Visio.

SharePoint Designer: SharePoint Designer comes with a new UI, enhanced modeling capabilities and improved workflow capabilities that makes collaboration between designers and developers more seamless while allowing team creativity and productivity.

Business Connectivity Services (the evolution of Business Data Catalog): Business Connectivity Services (BCS) allows you to connect to Line-of-Business applications, Web Services and Databases and surface your data in a user friendly way enabling users to interact and update it easily in the web and in the office client.

SharePoint Workflow: SharePoint workflow (formerly named Groove) is a rich client for SharePoint that lets you take your SharePoint Lists and Libraries offline including the ability to update content and sync it back in when You're re-connected.

Rich Media Support: Regardless of type of media, SharePoint and Office are ready to help you work with that media easily.Weather its SharePoint's support for Silverlight and rich media services or Powerpoint's new inline video editing capabilities , your information and presentations will come to life in new and dynamic ways.


For IT Professionals

Streamlined Central Administration: You will find a revamped and streamlined administration experience in SharePoint 2010. Everything is at your finger tips within Central Administration to help you get your job done, including the addition of Ribbon to make configuring and managing your server farm even quicker and easier.

SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer: The SharePoint best practices Analyzer built into SharePoint 2010 provides an extensible rules based engine that monitors farm health, and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance issues right out-of-the-box. Through a "Problems and Solutions page" in Central Administration, you can quickly find and fix potential issues acrossall of the servers in your farm, or just let the SharePoint best practices Analyzer do it for you.

Usage Reporting and Logging: The new unified logging database in 2010 is the central repositry for your SharePoint farm to log usage and health data to. The database schema will be fully documented to give you the power and flexibility of writing your own reports in addition to the ones we provide. You'll also be able to log your own events and tracing data through a new logging Object model into the database. Your insight into server usage and performance just became a whole lot easier.

Large List Resource Throttling: ResourceThrottling for large lists gives you granular control over the server performance impact of lists and libraries that contain several thousand to millions of items while automatically educating users on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently.

Unattached Content Database Recovery: The new Unattached Content Database Recovery feature allows you to temporarily mount an unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection or export sites and lists all through the Central Administration UI , and with out the requirement of a recovery farm.

Visual Upgrade: Visual Upgrade give you the option to upgrade SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without impacting or changing the UI in existing sites.The upgraded site intially looks and behaves just like it did in SharePoint Server2007 but you're able to flip between the SharePoint Server 2007 layout and site features and the new SharePoint 2010 layout and site features. This gives you all of the new platform capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with the flexibility of choosing when you upgrade site's look and feel.

For Developer

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools: Visual Studio 2010 includes new tools for creating, packaging and debugging SharePoint solutions. Visual Studio includes a new designer for building Web Parts visually and easily, a new designer for building Business Connectivity Services Entities (formerly known BDC Entities), designers for creating SharePoint solutions, features and more. It has alos integrated support for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server including source code control and team build capabilities.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for SharePoint: LINQ for SharePoint provides and implementation of LINQ for SharePoint 2010 applications. It offers SharePoint developers strongly typed access to data in SharePoint lists, the ability to use the rich LINQ syntax and list joins and projections.

Developer Dashboard: The developer dashboard can be enabled on any SharePoint page for development and debugging purposes. It helps developers write better code by providing diagnostic information including detailed page request information such as timing, names and resources for all stored procedure called, memory used, the authenticated user, the number of SRRequest objects, any asserts and critical events and timings for web part events for the page rendering.

Business Connectivity Services (the evolution of Business Data Catalog): Business Connectivity Services (BCS) provides read/write access to external data from a line of Business System, Web Services, database or other external data directly, both online and offline, and rich BDC tools in SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

Client Object Model (OM): The client object model (OM) is a new programming interface SharePoint 2010 where code run's on a user's client machine against a local object model and interact with data on SharePoint server. Client OM methods can be called from JavaScript, .Net code or Silverlight code and makes building rich client applications for easy.

Silverlight Web Part: SharePoint 2010 includes a Silverlight Web part which site owners can include Silverlight applications in their SharePoint site. The Silverlight application runs on the user's client and can utilize the SharePoint client OM to make calls to get data from SharePoint server.