sharepoint 2010 features beta ... heaps to digest

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx








SharePoint 2010 in 1 Sentence, 8 Categories and 40 Feature Areas







The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web







Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites plus Administration and Development







Sites











1. SharePoint Web Experience – We updated the SharePoint UI to make it simpler to access a growing range of tools. Highlights include incorporating the Office ribbon, in place web editing, AJAX responsiveness and ...





2. Office Client – We continue to support previous versions of Microsoft Office working against SharePoint 2010. Office 2010 enhances this with features like offline editing with asynchronous saves as well as exposing SharePoint features through the new Office Backstage UI. Via the Backstage, you can access ....









3. SharePoint Workspace – In this release, we evolved and renamed Groove as SharePoint Workspace which provides great local and offline read-write access to SharePoint lists and libraries. ..





4. Office Web Apps – We made SharePoint 2010 a great place to host the new Office Web Apps so you can view and update content from within a browser and include Office content as part of your web site (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet as part of “Sales Metrics Portal"). ..





5. SharePoint Mobile Access – ..







Communities





1. Collaborative Content – This includes not only improved blogs and wikis (both simple and enterprise) but also calendars, discussions, tasks, contacts, pictures, video, presence and ...





2. Social Feedback and Organization – ...





3. User Profiles – We enhanced user profiles to reflect colleagues, interests, expertise –..





4. MySites –...





5. People Connections – ..





Content









1. Large Lists and Libraries – .. records management ...





2. Enterprise Metadata – ..









3. Document Sets – ..









4. Web Publishing including Digital Asset Management – ..





5. Governance and Records Management – Compliance is an increasingly important ...







Search





1. Interactive Search Experience – ...









2. Relevance – ...





3. People Search – ..





4. Connectivity – ...





5. Scale and Platform Flexibility – ...









Insights





1. Excel Services – Excel rendering and interactivity in SharePoint gets better with richer pivoting, slicing and visualizations like heatmaps and sparklines. ..





2. Performance Point Services – We enhanced scorecards, dashboard, key performance indicator ..





3. SQL Server – The SharePoint and SQL Server teams have worked together so SQL Server capabilities like Analysis Services and Reporting Services are easier to access from within SharePoint and Excel. We are exposing these interfaces and working with other BI vendors so they can plug in their solutions as well.





4. “Gemini” – “Gemini” is the name for a powerful new in memory database technology that lets Excel and Excel Services users navigate massive amounts of information without having to create or edit an OLAP cube. Imagine an Excel spreadsheet rendered (in the client or browser) with 100 million rows and you get the idea. Today at the SharePoint Conference, we announced the official name for “Gemini” is SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint.











5. Visio Services – As with Excel, users love the flexibility of creating rich diagrams in Visio. In 2010, we have added web rendering with interactivity and data binding including mashups from SharePoint with support for rendering Visio diagrams in a browser. We also added SharePoint workflow design support in Visio.















Composites - Mash-Ups





1. SharePoint Designer – ..







2. InfoPath Forms Service – InfoPath is the best way to have a common form definition render in the browser as well as in a rich and offline client. ..







3. Access Services - Users have long loved the ability to create database applications quickly with forms and views...







4. Sandbox Solutions –









5. Business Connectivity Services – .











Administration





1. Improved Upgrade – ...





2. Throttling, Health Monitoring, Analytics – Performance and reliability was a big focus ...





3. Web and PowerShell Admin – We improved the web based administration interface ...





4. Scalability and Availability – ..









5. Identity Management and Security – ...















Development









1. New SharePoint APIs – ....





2. Application Lifecycle –





3. Visual Studio 2010 Support –





4. Developer Dashboard View –





5. Development on Windows 7 –