- Visual Web parts.
- SharePoint Developer Dashboard - shows detailed information about web parts loading on the page including the call stack
- Web part inserts no longer require web part zone in #SharePoint 2010
- Tons of new monitoring and testing tools; even links to autofix problems it finds
- SharePoint 2010 can support millions of items in a list, tens of millions in a document library
- Throttling -Control how many resources specific lists, sites etc. may use
- New product PowerPivot announced - PowerPivot allows end users to sift through massive amounts of data
- PerfomancePoint Services, Visio Services, Access Services
- SharePoint 2010 - publish Access database by users
- Rest APIs for Excel content
- SharePoint will mine your Outlook to find keywords that describe your areas of expertise
- SharePoint will only be 64bit
- SharePoint Foundation replaces WSS
- Business Continuity Services is the new BDC -can create connections in SP designer. No more XML files. And now you can update as well as read data.
- BCS data connected to office is cached in the clients automagically if offline
- SP2010 will emphasis data location tranparency with 2 way communication abilities.
- XSLT is replacing CAML in SP2010 for list views
- No more "hive"... from now on say SharePoint Root!
- SSP is gone - replacement - SP Service Application - Build on WCF. Built in Management
- End user ability for mashups
- SP2010 composites support RAD development, mashups
- Compositing / Mashup capabilities of SharePoint Designer 2010 - External Content Types
- MySites get facebook like features - including wall posts, relationships and activity logs
- Major UI Improvements - ribbon, etc
- Digital Asset Management
- SharePoint is now ready to manage digital media contents, content rendering is greatly improved
- ReportBuilder - Easy UI to build map mashup of SharePoint data and line of business data
- SharePoint Workspace Mobile and ability to see SharePoint via Micro browser
- New list type: External List powered by Business Data Services
- Application pages in SharePoint Foundation now reference site master page:
- Skinning of List Views
- SharePoint dynamic views
- In the new SharePoint designer 2010, it is now much easier to customize list forms. new, edit, display forms
- SharePoint 2010 Workflow visualization on WF status page, new WF action to copy docs and move to records center
- Reusable SPD workflow
- Social Tagging,revamped My Sites, Silverlight org chart
- Video streaming capabilities available in SharePoint 2010
- Video media assets handled in 2010. Admin can ratchet down download speed if needed due to bandwitch restrictions
- New built-in taxonomy features will make building information architecture much easier in SP 2010
- Document sets can be moved through workflows etc as a group or as the seperate files
- Multiple document checkout
- Organize and Navigate documents with metadata
- Integration of FAST search engine - shows product catalog by searching FAST to display on page without any search query.
- Spell checking
- Autocomplete
- SharePoint 2010 support for XHTML, WACG, REST, JSON, ATOM and more
- InfoPath forms allow extremely easy customization of the List Forms graphically, validation, list aggregation.
- WCM: Rich text content uses the ribbon and styles can be locked done
- CQWP now support dynamic querying from page parameters
- New Features for CQ Webpart for SharePoint 2010 - Query tags, multiple repositories, multiple content types
- WCM: Now you can tie page fields to content query web part filters (contextualise) + no exporting of XSL to customise fields.
- Allows you to filter by dynamic properties such as a field value from the current page
- WCM: Media webpart with ribbon context support.
- Content organizer - lets you create rules to route uploaded content to specific libraries / sites powerful wcm interface
- SharePoint 2010 support true multilingual support. Including column names
- Manage Metadata Service combined with Taxonomy picker and navigator
- New sandboxed applications - will isolate 'bad' apps from taking the SharePoint servers down.
- API block list. Sandbox can keep your code from calling other 3rd party APIs.
- Sandbox solutions are deployed at the site collection level unlike regular solutions
- Sandbox solutions can use a 'full trust proxy' to reach outside the sandbox
- SandboxedSolutions - Separate Process UserCodeService / SandboxWorkerProcess/ SandboxWorkerProcessProxy
- Must have user code services running on all WFE that will support sandbox.
- Sandboxed Solutions - Deploy WSP into solution gallery in DB (NOT FS). Code is Loaded on demand into seperate process
- SPUCWorkerProcess.exe controls resourcing to stop managed code from killing your farm
- Can change application.master in SP2010
- SharePoint 2010 will have Custom Error Pages
- 8GB is min RAM for decent SharePoint server (in production). SP 2010 will "not even load" with only 2GB
- Will allow users to decide when to upgrade their sites to the new UI
- FileShare migration to #SharePoint 2010 via Content Organizer imports properties and can trigger policy workflows.
- Drag file from files system into #SP2010 moves the files and replaces the originals location with links
- New Visual Upgrade process, no instant merge like the last version. Better facility for patching and upgrading!!
- SharePoint servers can now be controlld via Group Policy - There are no AD schema extensions for SP2010 but new SP2010 install blocker/controller available for AD
- SP2010 can auto rollover your service account passwords for you - cool feature.
- Over 500 powershell cmdlets to ship with 2010 beta - includes what if command
- "Claims-based authentication makes Kerberos look like a walk in the park"
- Ability to run timer jobs on demand - and they have a progress bar!
- Host Header mappings at Site Collection level, health monitoring
- Event log Flood Control triggers on same error generated multi times. Writes to log suppressing tht msg for set amt of time
- Export from unattached db
- Granular Restore Utility built into 2010-just tell Central Admin where the DB is and you can walk to the content you need to recover
- SharePoint 2010 every piece of content gets a unique id so you can find it even if it has been renamed or moved
- You can specify a failover sql server in central admin so SharePoint will auto switch when you are mirroring
- High Availability Servicing in #SP2010 - Read and Write access during update service windows
- Build our own Analytical Reports on the new SharePoint 2010
- BI usage dashboard with 'back in time' feature
- SharePoint Admin: Enhanced analytics and ability to write custom reports
- Events wizard and expanded events
- New wizard to provision farm services
- Deploying WSPs can now be done through the web UI
- New Central Admin tool - Nice health check feaure. rules based, extensible
- SharePoint in the cloud
- You can now pump log file data to a database server rather than just a "log" file.
- Nice integration with outlook
- "Save site as template" now outputs a WSP which imports into VS 2010 as a new project.
- SharePoint Client API used for simplistic crud and batch commands for performance
- "Dollar" SharePoint tokens for things like assembly ref and feature guid making life simpler for all devs
- Full developer support for SharePoint 2010 on Vista and Windows 7
- Visual Studio 2010 provides “x-ray” technology and improved diagnostic for web part development
- New studio feature map folder
- VS2010 understands SharePoint in the Server Browser
- VS2010 has a new SharePoint concept called Mapped folders, where you can store information and it will be deployed to SP as part of the deployment process
- VSeWSS is heavily improved on for pure 2010 integration of vs and sp. VS 2010 is a must for SP 2010 dev
- Pre & post deployment actions in #VS2010, extendable packaging and deployment config editor
Last but not the least: Public Beta of SharePoint 2010 will become available in November 2009
A big shout out and thanks to all the Live Tweeters at SPC09!
Cheers!
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