Capabilities of SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 enables organizations to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. SharePoint 2010 facilitates business collaboration in its broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways.
SharePoint 2010 Sites: Collaborating Across Organizations
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Sites provides portal and collaboration capabilities across intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. SharePoint 2010 brings users together to share information, data, and expertise across organizations. It offers great usability, personalized experiences, and a single infrastructure that saves valuable time and dollars.
Ensuring Broad Adoption
Great usability is the key to broad adoption. A new Fluent UI, an enhanced mobile experience, cross-browser support, and built-in accessibility standards make it easy and rewarding for anyone to use SharePoint 2010.
Delivering Personalized Experiences
Features such as My Sites, user tagging, content targeting, and multilingual support enable users to create individualized experiences. People can find, use, and share information and contacts easily and naturally.
Reducing Costs and Complexity
SharePoint 2010 saves organizations time and money with a unified infrastructure that is manageable and scalable. IT professionals can centrally manage and monitor sites, integrate applications, and reuse popular solutions by using Web parts and templates. Deployment can be on-premises or in the cloud with Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services.
SharePoint 2010 Search: Finding People and Information Anywhere
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Search can help the members of your organization find the content, information, and people that they need by combining an integrated, easy-to-manage platform with best-of-breed enterprise search technology. Now more than ever, all of your employees, from sales associates to developers, can do more with Search to get their jobs done.
Going Beyond the Search Box
SharePoint 2010 moves beyond the traditional “10 blue links” and introduces a visual and interactive experience, enabling users to find, explore, and connect to information and people.
Eliminating Compromise Between Manageability and Capability
SharePoint 2010 offers an integrated solution that can tackle the most challenging enterprise search requirements while maintaining the out-of-the-box simplicity and consistency of a durable and secure platform.
Doing More with Search
SharePoint 2010 is a powerful platform for building custom search solutions and applications by using common out-of-the-box tools.
SharePoint 2010 Communities: Working Together Effectively
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Communities provides a comprehensive, flexible platform that empowers people to work together in ways that are most effective for them. Enable your people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts naturally.
Working Together the Way You Want
The global workforce of the twenty-first century is more diverse than ever. Connect and engage all of your employees with a flexible collaboration platform and a diverse set of tools that range from Wikis to Workflows to Workspaces—enabling people to work together the way they want.
Relying on a Secure Collaboration Platform
Let your IT staff rely on an enterprise-ready collaboration platform that is secure and easy to manage and will support your organization’s growing needs. SharePoint 2010 makes social networking safe with granular security and privacy controls, centralized management and policy setting, and robust reporting and analysis.
Extending the Value of Your Community Solutions
The SharePoint platform seamlessly integrates with the rest of the Microsoft Business Productivity infrastructure, including the applications in the 2007 Office system, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft SQL Server®, and Microsoft Dynamics™. In addition, SharePoint provides Business Connectivity Services and adheres to open standards and protocols, making it easy to integrate third-party applications.
SharePoint 2010 Insights: Making Informed Business Decisions
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Insights enables users to find the information that they need across unstructured assets (blogs, wikis, presentations, and documents) and structured assets (reports, spreadsheets, and analytical systems). Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make more informed and agile business decisions.
Empowering Decision Makers
Empower users to collaborate better and make more agile business decisions by accessing the information they need, when they need it. Powerful self-service capabilities are integrated into familiar tools, so users can create and share the right information and drive the business forward by providing timely responses and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Improving Organizational Effectiveness
Manage, drive, and define organizational success by aligning to key metrics and strategy through context-driven dashboards. Measure critical success factors and empower everyone to create and analyze the information necessary to stay informed and move the business forward. Enable accountability and transparency across the company and remove barriers to productivity.
Enabling IT Efficiency
Use a complete, integrated business collaboration platform that can empower users to discover, analyze, and share the right information across unstructured and structured assets. With a platform built on standards, IT can address business requirements by putting information in the hands of users and focusing on developing, maintaining, and securing systems.
SharePoint 2010 Content: Managing the Content Management Life Cycle From Creation to Disposition
Using Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft, your people can participate in the content management life cycle, helping to govern information and promote compliance. As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Content expertly balances user experience with policy and process, ensuring that everyone participates and all content is managed.
Increasing Productivity and Information Value
Using SharePoint 2010, content management is simple and intuitive, enabling employees to focus on higher-value tasks. In addition, SharePoint 2010 provides coauthoring, metadata-driven navigation, search refiners, and a rich social overlay to help people turn information into action.
Driving Compliance and Reducing Risk
SharePoint 2010 provides a single platform for managing content across the enterprise. By consistently applying metadata, retention schedules, record declarations, and legal holds, SharePoint 2010 can help to ensure that information is managed in accordance with policy and regulation. This can reduce the risk of incorrectly deleting relevant information or retaining information beyond its useful life.
Consolidating Systems and Simplifying Integration
Reducing the need to purchase multiple ECM solutions, SharePoint 2010 delivers the management of documents, records, Web content, rich media, and document output in an integrated, extensible platform. In addition, SharePoint 2010 is built on an open platform that supports interoperability standards such as XML, SOAP, RSS, REST, WebDAV, and WSRP, which significantly reduces the cost of maintaining a heterogeneous environment.
SharePoint 2010 Composites: Taking Action with Managed Solutions
SharePoint Composites empowers business users to rapidly respond to a broad array of business needs with collaborative solutions of their own, without code, both on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities. In addition, it provides IT professionals with manageability and operational insights to ensure a stable platform and control over end-user solutions.
Rapidly Creating No-Code Collaborative Solutions
Empower business users to rapidly and easily address a broad array of business needs by using the browser, or to share their Microsoft Office Access® databases and Microsoft Office Visio® diagrams with others, while enabling advanced users to customize SharePoint with no-code tools in SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Office InfoPath®.
Unlocking the Value of Enterprise Data
Enable your organization to interact with enterprise data directly within the SharePoint and Office experience, in both read and write modes. Users can work with enterprise data as easily as with SharePoint data, whether they are offline, connected, or directly in the rich experience of the Office system.
Maintaining Control over End-User Solutions
IT professionals can manage user solutions and define resource-throttling controls on resource consumption on your server infrastructure, letting SharePoint take care of ensuring that solutions stay within your predefined limits. This enables IT professionals to maintain operational insight and a stable platform, whether online or on-premises.
SharePoint 2010 for the IT Professional
SharePoint 2010 can help to increase IT professionals’ productivity by improving the administrative experience and giving administrators deeper operational insight. Features include a new streamlined Central Administration Web site, new capabilities to manage and monitor the SharePoint farm, and Windows PowerShell™ support. (Sourced from http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/Benefits/IT-Professionals/Pages
/Top-Features.aspx.)
Streamlined Central Administration
You will find a revamped and streamlined administration experience in SharePoint 2010. Everything is at your fingertips within Central Administration to help you get your job done, including the addition of the Ribbon to make configuring and managing your server farm even quicker and easier.
SharePoint Health Analyzer
Built into SharePoint 2010, the SharePoint Health Analyzer 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 across all servers in your farm, or just let the SharePoint Health Analyzer do it for you.
Usage Reporting and Logging
The new unified logging database in SharePoint 2010 is the central repository for your SharePoint farm’s usage and health data. The new database schema will be fully documented to give you the power and flexibility to write your own reports, in addition to the ones that we provide. Through a new logging Object Model, you can also log your own events and tracing data into the database. Your insight into server usage and performance just became a whole lot easier.
Unattached Content Database Recovery
The new unattached content database recovery feature enables 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 without requiring a recovery farm.
Visual Upgrade
Visual Upgrade enables you to upgrade Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without impacting or changing the user interface in existing sites. The upgraded site initially looks and behaves just as it did in Office SharePoint Server 2007, but you can flip between the layout and site features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010. This gives you access to the new platform capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with the flexibility of choosing when you upgrade your site’s look and feel.
Support for Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language that can help IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. SharePoint 2010 offers a snap-in so that you can take advantage of Windows PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments. Hundreds of cmdlets will be shipped out of the box to help IT professionals manage server farms and automate tasks. In addition, the STSADM command line will continue to be available.
Large List Resource Throttling
Using resource throttling for large lists, you gain granular control over the impact on server performance of lists and libraries that contain between thousands and millions of items. In addition to this, users are automatically educated on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently.
Sandboxed Solutions
For IT professionals who have performance and security concerns with third-party code and solutions, sandboxed solutions can help to solve the problem. They enable site administrators to upload the solutions that they need. Not only is the solution run in a sandboxed environment and separated from other processes to make it safe, but IT professionals can control the resource that it consumes to prevent performance issues.
Scalable Unified Infrastructure
SharePoint 2010 provides a scalable unified infrastructure. It offers better control over server resources, which can improve processes such as the performance and management of large lists, and data management and protection, by using high availability. A scalable services architecture enables you to effectively manage and centralize services such as Search, My Sites, and Taxonomy. You can manage these service applications through Central Administration and Windows PowerShell can also manage and script them. The architecture is extensible, so third-party companies can build and add services to the platform.
Flexible Deployments
With a quick and simple installation and configuration process, SharePoint 2010 provides a flexible deployment experience. The upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 is smooth and predictable. New functionality enables you to manage how others use SharePoint. For example, you can safely allow site administrators to upload custom user code by using sandboxed solutions. You also have more governance controls. If you want to maintain a centralized SharePoint deployment instead of taking a more decentralized approach, you can block those deployments through Group Policy or track them with Active Directory® marker support.
SharePoint 2010 for the Developer
Software developers can use the SharePoint 2010 developer platform to build business collaboration applications for the enterprise and the Web, all with familiar tools and a rich set of interoperable, out-of-the-box features. SharePoint 2010 includes extensible framework features and tools for building applications, including Microsoft Silverlight™ Web Parts and client application programming interfaces (APIs), LINQ to SharePoint, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), sandboxed solutions, and new SharePoint List data relationships. Developers can more efficiently build SharePoint solutions by using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010, and the new SharePoint Designer 2010. (Sourced from http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/Benefits/IT-Developers/Pages/default.aspx.)
Developer Productivity
Software developers can increase productivity by using Visual Studio 2010 and the new SharePoint Designer 2010. You can install SharePoint 2010 on Windows® 7 or Windows Vista® for development purposes. Using SharePoint 2010, software developers get a rich set of resources, including software development kit (SDK) documentation and product features such as the developer dashboard page.
Rich Platform Services
SharePoint 2010 provides new features for building business collaboration applications, including Silverlight hosting for user interfaces, LINQ to SharePoint, Client Object Model, BCS, data relationships, and large list scalability. Using BCS, developers can now integrate line-of-business (LOB) data in client solutions in SharePoint and the Microsoft Office system easily and with read/write capability.
On-Premises and Online Deployment
Developers can build sandboxed solutions to be deployed on-premises or online, with built-in API limits and resource governance for administrators. In SharePoint 2010, you can deploy new sandboxed solutions to a corporate intranet, or to a shared hosting environment such as SharePoint Online.
Key Message
The SharePoint 2010 product group made significant investments in improving the overall management experience of SharePoint. These benefits will be realized immediately after performing an upgrade without having to deploy any new out-of-the-box capabilities. This enables organizations to realize value while providing a robust foundation for delivering on future business needs, either by taking advantage of other out-of-the-box capabilities or by improving the support and management of custom developed content.
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