· Better support for multiple browsers and phones

· SharePoint Designer workflows will now be reusable

· Workflow processes in SharePoint Designer can be imported from and exported to and from Microsoft Visio

· Workflow visualisations can be displayed by Visio Services so that people can see clearly what stage in the workflow the document is currently at

· The ribbon provides a rich feature set when editing page content

· Live preview is provided when formatting content style and positioning

· Pictures don’t need to be uploaded to the picture library to be made available for insertion – pictures can be selected from a local drive and will be uploaded automatically to the digital asset library when added to a page

· Ability to resize and reposition images on the page (with live preview)

· Spell checking is now built into the WCM content editor when publishing the page – also checks for draft items on the page

· Media web part available – silverlight based media player allowing streaming video to be delivered from the SharePoint rich media library

- Ability to create custom skins for the media player

- Streaming in BLOB cache (Maintains the health of the servers while content is being streamed

· Host header can now be created for site collections (instead of at web application level)

· Improvements to the Content Query Web Part

    - The filter section of the content query web part has a new field to be able to specify a value relating to the page in which the web part is embedded

   – No longer need to fiddle with XSL to make the values appear in the web part

    – Now a UI for specifying which fields to show· Changes to the page layout in SP Designer will be brought through to all pages created from the page layout

· Site branding via custom themes and master pages will now be applied to all pages – system pages will no longer be excluded

· Document libraries can have a million items per folder or 10s of millions of items per library

· Ability for administrators to throttle lists to limit the number of items being viewed

· Taxonomy can be used to navigate millions of items – improving user experience

· Social context can be used to find documents using document ratings – who rated this document from my team· Metadata navigators provided on the left of libraries to drill down into library contents to help filter the documents in the library

· New drag and drop ability within the Upload Multiple Documents interface· Hierarchical metadata and taxonomy for classifying content

· New concept of Document sets- A document set is a document content type in itself that contains child document types

    – Allows documents to be grouped together and managed together

    – Enabled features such as multiple checkout and check in

    – Can include instructional information for a document set including streaming video to give advice on processes

    – Can manage entire set or individual documents within the set

· Big investments have been made to enhance the interaction between office applications and SharePoint

    – Ability to add notes to a document within Word

    – Auto-complete available on property fields in Word

    – Office is now aware of the content types in libraries and the templates associated with those content types, knowing where to store it and which metadata to capture

· Office online applications allow documents to be opened and edited in the browser by multiple users

· File Server co-existence is now possible using File Server Resource Manager (Provided by Windows Server 2008 R2)

    – Provides the ability to apply metadata over existing file shares

    – Content classifier and folder classifier

    – Automatically applies metadata based on the content of a document (based on iFilters) – applied based on pattern matching within the documents

    – Can decide what stays in place and what is promoted to SharePoint

    – Powershell scripts used to send documents to SharePoint

    – Content Organiser used to place the document in the correct location in SharePoint

    – A link is left in the file share to the document in SharePoint

    – A report is produced detailing what has been moved to SharePoint by the PowerShell scripts

· Also still have the ability to send documents to the records centre (Can be done on any document, wiki item or blog entry)

· In 2007, policies were applied to content types – Now, policies can be applied to both content types and libraries/folders· SharePoint 2010 allows the construction of hierarchical records repository

· Can now have multi-phased disposition schedules

· Content Organiser allows content to be sent to the correct part of the file plan

    – Can set up organiser rules based on metadata properties and content types – can have multiple conditions

    – Documents are routed to the appropriate location based on the rules- The content organiser can be used on any sites – not just the record centre

    – Can have an auto-provisioned file plan based on the rules chosen

· Can now send items to the Records Centre as part of a SP Designer workflow

· Can leave a stub behind in the document library when moving to the records centre

· eDiscovery and Holds

    – Powerful new tools for discovery of information

    – Hold capability is not being restricted to a records centre – items can be held in place or moved to another location depending on the options chosen when searching for items to hold

    – Hold reports available for the sites

· Can specify if users can use taxonomy terms when tagging content· Can specify terms in different languages (which can be switched depending on the user)

· Can provide synonyms for taxonomy terms

· Allows users to suggest new terms to be added to the taxonomy

· Metadata can now be used to drive discovery and navigation

· Add hoc bottom up taxonomy management – ability to tag content and manage navigation via the taxonomy

    – Quick, easy, powerful search for free-

     Basic search

· SharePoint Server 2010

    – Complete intranet search

    – Intranet-wide search

    – People and expertise search

· FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

    – High-end search delivered through SharePoint

    – Visual experiences, extreme adaptability and advanced content processing

    – Powerful platform to build on

    – 360 degree views

    – Research portals

    – Reputation analysis·

 Standard and FAST Search – unified set of connectors, improved user experience, wildcard searching, filtering, navigation, federation

· Experience, relevance, navigation – new relevance algorithms for people, taking account of misspellings of people’s names (using phonetics algorithms)

· Scale and flexible platform – increased programmability and scalability – FAST adds to the extensibility

· Type ahead now provided in search box

· Metadata extraction to provide faceted search criteria in the left nav to filter search results

· Ability to save search to desktop to allow items to be searched later form windows explorer· Improved relevance rankings

· Enhanced language support and word breaking· Ability to preview office documents in the search page (this looks really good)

· User context – allowing relevancy to be based on user interests

· Enhanced people search

    – Ability to filter results based in job title, interests, etc in the navigator

    – Extraction from the user profile returned in the search results to make it easier to find the right person

· OOTB Sources for SharePoint Search now include File shares, Web sites, Databases, SharePoint, Exchange Server, Documentum and Lotus Notes

· Ability to build networks and see what other colleagues are up to

· Rating feature now available in lists and libraries (including blog and wiki entries)

· New search capability – rich people search to find people by expertise, ability to view recent content published by a user from the search -queryless search, enhanced search results interface

· Profile sites show lists of tags that users have applied to content

· Note boards (walls) available on user profiles for colleagues to leave notes and questions·

· SQL Server PowerPivot (released next year) – empowering Excel workbooks to handle 100 million rows of data

· Ability to build workbook views in Excel and publish information to SharePoint

· RSS feeds available for Excel workbooks to see what changes are being made

· Excel services, SQL Server support – slicers, capability for new chart types, new visualisations of data, exposing Excel formulas

–Visio Services and Chart web parts – ability to bind Visio to live data and allow data to be sliced and dicedBusiness Connectivity Services – external line of business and SQL data brought in as SharePoint data·

    – PowerShell to replace STSADM(500 commandlets being shipped with the public beta with the ability to crack open and customise)

· WhatIf command can be used with PowerShell commandlets to show what will happen when the script runs before it runs

· Throttling, monitoring, analytics – proactively manage the health of SharePoint –more rules being produced and shipped with later releases. Ability to write own reports against the schema (for the usage analysis database – not the content databases)

· Improved upgrade and availability – new model for visual upgrade – ability to run old UI pages as they are in the new environment or use the new UI when required, much less downtime required for applying patches with mirroring and log shipping

· All available to run on Windows 7 and Vista

· Don’t need to jump to explorer to view the SharePoint site – site explorer in the left nav of VS

· Graphical designers built in to help build and package solutions

· Drag and drop for building web part interfaces

· Ability to map folders from file systems to publish through to SHarePoint – to use to embed images in web parts (uses relative URLs) – VS will package the folder and deploy it to the 12 hive

· One click to deploy and debug – can set a breakpoint before deploying – F5 retracts, installs, deploys, etc with one click· New UI for adding web parts to pages

· New developer dashboard in SP 2010 – shows all database calls, callstack of what was called (xray technology for web parts), shows event offsets – timings of each call

    – can be used by developers and IT Professionals (this looks great)

    – Provides a report of slowest to load pages within a site plus the time of each image load and databse roundtrip on the page