What’s New in

SharePoint 2010?

Milan Gross Gayan Peiris

Principal Technology Specialist
Synergy Corporate Technologies Microsoft
 Cross-Platform
User Interface
No-Code
Business
Automation
Social
Collaboration

Business
Intelligence
Enterprise
Content
Management
Search
 File | Save As on the server
◦ Can read and write any format that desktop Word can read and write
 Enables 100% fidelity server-side rendering
 It is Office, so the output is the same – Right down to the last
pixel
 API for server-side automation
 High-volume doc generation, conversion
 Expanded cross-browser support
◦ Well-formed HTML/CSS output
◦ WCAG 2.0
 Core features
◦ Cross-browser rich-text editor
◦ Full SharePoint functionality for:
 Firefox 3.x
 Apple Safari 4. x
 Sync lists or sites
 Online/Offline Editing
 Automatic syncing
 Only deltas transferred
 Windows Explorer integration
 Activity Feeds
◦ Consolidated – activities from everything I track
◦ Published – my activities
 Central picture library
◦ http://<mysitehost>/UserPhotos/
◦ Picture picker customizable and replaceable

 Knowledge Mining
 Connect with People and Expertise

Refine by query type, and

many other pivots Phonetic and nickname
matching

Sort by relevance, name or

social distance

Vanity search

Improved result layout and

Recently authored content hit-highlighting
 Tags Notes Ratings

Description Keyword bookmarking Short comments (<3000 5-Star Ratings

characters)

Web part/control No Yes Yes

Discover content by colleague Both Colleagues Colleagues

or keyword
Web pages, List Items, Yes Yes Yes
Documents
Doc Library/List Sort and Filter Yes (Doc authors only, requires No Yes
enterprise keywords field)

Indexed by Search Yes No Yes

Bookmark-let for external or Yes Yes No
non-SharePoint pages
Enterprise taxonomy Yes No No
management
In Office 2010 Client Yes (Doc authors only, requires Yes No?
enterprise keywords field)

In Office Web Apps Yes Yes No

 Support up to 50 million items
 The default is configured for
5,000 items
 warning level for site
administrators: 3000 items
 Site administrators can return
20,000 items
 List Index Auto-Creation
 Site collection content type gallery defined as “Hub”
 Content types are ‟published” farm-wide
 Other site collections “consume” hub content types

 Content Type with all the columns

 Document Set Content Types
 Policies
 Workflow associations (not the workflows)
 Predefined set of hierarchical terms
 Defined by administrators
 Bind to field in list, library or content type
 ‟Like a super choice field”
 Most recently used
 Sets can be imported
 Freeform and Unmanaged
 Accepts anything typed
 Validates against all terms in all term sets
 Always for ‟folksonomies”
 Auto-complete
 Disambiguation
 Preferred term
 Tree picker control
 New object to manage work products made up of multiple documents
◦ Think Folder++
 Key Scenarios
◦ Tight collection of documents
 A sales proposal that includes documents (proposal), spreadsheets (quotation), and presentations
 Heterogeneous file types not usually assembled
◦ Compound documents
 A user manual that is an assembled roll-up of separate sections

 Document Set Features

◦ Shared Metadata
◦ Customized welcome page
◦ Default documents added
◦ Version capture
◦ Workflows
◦ Portability (download/upload/send to record center)
 Content Types
Thumbnail-centric views

Workflows
Metadata extraction
for images
Information management policies

RSS / Podcasting support

Etc…
 Built on Silverlight™ (3.0 or higher)
 Use it as a Web Part or as a Publishing Field
 Plays videos from SharePoint or remote locations
 Customizable: Fully “skin”-able
 Extensible: JavaScript Object Model (no server-side code
required), including:
◦ Playing, pausing, seeking, set source
◦ Getting “embed” tags (for Internet-facing
video sharing)
Quick, easy, powerful Complete intranet High-end search delivered
search (for free!) search through SharePoint

Basic search Intranet-wide search Visual experiences, extreme adaptability and

People and expertise search advanced content processing

• Common UI Framework • Common Connector Framework (BDC)

• Social search features and integration • APIs and developer experience
• SharePoint platform integration • Admin & deployment capabilities
• End user and site administrator enablement • Operations advantages (SCOM, scripting)
 URL fuzzy matching
 Social tags
 Results click through
 Implicit phrase matching
 Extracted metadata,
 Improved low-noise snippets in summaries
 Front door to the office social network
 Better expertise & interest search
 Email mining to bootstrap profiles with interests and
colleagues
 “Address book style” search
 Phonetic name matching
 Nickname matching
 Relevance models tuned specifically for people search
 Metadata refinement, better hit highlighting, recently authored
content
“The whole index”

Query

“Bottleneck”

“Single point of failure”

Indexer
Query
+ Query
“Bottleneck”
SharePoint Server 2010 Search Scale-out Multiple Indexers
Stateless Crawlers
Crawl Distribution
Admin Admin

Query Mirroring
Database Component
Query Query

Index Partitioning
Multiple Property DBs
“The whole index”
Admin Database +
Admin Component
Query
Query

“Bottleneck”

“Single point of failure”

Indexer Indexer
Crawler Crawler
Crawler Crawler

“Bottleneck”
 Regular full crawl (like 2007)
 Time stamp based incremental crawl
 Change log crawl + deleted count
 Change log + delete log crawl
Demos
 New visualization report – Decomposition Tree
 Improved scorecards
 Time Intelligence filtering improved
 Connectable web parts
 KPI Details report
 Enhanced analytic reports
 Security

Management

Collaboration

Gemini
PowerPivot add-in PowerPivot add-in
for Excel for SharePoint
 Visio Graphics Service

Share and view Visio diagrams

Data connected diagrams
Visio Web Access
Visio client integration
 Rendering
◦ Browser-agnostic
◦ Full Fidelity rendering using
◦ Down-level experience in PNG

 Visual Refresh of Data Diagrams

◦ Refresh diagrams connected to:
◦ Supports Kerberos, SSO & Unattended Auth.
◦ Automatic refresh
 SharePoint Integration
◦ Visio Web Access web part
◦ JavaScript Mash-up API
◦ Supports web part connections

 Administration
◦ Visio Services is a Shared Service
◦ Customizable in Central Admin & PowerShell
◦ Can tune performance to your hardware
 No code connectivity to external data sources
 Direct item binding via External Content Types
 Full CRUDQ support (read-write)
 SharePoint Designer integration
 Offline access to external data
 Fully indexed and searchable
External Content Type

Customer
CustomerID
FirstName
LastName
PhoneNumber
EmailAddress

External data
 Describes the schema and data access
capabilities of an external data source
and its behavior within Office and
SharePoint
BCS
*formerly known as BDC Entity

External Content
External Data
Type
Source
(ECT)

BCS

SharePoint (Thin)
 Visual Studio 2010 Initiation and Association Forms
 New Workflow Design Surface in SPD
 Import SPD Workflows into Visual Studio
 Build SPD Actions in Visual Studio
 Visio 2010 Workflow Design
 Browser Based Visualization
 High Privilege Workflows
 Control Where Service Runs
 Site Workflows
 Reusable Declarative Workflows
 List Workflow Event Receivers
 Pluggable Workflow Services
 Performance and Scale
 Fully Customizable OOB Workflow
 Approval Designer
Signup E-mail
with Link to

SharePoint
Portal with
Recruiting Trips
& University
Details
 Create Forms for SharePoint Lists
 Build modular, extensible, and portable SharePoint applications
 More powerful Web browser forms
 Connect forms with line-of-business information
 Create forms with or without code
 Publishing form templates as Sandboxed Solutions
Demos
http://MSSharePointITPro.com http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com http://SharePoint.Microsoft.com
Milan Gross Gayan Peiris
Principal Technology Specialist
Synergy Corporate Technologies Microsoft
jmgross@synergyonline.com gayanp@microsoft.com