SharePoint 2010 - Features

1.       Repository to share any kind of Information  in the form of list & library

a.       External list Representation of external data

b.      Allow to custom list in the form of InfoPath

c.       Content Retention Policy(Multi State Policy)

d.      Storing list content outside the database

a.       RBS – Remote Blob Storage

b.      Define the limit for what to be stored outside the database

e.      List Throating – defines quires with row limits

f.        Server side Pagination – 2007 only client side pagination was allowed

g.       CAML is used to query SP database, CAML – collaborative application mark-up language, SP take advantages of it.

2.       Provide classic features to repositories

a.       Versioning

b.      History of Changes

c.       Item Level Security

3.       Columns – provide metadata property management to repositories

a.       Clusters or non-clusters indexes PK/FK

b.      List or Library columns, Site columns

c.       Clusters or non-clustered indexes on columns (limited to have only 20 indexes)

d.      Referential integrity improvements (PK, FK, Cascade delete and restricted delete

e.      Column validation

f.        Content Rating

g.       Managed Meta Data(Taxonomy Services and Foxonomy)

Taxonomy	Foxonomy
Structured	No Structured
Hierarchical	May not be hierarchical
Managed by Administrators	Managed by users

h.      Meta data based navigation

i.         Search result refinement support based on Meta data, Meta data is eligible for search refinement.

4.       Provides Template Management Support.

1.       Content Type Hub – to distribute using publishes and subscribe model (In 2007 administrator had to install in every site one after another after each changes.)

2.       Reusable Workflow support to content type ( In 2007 you create a work flow and attach to a content type, in 2010 we can have a work flow and it can be reused for any number of content type wherever applicable)

5.        Provides enhanced authentication & authorization features:  2007 takes advantage of ASP.NET Authentication and provides either windows/forms authentication. (2010 Takes advantage of windows card space API and allows claims based authentication. Integrate third party authentication methods )

1.       Windows authentication

2.       Claims based authentication(Multiple and different types of authentication – external site authentication integration-single sign on feature)

6.       Provides user specific personalization – allowing users to design pages at run time. Ex. Opting for different web parts.

7.       Provide customization for organization branding. Customization happens at server level. Personalization happens in the client side. Ex. Master Page, branding. It is there from 2007 onwards. Develop your own pages, design and plug in. Most of the time it happens by admin/developer at server side.

8.       Provide E-form support for E-Governance ( InfoPath is a tool that helps to design and generate UI out of XML complaint documents)

a.       InfoPath form Library (people can create InfoPath form and save it. It is dumped as xml documents)

b.      InfoPath form service for browser support

c.       *InfoPath form viewer web part, allows multiple InfoPath form in an aspx page.

d.      *InfoPath viewer control (embed anywhere in the page), InfoPath is AJAX enabled.

                                                               i.      InfoPath processing instructions are added to the xml page and thus it is eligible to be viewed in the InfoPath. InfoPath form is created based on some schema.

9.       Provide profile Management (User Meta data, SP 2010 helps to connect to external data to get profile data. It allows you to take the changes back to the AD also)

a.       AD Integration

b.      LDC Directory Service, Noval, IBM Devoli

c.       External System such as SAP, SQL Server Support

d.      Synchronization with AD support

10.   Provide Target Audience Management support

a.       Targeting right content to right audience

b.      Your list items target audience support

c.       Search result target audience support

11.   Provide integration solution with external systems or LOB applications = BCS (Needs an XML based Enterprise feature that will tell me how to connect to External System without writing much code, Service that helps to connect to business applications why for querying in transactions, used external data as metadata, search. 2007 it was BDC, it failed because improper tools to help it. In 2010, we have BCS. Something like ORM, enable SP to connect to external system.)

a.       Available from MSF

b.      Transaction support(writing the changes back to)

c.       WCF service Support

d.      Enterprise Search

12.   Provide workflow support to collaborative application or solution. (For approval, decision making, accountability, awareness we need human interaction. We have to keep the application live until the process is complete, need to persist. SP provides a Run time (Work Flow Foundation) that will help developer to develop human integrated business components)

a.       SCA – Simple Content Approval built in

b.      Extensible and customizable out of box (built in) work flow templates for common tasks. (Approval, disposal etc.). In 2007 out of box were not customizable.

c.       Visio based workflow design

d.      SharePoint designer based workflow for role based actions

e.      Site work flow, new in 2010

f.        Reusable work flow, independent to list and libraries

g.       Custom work flow

13.   Provide Web Part Frame Work for building custom components to render dynamic contents as part of pages [We have BCS but we don’t want SP to know the details.]

a.       Silverlight hosting

b.      Server side AJAX support

c.       Inter page connectable web part

d.      Media web part – client side streaming. Server side streaming is possible with IIS media streaming

e.      Charting and graphing web part support

14.   Provide APIs to support external system to use SharePoint features (Talk to SP from other applications - 2007 there was only limited features with SOM and that too the support was available only in the same server where SP was installed)

a.       Server Side Object model (SOM)

b.      Client Side Object model

c.       ECMAScript Object model

d.      Silverlight Object Model

e.      LINQ to SharePoint

f.        REST services, everything is URL based

g.       WEB and WCF Services

15.   Provide ECM Capabilities

a.       Web Content Management

b.      Document Management

c.       Record Management

d.      Digital Asset Management

e.      Information Rites Management (IRM)

                                                               i.      Content Extraction restriction

                                                             ii.      Content Expiry(window information rites management)

16.   Provide Credential MAP management for single sign on in SharePoint. It is called SSS(Secured Store Services)

17.   Provide Enterprise Search ---(Query, index and crawling)

a.       Enhanced people search

b.      Phonetic Search

c.       Wild card Search

d.      Boolean operated search

e.      Search result refinement panel

f.        Federated Search

g.       Improved full text and free text search based on dictionary

18.   Provide Social Networking Features

a.       Blogging

b.      Wiki Site

c.       Activity Feeds

d.      Micro Blogging

e.      Mobile Blogging

f.        Content Rating

g.       Tag/Clouds

h.      Organization Browser

i.         RSS and ATOM feeds

19.   Provide BI Capabilities

a.       Excel Services

b.      Visio Services

c.       Access Services

d.      Chart Web Parts

e.      KPI – Key Performance Indicators

f.        Dashboard Pages

g.       SSRS integration

h.      SSAS integration

i.         Performance Point Service for score card, decomposition tree, dashboard reporting

20.   Other Features

a.       Service Application Framework (Extensible)

                                                               i.      Can Share across multiple farms

                                                             ii.      A web application can be connected to multiple service applications

                                                            iii.      On demand basis configuration

b.      Re-designed SP Central Administration

c.       For command line support PowerShell (.NET based command line tool)

d.      Granular backup and restore

e.      Remote blob storage

f.        Office ribbon menu integration with User Interface

g.       Health Analyser rules for health monitoring

h.      Search usage reporting for web analytics

i.         Error co-relation identifier

j.        Developer dashboard for tracing web page performance