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1. Sharepoint 2010 !
A worthy Successor ?
Sushant Agarwal
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2. Sharepoint 2010
• Overview
•Feature Snapshot
• What’s delta to Sharepoint 2007?
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3. What is Sharepoint 2010?
Sharepoint is no doubt at the centre of innovation for Microsoft and has truly
become a phenomenon among Information workers.
For those who have just started: Sharepoint in a nutshell is
“The business collaboration platform that enables you to connect and empower people through formal and informal
business communities, within the enterprise and beyond, and to manage content throughout the information lifecycle.
Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint’s integrated capabilities are enhanced by search
technologies and enable you to rapidly respond to changing business needs by making data-driven decisions and by
deploying customized solutions quickly and securely. The consolidation of collaboration solutions onto SharePoint 2010
makes it possible to cut costs by lowering training and maintenance expenses and increasing IT productivity, all within a
governable and compliant platform”
The primary use of Sharepoint has been seen in the areas of Intranet/ Internet
portals, document management system and collaboration sites.
The Official release date of Sharepoint 2010 has been now fixed on May 12,2010
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4. Sharepoint 2010: Business Perspective
Sites: sharing information securely with co-workers, partners and customers
Composites: making dynamic business applications available in a simple way
Communities: enabling modern forms of collaboration
Content: Managing contents across their entire life cycle
Insights: making decisions on the basis of relevant information
Search: simple searching and finding of information and persons
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5. Sharepoint 2010: Component Diagram
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6. Sharepoint 2010: Upgrade Requirements
Hardware Requirements
• SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 are 64-bit applications and can only
run on a 64-bit edition of the Windows Server® 2008 operating system.
• You must have hardware that supports the use of a 64-bit operating system and 64-bit SQL
Server.
Database:
• 64-bit SQL Server 2005 SP2 or 64-bit SQL Server 2008
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7. Sharepoint 2010: Feature Snapshot
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8. Sharepoint 2010: Let’s dig deeper
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9. Updated Service Architecture
• In Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010, services are no longer contained within a Shared
Services Provider (SSP). Instead, the infrastructure for hosting services moves into
SharePoint® Foundation 2010 and the configuration of service offerings is much more
flexible. Individual services can be configured independently and third-party companies
can add services to the platform.
• You can deploy only the services that are needed to a farm. Services that are deployed
are called service applications.
1. Web applications can be configured to use
only the services that are needed, rather
than the entire set of services that are
deployed.
2. You can deploy multiple instances of the
same service in a farm and assign unique
names to the resulting service
applications .
3. You can share services across multiple
Web applications within the same farm.
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10. Updated Service Architecture
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11. Sharepoint 2010: Content/Document Management
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12. Content Authoring
Co- Authoring – Multiple authors
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13. Metadata Management
With SharePoint 2010, users get
consistent metadata management with
the result that any SharePoint site can
hook into that metadata with virtually no
effort.
There are two key principals in the use
of metadata: Metadata based
•Use and application of tags: It’s easy navigation as a
for a site to use enterprise wide tags
and taxonomies, and easy for users to virtual folder
apply them. structure
•How SharePoint 2010 uses tags: The
document library can be configured to
use metadata as a primary navigation
pivot.
Combined, it means that easy metadata
entry enables users to tag items which
in turn drives navigation. And because
users need the metadata to navigate the
repository, this encourages them to tag
the items.
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14. Document Set
Manage the unmanaged
It allows you to group related documents
together so that they share
metadata and have a common
homepage, workflows, and archival
process
e.g. a team that just needs to put
together a pitch book/sales
proposal that includes a
PowerPoint deck, a spreadsheet of
costs, and a document that
describes the sales pitch
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15. Office Integration
• Office Integration - Via the new Office 2010 Backstage user interface, you can access and search tags and notes
used in documents.
• if you’ve installed the Office Web Apps (licensed as part of the Office 2010 suite), the default click for a document
library can be configured to load Office documents and lets you edit Office content in the browser.
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16. Web Content Management
• A SharePoint version specific for Content Organizer
Internet sites will be available
when the product ships next year.
• Content Organizer – Helps
organize content better in a
Publishing Environment
• Much Improved Rich Text Control
• Single Click Page Authoring
Content Query Web Part
The new CQWP simplifies working with Item Styles by introducing slots. A slot is a
marker in the Item Style Template which is being filled with the content on runtime. The
Content Query Web Part allows you to set the mappings between the slots and the
fields using the property pane what allows you to create more semantic and reusable
Item Style Templates!
Another great feature of the new Content Query Web Part is the Content to Content
concept. This makes it extremely easy to provide functionality such as related content.
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17. Digital Asset Management …
The Silverlight audio / video player even has built in streaming technology, which is very
easy to use.
The best part, from my perspective, is the ability to add other metadata easily through
integration with the metadata services. This will allow for greater findability of your digital
assets and a consistent categorization process.
Remote Blob Store - One of the drawbacks to DAM in SharePoint was how quickly
databases would get with all those large files. With 2010 you have the option of configuring
storage OUTSIDE of SQL, which is important in DAM and other document intensive
scenarios like records management.
Document Sets - The ability to group a number of documents together and managed them
together helps for scenarios where you are trying to track groups of images together, etc...
Location-based Policies and Metadata make for easier management of assets. As users
tend to be poor metadata managers, this option helps with the auto assigning of metadata
based on where the file is uploaded.
Content Organizer - Auto routing of files based on properties of the files also helps with
management and upkeep.
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18. Digital Asset Management
SharePoint Server 2010 provides a library
template called Asset Library that is
customized to use new image, audio, and
video content types designed specifically for
storing and cataloging rich media assets.
These new content types use new column
types such as Preview, Picture Size, Date
Picture Taken, and Length (seconds) that
contribute to the metadata for a particular
asset.
The asset library also has a preview mode
that displays a thumbnail and some of this
metadata when you hover the pointer over an
asset.
Sharepoint 2010 captures image information
and metadata while auto creating thumbnails
and built in viewers for images, audio and
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19. Records Management
In Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010 you can manage records in an
archive, or you can manage records
in the same document repository as
active documents.
With the Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010 in-place approach,
when you declare that a document
has become a record, the record
remains in place, but Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 now
manages it as a record.
For example, a document might get
a different retention policy when it is
declared to be a record, or users
might not be able to edit it..
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20. Miscellaneous
• WSS is now called SharePoint Foundation.
• Page Rating feature is now OOTB
• Extensive Mobile support with Sharepoint 2010.
• Alerts can now be sms’d to you if you like
• Improved Web Analytics
• Size of lists and libraries is not going to be a problem; you can store 50
million items in each of them now.
• Tagging is new and is folksonomy driven – this means that users decide
what the tags should be and the majority vote wins!
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21. Sharepoint 2010: User Experience Improvements
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22. Much Improved Accessibility
Web Standards
•XHTML Strict Much Hyped - Ribbon Interface
•Well-formed HTML/CSS output
•WCAG 2.0 AA
Modal Framework
•No Unnecessary Redirects
Cross-browser Support
Full SharePoint functionality for:
•Firefox 3.x Introduction of in-browser dialogs for better
accessibility
•Apple Safari 4. x
More features
•Supports Ajax
•Allows Image Embedding
•Multilingual UI: comprehensive support of multilingualism for
user interface, menus, navigation and lists
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23. Media / Rich Media
Silverlight is now natively supported in Sharepoint. Simply develop your Silverlight
application (.XAP) and deploy it to the server. You can then add the Silverlight
application to your web page by adding the Silverlight web part and providing the
location of the .XAP file.
- Media player built right into
SP 2010 (ribbon changes
context based on what you
click on)
- Supports skinning for the
media player
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24. Sharepoint 2010: Search
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25. Search – Key Improvements
• Faceted Search using the refinement panel: After you’ve searched for a document or a
person, the refinement panel shows you the categories (or metadata) for the first 50 items in the
results list.
• Sharepoint and FAST Integration: SharePoint 2010 Search and the new FAST Search for
SharePoint 2010 have been designed to share a common platform so that search developers can
integrate with both SharePoint Search and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 using the same
query side interfaces. This means developers don’t have to learn new APIs or programming
models, but can leverage the same object models, services and a common query language for
both products.
• “View in browser” option for all office documents in search results.
• Boolean operators supported
• Federation to people search
• Integration with windows search so Win7, Vista search can federate to SharePoint search
and the search experience can be tied to SharePoint.
• Phonetic name matching and nickname matching for people search. e.g. “jon coughman” finds
“Jonathan kaufman” “shartam mikellsen” finds “kjartan mikkelsen”.
• Self Search – to drive people to participate content. Vanity search and you have richer options to
manage how to improve your personal search profile
• Improved scalability, query functionality and index redundancy. Support for multiple
indexers.
• Each Document now has a unique Document ID which can be searched.
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• Support for regular expressions in crawl rules. ie. Remove SSN from search.

26. Search options in Sharepoint 2010
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27. Search options in Sharepoint 2010
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28. Fast Search – At a Glance
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29. Sharepoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services
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30. Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Business Connectivity Services solutions use a set of standardized
interfaces to provide access to business data. As a result, solution
developers do not have to learn programming practices that apply to a
specific system or adapter for each external system. Business Connectivity
Services also provide the run-time environment in which solutions that
include external data are loaded, integrated, and executed in supported
Office client applications and on the Web server.
• Sources of external data that Business Connectivity Services can connect
to include SQL Server databases, SAP applications, Web services
(including Windows Communication Foundation Web services), custom
applications, and Web sites based on SharePoint products. By using
Business Connectivity Services, you can design and build solutions that
extend SharePoint collaboration capabilities and the Office user experience
to include external business data and the processes that are associated
with that data.
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• You can now write data using BCS which was not possible earlier.

31. Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
Architecture
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32. External Lists
Sharepoint External List – New Regular Sharepoint List
Feature
• Expose external data as a • No default fields: title, created
native SharePoint list (by), modified (by)
• Full CRUD capability • List items don’t have unique
• Familiar UI and navigation int32 ID
• Sort, filter, group • No events
• SPList OM access • Item level security on external
source
• Forms: OOTB or upsize with
InfoPath • Read/Write depends on
external source
• Work offline
• Data stored in external
system
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33. Offline Content using Workspace
• The ability to take all SharePoint content offline in a more seamless fashion
• Auto-sync of lists and libraries (for documents, only actual changes are synched)
• The Sync to Computer feature allows users to create a local copy of a SharePoint site on
your computer via the Workspace client, thus taking your content offline.
• Versioning – Check in Check out
• Version history is available in the Workspace client but, since it is stored on the server, when
you are offline that history data will be unavailable. The same is also true for check-in and
check-out functionality, which also relies upon a connection to the server. As a result, when
in offline mode, you'll only see the most recent versions of documents. This was done so as
to avoid saving the entire version histories locally to your client.
• Windows Search integration
• Selecting Search from the launch bar searches across all SharePoint Workspaces;
SharePoint permissions are respected in the Workspace client
• Office integration
PowerPoint and Word are the first two Office apps which are supported for the automatic merge
changes functionality
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34. Sharepoint 2010: Business Process and Forms
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35. Business Process and Forms:
Improved Workflow Capabilities
• In SharePoint Designer 2010 the workflow design experience is a perfect example of how a business
analyst can access a tool that can be leveraged as the first step in a development cycle. The workflow
designer in SharePoint Designer 2010 allows you to specify a set of steps, conditions, and actions that fit
together into a sequential workflow. The designer allows you to create complex workflows that include
looping and branching by clicking a few buttons in the ribbon. By assembling the out of the box actions
and custom actions it is possible to develop workflows which do not require any custom code.
• The user interface for building the workflow is a full page, artifact model which allows you to develop a
workflow like any other SharePoint artifact by referring to other resources and potentially making changes
to lists and content types while building the workflow
• Those workflows that are developed in SharePoint Designer 2010 can be exported into a SharePoint
Solution Package file (WSP) so that they can be imported in Visual Studio 2010 and from there enhanced
or changed. Workflows can also be designed in Visio and imported into SharePoint Designer and Figure 10
shows the Approval workflow when visualized with Microsoft Visio.
• The workflow editor in SharePoint Designer 2010 has two basic modes. A non-reusable workflow mode
which uses the specific attributes of a list and embeds those fields, content types, etc., into the workflow
and the reusable workflow which can be packaged for redeployment. The non-reusable workflow allows
for a simpler design experience when the workflow will only ever need to exist in one place. The reusable
workflow can be reused anywhere – so therefore does not bring context from the current site and thus
requires more work to deliver. Having both allows the developer to decide which workflow solution is
best for the specific scenario.
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36. Improved Workflow Capabilities
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37. Sharepoint 2010: Insights
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38. Insights - Business Intelligence
Excel and Pivot Excel Services
Reporting Services
38 Visio Services Performance Point Services

39. BI Platform Architecture
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40. Sharepoint 2010: Collaboration/ Social Computing
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41. Identity Management: Directory Services
Support
Identity management improvements include faster updates between SharePoint
and directory services, including LDAP servers and third-party applications.
Directory services
The directory services supported in SharePoint Server 2010 and their
synchronization capabilities include the following:
Service Users Groups Incremental
Active Directory Domain Services (AD Yes Yes Yes
DS) 2003 SP2, 2008
SunOne (LDAP) 5.2 Yes No Yes
Novell eDirectory (LDAP) 8.7.3 Yes No Yes
IBM Tivoli (LDAP) 6.2 Yes No Yes
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42. My Sites
My Sites will have the ability to check who
you email the most and suggest colleagues
for you automatically. Your colleagues are
very important in SharePoint, they make up
the whole social structure.
A built in Silverlight application on My Sites
makes viewing organization structure pretty
groovy!
My Sites also have status updates like
Facebook now.
Two other new features are Notes and I Like
It. This is similar to the Like feature on
Facebook and the comments box on your
wall. You can like and post notes just about
everywhere.
You will be able to push your pictures back to the AD (with some configuration of course) so that other
applications like Outlook or the communicator will be able to use the same picture. This is then done by auto
sizing of the pictures. It will make three sizes:
• 32×32 for use in SharePoint
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• 96×96 for Profile page

43. New wave of social computing
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44. Sharepoint 2010
• Designing and Development
•Administration
• Content Publishing and Deployment
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45. Sharepoint designers have more teeth
• SharePoint designer
will create the
CRUD operations.
• A more feature rich
Sharepoint designer
• Looks less
confusing
• Preview Online
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46. Improved Developer Productivity
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Project
Types and Items
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
extensibility
• Visual Studio Extensions For SharePoint
Upgrade
• Windows 7 and Windows Vista Operating
System Support
• SharePoint Designer 2010
• Developer Dashboard
• Team Foundation Server 2010 Integration
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47. Development and Administration
Major Ramp-up in rich features
• SharePoint Ribbon
• SharePoint Dialogs
• Silverlight Web Part
• List Lookups and Relationships
• Business Connectivity Services
• LINQ to SharePoint
• Performance Enhancements
• Solution Throttling
• Event Enhancements
• Workflow Enhancements
• Client Object Model
• REST APIs
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48. Flexible Deployment Options
• Sandboxed Solutions
• SharePoint Online
• Upgrading Solutions
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49. Resources
• SharePoint 2010 Website - to view SharePoint 2010 in action
• SharePoint 2010 forum- for SharePoint 2010 questions
• SharePoint 2010 PressPass- for the SPC 2009 keynote video, a Q&A with
Jeff Teper, and more
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Center - for developer info
• http://www.mssharepointitpro.com - for IT Pro info
• http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint - for more SharePoint information
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