SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek

Well with the SharePoint Conference not until October, Microsoft seems to have decided to release a sneak peek into some of the items that will be available in 2010. This is good because I just picked up on some of the add-ons for SQL 2008 R2.

SQL 2008 Add-ins
Add-in for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010
Share & Collaborate with Confidence

• Enables users to publish reports and analyses to SharePoint to make them available to others in the organization
• Applications and reports can be refreshed automatically while also maintaining version control and tracking
• Central, secure location where users can easily control who has access to sensitive data while also maximizing the number of people who can view the reports

SharePoint 2010 Management Console
Manage User-Generated Analytical Applications

• Provides a single, comprehensive management tool through Microsoft Office SharePoint that gives IT administrators the ability to set server policies and monitor Self Service BI activities
• IT can manage and secure all BI assets, freeing the original authors to focus on business priorities
• Dashboard views to monitor access and utilization of analyses and reports as well as track patterns of hardware usage to help ensure the right security privileges are applied and user generated solutions are continuously available, up-to-date, and secured
  

New Capabilities
General Overview

• Ribbon - Similar to Office 2007
• Selecting mutliple documents to check-in/check-out
• Graying out of sections not needed, such as pop-ups for adding comments when checking back in, all other items are grayed out.
• Easer editing via Web Edit and uploading of images from your desktop without having to upload and then point to the file
• Out of the Box Silver light Web Part for adding silverlight applications
• Rich Theming - Select Themes from PowerPoint, edit color palletes
• Better Compatability with Firefox
• Visio Services - Publish straight to SharePoint, users dont need Visio to see templates
• SharePoint Designer 2010 is greatly improved allowing direct tie in to backend systems by creating content types
• Business Connectivity Services - Read Write from within SharePoint, Seemless is Sweet
• Seemless integration with Office templates, Business Connectivity
• SharePoint Workspace (Formerly Groove) taking SharePoint offline including line of business applications
• Rich Media Support (PowerPoint 2010 now has a new inline video editing capability) for powerpoint, silverlight and other media services.

IT Professional - Just an interesting fact the video on the demo was done using Firefox

• Streamlined Central Administration - Cleaner Layout with the Ribbon
• SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer - Operational Insight and Health, checks for issues and can automatically fix issues. Fully Extensible
• Usage Reporting and Logging - SQL Logging Database for all SharePoint logging, also completely extensible - Tons of reports
• Large List Resource Throttling - to help with user load, and view creation to help with scalability
• Unattached Content Database Recovery - Option to map and detach a content database from Central Admin granual file extract
• Visual Upgrade - Upgrades directly to same look and feel, and allows to preview new visual, preview prevents users from making changes not compatibile with 2007

Developer

• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools
• LINQ for SharePoint
• Developer Dashboard
• Business Connectivity Services
• Client Object Model
• Silverlight Web Part

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

If there was any thought that there could be some competitors to SharePoint they would now be blown out of the water in my eyes. Hoping to be able to get to the Conference in October