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&#8211; e.g. Silverlight webpart when create new items, etc.); teh Office &#8220;ribbon&#8221; user interface is extended to the server application; a more intuitive edit mode is provided with\u00c2\u00a0the ability to change layouts on the fly, etc.; offline synchronisation with SharePoint workspace and supports for multiple workspaces.<\/li>\n<li>Communities: embrace web 2.0, redesigned mysites; tagging; enhanced wiki and blogs; ratings; enhanced people search.<\/li>\n<li>Content: Document sets (grouping documents for metadata and versioning).\u00c2\u00a0 In 2007 site collections cannot be nested (it&#8217;s possible to have many subsites but collections are all peers &#8211; isolated by security, need to deploy content types around farm manually) but 2010 provides enterprise content types.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not always a good idea to load all content into SharePoint content database\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0new linked lists can treat file system items like an ordinary SharePoint list (so can search, etc. on it).<\/li>\n<li>Search: Search Server 2010 Express provides quick, easy, powerful search for free; SharePoint Server 2010 gives complete intranet search; FAST Search Server for SharePoint gives high end search delivered through SharePoint (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2008\/jan08\/01-08FastSearchPR.mspx\">Microsoft bought FAST in 2008<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 There are changes in indexing as the MOSS 2007 scale-out model generated certain bottlenecks (e.g. a single index server for each set of shared services presenting a single point of failure; the search database was a bottleneck; and the whole index propagated to all front end web servers). In SharePoint 2010, the\u00c2\u00a0indexer is now a crawler and has a separate crawl database.\u00c2\u00a0 Query\/index servers can store partitions of the index (so no longer on one server) for fast searching.\u00c2\u00a0 The FAST search gives thumbnails, refinements with counts on properties, visual best bets, the ability to sort results on any property, scrolling PowerPoint previews, similarity search and\u00c2\u00a0phonetic searching.<\/li>\n<li>Insights: BI, analytics, reporting services, etc.;\u00c2\u00a0Excel Services, etc. with editable cells (at least in CTP, although not in the beta\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6); Visio services (needs Visio 2010) allows design and publishing to browser (in .VDW format), with data binding for data driven drawings &#8211; e.g. a server diagram with colour coding based on pings (binding ranges of data to various colours), rendered in Silverlight (or JPG if Silverlight is not available). Other examples are room booking, organisational diagrams with sales figures, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Composites:\u00c2\u00a0provide business connectivity services, to connect SharePoint to line of business applications, replacing the\u00c2\u00a0business data catalog in 2007 (which was read only), allowing create, read, update and delete operations, the creation of\u00c2\u00a0external content types, external lists created from external content types, and to display line of business data in standard SharePoint forms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under the covers, SharePoint is just a very large ASP.NET application but it&#8217;s also one of Microsoft&#8217;s fastest growing platforms and the 2007 version has really taken off in many organisations.\u00c2\u00a0 Even so, out-of-the-box SharePoint is a platform upon which to develop &#8211; the solutions provided are examples and are not the limits of what SharePoint can do.\u00c2\u00a0 SharePoint 2010 looks to provide a number of improvements to address issues of scalability and extensibility together with features that enhance the experience for users of the technology.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepointjoel.com\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=249\">Expect to see the product released in the first half of 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve dipped in and out of SharePoint several times and, last week, I took myself\u00c2\u00a0along to the Edge user group&#8216;s meeting at Microsoft&#8217;s London offices to listen to SharePoint MVP, Dave McMahon, talk about what&#8217;s coming in SharePoint 2010. 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