Sharepoint 2010 Overview and Whats New \\ Speaker – Arpan Shah \\ Main Points

Sharepint 2010 has Full browser cross browser and platform compatibility, Including full mobile browser support. Sharepoint 2010 will take office themes and apply them to an entire sharepoint site. Sharepoint workspace lets you take Document Libraries and contact libraries on the go in low or no bandwidth situations. Excel services can do dashboards directly in sharepoint (charts and tables) live. Sharepoint 2010 really shines when it comes to content organization. The Content Query web part, can pull everything that is related to research, show it to me ‘here’. Can make a “rule” that any document that gets added to a document library with the tag “spc” gets put in a different document library that only has documents with the tag “spc”. Rules can be more complex than the above example. This reminds me of Database Triggers, things that get called in standard RDBMS when tuples are insterted into a table, but in Sharepoint the table is a list, and the trigger is a rule. Sharepoint 2010 has vastly improved search for example SP2010 now has wildcard search, and phonetic search. The search was very FAST, and it hits everything including documents. Access for sharepoint 2010 has some improvements as well. Access Services publishes a DB (Access) to the web, which can be edited. Reporting and charts are built into access. Business Connectivity Services now integrates with Visual Studio 2010. There is now the ability to pull read/write functionality into a 3^rd party DB as an “external list” looks like sharepoint, but it’s a virtual list that goes back to the line of business application. This is just the tip of the iceberg for what sharepoint 2010 has to offer. Im especially excited for the content organization.