Kick Start SharePoint 2010 - A Session with Valuable Information by a MicroSoft Expert
In past, SharePoint is well known as a product, and now Microsoft proudly announces that Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is no more a product, instead it is a Platform. Microsoft 2010, is not just only a portal site, it is enhanced in many ways for Content Management, Business Connectivity Services, faster customizations by using Office tools like SharePoint Designer, webparts, highly integrated with various Database Servers to get and also to update the data in the external Databases, and much more which we will be discussing further in this post.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is robust, more unique and sophisticated when compared to its previous version and below are the key differentiators for making Microsoft SharePoint 2010 so unique.
- Performance Point Service being integrated in the SharePoint Server.
- Embedding Business Connectivity Services
- Enhanced Search Results which allows you to see the content with in the document, page, site, e.t.c.,
- Greater User Interface which allows the development rigorously faster and easier.
- Many new features such as REST, Client Object Model, LINQ, Out of the box XSLT Views and much more...
- Ribbon is added, which behaves contextually - will see in detail in this post.
- Enhanced Out of the box Workflows, which can be further customized using browser itself.
- Service Application Architecture is an substitute for Shared Service Provider - SSP is no more in Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 are categorized into the following:
- Business Collaboration Platform for Enterprise and the Web
- SharePoint 2010 Development Platform
- New Service Application Architecture
Business Collaboration Platform for Enterprise and the Web
Sites
Communities
Content
Search
Insights
Composites
Sites
- Quickly and easily find and use relevant features with the new contextual SharePoint Ribbon.
- Manage SharePoint 2010 more efficiently with a streamlined administration experience.
- Use the SharePoint Ribbon to configure and manage your server farm.
Use SharePoint more effectively with improved accessibility, including built-in support for keyboard navigation and support for industry-wide accessibility standards.
Access SharePoint through Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
- Use more than 40 out-of-the-box Web parts to add functionality anywhere in a site with point-and-click simplicity.
- Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fixes many common configuration and performance problems.
- Temporarily mount an unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection, or export sites and lists without a recovery farm.
- Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 but keep the SharePoint 2007 look-and-feel until you are ready to switch. View a site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it.
- Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page, and the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.
- Achieve greater control and productivity with Windows Power Shell, a command line shell and scripting language. SharePoint 2010 offers a snap-in so you can take advantage of Power Shell for your SharePoint deployments and manage your server farm and automate tasks with out-of-the-box cmdlets.
Communities
- Use the new SharePoint Ribbon to format blog text and easily upload images.
- Keep your colleague network current with an automated service that suggests colleagues based on your reporting structure, communities membership, e-mail distribution lists, Office Communicator contact lists, and analysis of most common Office Outlook e-mail recipients.
- Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.
- Learn more about your colleagues with Profile pages. The My Profile page contains information about employees, including biographies, job titles, location, contact information, interests and skills, and previous projects.
- Help people recognize each other with photos. Use presence to email, IM, or call someone with the click of a button.
- Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.
- Let people know what you're up to with the Recent Activities feed on your profile page.
- Classify and organize large amounts of information in your company by applying tags. Use standardized taxonomy tags defined by the organization and informal social tags defined by employees.
- Create pages that combine the ease of wikis with the functionality of Web Parts.
Content- Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content.
- Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses.
Search- Tailor different results and refinement options based on the profile of the user or audience.
- Take advantage of out-of-the-box support for multilingual experiences in SharePoint 2010. Give your people language options in site navigations, menus, the SharePoint Ribbon, and customized list fields.
- Search for people by name or by associated terms.
Insights- Use the examples in this dedicated SharePoint Site template to help you get started with your Business Intelligence projects.
- Create rich dashboards that convey the right information the first time, aggregating content from multiple sources and displaying it in a web browser in an understandable and collaborate environment. Rich interactivity lets you to analyze up-to-the-minute information and work the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.
- Perform root cause analyses using powerful analytics to examine core data. View only the most pertinent information using the new Decomposition Tree.
- Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.
Composites
- Publish Access databases in SharePoint.
- Customize pages and web parts to create Web sites that meet your specific business needs.
- Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).
- Maintain security and manage system performance with Sandbox Solutions. Sandbox Solutions separate code from other processes; improving the security and helping you control resources and prevent performance problems.
- Deliver no-code customizations with the new tools in SharePoint Designer, including List and Content Type editors, reusable workflow, XSLT templates, and external content types.
- Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web part.
PPS: Performance Point Service which used to be seperately configured out of SharePoint Server in 2007 is now changed. PPS is now configured with in SharePoint Server 2010 to effectively increase the performance and allocate the services respectively to the servers in the farm installation and also plays a vital role in the Service Application Architecture.
BCS: Business Connectivity Services is a huge achievement in SharePoint 2010, which is an added feature to Licensed Enterprise edition of SharePoint Server 2010. If we recall BDCs - Business Data Catalogues in SharePoint Server 2007, we have to write huge code for Definition files, Configuration files e.t.c., to get the data from the external Databases. Moreover the data that can be accessed through BDCs used to be readonly, we were not able to do any modifications to that external data that was retrieved using BDCs. And here is the role of BCS, where in there is no much use of writing definition files, no need to worry about XML files, and moreover these can be configured using UI, and also the data that is retrieved using BCS can also be modified and the modified data will be updated in the external Databases by synchronization when in connection with the External Databases.
Date Changes, Month Changes, Year Changes, Be Yourself, No Matter What ever Changes......!
