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While attending  SPC09 in Las Vegas last month, I had the pleasure of writing several session recaps for CMSWire.com. There was so much information about SharePoint 2010 to be ingested that I could barely keep up! I’ve finally had time to settle down to start pouring through some of the sessions I missed, so I hope to update the blog frequently with new information. In the meantime, please check out the three sessions that were published already.

• SharePoint 2010 IT Pro Overview
• The Fundamentals of Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
• Building an Enterprise Knowledge Management Solution in SharePoint 2010

A new post on records management in SharePoint 2010 will be posted shortly, so stay tuned!

Since the announcing of SharePoint 2010 this month, the community has been buzzing with what we know about ’10 and what we are still speculating about ’10. There isn’t a whole lot of concrete information out there yet, but I’ve compiled a list below of what I’ve seen so far. I’ve also started listing some of the pressing things that we, the SharePoint community, would like to see in ’10.

Confirmed:

• So long MOSS! It seems like you’ve been renamed to just Microsoft SharePoint Server. We’ve called you so many things over the years that we’re hoping this name will actually stick.
• PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics functions will be bundled into the Server license
• Users will be able to open/edit/save/collaborate on Office documents through a web browser
• Native support for ODF and PDF seems to be a safe confirmation as Office System SP2 will now support editing of both formats.
• All Forms Server functions bundled with 2010 – There are clients who signed on for Forms Server standalone for WSS installs, so it would be nice if they bundled it with the next equivalent of WSS. I have an unofficial confirm from an MS employee that features will be available in 2010 but no solid details so far.
• Standardized UI across all Office products, browsers, mobile devices
• Open API support
• FAST Search for Server Enterprise owners
• Upgrades to 2010 will rely heavily on the new upgrade scanning command in STSADM – available in SharePoint 2007 SP2
• 2010 Q1 or Q2 projected release date

Hopes/Wants:

• Native SQL tables for SharePoint lists – Ever since this interview with Bill Gates, I’ve hoped that this will actually come to fruition. But as with any Microsoft product, it can take 2-3 iterations to get a major feature like this once it’s mentioned.
• More out-of-the-box branding features
• Native Silverlight and AJAX support
• More advanced backup options
• Thanks for making SPD free, but we need it to be more useful and less frustrating!
• jQuery support

You can also visit SharePoint Buzz for their list of SharePoint 2010 features.

Please post anything that I’ve missed or something that you’d like to see in 2010.

5/12/09 UPDATE- New post here with more SharePoint 2010 details.