Ferrara Data Consulting | Company Blog » Uncategorized http://ferraradata.com/blog A Sharepoint and web development blog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 SharePoint Conference 2009 Session Recaps http://ferraradata.com/blog/2009/11/sharepoint-conference-2009-session-recaps/ http://ferraradata.com/blog/2009/11/sharepoint-conference-2009-session-recaps/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:05:31 +0000 Mike Ferrara http://ferraradata.com/blog/?p=229 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.

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

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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.

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