Microsoft SharePoint 2010 : Architected for all forms of web scenarios

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that SharePoint Online has more than 1 million online users (and 7,000 partners). “SharePoint is more capable, more extensible, more Internet & cloud focused. It’s an amazing product.” , and yes SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been architected for all forms of web scenarios.

Here are few best features I captured about Microsoft SharePoint 2010

· “Ribbon” interface (in-context editing)

· "Visual web parts” (“no more hard-coding of web parts”)

· Supports development / design on Vista & Windows 7

· Access services (publish Access dbases through SP)

· New sandboxed solutions

· Integrated rich media & Silverlight

· Improved Visual Studio & SQL

· Upgrades from 2007 will include a complete migration of an existing home page design / UI to 2010

· Improved social computing (blogs, wikis, tagging, ratings, etc)

· Improved search algorithms and FAST Search integration

· New site scenarios for:
o Pricing analysis
o Hiring processes
o Citizen management (citizen portals)
o Project tracking
o Sales reporting
o Conference planning
o Delivery scheduling
o Compliance review sites

Now let’s brief about features:

SharePoint Sites
1.Rich User Experience

· Easy site editing, including theming & branding
· Office Ribbon UI for faster training & adoption
· Rich offline experience with SharePoint Workspace

2.Anywhere Access
· Mobile-based interaction with people and content
· Read-write web access using Office Web Application
· Cross-browser support for maximized participation

3.Single Platform
· Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet & Internet
· Improved interoperability with standards support
· Out-of-box accessibility compliance for WCAG 2.0

SharePoint Communities

1.Informal Knowledge
· Promote sharing with easy social authoring
· Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging
· Find better answers faster via user feedback

2.Social Connections
· Connecting users through enhanced profiles
· Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts
· Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise

3.Participation Anywhere
· Work with peers whether online or offline
· Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI
· Enrich existing applications with social context

SharePoint Content
1.User-centric
· Intuitive interaction with content through Office
· Fast discovery using content metadata and tagging
· Rapid creation and publishing of web content

2.Flexibility and Compliance
· Pervasive records management and legal holds
· Enterprise-wide taxonomies and folksonomies
· Cross-farm policies and rules for all content types

3.Management Efficiency
· Metadata and tagging managed by same services
· Less storage and bandwidth for Office & binary content
· Interoperability framework to link legacy repositories

SharePoint Search

1.Better Answers, Faster
· Improved relevance based on usage and history
· Rich results-navigators for shorter search time
· Support for 400+ content types and 85 languages

2.Knowledge Amplification
· Phonetic and multi-lingual for global relevance
· Social connections driven by interests and expertise
· Secure access to content, whether internal or external

3.Enterprise Deployment
· Improved scale to meet any demand volume
· Deployment-specific tuning for best results
· Search-driven applications to enrich platform

SharePoint Insights

1.Data interaction
· Advanced analysis with Excel Services
· Richer data visualization and easy sharing
· Incorporation of LOB data in data analysis

2.Decision Making
· Powerful Self-Service capabilities and visualizations
· Compelling dashboards to drive business results
· Rich reports with access to millions of rows

3.Organizational Effectiveness
· Drive accountability and alignment with scorecards
· Identify issues and opportunities with real-time access
· Improved API for richer extensibility and development

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization

2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs

3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization


2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs


3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility


Developer Investments

1.Developer Productivity
· Rapidly develop solutions with Visual Studio 2010
· Application Lifecycle Management & Team Dev
· Solution quality improved with debugging tools

2.Deployment Platform
· Rich solution UI with Silverlight, XSLT View, Clean HTML
· Data Foundation – Relationships, Lookup
· Better programmability with LINQ, Client API

3.Solution Hosting
· Standardized WSP Package Deployment
· SharePoint Online shared solution hosting
· Install on Vista SP1 or Windows 7 for Developers only

My Cubical Decoration won First Price

Its October 2009 month of Diwali festival season in India, two days back we got mail from Recreation activity group that in office there is cubical decoration competition, last year I won price for it, and it was challenge for me to again win this price.

Decorating the cubicle doesn’t translate it to adding all the pink and frills you have. It just means the place where you spend most of your day should have an inspiring effect on you. It should make you feel at home and motivate you to work better. A boring cubicle might proclaim professionalism but it is hardly exciting. You may enjoy what you do but a boring and lifeless cubicle may spell doom to your enthusiasm. Actually when you work in the environment where you are happy and you feel at home, your productivity increases and you stay alert for longer time. Personalizing your workspace can give a flow to your creativity and help you enjoy your work better.

So after two days brainstorming I finalized to work on current hot new about “Presence of water on Moon”, my theme was “SpadeWorx Moon Station”. SpadeWorx Software Services Pvt Ltd, is our company mainly operational on RIA Development, Frameworks Services, Rich Internet Application Development.
What does mean “SpadeWorx Moon Station” theme?
Theme is SpadeWorx opened new office on Moon, it has new work station moon. See following pictures.

• Universe environment feel: I used blank papers to fill surrounding of desk and painted planets and stars with colors to bring universe environment feel.
• Realistic feel: Few buildings that will represent the various work stations of our company like MSFT, OpenWorx, Test lab, Usability and main Head Quarter, HR Tower, to bring realistic feel.
• Future cars on Moon: I used some nice and sporty looking kids cars to represent the future techno driven development on the Moon highways.
• Paper made Moving satellite around the moon, and dish antennas for faster communication, also to show SpadeWorx will build capability to launch satellites from Moon surface, I used to show paper made satellite launchers.
• Actually you can see that I created that environment with my desktop by covering monitor with silver paper and big walky-talky, silver colored goggle, and white colored helmet with strips silver paper.
• To bring aliveness that as I am working that environment I changed my wallpaper with some moon pictures, and some background robotic tones.
• I did not forget to show small water tank near workstation.

And finally I succeed in my effort when I got mail from organizing team that I won the first price for Cubical Decoration for this year. Hope you guys will love to implement Moon station theme for participating in Cubical decoration competition.