I took a lot of notes during the keynote, because I thought it would be fun to share with people as they are looking for a high level overview of SharePoint 2010, or are curious what was touched on. Since the keynote was 2.5 hours long and had like 4 speakers, there are a lot of notes.
I didn't want to edit them too much so you can decide what's of interest to you, and also I didn't want to delay this post any longer.
Monday morning keynote notes
General
· SharePoint has a balance of audiences: end users; IT administrators; developers . MS thinks of all 3 as their customer – does not focus more on one than the other.
· Make it easier to customize sites
· UI has been replumbed to reduce page refreshes.
· Native multilingual support
· More alternate accessibility
· SharePoint Workspace = the client. Can take lists and libraries offline. Similar to previous groove-SharePoint integration
· Communities= social computing platform for the enterprise
· SharePoint = the ultimate swiss army knife (wikis to workflow; blogs to BI)
· OneNote on the web capability
· Tagging folksonomy and auto-suggestions for better tagging
· My site user experience and profile access and feeds have been streamlined
· Browsing people should finally be better viewing people in SharePoint rather than browsing Outlook Address Book
· A lot of emphasis on it working in Cloud computing.
· Online SharePoint – hosted by Microsoft. MS has made running SharePoint servers lower cost.
SharePoint Content
· Architecture and UI improved to allow MM of items in lists and libraries
· Better sharing taxonomy (content types) across sites
· Better photo and video management (Digital Asset Management)
Governance and Compliance
· SP2007=records management and auditing. But for large organizations, you need the scale of 2010.
· 2010 has ability to manage a record without moving it to the records center
Search
· People search now includes phonetic search
· Search infra and user experience greatly improved
· People search includes view recent content and authored content. Also shows content people have tagged.
o KB Comment: The adoption of this will change the way people work – a new way to gain visibility and mobility in the organization.
Office Apps and related
· People can rate documents
· The taxonomy pops up wherever you need it
· All office apps can be viewed in browser.
· Co-editing – two people can work on and see changes in the same doc at same time.
· There is a Mobile SharePoint app, which is the SharePoint client for mobile. Will work in any mobile browser (safari). Can be sync’ed offline.
BI – bi dashboards
· Visio services
· Make sql data look like SharePoint data
· Powerpivot (Gemini)
· Abile to embed a dynamic chart picture into any SharePoint page. Tied to underlying data.
· PerformancePoint is now part of SharePoint which will improve dashboards.
· KB Comment: I think the key to being able to do this is skill in knowing what data to track and how to organize your table so it can be summarized in an interesting way.
· PerfPt Decompisition Tree = way of telling where data is coming from.
Administration
· They put the administration screens through the MS usability labs this time!
· Better command line scripting. Now they are using Powershell.
· Usage analysis database schema is now available so you can write your own reports off it.
· Backend database is still a private schema and you should access with api’s, like any 3-tier architecture.
· Upgrade was changed based on feedback of last upgrade.