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Monday, 26 October 2009 22:09 |
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The four day SharePoint 2010 reveal-athon is over, and I'm back to a boring and completely regular MOSS 2007 lifestyle. Okay, so it's not that dramatic, but I am definitely feeling a desire to switch completely over to 2010 for just about everything relating to SharePoint. There was tons of great content on display during the SharePoint Conference in Vegas last week. I'll be pouring over the on-demand sessions for weeks I'm sure, so this is only the beginning for the 2010 learning process.
There are some good resources popping up on the net about everyone's favorite features about 2010, so I won't spend time competing with them. I'll even link them below, but I do have my own personal top 5 list that I'd like to share with you...
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First and foremost, the NDA has been lifted and we will be treated to the first public beta in November. Office 2010 will also exit Technical Preview and enter into the first public beta stage. Pre-register for the SharePoint 2010 public beta now!
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SharePoint 2010 will offer native support for local installations on Windows Vista/7 with a simple switch in a config file. This is big news, especially for developers, because SharePoint 2010 requires 64 bit architecture. Microsoft does not currently support 64 bit guest OSs on Vista/7, so the only option would have been to run VMWare or VirtualBox.
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2010 will offer a UI within Central Administration for granular recovery of items within non-farm content databases. This should eliminate the need for a recovery farm for most recoveries.
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The SSP is gone. I won't get into all of the technical jargon as to why this is a good move, but basically the SSP has been completely replaced by service applications that run throughout the farm. Each WFE can run all available services, and you can very easily pick and choose which services to run. This is much more scalable and should be a whole lot easier to setup and maintain.
- 2010 will offer native support for external non-SharePoint lists. We already knew about this, but seeing it work in action was a pleasant sight. You'll be able to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) just like you would with SQL queries.
This was not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather just a few of my favorite reveals during the conference. Check the below posts to see more detailed listings of new features.
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If you like the new SharePoint 2010 external list feature and the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and want to make use of something similar in SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0 to connect SharePoint lists (no web parts) directly to external data sources without any programming or tools, please take a look at:
http://www.sharepointreviews.com/component/content/article/72-sharepoint-connectors/633-SharePoint-Business-Data-List-Connector-BDLC-by-Layer2.html
All list features are available, e.g. grouping, lookups. You can start buiness workflow actions in SharePoint, if external data changes.
The shareware version is completely free for download and use.