Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes several key enhancements and additions. The ribbon, part of the redesigned user interface, helps you get your work done faster by placing commands on task-based tabs that are easy to navigate. It also helps you work across multiple Internet browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0, Firefox 3.0, and Safari 3.0. Finding and working with features such as SharePoint sites, lists, wikis, blogs and permissions is now easier and more streamlined. New social networking features help you more easily locate the people and information you are most interested in. With new Enterprise Content Management features, improvements to Search and improved collaboration tools, you can work in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 more efficiently and intuitively.
With enhanced functionality in Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010, you can manage your business data more efficiently whilst monitoring and analysing business performance against goals more easily.
New user interface
Use the new ribbon to perform tasks quickly and in the context of your work.
The new ribbon in SharePoint Server 2010 is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete your tasks. Commands are organised in logical groups, displayed together under tabs.
Collaboration
- Use the new co-authoring feature to work simultaneously with colleagues on Word documents or PowerPoint slide presentations
- Schedule meetings and keep track of your schedule more easily with improved calendars
- Use the new Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 to work with SharePoint sites, libraries and lists offline and synchronize your changes when you reconnect to your corporate network
- Share information with others more efficiently with improved wiki and team sites
- Create and manage your blogs more easily with improved authoring tools and new navigation
- View and work with SharePoint information from your mobile device
Social computing
With the new features in SharePoint Server 2010 you can locate content and stay informed about people and areas of interest that matter most to you.
Find and help others find interesting information
New features include newsfeeds, social tagging and ratings so that you can more easily keep track of your colleagues’ activities, as well as share relevant content.
Use My Sites to promote interaction through expertise sharing
Enterprise content management for documents, records, digital assets and Web content
The new enterprise content management features in SharePoint Server 2010 enable you to manage documents, records, digital assets, and published Web pages more efficiently.
With the new Managed Metadata features, you can manage taxonomies and metadata across your SharePoint sites
- Manage a single deliverable or work product that includes multiple documents with Document Sets
- Use the improved Document Center site template to more easily manage your documents in one location
- New flexible policy and records management features allow you to choose whether to manage records in place or in a central repository
- Improved Web Content Management features make it easier to create and manage your site. In addition, SharePoint Server 2010 now includes support for streaming video.
Search
New Search features in SharePoint Server 2010 make it easier for you to locate more relevant information and find colleagues quickly and efficiently. Improvements include a new results layout that refines information into categories, and includes better descriptions and metadata. In addition, people who are in your social circle will appear toward the top of your search results.
Site management and customisation
- Several new features related to permissions management, site design and an international user interface optimize how you can use, design and access SharePoint sites and content.
- View and adjust permission levels, including item-level permissions, for a particular user or group using the new permissions management tool.
- Change colors and fonts for a site using newly supported theme files
Make your site internationally accessible by changing the language of your site.
Business intelligence
SharePoint Server offers more robust business intelligence capabilities through enhanced functionality in Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, and Business Connectivity Services (BCS), a SharePoint-based framework that provides standardized interfaces to existing business data and processes.
Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables SharePoint integration with external data, including line of business applications. BCS builds on top of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) technology delivered in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
SharePoint customisation using InfoPath and SharePoint Designer
Stronger integration between InfoPath, Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 enable you to more easily customize SharePoint lists, views, and workflows.