SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise CAL
For organizations looking to standardize on a complete, end-to-end business collaboration platform to connect and empower people across teams and
geographies, cut costs with a unified infrastructure enabling business productivity, and rapidly respond to business needs with familiar and intuitive interfaces.
Use the Enterprise CAL capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external systems, line-of-business applications, web services, and Microsoft Office;
make better decisions with rich data visualizations, dashboards and scorecards, and advanced analytics; build and maintain robust applications, rich web forms,
and workflow-based solutions.

SharePoint Server 2010 Standard CAL
For organizations looking to deploy a business collaboration platform across all types of content. Use the core capabilities of SharePoint to manage content and
business processes, find and share information and expertise, and simplify how people work together across organizational boundaries.



SharePoint Foundation 2010
For smaller organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based collaboration. Use SharePoint Foundation to
coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and document libraries on the platform that is
the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.


SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise
For organizations looking to create scalable customer-facing Internet websites or private secure extranet sites using the full Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint
Server 2010.


SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard
For small and mid-sized organizations looking to create public Internet sites or basic extranets using the Standard features of SharePoint Server 2010.
SharePoint 2010: Feature List
By Capability and License                                                                            License
                                                                                                     SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                     Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                     Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
                                                                                                                                                     m    Standard          Enterprise        m
                                                                                                                                                     n                                        n
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Capability                  Feature                            New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
[Developers]                Client Object Model (OM)           New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The Client Object Model (OM) allows for access to SharePoint APIs from a remote machine. The
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                object model is optimized for remote access and can be used from Silverlight, ECMAScript, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                .NET applications.
[Developers]                Developer Dashboard                New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The developer dashboard can be enabled on any SharePoint page for monitoring and debugging
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                purposes. It helps developers write better code by providing diagnostic information including
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                detailed page request information such as timings, names and resources for all stored procedures
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                called, memory used, the authenticated user, the number of SPRequest objects, any asserts and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                critical events and timings for web part events for the page rendering.

[Developers]                Event Receivers                    New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Reacting to Server Events: Events Project Templates in Visual Studio 2010, After-Synchronous
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Events, Site-scoped events, Web creation events, List creation events.
[Developers]                Installs on Windows 7              New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 can be installed on either Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                for development purposes. This supports developers operating system choice.

[Developers]                Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for New            Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Language Integrated Query is a new popular and strongly typed data query syntax which is used
                            SharePoint                                                                                                                                                                                          directly in C# or VB.NET code. Strongly typed queries provide compile time validation to the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                SharePoint list schema and LINQ provides a simpler alternative to CAML queries.

[Developers]                Packaging Solutions                Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The WSS Solution Package (WSP) contains solutions and features to be deployed to a SharePoint
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                farm. It includes upgrade semantics so that code can be run against existing features during
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                upgrade.

[Developers]                REST and ATOM Data Feeds           New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 makes list data available and Excel data available using simple REST and ATOM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                protocols. Using ADO.NET Data Services to access REST/ATOM data in a Visual Studio 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                application makes accessing data from SharePoint 2010 easy.
[Developers]                Ribbon and Dialog Framework        New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The Ribbon in SharePoint provides a similar look to Office client applications. It can be customized
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                with additional context sensitive ribbons, groups and items. Custom dialogs can be created to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                open on top of web pages keeping user context and giving the look and feel of a popup window in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                a non-Web application.
[Developers]                Sandboxed Solutions                New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           For IT Professionals who have performance and security concerns with third-party code and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                solutions, Sandboxed Solutions are a new way to run custom code on SharePoint Servers that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                provides administrators with control over resources that are consumed by the custom code. Not
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                only is the code run in a sandboxed environment, separate from other processes to make it safe,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                the resources it consumes can also be controlled to prevent performance issues. Resources are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                monitored on the custom code and a limit is applied daily before the custom code is unable to run.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The custom code is also subject to Code Access Security which prevents certain API’s being called.

[Developers]                SharePoint Lists                   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           For unstructured data storage SharePoint provides lists which can be created at runtime and have
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                typed data added at runtime. They have built in views for sorting and listing data and built in forms
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                for creating and editing data. Permissions can be granted for other users to view and or edit a list
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                and lists can be related to other lists. New in SharePoint 2010 is removal of list size restrictions,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                automatic adding of indexes for certain operations, uniqueness requirement option, formula
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                validation and multiple field lookup for related and external data.

[Developers]                SharePoint Service Architecture    Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The SharePoint Service Architecture is an upgrade from the Shared Service Provider Architecture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                in SharePoint 2007. It provides an architecture which is easier to build services on using commonly
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                known WCF interfaces and WCF implementations.
[Developers]                SharePoint Timer Jobs              Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint timer jobs run on the SharePoint farm periodically and are administered and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                monitored by the farm administration user interface.
[Developers]                Silverlight Web Part               New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 includes a built in Silverlight web part so that Silverlight XAP applications can be
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                uploaded to a Document Library and used immediately. Silverlight applications use the Client OM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                to access SharePoint data from within the application.
[Developers]                Web Parts                          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Web Parts are a simple way to add custom code to a SharePoint site. Once the custom code is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                added in a web part the SharePoint Site editor can add the web part to any page and the code is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                run to show a small block of user interface when the page is displayed.

[Developers]                Workflow Models                    Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Workflow models can be created in SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 and deployed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                to SharePoint. They can be associated with an item in a SharePoint list, a document in a document
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                library or directly on a SharePoint site. Workflow actions execute in response to user events and a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                workflow instances can be long running.
[Developers]                XSLT Views                         New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           XLST-based views are now default in SharePoint and external lists. Replaces CAML for Views for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                better performance, easier edit in SPD, and simpler coding experience.
[IT Professionals]          Accessibility                      Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           New accessibility improvements enable people to use SharePoint more effectively through built-in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                support for industry standards such as WCAG 2.0 AA, Section 508 + VPAT, WAI-ARIA and out of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                the box Master Pages based on the XHTML 1.0 Strict DocType. Comprehensive keyboard
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                navigation support is also included.
[IT Professionals]          Claims-Based Authentication Support Improved        Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           New Claims-based authentication support is flexible and designed for heterogeneous identity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                environments providing and authentication model that works with any corporate identity system,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, application-specific databases and new user-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                centric identity models, such as LiveID, OpenID and InfoCard systems, including Microsoft’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CardSpace and Novell’s Digital Me.

[IT Professionals]          Configuration Wizards              New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           New "Wizards" are designed to make the configuration process easier by guiding an administrator
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                through the steps required to configure pieces of functionality.




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By Capability and License                                                                               License
                                                                                                        SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                        Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                        Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
                                                                                                                                                        m    Standard          Enterprise        m
                                                                                                                                                        n                                        n
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Capability                  Feature                               New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
[IT Professionals]          Cross-Browser Support                 Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Improved cross browser support enables people to work the way they want by enabling users the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   choice on how they want to interact with SharePoint. Improved cross browser support not only
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   provides choice on the desktop, but enables support for improved collaboration across mobile
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   devices.
[IT Professionals]          High-Availability Architecture        Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Improvements in supporting IT Continuity Management are designed to simplify high availability
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   planning and solutions, from improved support for database mirroring, to the new Service
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Application architecture meeting your independent service level agreements has never been
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   easier.
[IT Professionals]          Improved Backup and Restore           Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Improved backup and restore enables new opportunities to support IT continuity management
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   with improvements in its out of the box backup and restore such as configuration only backups,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and improved scale, performance, and resiliency.
[IT Professionals]          Improved Governance                   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Metadata creation and management, shared service applications, taxonomy, multi-tenancy,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Sandboxed solutions, content syndication, and policy are new and improved features to guide the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   development and use of SharePoint aligning to specific governance processes.

[IT Professionals]          Improved Setup and Configuration      Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool simplifies the process of preparing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   SharePoint 2010 servers and helps to ensure consistent install bases across servers and server
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   farms, complimented with new "wizards", SharePoint 2010 has streamlined the deployment
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   process. New Windows PowerShell integration also extends the deployment process by enabling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   administrators to programmatically deploy software and configure SharePoint 2010.

[IT Professionals]          Integration with UC (OCS, Exchange)   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Connecting people and platforms is simplified through SharePoint 2010 allowing you to drive rich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   social and collaborations scenarios while minimizing out of the box configuration.

[IT Professionals]          Large List Scalability and            New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Resource throttling for large lists gives you granular control over the server performance impact of
                            Management                                                                                                                                                                                             list and libraries that contain several thousand to millions of items while automatically educating
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   users on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently.

[IT Professionals]          Managed Accounts                      New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Reduce administration expenses by allowing SharePoint 2010 to take control of your accounts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   SharePoint 2010 can automatically reset passwords based on domain policies and notify
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   administrators when passwords are expiring. By storing account information in SharePoint 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   keep your information secure and reduce the administrative processes of managing it yourself.

[IT Professionals]          Multi-Lingual User Interface          New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Many organizations, not just those that are global or multinational, have employees who speak
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   different native languages. SharePoint 2010 provides out-of-the-box support for multilingual
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   experiences. Not only is the SharePoint experience multilingual in areas such as the Ribbon UI,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   menus and site navigation, but site owners can also configure fields within lists to support multiple
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   languages. Additionally, when people create new content they can submit translations of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   content they are entering.

[IT Professionals]          Multi-tenancy                         Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Whether hosting SharePoint or enabling divisional IT site collection management. You'll find new
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   controls and capabilities, that enable you to delegate administration tasks and partition data
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   across customers or business units.
[IT Professionals]          Patch Management                      New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Backwards compatibility, Central Administration reporting, and Windows PowerShell integration
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   provides the tools and resources to enable you to more predictably apply updates and service
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   packs, minimize downtime.
[IT Professionals]          Permissions Management                Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Improvements in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 include six customizable permission levels by
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   default (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels) and the ability to create
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   customized permission levels that contain only the specific permissions you need.

[IT Professionals]          Quota Templates                       Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Improved Quota Templates not only enable you to control the amount of storage used by site
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   collections, but provide additional controls over the resources consumed by user code solutions.

[IT Professionals]          Read-Only Database Support            Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Read-only database support is improved in SharePoint 2010 by enabling it to more seamless
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   detect and respond to read/write configurations on its database. SharePoint 2010 adapts to a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   read-only state by limiting the write-based actions of the user in a clean and effective presentation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   enabling administrators to minimize downtime during patching and upgrade operations and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   support a larger array of high availability solutions.

[IT Professionals]          Remote Blob Storage (SQL feature)     New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Remote Blob Storage support is designed to enable an organization move storage of large binary
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   data (BLOBs) from Microsoft SQL Server to external storage solutions or commodity hardware.
[IT Professionals]          Resource Throttling                   New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The Remote Blob Storage provider architecture is completely pluggable is designed so another
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Resource Throttling provides a way to control the server resources and and provides that the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   server can be protected from overload during peak business hours. Through throttling settings,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   SharePoint 2010 provides a way for administrators to determine at what level the server will go
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   into a throttling mode.
[IT Professionals]          Secure Store                          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The new Secure Store Service replaces the single sign-on (SSO) feature. The Secure Store Service is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   a claims-aware authorization service that includes a secure database for storing credentials that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   are associated with application IDs. These application IDs can be used to authorize access to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   external data sources.
[IT Professionals]          Service Application Platform          New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The new Service Application architecture provides greater flexibility and reach allowing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   administrators to decide what services they would like to provide and how those services should
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   be positioned across servers. These improvements, in addition to providing API's to build on the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   service application architecture, enable SharePoint 2010 to scale and provide the services to meet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   changing business needs.




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By Capability and License                                                                              License
                                                                                                       SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                       Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                       Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
                                                                                                                                                       m    Standard          Enterprise        m
                                                                                                                                                       n                                        n
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Capability                  Feature                              New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
[IT Professionals]          SharePoint Health Analyzer           New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The SharePoint Health Analyzer built into SharePoint 2010 provides an extensible rules based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  engine that monitors farm health, and can automatically fix many common configuration and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  performance issues right out-of-the box. Through a “Problems and solutions page” in Central
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Administration, you can quickly find and fix potential issues across all of the servers in your farm,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  or just let the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer do it for you.

[IT Professionals]          SQL Server Integration               Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Enhanced SQL Server integration provides a number of improvements in how it interacts with SQL
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Server and enables the administrator to unlock its potential, from Transparent Data Encryption to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Snapshot support, SharePoint 2010 is more capable than ever of delivering solutions that are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  closely tied to SQL Server.
[IT Professionals]          Streamlined Central Administration   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           You’ll find a revamped and streamlined administration experience in SharePoint 2010. Everything
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  is at your fingertips within Central Administration to help you get your job done, including the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  addition of the Ribbon to make configuring and managing your server farm even quicker and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  easier.
[IT Professionals]          Unattached Content Database          New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The new unattached content database recovery feature allows you to temporarily mount an
                            Recovery                                                                                                                                                                                              unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection or export sites and lists
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  all through the Central Administration UI, and without the requirement of a recovery farm.

[IT Professionals]          Upgrade Improvements (i.e.,          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           More upgrade choices and improved predictably are designed for administrators and users alike,
                            Upgrade Checker)                                                                                                                                                                                      through enabling multiple upgrade sessions, and improvements in reporting, administrators can
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  more easily address implement and resolve upgrade concerns while users are empowered with
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the choice on when to upgrade their sites to the new user interface through Visual Upgrade.

[IT Professionals]          Usage Monitoring and Logging         Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           The new unified logging database in SharePoint 2010 is the central repository for your SharePoint
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  farm to log usage and health data to. The database schema will be fully documented to give you
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the power and flexibility of writing your own reports in addition to the ones we provide. You’ll also
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  be able to log your own events and tracing data through a new logging Object Model into the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  database. Your insight into server usage and performance just became a whole lot easier.

[IT Professionals]          Visual Upgrade                       New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Visual Upgrade allows SharePoint administrators to decide if they want to keep Office SharePoint
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Server 2007 visuals after upgrade, giving the user their familiar look and feel, and has the option to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  switch to new look later. This allows the site administrator the ability to first view the site with the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it. This setting is at the Web level allowing for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  a very granular, flexible experience.

[IT Professionals]          Windows PowerShell Support           New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language that helps IT professionals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  achieve greater control and productivity. SharePoint 2010 provides a Windows PowerShell profile
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  so you can take advantage of Windows PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments. Hundreds of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  cmdlets that will be shipped out-of-the-box to help IT professionals to manage their server farm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and automate their tasks.
Communities                 Ask Me About                         New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Identifying expertise within a large organization can be difficult and the subject matters can evolve
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  over time. The Ask Me About section on a user’s profile is a great way for people to list their areas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  of expertise, and also to invite colleagues to ask them to share their knowledge.

Communities                 Blogs                                Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 includes improved Blog functionality with a new user interface, improved
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  commenting, editing, and content management features. The rich text editor includes the Ribbon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  UI and supports easy image uploads and rich formatting. Blog posts can also be managed as
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  records supporting enterprise compliance and document retention policies.

Communities                 Colleague Suggestions                Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Based on your organizational hierarchy in Active Directory, membership in SharePoint
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  communities or email distribution lists, communications from Office Communicator contacts, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  an analysis of Office Outlook emails, SharePoint 2010 will suggest appropriate colleagues to add to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  your social network. This automated suggestion service helps keep your network and interests
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  updated and recent.
Communities                 Colleagues and Membership            Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Connect with people across your enterprise social network with Colleagues and Membership.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Adding people to your enterprise social network is simple through the Add Colleagues feature that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  supports privacy options for different levels of permission settings. It also allows you to add
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  colleagues to your immediate workgroup, or to specify a category group for those colleagues.

Communities                 Discussion Forums                    Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 provides a discussion list where users can create new discussion topics and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  respond to existing ones in a threaded format. The structure of the threads can be followed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  naturally, as if reading the transcript from a conversation. The discussion forums has an improved
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  rich text editor that includes the Ribbon UI.
Communities                 Enterprise Wikis                     New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           The Enterprise Wiki template is built on the SharePoint publishing framework to support scalability
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and security, while also encouraging a collaborative content management process through a wiki
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  interface. Enterprise Wikis help consolidate company-wide information into a centralized, easy-to-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  manage repository. The rich text editor includes support for interwiki linking, embedding rich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  media and ability to stream them, page ratings, and categorization.

Communities                 Keyword Suggestions                  New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Based on email communication patterns from Office Outlook 2010, SharePoint 2010 will suggest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  key phrases that the end user can select and add to their "Ask Me About" or "Interests" section of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the My Site profile to communicate their interest in topics or areas of expertise.

Communities                 My Network                           New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           My Network is an enterprise newsfeed that displays a real-time feed of updates from the people
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  you’re following and interests you’re tracking. Users can select what type of activities they are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  want to see in their newsfeed. The newsfeed is also extensible to display 3rd party activity. An
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  enterprise newsfeed helps users stay connected and up-to-date on the people and topics they care
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  about.




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By Capability and License                                                                               License
                                                                                                        SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                        Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                        Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
                                                                                                                                                        m    Standard          Enterprise        m
                                                                                                                                                        n                                        n
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Capability                  Feature                               New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
Communities                 My Sites: People Profiles and         Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           The My Site comes with 2 views: a public profile and a personal site. The personal site gives you a
                            Personal Sites                                                                                                                                                                                         central location to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts. The People
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   profile pages contain rich information about employees including a bio, job title, location, contact
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   information, interests and skills, and previous projects. This makes finding the right people and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   subject matter experts across the company much easier. With SharePoint Search, you can find
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   people based on names, nicknames, wildcard, or search for people by expertise skills based on the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   information stored on their My Site.

Communities                 Note Board                            New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           The Note Board is a great way to post comments, ask questions, or otherwise interact with other
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   people or site communities. All My Sites will have a Note Board in the public profile. This open
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   forum of communication helps lower the barriers to participation, relieves email overload, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   opens up discussions to multiple people.
Communities                 Organization Browser                  New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           With a rich Silverlight user interface, the Organization Browser is an exceptional browsing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   experience that allows people to smoothly navigate through the organizational structures to see
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   peers, direct reports and management chains by drilling into their relationship to one another and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   their My Site profile information.
Communities                 Photos and Presence                   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Everywhere you see a person’s name, you also see their photo and presence status. This helps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   personalize business communities, and makes identification and connections between people
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   effortless. Tight integration with Microsoft Unified Communications tools allows 1-click
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   communications directly from SharePoint.
Communities                 Ratings                               New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 includes a 5-star rating system that may be applied to SharePoint pages,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   lists/libraries or individual documents. Ratings help apply quality management controls, so users
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   can search and sort for the best content.
Communities                 Recent Activities                     New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           The Recent Activities feed on a person’s My Site public profile page is a helpful way to understand
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   what that person has been working on. The Activities shown are the same ones listed for the My
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Network newsfeed items. The Recent Activities list gives visitors deeper insight into what’s going
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   on in your role or organizations and helps build a more connected community.

Communities                 Social Bookmarks                      New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Social Bookmarks are a great way to manage and remember your favorite sites. The sites can be
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   external or internal URLs and they can be shared with colleagues. This helps increase
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   discoverability of resources across the organization.
Communities                 Status Updates                        Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Status Updates are a great, informal way to let people know where you are or what you’re doing.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   When changes are made to your status update, this will show up in your Recent Activities and for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   you under your colleagues' My Network as part of their newsfeed.

Communities                 Tag Clouds                            New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 includes a Tag Cloud web part that helps people navigate through the tag
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   taxonomy by visually depicting the most popular tags. Users can have a personal tag cloud to help
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   them navigate more easily or share what content or pages are important to them with the rest of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   the organization. Tag clouds can also help surface what resources are available per site collection.

Communities                 Tag Profiles                          New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Tag Profile pages are communities of interest around a specific keyword or topic. These profiles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   show a list of items that have been tagged with the term – this could be documents, sites, wiki
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   pages and more. The profiles also show who tagged the content. Tag profiles make it easier to get
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   more context around this term because of the relevant content and people associated with it. The
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   tag profile pages also contain a list of the members following this tag, as well as a note board for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   any discussions.
Communities                 Tags                                  New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Tags or free form metadata help classify and organize the vast amount of information in your
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   organization. SharePoint 2010 supports both a centralized metadata taxonomy system, as well as
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   social tagging. Tags in this context are social tags which users specify their own terms, so they can
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   associate it with a keyword in the managed taxonomy system or provide their own keyword.

Communities                 Wikis                                 Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Creating, editing and managing wiki pages have become easier than ever in SharePoint 2010. Rich,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   visual editing tools and inline multi-media support help bring your pages to life with a live preview
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   of the edits made. SharePoint pages combine the ease of wiki editing with the deep functionality
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   of web parts. Wikis can also be managed as records supporting enterprise compliance and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   document retention policies.

Composites                  Access Services                       New              Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Publish your Access databases to SharePoint to share them with others. With Access Services you
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   will be able to reduce database versioning problems and simplify the deployment of Access forms
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and reports to other users, while reducing governance risks.

Composites                  Browser-Based Customizations          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           From calendars and tasks to charts and enterprise data, SharePoint provides users with rich
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   building blocks to create collaborative solutions rapidly, directly on the browser, with a standard
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   user interface, simplified commands on the Ribbon, web edit, and out-of-the-box workflows and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   web parts for a variety of common scenarios.
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services: BDC   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service enables you to declaratively model external systems, so
                            Service                                                                                                                                                                                                that you can expose external data in SharePoint Server 2010. The BDC provides connectivity to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   various types of external systems, and it has built-in support for connecting to the following types
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   of data sources:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • Databases
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • WCF and Web services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • Custom data sources; BDC provides a pluggable connector framework which developers can use
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   to plug in connectors for new external system types to enable access to these new data source
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   types via BDC
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:       New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Enables users to surface data from external systems to existing SharePoint Lists.
                            External Data Column




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                                                                                                       SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                       Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                       Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
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Capability                  Feature                              New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:      New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Search external data in SharePoint Server and view the results alongside search results.
                            External Data Search
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:      New              Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Display external data on your portal site without writing any code. These Web Parts are generic
                            External Data Web Parts                                                                                                                                                                               and reusable and can show any type of external data registered in the Business Data Connectivity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (BDC) service.
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:        New            Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Enables accessing data (read/write) from external systems in the same way that SharePoint list
                            External Lists                                                                                                                                                                                        data is accessed.
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services: Office New            Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Connect external lists to Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. This
                            Client Integration                                                                                                                                                                                    enables you to work with external data such as native Outlook Item types (for example, Contacts,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tasks, Appointments, etc.) in Outlook and in lists in SharePoint Workspace and to take external
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  data offline.
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:      New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Profile pages show detailed information about the selected external item and its relationship to
                            Profile Pages                                                                                                                                                                                         other items. This page is surfaced when users search for external data, and can also be accessed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from external lists and the External Data web parts.
Composites                  Business Connectivity Services:      New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Secure Store Service can be used to store and map user credentials required by the external
                            Secure Store                                                                                                                                                                                          system.
Composites                  Customization via SharePoint         Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Allow rich no-code customizations using the revamped user interface in SharePoint Designer.
                            Designer                                                                                                                                                                                              Create solutions more rapidly with its List and Content Type editors, association columns, reusable
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  workflows, impersonation steps, XSLT templates, and external content types from BCS, among
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  other new capabilities, without code.
Composites                  Forms: Out-of-box workflows and      Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Forms customized with SharePoint Designer. Out-of-box workflows (Initiation, Association, Task).
                            customization via SharePoint                                                                                                                                                                          Customization via SharePoint Designer (limited to level of schema).
                            Designer
Composites                  InfoPath Forms Services              Improved         Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Create rich forms to quickly and cost-effectively gather information. Create form-based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SharePoint applications with Office InfoPath and take advantage of all the server improvement to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  create rich web browser forms that can be more easily managed on the server, or build advanced
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  forms that connect to line-of-business systems. Fully-featured customization via InfoPath Client
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (requires Office ProPlus). External Lists can be converted from standard SharePoint forms to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  InfoPath forms, enabling rich customization and the addition of code-behind.

Composites                  Sandboxed Solutions                  New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           For IT Professionals who have performance and security concerns with 3rd party code and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  solutions, Sandboxed Solutions can help to solve the problem. It allows Site Administrators to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  upload the solutions they need. Not only the solution is run in a sandboxed environment and is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  separated from other processes to make it safe, but the resource it consumed can also be
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  controlled by IT Professionals to prevent performance issues. Allow your users to deploy custom
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  code in the Sandbox, but allow yourself to define the level of resources that those solutions can
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  utilize. SharePoint will make sure that user solutions stay within your boundaries.

Composites                  Workflows                            Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           ASPX forms to enable workflows. Manage these business process diagrams in a central Process
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Diagram Repository.
Content                     Compliance Everywhere                New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Whether you’re managing traditional content (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), web content or
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  social content (blogs and wikis), SharePoint 2010 provides the right level of control and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  compliance. Regardless of content type or location, SharePoint 2010 allows you to manage
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  versions, apply retention schedules, declare records or place legal holds. SharePoint 2010 also
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  supports location based policy and metadata defaults allowing the creation and management of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  hierarchical file plans.
Content                     Document Sets                        New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Document Sets provide a way to manage a group of related content as a single entity. Each
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Document Set has its own version history, workflow and shared metadata while each content item
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  retains its own specific version history, workflow and metadata. When you create a Document
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Set, all the component parts are created at that same time, improving the consistency and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  speeding up common business processes like RFP responses.

Content                     Metadata Driven Navigation           New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Metadata Driven Navigation provides users with the ability to rapidly browse and discover
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  information in large Document Libraries using terms defined in the Managed Metadata Service.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Users can also further refine views based on specific metadata filters like Content Type, Author
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and Tags.
Content                     Multi-stage Disposition              New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 provides a rich framework for managing retention and disposition of content.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Information managers can create sophisticated policies that define multiple stages in the content
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  lifecycle. Options include regular review cycles, disposition of draft content, disposition of all but
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the most recently published content, final disposition and initiation of custom disposition
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  workflow. To support in place records management, different policies can be defined for non-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  records and records in the same location or of the same Content Type.

Content                     Office Integration                   Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 includes a “Connect to Office” function that let’s Office applications know which
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SharePoint libraries a user typically interacts with. When a user connects a library to Office, the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  library is quickly available in the Office Back Stage for opening and saving files. In addition, when a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  user wants to create a new Office document, the list of templates in connected libraries is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  available alongside local and online templates.

Content                     Rich Media Management                New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 provides a range of new capabilities for managing rich media assets like video,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  audio and images. From automatic metadata promotion on upload to support for streaming
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  video and audio, SharePoint 2010 makes it easy for users to store, manage, find and use digital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  content. In addition, SharePoint and the Office applications provide a rich asset picker that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  supports previews and metadata driven navigation.




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                                                                                                        SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                        Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                        Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
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Capability                  Feature                               New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
Content                     Shared Content Types and the          New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 delivers significant advances in metadata management across SharePoint
                            Managed Metadata Service                                                                                                                                                                               deployments. The Shared Content Type infrastructure allows Content Types and associated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Information Management Policy to be shared across Farms and Site Collections. The Managed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Metadata Service is used to define and manage taxonomies and folksonomy. The Managed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Metadata Service supports hierarchical term sets, synonyms and multilingual terms and can be
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   shared across Farms and Site Collections.

Content                     Support for Accessibility Standards   New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Whether you’re delivering a .com site, a corporate intranet or a partner extranet, accessibility has
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   become a critical and often mandated requirement. SharePoint is designed to foster participation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   across all audiences and accessibility is a key driver for SharePoint 2010 with out-of-the box
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   support for WCAG 2.0 AA.
Content                     The Content Organizer                 Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           One of the most common complaints with traditional ECM solutions is misclassification of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   information. The Content Organizer removes the burden of classification from the end user by
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   automatically routing content to the appropriate location based on Content Type and metadata
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   values. The Content Organizer can also automatically provision folder hierarchy based on unique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   metadata values like department, team, project or product.

Content                     Unique Document IDs                   New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 provides a unique Document ID service that makes managing and tracking
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   information easy by assigning a unique, human readable identifier to every piece of content.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Users can quickly search for information using the Document ID and SharePoint Search will find
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   the content even if it has been moved from its original location. In addition, SharePoint 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   supports “permalinks”, a URL that can be used to reference a piece of content independent of its
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   location throughout the content lifecycle.

Content                     Word Automation Services              New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Word Automation Services is a highly scalable, server based engine that delivers save, export and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   print capabilities for Word Documents. When combined with the Office Open XML SDK, Word
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Automation Services supports document creation, manipulation and renditions as well as
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   integration with line of business systems for generating content based on structured data sources.

Insights                    Business Data Web Parts               Improved         Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data Connectivity.

Insights                    Chart Web Parts                       New              Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           A wide range of chart types are now available for users to create advanced visualizations using the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   data in SharePoint: SharePoint Lists, Business Connectivity Services, or Excel documents via Excel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Services. Simple wizards guide users through the creation of charts empowering them to create
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   their own dashboards quickly and easily.

Insights                    Data Connection Library               Improved                                                                    P                                        P                                           Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Connections (ODC)which describes the connections to external data such as Microsoft SQL Server
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Analysis Services. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program, and empower users
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   to access the data they need.
Insights                    Excel Services                        Improved         Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Excel Services makes it simple to use, share, secure, and manage Microsoft Office Excel workbooks
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   (.xslx, .xslb, .xlsm) as interactive reports and dashboards in a consistent way. Excel Services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   supports even more workbook types as well as new features of Excel 2010 such as Sparklines and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Visual Slicers, and enables you to reuse content in SharePoint dashboards. Users can create and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   share their Excel content easily through the one-click publish to Excel Services, and be sure to have
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   their workbooks display properly in their favorite browser. Excel Services introduces a new
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   JavaScript object model that lets you create rich, interactive applications with your workbooks on
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   the server. From implementing right-mouse button controls to displaying data unique to cells, the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   JavaScript object model enables developers and IT to create vivid business experiences. A new
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   REST API allows you to embed your workbooks across applications and even with your desktop,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   such as in blogs or wikis. Lastly, an improved Web Services API enables several new automation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and application development capabilities.



Insights                    Filter Framework                      Improved         Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Parts on a SharePoint page. Users can easily add and create a variety of filters that push values to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   other web-parts and can be personalized by users to retain their choices. Filters can pull their list
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   of values from a variety of different sources as well as from the user.

Insights                    PerformancePoint Services             Improved         Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Create rich, interactive, context-driven dashboards and scorecards that enable users to access the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   information they need when they need it with the most up-to-date information available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Combine multiple systems and content into a single browser-based experience, providing a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   complete picture for decision making. New features such as decomposition tree, visualizations,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and improved filtering enables users to easily navigate and analyze the root cause and make
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   effective decisions to move the business forward.

Insights                    Status Indicators                     Improved                                                                    P                                        P                                           Quickly create and display important metrics using Status Indicators that users can quickly display
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   on their SharePoint pages. Users can enter their own, or use data stored in Excel, SharePoint Lists,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   or SQL Server Analysis Services providing all team members with a quick update on projects and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   activities.
Insights                    Visio Services                        New              Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Leverage the most popular diagramming tool in the world, Visio, directly on SharePoint. Publish
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   and share rich Visio diagrams simply through a browser displayed within SharePoint. Visio
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   diagrams are rendered with the same fidelity as the client and provide interactivity on shapes and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   objects. Create custom dashboards connected to real-time data and combine it with other web
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   parts such as Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services.




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                                                                                                       SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                       Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                       Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
                                                                                                                                                       m    Standard          Enterprise        m
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Capability                  Feature                              New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
Insights                    Web Analytics Customization          New              Enterprise                                                 P                                        P                                           Ability to modify existing web analytics reports and create new views of the data to help drive
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  awareness of how SharePoint is being used and deployed.
Search                      Advanced Content Processing          New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Extract and create metadata latent in documents to improve search results, sorting capabilities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and the refinement panel.
Search                      Best Bets                            Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Best Bets give the administrator the ability to provide the best result for a keyword.
Search                      Build Multiple Relevance Profiles    New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Rank Profiles provide additional methods for IT PROs to define customized ranking of results for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  e.g. different search centers as your site search or your intranet search. A rank profile specifies the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  weights of attributes affecting rank. Examples of such attributes are freshness (age of document),
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  click-through (popularity) and other static or dynamic quality measures of a document.

Search                      Build Search-Powered Applications    New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Leverage the publicly-available query object model and web parts, making modification and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  extensibility a much easier task.
Search                      Common Connector Framework for       New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Securely connect out-of-box to content from sources across your enterprise. Use the BDC to easily
                            Indexing and Federation                                                                                                                                                                               create your own connectors that work just like those available out of the box.

Search                      Deep Refinement with Exact Counts    New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           The summary allows users to see the number of documents containing this information for a given
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  results set.
Search                      Duplicate Results                    New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Duplicate Detection collapses highly similar results together to reduce clutter from multiple
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  versions of the same document.
Search                      Federated Search                     New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Federated Results surface information from other sources in the search experience. Federated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  sources can be used in the core results, in a small preview of results, or in an instant answer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  format. Out of the box Related Searches and People Results are federated into the search
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  experience.
Search                      Mobile Search Experience             New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Empower users with document, people, and site searching capabilities from anywhere

Search                      People and Expertise Search          Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Capture knowledge not found in documents by searching for people and expertise using
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SharePoint. Locate the appropriate contact using their responsibilities, memberships, past
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  projects, content and other attributes.
Search                      Performance: Sub-second query        Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Achieve sub-second query response time while scaling your search system to 100m+ documents
                            response time
Search                      Phonetics & Nickname Expansion       Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           The people and expertise search engine in SharePoint 2010 uses phonetic matching and nickname
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  expansion to help find the right people, the first time.
Search                      Query Suggestions, "Did You Mean?", New               Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Accelerate the time required to find the right answer with a system that uses information from
                            and Related Queries                                                                                                                                                                                   previous queries to suggest appropriate terms and results. Suggestions improve with use by
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  suggesting keywords which were successful for other users. Users see suggestions while typing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  queries as well as related searches and company acronyms after searching. "Did You Mean?"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  delivers query spelling corrections specific to your company terms based upon crawled
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  documents.
Search                      Recently Authored Content            New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Identify the right people and expertise faster with recently authored content and expertise
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  identification.
Search                      Refinement panel                     New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        With new refinement capabilities of SharePoint, users can narrow the results of their search and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  navigate to the right content faster. Refinement on Extended Properties provides the ability to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  identify custom meta-data (such as products or departments) from the unstructured text of a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  document. The extraction is supported by custom dictionaries, and allows the user to refine and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  sort data that they care about.
Search                      Relevancy Tuning by Document or      New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Provide the means for developers and IT professionals to create new relevance models to retrieve
                            Site Promotions                                                                                                                                                                                       and customize ranking of different content sources and new search experiences.

Search                      Rich Web Indexing Support            New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           A highly customizable indexing connector which is able to scale to large environments, for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  example when you organization is crawling a large number of external web sites. The crawler also
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  supports crawling dynamic Web content and Web sites with JavaScript.

Search                      Scale to 500,000,000+ documents      Improved         Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Scale to extremes with FAST Search for SharePoint while maintaining sub-second query times.

Search                      Scale up to 100,000,000 documents    Improved         Standard                                    P                                     P                                                    P        Using an improved topology architecture
                            via improved topology architecture

Search                      Search in Context                    New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           User profile-based, Search in Context enables results targeted for specific groups of users. You can
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  associate Best Bets, Visual Best Bets, and document promotions with a user context, in order to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  have these apply exclusively for users that match the user context. A user context corresponds to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  a set of user profile values, such as “Title: Project Manager" and "Office Location: London”.

Search                      Search Scopes                        New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Scopes allow site and service administrators to define a subset of the index based upon criteria
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  such as URL or property values. A scope acts as a “piece of the pie” of the index that enables
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  administrators to create search experiences that target a portion of the content.

Search                      SharePoint Desktop Search from       Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Deliver a full fidelity SharePoint search experience from the desktop.
                            Windows 7
Search                      Similar Results                      New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Allows you to explore additional results which are similar to a particular document in the search
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  result set.
Search                      Site Search                          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        Site search results helps the user find information everywhere in SharePoint by providing results to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the user's current site or list. Site search has been improved to use refinement and to inherit the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  look and feel of the site.
Search                      Social Behavior Improves Relevance   New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                   P              P        The click-through behavior of similar search queries affects the rank that documents receive. The
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  more users click on a certain item, the higher its ranking for related queries.

Search                      Social Tags                          New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Social tags as metadata on search results improving recall, ranking, results and refinement.




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By Capability and License                                                                                  License
                                                                                                           SharePoint      SharePoint     SharePoint       C    SharePoint        SharePoint        C Search Server   Search Server
                                                                                                           Foundation 2010 Server 2010    Server 2010      ol   Server 2010 for   Server 2010 for   ol 2010 Express   2010
                                                                                                                           Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL   u    Internet Sites,   Internet Sites,   u
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Capability                    Feature                                New / Improved   SharePoint Edition                                                                                                                              Description
Search                        Sort the search results                New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Sort results based on modified date or the default view.
Search                        Sorting on custom properties           New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Sort Results Based on Managed Properties or Rank Profiles
Search                        Taxonomy and Term Store                New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Bring the power of taxonomy into Search. Tag metadata is shown in results, and users can refine
                              Integration                                                                                                                                                                                             by taxonomy-based tags.
Search                        Thumbnails and Previews                New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Thumbnails and previews make the results of a search query visual, allowing users to recognize the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      right content quickly.
Search                        View in Browser                        New              Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           View in browser initiates an interactive web experience with documents without opening an office
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      client application.
Search                        Visual Best Bets                       New              Enterprise                                                 P*                                       P                                           Visual Best Bets provide the ability to associate rich content with a search keyword. The content,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      for instance a banner, a section of HTML or a Silverlight control, is displayed on top of the result
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      list whenever a user searches for that keyword. A Visual Best Bet can be associated with a User
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Context to target the content towards specific groups of users.

Sites                         Audience Targeting                     Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Users are able to target groups and individuals to share, review, and publish information and can
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      control the distribution and viewing of pages, web parts, and content.

Sites                         Cross-Browser Support                  Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 also offers improved cross-browser support, including Safari and Firefox, as well
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      as a host of micro-browsers.
Sites                         Enterprise Management Operations       Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 features a new web analytics service and offers a full complement of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      management tools and reports, including a suite of site and usage reports, a developer dashboard
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      to monitor performance of pages and web parts, and a customizable monitoring and alerts based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      on log and event activity.
Sites                         Fluent User Interface                  Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           With SharePoint 2010 users are able to quickly and easily find and use relevant features with a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      new contextual ribbon and breadcrumb navigation, preview edits and additions as changes are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      made, select and action against multiple files at once.
Sites                         Mobile Connectivity                    Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           With SharePoint 2010, all sites and content will be accessible and render on mobile devices.

Sites                         Office Client Integration              Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           Users benefit from a seamless and natural integration with the productivity tools they use most,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      including Microsoft Office‘s Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. The rich Office client enables
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      people to collaborate and be productive whether they are connected or not, enabling a broad
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      collaboration scenarios that extend beyond the browser.

Sites                         OOB Web Parts                          Improved         Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 offers users a wide array of useful out-of-the-box web parts, including calendar,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      tasks, lists, and links. Users are able to easily add web parts anywhere within an intranet and / or
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      extranet site using simple point and click functionality.

Sites                         Scalability                            Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 can include tens of millions of items in a single library, up to a million items per
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      folder, and includes configurable, automatic query throttling to manage IO resources. Archive
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      deposits are intelligently routed and stored based on metadata, eliminating user’s need to identify
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      exact folder locations.
Sites                         SharePoint Workspace Integration       New              Foundation                  P               P              P                      P                 P                                           With SharePoint Workspace users can take a Team Site or a single library offline with just one
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      click. Users are given full read / write capabilities, can edit metadata, and can even take line-of-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      business data offline using SharePoint 2010’s virtual lists. With SharePoint 2010 only deltas are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      transmitted for update, speeding experiences for remote and low bandwidth activities.

Sites                         Tagging                                Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           Users can apply tags to content using a predetermined taxonomy or create new tags that facilitate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      and speed content discovery.
Sites                         Video Support, REST, and Silverlight   Improved         Standard                                    P              P                      P                 P                                           SharePoint 2010 supports and makes it easy to create rich internet experiences using
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      programmable Silverlight applications, APIs, AJAX, XML Web Services, and REST.

* Requires "FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint"




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SharePoint 2010: Web Parts [As of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta]
By License
                                          License
    Web Part                              SharePoint   SharePoint     SharePoint       Description
                                          Foundation   Server 2010    Server 2010
                                          2010         Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL
    Business Data
    Business Data Actions                                                    P         Displays a list of actions from the Business Data Catalog.
    Business Data Connectivity Filter                                        P         Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data
                                                                                       Connectivity.
    Business Data Item                                                       P         Displays one item from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.
    Business Data Item Builder                                               P         Creates a Business Data item from parameters in the query string and provides
                                                                                       it to other Web Parts.
    Business Data List                                                       P         Displays a list of items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.

    Business Data Related List                                               P         Displays a list of items related to one or more parent items from a data source
                                                                                       in the Business Data Catalog.
    Indicator Details                                                        P         Displays the details of a single Status Indicator. Status Indicators display an
                                                                                       important measure for an organization and may be obtained from other data
                                                                                       sources including SharePoint lists, Excel workbooks, and SQL Server 2005
                                                                                       Analysis Services KPIs.

    Status List                                                              P         Shows a list of Status Indicators. Status Indicators display important measures
                                                                                       for your organization, and show how your organization is performing with
                                                                                       respect to your goals.

    Content Rollup
    HTML Form Web Part                          P            P               P         Connects simple form controls to other web parts
    Picture Library Slideshow Web Part          P            P               P         Use to display a slideshow of images and photos from a picture library

    XML Viewer                                  P            P               P         Transforms XML data using XSL and shows the results
    RSS Viewer                                               P               P         Displays an RSS feed.
    Web Analytics web part                                   P               P         Displays the most viewed content, most popular search queries, or most
                                                                                       popular clicked search results as reported by Web Analytics for the site or site
                                                                                       collection
    Content Query                                            P               P         Displays a dynamic view of content from your site.
    Documents
    Releveant Documents                         P            P               P         Displays documents that are relevant to the current user
    Document Set Contents                                    P               P         Displays the contents of a Document Set
    Document Set Properties                                  P               P         Displays the properties of the Document Set
    Enter a Document ID                                      P               P         Finds a document by its Document ID
    Filters
    Choice Filter                                                            P         Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values entered by the page
                                                                                       author
    Current User Filter                                                      P         Filters the contents of Web Parts by using properties of the current user.

    Data Filter                                                              P         Filter the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter or pick a date.

    Filter Actions                                                           P         Use the Filter Actions Web Part when you have two or more filter Web Parts
                                                                                       on one Web Part Page, and you want to synchronize the display of the filter
                                                                                       results
    Page Field Filter                                                        P         Filters the contents of Web Parts using information about the current page.

    Query String (URL) Filter                                                P         Filters the contents of Web Parts using values passed via the query string.

    SharePoint List Filter                                                   P         Filters the contents of Web Parts by using a list of values.
    SQL Server Analysis Services Filter                                      P         Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from SQL Server Analysis
                                                                                       Services cubes.
    Text Filter                                                              P         Filters the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter a text value.

    Group Work
    What's New                                  P            P               P         This Web Part shows new information from specified lists and libraries.

    Whereabouts                                 P            P               P         Use to display Whereabouts information
    Media & Content
    Content Editor                              P            P               P         Allows authors to enter rich text content
    Image Viewer                                P            P               P         Displays a specified image
    Page Viewer                                 P            P               P         Displays another Web page on this Web Page. The other Web page is
                                                                                       presented in an iFrame
    Silverlight Web Part                        P            P               P         A web part to display a Silverlight application
    Media Web Part                                           P               P         Use to embed media clips (video and audio) in a web page.
    My Information
    My Calendar                                              P               P         Displays your calendar using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange
                                                                                       Server 2003 or later
    My Contacts                                              P               P         Displays your contacts using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange
                                                                                       Server 2003 or later




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License
    Web Part                          SharePoint   SharePoint     SharePoint       Description
                                      Foundation   Server 2010    Server 2010
                                      2010         Standard CAL   Enterprise CAL
    My Inbox                                              P               P        Displays your inbox using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server
                                                                                   2003 or later
    My Mail Folder                                       P               P         Displays your mail folder using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange
                                                                                   Server 2000 or later
    My Tasks                                             P               P         Displays your tasks using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server
                                                                                   2003 or later
    Navigation
    Categories                                           P               P         Displays categories from the Site Directory
    Site Aggregator                                      P               P         Displays sites of your choice
    Sites in Category                                    P               P         Displays sites from the Site Directory within a specific category
    Summary Links                                        P               P         Allows authors to create links that can be grouped and styled.
    Table of Contents                                    P               P         Displays the navigation hierarchy of your site.
    Tag Cloud                                            P               P         Displays the most popular subjects being tagged inside your organization

    Office Client Applications                                           P
    Excel Web Access                                                     P         Use the Excel Web Access Web Part to interact with an Excel workbook as a
                                                                                   Web page.
    InfoPath Form Web Part                                               P         Use this Web Part to display an InfoPath browser-enabled form.
    Visio Web Access                                                     P         Enables viewing and refreshing of published Visio diagrams.
    WSRP Viewer                                                          P         Displays portlets from web sites using WSRP 1.1.
    People
    Site Users                              P            P               P         Use the Site Users Web Part to see a list of the site users and their onlines
                                                                                   status
    User Tasks                              P            P               P         Displays tasks that are assigned to the current user.
    Contact Details                                      P               P         Displays details about a contact for this page or site
    Note Board                                           P               P         Enable users to leave short, publicly-viewable notes about this page
    Organization Browser                                 P               P         This Web Part displays each person in the reporting chain in an interactive
                                                                                   view optimized for browsing organization charts.
    PerformancePoint
    PerformancePoint Filter                                              P         This web part displays PerformancePoint filters. Filters may be linked to other
                                                                                   web parts to provide an interactive dashboard experience. Filter types include
                                                                                   lists and trees based on a variety of data sources.
    PerformancePoint Report                                              P         This web part displays PerformancePoint reports. Reports may be linked to
                                                                                   other web parts to create an interactive dashboard experience. Report types
                                                                                   include: Analytic charts & grids, Strategy Maps, Excel Services, Reporting
                                                                                   Services, Predictive Trend charts, and web pages.
    PerformancePoint Scorecard                                           P         This web part displays a PerformancePoint scorecard. Scorecards may be
                                                                                   linked to other web parts, such as filters and reports, to create an interactive
                                                                                   dashboard experience.
    PerformancePoint Stack Selector                                      P         This web part displays a PerformancePoint Stack Selector. All
                                                                                   PerformancePoint web parts, such as filters and reports, contained in the same
                                                                                   zone will be automatically stacked and selectable using this web part.
    Search
    Advanced Search Box                                  P               P         Displays parameterized search options based on preoperties and combinations
                                                                                   of words
    Dual Chinese Search                                  P               P         Used to search Dual Chinese document and items at the same time.
    Federated Results                                    P               P         Displays search results from a configured location
    People Refinement Panel                              P               P         This webpart helps the users to refine people search results
    People Search Box                                    P               P         Presents a search box that allows users to search for people
    People Search Core Results                           P               P         Displays the people search results and the properties associated with them

    Refinement Panel                                     P               P         This webpart helps the users to refine search results
    Related Queries                                      P               P         This webpart displays related queries to a user query
    Search Action Links                                  P               P         Displays the search action links on the search results page
    Search Best Bets                                     P               P         Displays high-confidence results on a search results page.
    Search Box                                           P               P         Displays a search box that allows users to search for information
    Search Core Results                                  P               P         Displays the search results and the properties associated with them
    Search Paging                                        P               P         Display links for navigating pages containing search results.
    Search Statistics                                    P               P         Displays the search statistics such as the number of results shown on the
                                                                                   current page, total number of results and time taken to perform the search.
    Search Summary                                       P               P         Displays suggestions for current search query.
    Search Visual Best Bet                                                         Displays Visual Best Bet
    Top Federated Results                                P               P         Displays the Top Federated result from the configured location.
    Miscellaneous
    Chart Web part                                                       P         Helps you to visualize your data on SharePoint sites and portals.




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Сравнение возможностей SPS 2010 по редакциям

  • 1.
    SharePoint Server 2010Enterprise CAL For organizations looking to standardize on a complete, end-to-end business collaboration platform to connect and empower people across teams and geographies, cut costs with a unified infrastructure enabling business productivity, and rapidly respond to business needs with familiar and intuitive interfaces. Use the Enterprise CAL capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external systems, line-of-business applications, web services, and Microsoft Office; make better decisions with rich data visualizations, dashboards and scorecards, and advanced analytics; build and maintain robust applications, rich web forms, and workflow-based solutions. SharePoint Server 2010 Standard CAL For organizations looking to deploy a business collaboration platform across all types of content. Use the core capabilities of SharePoint to manage content and business processes, find and share information and expertise, and simplify how people work together across organizational boundaries. SharePoint Foundation 2010 For smaller organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based collaboration. Use SharePoint Foundation to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and document libraries on the platform that is the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise For organizations looking to create scalable customer-facing Internet websites or private secure extranet sites using the full Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard For small and mid-sized organizations looking to create public Internet sites or basic extranets using the Standard features of SharePoint Server 2010.
  • 2.
    SharePoint 2010: FeatureList By Capability and License License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description [Developers] Client Object Model (OM) New Foundation P P P P P The Client Object Model (OM) allows for access to SharePoint APIs from a remote machine. The object model is optimized for remote access and can be used from Silverlight, ECMAScript, and .NET applications. [Developers] Developer Dashboard New Foundation P P P P P The developer dashboard can be enabled on any SharePoint page for monitoring and debugging purposes. It helps developers write better code by providing diagnostic information including detailed page request information such as timings, names and resources for all stored procedures called, memory used, the authenticated user, the number of SPRequest objects, any asserts and critical events and timings for web part events for the page rendering. [Developers] Event Receivers New Foundation P P P P P Reacting to Server Events: Events Project Templates in Visual Studio 2010, After-Synchronous Events, Site-scoped events, Web creation events, List creation events. [Developers] Installs on Windows 7 New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 can be installed on either Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 for development purposes. This supports developers operating system choice. [Developers] Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for New Foundation P P P P P Language Integrated Query is a new popular and strongly typed data query syntax which is used SharePoint directly in C# or VB.NET code. Strongly typed queries provide compile time validation to the SharePoint list schema and LINQ provides a simpler alternative to CAML queries. [Developers] Packaging Solutions Improved Foundation P P P P P The WSS Solution Package (WSP) contains solutions and features to be deployed to a SharePoint farm. It includes upgrade semantics so that code can be run against existing features during upgrade. [Developers] REST and ATOM Data Feeds New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 makes list data available and Excel data available using simple REST and ATOM protocols. Using ADO.NET Data Services to access REST/ATOM data in a Visual Studio 2010 application makes accessing data from SharePoint 2010 easy. [Developers] Ribbon and Dialog Framework New Foundation P P P P P The Ribbon in SharePoint provides a similar look to Office client applications. It can be customized with additional context sensitive ribbons, groups and items. Custom dialogs can be created to open on top of web pages keeping user context and giving the look and feel of a popup window in a non-Web application. [Developers] Sandboxed Solutions New Foundation P P P P P For IT Professionals who have performance and security concerns with third-party code and solutions, Sandboxed Solutions are a new way to run custom code on SharePoint Servers that provides administrators with control over resources that are consumed by the custom code. Not only is the code run in a sandboxed environment, separate from other processes to make it safe, the resources it consumes can also be controlled to prevent performance issues. Resources are monitored on the custom code and a limit is applied daily before the custom code is unable to run. The custom code is also subject to Code Access Security which prevents certain API’s being called. [Developers] SharePoint Lists Improved Foundation P P P P P For unstructured data storage SharePoint provides lists which can be created at runtime and have typed data added at runtime. They have built in views for sorting and listing data and built in forms for creating and editing data. Permissions can be granted for other users to view and or edit a list and lists can be related to other lists. New in SharePoint 2010 is removal of list size restrictions, automatic adding of indexes for certain operations, uniqueness requirement option, formula validation and multiple field lookup for related and external data. [Developers] SharePoint Service Architecture Improved Foundation P P P P P The SharePoint Service Architecture is an upgrade from the Shared Service Provider Architecture in SharePoint 2007. It provides an architecture which is easier to build services on using commonly known WCF interfaces and WCF implementations. [Developers] SharePoint Timer Jobs Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint timer jobs run on the SharePoint farm periodically and are administered and monitored by the farm administration user interface. [Developers] Silverlight Web Part New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a built in Silverlight web part so that Silverlight XAP applications can be uploaded to a Document Library and used immediately. Silverlight applications use the Client OM to access SharePoint data from within the application. [Developers] Web Parts Improved Foundation P P P P P Web Parts are a simple way to add custom code to a SharePoint site. Once the custom code is added in a web part the SharePoint Site editor can add the web part to any page and the code is run to show a small block of user interface when the page is displayed. [Developers] Workflow Models Improved Foundation P P P P P Workflow models can be created in SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 and deployed to SharePoint. They can be associated with an item in a SharePoint list, a document in a document library or directly on a SharePoint site. Workflow actions execute in response to user events and a workflow instances can be long running. [Developers] XSLT Views New Foundation P P P P P XLST-based views are now default in SharePoint and external lists. Replaces CAML for Views for better performance, easier edit in SPD, and simpler coding experience. [IT Professionals] Accessibility Improved Foundation P P P P P New accessibility improvements enable people to use SharePoint more effectively through built-in support for industry standards such as WCAG 2.0 AA, Section 508 + VPAT, WAI-ARIA and out of the box Master Pages based on the XHTML 1.0 Strict DocType. Comprehensive keyboard navigation support is also included. [IT Professionals] Claims-Based Authentication Support Improved Foundation P P P P P New Claims-based authentication support is flexible and designed for heterogeneous identity environments providing and authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, application-specific databases and new user- centric identity models, such as LiveID, OpenID and InfoCard systems, including Microsoft’s CardSpace and Novell’s Digital Me. [IT Professionals] Configuration Wizards New Standard P P P P New "Wizards" are designed to make the configuration process easier by guiding an administrator through the steps required to configure pieces of functionality. 2 of 11
  • 3.
    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description [IT Professionals] Cross-Browser Support Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved cross browser support enables people to work the way they want by enabling users the choice on how they want to interact with SharePoint. Improved cross browser support not only provides choice on the desktop, but enables support for improved collaboration across mobile devices. [IT Professionals] High-Availability Architecture Improved Foundation P P P P P Improvements in supporting IT Continuity Management are designed to simplify high availability planning and solutions, from improved support for database mirroring, to the new Service Application architecture meeting your independent service level agreements has never been easier. [IT Professionals] Improved Backup and Restore Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved backup and restore enables new opportunities to support IT continuity management with improvements in its out of the box backup and restore such as configuration only backups, and improved scale, performance, and resiliency. [IT Professionals] Improved Governance Improved Foundation P P P P P Metadata creation and management, shared service applications, taxonomy, multi-tenancy, Sandboxed solutions, content syndication, and policy are new and improved features to guide the development and use of SharePoint aligning to specific governance processes. [IT Professionals] Improved Setup and Configuration Improved Foundation P P P P P The new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool simplifies the process of preparing SharePoint 2010 servers and helps to ensure consistent install bases across servers and server farms, complimented with new "wizards", SharePoint 2010 has streamlined the deployment process. New Windows PowerShell integration also extends the deployment process by enabling administrators to programmatically deploy software and configure SharePoint 2010. [IT Professionals] Integration with UC (OCS, Exchange) Improved Foundation P P P P P Connecting people and platforms is simplified through SharePoint 2010 allowing you to drive rich social and collaborations scenarios while minimizing out of the box configuration. [IT Professionals] Large List Scalability and New Foundation P P P P P Resource throttling for large lists gives you granular control over the server performance impact of Management list and libraries that contain several thousand to millions of items while automatically educating users on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently. [IT Professionals] Managed Accounts New Foundation P P P P P Reduce administration expenses by allowing SharePoint 2010 to take control of your accounts. SharePoint 2010 can automatically reset passwords based on domain policies and notify administrators when passwords are expiring. By storing account information in SharePoint 2010 keep your information secure and reduce the administrative processes of managing it yourself. [IT Professionals] Multi-Lingual User Interface New Foundation P P P P P Many organizations, not just those that are global or multinational, have employees who speak different native languages. SharePoint 2010 provides out-of-the-box support for multilingual experiences. Not only is the SharePoint experience multilingual in areas such as the Ribbon UI, menus and site navigation, but site owners can also configure fields within lists to support multiple languages. Additionally, when people create new content they can submit translations of the content they are entering. [IT Professionals] Multi-tenancy Improved Foundation P P P P P Whether hosting SharePoint or enabling divisional IT site collection management. You'll find new controls and capabilities, that enable you to delegate administration tasks and partition data across customers or business units. [IT Professionals] Patch Management New Foundation P P P P P Backwards compatibility, Central Administration reporting, and Windows PowerShell integration provides the tools and resources to enable you to more predictably apply updates and service packs, minimize downtime. [IT Professionals] Permissions Management Improved Foundation P P P P P Improvements in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 include six customizable permission levels by default (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels) and the ability to create customized permission levels that contain only the specific permissions you need. [IT Professionals] Quota Templates Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved Quota Templates not only enable you to control the amount of storage used by site collections, but provide additional controls over the resources consumed by user code solutions. [IT Professionals] Read-Only Database Support Improved Foundation P P P P P Read-only database support is improved in SharePoint 2010 by enabling it to more seamless detect and respond to read/write configurations on its database. SharePoint 2010 adapts to a read-only state by limiting the write-based actions of the user in a clean and effective presentation enabling administrators to minimize downtime during patching and upgrade operations and support a larger array of high availability solutions. [IT Professionals] Remote Blob Storage (SQL feature) New Foundation P P P P P Remote Blob Storage support is designed to enable an organization move storage of large binary data (BLOBs) from Microsoft SQL Server to external storage solutions or commodity hardware. [IT Professionals] Resource Throttling New Foundation P P P P P The Remote Blob Storage provider architecture is completely pluggable is designed so another Resource Throttling provides a way to control the server resources and and provides that the server can be protected from overload during peak business hours. Through throttling settings, SharePoint 2010 provides a way for administrators to determine at what level the server will go into a throttling mode. [IT Professionals] Secure Store Improved Foundation P P P P P The new Secure Store Service replaces the single sign-on (SSO) feature. The Secure Store Service is a claims-aware authorization service that includes a secure database for storing credentials that are associated with application IDs. These application IDs can be used to authorize access to external data sources. [IT Professionals] Service Application Platform New Foundation P P P P P The new Service Application architecture provides greater flexibility and reach allowing administrators to decide what services they would like to provide and how those services should be positioned across servers. These improvements, in addition to providing API's to build on the service application architecture, enable SharePoint 2010 to scale and provide the services to meet changing business needs. 3 of 11
  • 4.
    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description [IT Professionals] SharePoint Health Analyzer New Foundation P P P P P The SharePoint Health Analyzer built into SharePoint 2010 provides an extensible rules based engine that monitors farm health, and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance issues right out-of-the box. Through a “Problems and solutions page” in Central Administration, you can quickly find and fix potential issues across all of the servers in your farm, or just let the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer do it for you. [IT Professionals] SQL Server Integration Improved Foundation P P P P P Enhanced SQL Server integration provides a number of improvements in how it interacts with SQL Server and enables the administrator to unlock its potential, from Transparent Data Encryption to Snapshot support, SharePoint 2010 is more capable than ever of delivering solutions that are closely tied to SQL Server. [IT Professionals] Streamlined Central Administration Improved Foundation P P P P P You’ll find a revamped and streamlined administration experience in SharePoint 2010. Everything is at your fingertips within Central Administration to help you get your job done, including the addition of the Ribbon to make configuring and managing your server farm even quicker and easier. [IT Professionals] Unattached Content Database New Foundation P P P P P The new unattached content database recovery feature allows you to temporarily mount an Recovery unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection or export sites and lists all through the Central Administration UI, and without the requirement of a recovery farm. [IT Professionals] Upgrade Improvements (i.e., Improved Foundation P P P P P More upgrade choices and improved predictably are designed for administrators and users alike, Upgrade Checker) through enabling multiple upgrade sessions, and improvements in reporting, administrators can more easily address implement and resolve upgrade concerns while users are empowered with the choice on when to upgrade their sites to the new user interface through Visual Upgrade. [IT Professionals] Usage Monitoring and Logging Improved Foundation P P P P P The new unified logging database in SharePoint 2010 is the central repository for your SharePoint farm to log usage and health data to. The database schema will be fully documented to give you the power and flexibility of writing your own reports in addition to the ones we provide. You’ll also be able to log your own events and tracing data through a new logging Object Model into the database. Your insight into server usage and performance just became a whole lot easier. [IT Professionals] Visual Upgrade New Foundation P P P P P Visual Upgrade allows SharePoint administrators to decide if they want to keep Office SharePoint Server 2007 visuals after upgrade, giving the user their familiar look and feel, and has the option to switch to new look later. This allows the site administrator the ability to first view the site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it. This setting is at the Web level allowing for a very granular, flexible experience. [IT Professionals] Windows PowerShell Support New Foundation P P P P P Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language that helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. SharePoint 2010 provides a Windows PowerShell profile so you can take advantage of Windows PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments. Hundreds of cmdlets that will be shipped out-of-the-box to help IT professionals to manage their server farm and automate their tasks. Communities Ask Me About New Standard P P P P Identifying expertise within a large organization can be difficult and the subject matters can evolve over time. The Ask Me About section on a user’s profile is a great way for people to list their areas of expertise, and also to invite colleagues to ask them to share their knowledge. Communities Blogs Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes improved Blog functionality with a new user interface, improved commenting, editing, and content management features. The rich text editor includes the Ribbon UI and supports easy image uploads and rich formatting. Blog posts can also be managed as records supporting enterprise compliance and document retention policies. Communities Colleague Suggestions Improved Standard P P P P Based on your organizational hierarchy in Active Directory, membership in SharePoint communities or email distribution lists, communications from Office Communicator contacts, and an analysis of Office Outlook emails, SharePoint 2010 will suggest appropriate colleagues to add to your social network. This automated suggestion service helps keep your network and interests updated and recent. Communities Colleagues and Membership Improved Standard P P P P Connect with people across your enterprise social network with Colleagues and Membership. Adding people to your enterprise social network is simple through the Add Colleagues feature that supports privacy options for different levels of permission settings. It also allows you to add colleagues to your immediate workgroup, or to specify a category group for those colleagues. Communities Discussion Forums Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 provides a discussion list where users can create new discussion topics and respond to existing ones in a threaded format. The structure of the threads can be followed naturally, as if reading the transcript from a conversation. The discussion forums has an improved rich text editor that includes the Ribbon UI. Communities Enterprise Wikis New Standard P P P P The Enterprise Wiki template is built on the SharePoint publishing framework to support scalability and security, while also encouraging a collaborative content management process through a wiki interface. Enterprise Wikis help consolidate company-wide information into a centralized, easy-to- manage repository. The rich text editor includes support for interwiki linking, embedding rich media and ability to stream them, page ratings, and categorization. Communities Keyword Suggestions New Standard P P P P Based on email communication patterns from Office Outlook 2010, SharePoint 2010 will suggest key phrases that the end user can select and add to their "Ask Me About" or "Interests" section of the My Site profile to communicate their interest in topics or areas of expertise. Communities My Network New Standard P P P P My Network is an enterprise newsfeed that displays a real-time feed of updates from the people you’re following and interests you’re tracking. Users can select what type of activities they are want to see in their newsfeed. The newsfeed is also extensible to display 3rd party activity. An enterprise newsfeed helps users stay connected and up-to-date on the people and topics they care about. 4 of 11
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    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description Communities My Sites: People Profiles and Improved Standard P P P P The My Site comes with 2 views: a public profile and a personal site. The personal site gives you a Personal Sites central location to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts. The People profile pages contain rich information about employees including a bio, job title, location, contact information, interests and skills, and previous projects. This makes finding the right people and subject matter experts across the company much easier. With SharePoint Search, you can find people based on names, nicknames, wildcard, or search for people by expertise skills based on the information stored on their My Site. Communities Note Board New Standard P P P P The Note Board is a great way to post comments, ask questions, or otherwise interact with other people or site communities. All My Sites will have a Note Board in the public profile. This open forum of communication helps lower the barriers to participation, relieves email overload, and opens up discussions to multiple people. Communities Organization Browser New Standard P P P P With a rich Silverlight user interface, the Organization Browser is an exceptional browsing experience that allows people to smoothly navigate through the organizational structures to see peers, direct reports and management chains by drilling into their relationship to one another and their My Site profile information. Communities Photos and Presence Improved Foundation P P P P P Everywhere you see a person’s name, you also see their photo and presence status. This helps personalize business communities, and makes identification and connections between people effortless. Tight integration with Microsoft Unified Communications tools allows 1-click communications directly from SharePoint. Communities Ratings New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a 5-star rating system that may be applied to SharePoint pages, lists/libraries or individual documents. Ratings help apply quality management controls, so users can search and sort for the best content. Communities Recent Activities New Standard P P P P The Recent Activities feed on a person’s My Site public profile page is a helpful way to understand what that person has been working on. The Activities shown are the same ones listed for the My Network newsfeed items. The Recent Activities list gives visitors deeper insight into what’s going on in your role or organizations and helps build a more connected community. Communities Social Bookmarks New Standard P P P P Social Bookmarks are a great way to manage and remember your favorite sites. The sites can be external or internal URLs and they can be shared with colleagues. This helps increase discoverability of resources across the organization. Communities Status Updates Improved Standard P P P P Status Updates are a great, informal way to let people know where you are or what you’re doing. When changes are made to your status update, this will show up in your Recent Activities and for you under your colleagues' My Network as part of their newsfeed. Communities Tag Clouds New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a Tag Cloud web part that helps people navigate through the tag taxonomy by visually depicting the most popular tags. Users can have a personal tag cloud to help them navigate more easily or share what content or pages are important to them with the rest of the organization. Tag clouds can also help surface what resources are available per site collection. Communities Tag Profiles New Standard P P P P Tag Profile pages are communities of interest around a specific keyword or topic. These profiles show a list of items that have been tagged with the term – this could be documents, sites, wiki pages and more. The profiles also show who tagged the content. Tag profiles make it easier to get more context around this term because of the relevant content and people associated with it. The tag profile pages also contain a list of the members following this tag, as well as a note board for any discussions. Communities Tags New Standard P P P P Tags or free form metadata help classify and organize the vast amount of information in your organization. SharePoint 2010 supports both a centralized metadata taxonomy system, as well as social tagging. Tags in this context are social tags which users specify their own terms, so they can associate it with a keyword in the managed taxonomy system or provide their own keyword. Communities Wikis Improved Foundation P P P P P Creating, editing and managing wiki pages have become easier than ever in SharePoint 2010. Rich, visual editing tools and inline multi-media support help bring your pages to life with a live preview of the edits made. SharePoint pages combine the ease of wiki editing with the deep functionality of web parts. Wikis can also be managed as records supporting enterprise compliance and document retention policies. Composites Access Services New Enterprise P P Publish your Access databases to SharePoint to share them with others. With Access Services you will be able to reduce database versioning problems and simplify the deployment of Access forms and reports to other users, while reducing governance risks. Composites Browser-Based Customizations Improved Foundation P P P P P From calendars and tasks to charts and enterprise data, SharePoint provides users with rich building blocks to create collaborative solutions rapidly, directly on the browser, with a standard user interface, simplified commands on the Ribbon, web edit, and out-of-the-box workflows and web parts for a variety of common scenarios. Composites Business Connectivity Services: BDC Improved Foundation P P P P P Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service enables you to declaratively model external systems, so Service that you can expose external data in SharePoint Server 2010. The BDC provides connectivity to various types of external systems, and it has built-in support for connecting to the following types of data sources: • Databases • WCF and Web services • Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies • Custom data sources; BDC provides a pluggable connector framework which developers can use to plug in connectors for new external system types to enable access to these new data source types via BDC Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Foundation P P P P P Enables users to surface data from external systems to existing SharePoint Lists. External Data Column 5 of 11
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    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Standard P P P P Search external data in SharePoint Server and view the results alongside search results. External Data Search Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Enterprise P P Display external data on your portal site without writing any code. These Web Parts are generic External Data Web Parts and reusable and can show any type of external data registered in the Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service. Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Foundation P P P P P Enables accessing data (read/write) from external systems in the same way that SharePoint list External Lists data is accessed. Composites Business Connectivity Services: Office New Enterprise P P Connect external lists to Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. This Client Integration enables you to work with external data such as native Outlook Item types (for example, Contacts, Tasks, Appointments, etc.) in Outlook and in lists in SharePoint Workspace and to take external data offline. Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Standard P P P P Profile pages show detailed information about the selected external item and its relationship to Profile Pages other items. This page is surfaced when users search for external data, and can also be accessed from external lists and the External Data web parts. Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Standard P P P P Secure Store Service can be used to store and map user credentials required by the external Secure Store system. Composites Customization via SharePoint Improved Foundation P P P P P Allow rich no-code customizations using the revamped user interface in SharePoint Designer. Designer Create solutions more rapidly with its List and Content Type editors, association columns, reusable workflows, impersonation steps, XSLT templates, and external content types from BCS, among other new capabilities, without code. Composites Forms: Out-of-box workflows and Improved Standard P P P P Forms customized with SharePoint Designer. Out-of-box workflows (Initiation, Association, Task). customization via SharePoint Customization via SharePoint Designer (limited to level of schema). Designer Composites InfoPath Forms Services Improved Enterprise P P Create rich forms to quickly and cost-effectively gather information. Create form-based SharePoint applications with Office InfoPath and take advantage of all the server improvement to create rich web browser forms that can be more easily managed on the server, or build advanced forms that connect to line-of-business systems. Fully-featured customization via InfoPath Client (requires Office ProPlus). External Lists can be converted from standard SharePoint forms to InfoPath forms, enabling rich customization and the addition of code-behind. Composites Sandboxed Solutions New Foundation P P P P P For IT Professionals who have performance and security concerns with 3rd party code and solutions, Sandboxed Solutions can help to solve the problem. It allows Site Administrators to upload the solutions they need. Not only the solution is run in a sandboxed environment and is separated from other processes to make it safe, but the resource it consumed can also be controlled by IT Professionals to prevent performance issues. Allow your users to deploy custom code in the Sandbox, but allow yourself to define the level of resources that those solutions can utilize. SharePoint will make sure that user solutions stay within your boundaries. Composites Workflows Improved Foundation P P P P P ASPX forms to enable workflows. Manage these business process diagrams in a central Process Diagram Repository. Content Compliance Everywhere New Standard P P P P Whether you’re managing traditional content (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), web content or social content (blogs and wikis), SharePoint 2010 provides the right level of control and compliance. Regardless of content type or location, SharePoint 2010 allows you to manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records or place legal holds. SharePoint 2010 also supports location based policy and metadata defaults allowing the creation and management of hierarchical file plans. Content Document Sets New Standard P P P P Document Sets provide a way to manage a group of related content as a single entity. Each Document Set has its own version history, workflow and shared metadata while each content item retains its own specific version history, workflow and metadata. When you create a Document Set, all the component parts are created at that same time, improving the consistency and speeding up common business processes like RFP responses. Content Metadata Driven Navigation New Standard P P P P Metadata Driven Navigation provides users with the ability to rapidly browse and discover information in large Document Libraries using terms defined in the Managed Metadata Service. Users can also further refine views based on specific metadata filters like Content Type, Author and Tags. Content Multi-stage Disposition New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 provides a rich framework for managing retention and disposition of content. Information managers can create sophisticated policies that define multiple stages in the content lifecycle. Options include regular review cycles, disposition of draft content, disposition of all but the most recently published content, final disposition and initiation of custom disposition workflow. To support in place records management, different policies can be defined for non- records and records in the same location or of the same Content Type. Content Office Integration Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a “Connect to Office” function that let’s Office applications know which SharePoint libraries a user typically interacts with. When a user connects a library to Office, the library is quickly available in the Office Back Stage for opening and saving files. In addition, when a user wants to create a new Office document, the list of templates in connected libraries is available alongside local and online templates. Content Rich Media Management New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 provides a range of new capabilities for managing rich media assets like video, audio and images. From automatic metadata promotion on upload to support for streaming video and audio, SharePoint 2010 makes it easy for users to store, manage, find and use digital content. In addition, SharePoint and the Office applications provide a rich asset picker that supports previews and metadata driven navigation. 6 of 11
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    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description Content Shared Content Types and the New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 delivers significant advances in metadata management across SharePoint Managed Metadata Service deployments. The Shared Content Type infrastructure allows Content Types and associated Information Management Policy to be shared across Farms and Site Collections. The Managed Metadata Service is used to define and manage taxonomies and folksonomy. The Managed Metadata Service supports hierarchical term sets, synonyms and multilingual terms and can be shared across Farms and Site Collections. Content Support for Accessibility Standards New Foundation P P P P P Whether you’re delivering a .com site, a corporate intranet or a partner extranet, accessibility has become a critical and often mandated requirement. SharePoint is designed to foster participation across all audiences and accessibility is a key driver for SharePoint 2010 with out-of-the box support for WCAG 2.0 AA. Content The Content Organizer Improved Standard P P P P One of the most common complaints with traditional ECM solutions is misclassification of information. The Content Organizer removes the burden of classification from the end user by automatically routing content to the appropriate location based on Content Type and metadata values. The Content Organizer can also automatically provision folder hierarchy based on unique metadata values like department, team, project or product. Content Unique Document IDs New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 provides a unique Document ID service that makes managing and tracking information easy by assigning a unique, human readable identifier to every piece of content. Users can quickly search for information using the Document ID and SharePoint Search will find the content even if it has been moved from its original location. In addition, SharePoint 2010 supports “permalinks”, a URL that can be used to reference a piece of content independent of its location throughout the content lifecycle. Content Word Automation Services New Standard P P P P Word Automation Services is a highly scalable, server based engine that delivers save, export and print capabilities for Word Documents. When combined with the Office Open XML SDK, Word Automation Services supports document creation, manipulation and renditions as well as integration with line of business systems for generating content based on structured data sources. Insights Business Data Web Parts Improved Enterprise P P Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data Connectivity. Insights Chart Web Parts New Enterprise P P A wide range of chart types are now available for users to create advanced visualizations using the data in SharePoint: SharePoint Lists, Business Connectivity Services, or Excel documents via Excel Services. Simple wizards guide users through the creation of charts empowering them to create their own dashboards quickly and easily. Insights Data Connection Library Improved P P Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC)which describes the connections to external data such as Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program, and empower users to access the data they need. Insights Excel Services Improved Enterprise P P Excel Services makes it simple to use, share, secure, and manage Microsoft Office Excel workbooks (.xslx, .xslb, .xlsm) as interactive reports and dashboards in a consistent way. Excel Services supports even more workbook types as well as new features of Excel 2010 such as Sparklines and Visual Slicers, and enables you to reuse content in SharePoint dashboards. Users can create and share their Excel content easily through the one-click publish to Excel Services, and be sure to have their workbooks display properly in their favorite browser. Excel Services introduces a new JavaScript object model that lets you create rich, interactive applications with your workbooks on the server. From implementing right-mouse button controls to displaying data unique to cells, the JavaScript object model enables developers and IT to create vivid business experiences. A new REST API allows you to embed your workbooks across applications and even with your desktop, such as in blogs or wikis. Lastly, an improved Web Services API enables several new automation and application development capabilities. Insights Filter Framework Improved Enterprise P P Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web Parts on a SharePoint page. Users can easily add and create a variety of filters that push values to other web-parts and can be personalized by users to retain their choices. Filters can pull their list of values from a variety of different sources as well as from the user. Insights PerformancePoint Services Improved Enterprise P P Create rich, interactive, context-driven dashboards and scorecards that enable users to access the information they need when they need it with the most up-to-date information available. Combine multiple systems and content into a single browser-based experience, providing a complete picture for decision making. New features such as decomposition tree, visualizations, and improved filtering enables users to easily navigate and analyze the root cause and make effective decisions to move the business forward. Insights Status Indicators Improved P P Quickly create and display important metrics using Status Indicators that users can quickly display on their SharePoint pages. Users can enter their own, or use data stored in Excel, SharePoint Lists, or SQL Server Analysis Services providing all team members with a quick update on projects and activities. Insights Visio Services New Enterprise P P Leverage the most popular diagramming tool in the world, Visio, directly on SharePoint. Publish and share rich Visio diagrams simply through a browser displayed within SharePoint. Visio diagrams are rendered with the same fidelity as the client and provide interactivity on shapes and objects. Create custom dashboards connected to real-time data and combine it with other web parts such as Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services. 7 of 11
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    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description Insights Web Analytics Customization New Enterprise P P Ability to modify existing web analytics reports and create new views of the data to help drive awareness of how SharePoint is being used and deployed. Search Advanced Content Processing New Enterprise P* P Extract and create metadata latent in documents to improve search results, sorting capabilities and the refinement panel. Search Best Bets Improved Standard P P P P P P Best Bets give the administrator the ability to provide the best result for a keyword. Search Build Multiple Relevance Profiles New Enterprise P* P Rank Profiles provide additional methods for IT PROs to define customized ranking of results for e.g. different search centers as your site search or your intranet search. A rank profile specifies the weights of attributes affecting rank. Examples of such attributes are freshness (age of document), click-through (popularity) and other static or dynamic quality measures of a document. Search Build Search-Powered Applications New Enterprise P* P Leverage the publicly-available query object model and web parts, making modification and extensibility a much easier task. Search Common Connector Framework for New Standard P P P P P P Securely connect out-of-box to content from sources across your enterprise. Use the BDC to easily Indexing and Federation create your own connectors that work just like those available out of the box. Search Deep Refinement with Exact Counts New Enterprise P* P The summary allows users to see the number of documents containing this information for a given results set. Search Duplicate Results New Standard P P P P P P Duplicate Detection collapses highly similar results together to reduce clutter from multiple versions of the same document. Search Federated Search New Standard P P P P P P Federated Results surface information from other sources in the search experience. Federated sources can be used in the core results, in a small preview of results, or in an instant answer format. Out of the box Related Searches and People Results are federated into the search experience. Search Mobile Search Experience New Standard P P P P P P Empower users with document, people, and site searching capabilities from anywhere Search People and Expertise Search Improved Standard P P P P Capture knowledge not found in documents by searching for people and expertise using SharePoint. Locate the appropriate contact using their responsibilities, memberships, past projects, content and other attributes. Search Performance: Sub-second query Improved Standard P P P P P P Achieve sub-second query response time while scaling your search system to 100m+ documents response time Search Phonetics & Nickname Expansion Improved Standard P P P P The people and expertise search engine in SharePoint 2010 uses phonetic matching and nickname expansion to help find the right people, the first time. Search Query Suggestions, "Did You Mean?", New Standard P P P P P P Accelerate the time required to find the right answer with a system that uses information from and Related Queries previous queries to suggest appropriate terms and results. Suggestions improve with use by suggesting keywords which were successful for other users. Users see suggestions while typing queries as well as related searches and company acronyms after searching. "Did You Mean?" delivers query spelling corrections specific to your company terms based upon crawled documents. Search Recently Authored Content New Standard P P P P Identify the right people and expertise faster with recently authored content and expertise identification. Search Refinement panel New Standard P P P P P P With new refinement capabilities of SharePoint, users can narrow the results of their search and navigate to the right content faster. Refinement on Extended Properties provides the ability to identify custom meta-data (such as products or departments) from the unstructured text of a document. The extraction is supported by custom dictionaries, and allows the user to refine and sort data that they care about. Search Relevancy Tuning by Document or New Standard P P P P P P Provide the means for developers and IT professionals to create new relevance models to retrieve Site Promotions and customize ranking of different content sources and new search experiences. Search Rich Web Indexing Support New Enterprise P* P A highly customizable indexing connector which is able to scale to large environments, for example when you organization is crawling a large number of external web sites. The crawler also supports crawling dynamic Web content and Web sites with JavaScript. Search Scale to 500,000,000+ documents Improved Enterprise P* P Scale to extremes with FAST Search for SharePoint while maintaining sub-second query times. Search Scale up to 100,000,000 documents Improved Standard P P P Using an improved topology architecture via improved topology architecture Search Search in Context New Enterprise P* P User profile-based, Search in Context enables results targeted for specific groups of users. You can associate Best Bets, Visual Best Bets, and document promotions with a user context, in order to have these apply exclusively for users that match the user context. A user context corresponds to a set of user profile values, such as “Title: Project Manager" and "Office Location: London”. Search Search Scopes New Standard P P P P P P Scopes allow site and service administrators to define a subset of the index based upon criteria such as URL or property values. A scope acts as a “piece of the pie” of the index that enables administrators to create search experiences that target a portion of the content. Search SharePoint Desktop Search from Improved Standard P P P P P P Deliver a full fidelity SharePoint search experience from the desktop. Windows 7 Search Similar Results New Enterprise P* P Allows you to explore additional results which are similar to a particular document in the search result set. Search Site Search Improved Foundation P P P P P P P Site search results helps the user find information everywhere in SharePoint by providing results to the user's current site or list. Site search has been improved to use refinement and to inherit the look and feel of the site. Search Social Behavior Improves Relevance New Standard P P P P P P The click-through behavior of similar search queries affects the rank that documents receive. The more users click on a certain item, the higher its ranking for related queries. Search Social Tags New Standard P P P P Social tags as metadata on search results improving recall, ranking, results and refinement. 8 of 11
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    By Capability andLicense License SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u m Standard Enterprise m n n 1 2 Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description Search Sort the search results New Standard P P P P Sort results based on modified date or the default view. Search Sorting on custom properties New Enterprise P* P Sort Results Based on Managed Properties or Rank Profiles Search Taxonomy and Term Store New Standard P P P P Bring the power of taxonomy into Search. Tag metadata is shown in results, and users can refine Integration by taxonomy-based tags. Search Thumbnails and Previews New Enterprise P* P Thumbnails and previews make the results of a search query visual, allowing users to recognize the right content quickly. Search View in Browser New Standard P P P P View in browser initiates an interactive web experience with documents without opening an office client application. Search Visual Best Bets New Enterprise P* P Visual Best Bets provide the ability to associate rich content with a search keyword. The content, for instance a banner, a section of HTML or a Silverlight control, is displayed on top of the result list whenever a user searches for that keyword. A Visual Best Bet can be associated with a User Context to target the content towards specific groups of users. Sites Audience Targeting Improved Foundation P P P P P Users are able to target groups and individuals to share, review, and publish information and can control the distribution and viewing of pages, web parts, and content. Sites Cross-Browser Support Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 also offers improved cross-browser support, including Safari and Firefox, as well as a host of micro-browsers. Sites Enterprise Management Operations Improved Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 features a new web analytics service and offers a full complement of management tools and reports, including a suite of site and usage reports, a developer dashboard to monitor performance of pages and web parts, and a customizable monitoring and alerts based on log and event activity. Sites Fluent User Interface Improved Foundation P P P P P With SharePoint 2010 users are able to quickly and easily find and use relevant features with a new contextual ribbon and breadcrumb navigation, preview edits and additions as changes are made, select and action against multiple files at once. Sites Mobile Connectivity Improved Foundation P P P P P With SharePoint 2010, all sites and content will be accessible and render on mobile devices. Sites Office Client Integration Improved Foundation P P P P P Users benefit from a seamless and natural integration with the productivity tools they use most, including Microsoft Office‘s Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. The rich Office client enables people to collaborate and be productive whether they are connected or not, enabling a broad collaboration scenarios that extend beyond the browser. Sites OOB Web Parts Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 offers users a wide array of useful out-of-the-box web parts, including calendar, tasks, lists, and links. Users are able to easily add web parts anywhere within an intranet and / or extranet site using simple point and click functionality. Sites Scalability Improved Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 can include tens of millions of items in a single library, up to a million items per folder, and includes configurable, automatic query throttling to manage IO resources. Archive deposits are intelligently routed and stored based on metadata, eliminating user’s need to identify exact folder locations. Sites SharePoint Workspace Integration New Foundation P P P P P With SharePoint Workspace users can take a Team Site or a single library offline with just one click. Users are given full read / write capabilities, can edit metadata, and can even take line-of- business data offline using SharePoint 2010’s virtual lists. With SharePoint 2010 only deltas are transmitted for update, speeding experiences for remote and low bandwidth activities. Sites Tagging Improved Standard P P P P Users can apply tags to content using a predetermined taxonomy or create new tags that facilitate and speed content discovery. Sites Video Support, REST, and Silverlight Improved Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 supports and makes it easy to create rich internet experiences using programmable Silverlight applications, APIs, AJAX, XML Web Services, and REST. * Requires "FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint" 9 of 11
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    SharePoint 2010: WebParts [As of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta] By License License Web Part SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint Description Foundation Server 2010 Server 2010 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL Business Data Business Data Actions P Displays a list of actions from the Business Data Catalog. Business Data Connectivity Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data Connectivity. Business Data Item P Displays one item from a data source in the Business Data Catalog. Business Data Item Builder P Creates a Business Data item from parameters in the query string and provides it to other Web Parts. Business Data List P Displays a list of items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog. Business Data Related List P Displays a list of items related to one or more parent items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog. Indicator Details P Displays the details of a single Status Indicator. Status Indicators display an important measure for an organization and may be obtained from other data sources including SharePoint lists, Excel workbooks, and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services KPIs. Status List P Shows a list of Status Indicators. Status Indicators display important measures for your organization, and show how your organization is performing with respect to your goals. Content Rollup HTML Form Web Part P P P Connects simple form controls to other web parts Picture Library Slideshow Web Part P P P Use to display a slideshow of images and photos from a picture library XML Viewer P P P Transforms XML data using XSL and shows the results RSS Viewer P P Displays an RSS feed. Web Analytics web part P P Displays the most viewed content, most popular search queries, or most popular clicked search results as reported by Web Analytics for the site or site collection Content Query P P Displays a dynamic view of content from your site. Documents Releveant Documents P P P Displays documents that are relevant to the current user Document Set Contents P P Displays the contents of a Document Set Document Set Properties P P Displays the properties of the Document Set Enter a Document ID P P Finds a document by its Document ID Filters Choice Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values entered by the page author Current User Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts by using properties of the current user. Data Filter P Filter the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter or pick a date. Filter Actions P Use the Filter Actions Web Part when you have two or more filter Web Parts on one Web Part Page, and you want to synchronize the display of the filter results Page Field Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts using information about the current page. Query String (URL) Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts using values passed via the query string. SharePoint List Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts by using a list of values. SQL Server Analysis Services Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from SQL Server Analysis Services cubes. Text Filter P Filters the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter a text value. Group Work What's New P P P This Web Part shows new information from specified lists and libraries. Whereabouts P P P Use to display Whereabouts information Media & Content Content Editor P P P Allows authors to enter rich text content Image Viewer P P P Displays a specified image Page Viewer P P P Displays another Web page on this Web Page. The other Web page is presented in an iFrame Silverlight Web Part P P P A web part to display a Silverlight application Media Web Part P P Use to embed media clips (video and audio) in a web page. My Information My Calendar P P Displays your calendar using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later My Contacts P P Displays your contacts using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later 10 of 11
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    License Web Part SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint Description Foundation Server 2010 Server 2010 2010 Standard CAL Enterprise CAL My Inbox P P Displays your inbox using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later My Mail Folder P P Displays your mail folder using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later My Tasks P P Displays your tasks using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later Navigation Categories P P Displays categories from the Site Directory Site Aggregator P P Displays sites of your choice Sites in Category P P Displays sites from the Site Directory within a specific category Summary Links P P Allows authors to create links that can be grouped and styled. Table of Contents P P Displays the navigation hierarchy of your site. Tag Cloud P P Displays the most popular subjects being tagged inside your organization Office Client Applications P Excel Web Access P Use the Excel Web Access Web Part to interact with an Excel workbook as a Web page. InfoPath Form Web Part P Use this Web Part to display an InfoPath browser-enabled form. Visio Web Access P Enables viewing and refreshing of published Visio diagrams. WSRP Viewer P Displays portlets from web sites using WSRP 1.1. People Site Users P P P Use the Site Users Web Part to see a list of the site users and their onlines status User Tasks P P P Displays tasks that are assigned to the current user. Contact Details P P Displays details about a contact for this page or site Note Board P P Enable users to leave short, publicly-viewable notes about this page Organization Browser P P This Web Part displays each person in the reporting chain in an interactive view optimized for browsing organization charts. PerformancePoint PerformancePoint Filter P This web part displays PerformancePoint filters. Filters may be linked to other web parts to provide an interactive dashboard experience. Filter types include lists and trees based on a variety of data sources. PerformancePoint Report P This web part displays PerformancePoint reports. Reports may be linked to other web parts to create an interactive dashboard experience. Report types include: Analytic charts & grids, Strategy Maps, Excel Services, Reporting Services, Predictive Trend charts, and web pages. PerformancePoint Scorecard P This web part displays a PerformancePoint scorecard. Scorecards may be linked to other web parts, such as filters and reports, to create an interactive dashboard experience. PerformancePoint Stack Selector P This web part displays a PerformancePoint Stack Selector. All PerformancePoint web parts, such as filters and reports, contained in the same zone will be automatically stacked and selectable using this web part. Search Advanced Search Box P P Displays parameterized search options based on preoperties and combinations of words Dual Chinese Search P P Used to search Dual Chinese document and items at the same time. Federated Results P P Displays search results from a configured location People Refinement Panel P P This webpart helps the users to refine people search results People Search Box P P Presents a search box that allows users to search for people People Search Core Results P P Displays the people search results and the properties associated with them Refinement Panel P P This webpart helps the users to refine search results Related Queries P P This webpart displays related queries to a user query Search Action Links P P Displays the search action links on the search results page Search Best Bets P P Displays high-confidence results on a search results page. Search Box P P Displays a search box that allows users to search for information Search Core Results P P Displays the search results and the properties associated with them Search Paging P P Display links for navigating pages containing search results. Search Statistics P P Displays the search statistics such as the number of results shown on the current page, total number of results and time taken to perform the search. Search Summary P P Displays suggestions for current search query. Search Visual Best Bet Displays Visual Best Bet Top Federated Results P P Displays the Top Federated result from the configured location. Miscellaneous Chart Web part P Helps you to visualize your data on SharePoint sites and portals. 11 of 11