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SharePoint in Plain English

Bs Raju — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:34:48 +0000

Check this awesome video which explains what SharePoint in plain English

Sharepoint 2010 Released

Bs Raju — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:32:29 +0000

The future of business productivity is here with the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 global launch on May 12 at 11 a.m. EDT.

SharePoint 2010 Editions

Bs Raju — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:51:34 +0000

1) SharePoint Server 2010: Intranet Scenarios

Enterprise Client Access License

For organizations looking to enable advanced scenarios for end users to locate, create and act on data and documents in disparate sources from within a familiar and unified infrastructure. Use the Enterprise CAL capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, Web services, and Microsoft Office client applications; make better decisions with rich data visualization, dashboards, and advanced analytics; and build robust forms and workflow-based solutions

Standard Client Access License

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.

2)SharePoint Server 2010: Internet/Extranet Scenarios

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.

3)Enabling Technologies

SharePoint Designer 2010

The tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers can quickly create SharePoint solutions. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and Web publishing to line-of-business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows. These solutions leverage the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy-to-use environment. In addition, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a quick start on SharePoint development projects.

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.

New Microsoft SharePoint 2010 details start to emerge

Bs Raju — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:50:50 +0000

Following are the New features (rumored) to incorporated into new Sharepoint 2010

Groove (the offline/online synchronization tool Microsoft bought when it acquired Groove Networks) is being renamed and repositioned with the upcoming release as “SharePoint Workspace Manager.” Update on May 13: Microsoft has confirmed officially the renaming and is saying that SharePoint Workspace Manager and OneNote will be part of the Office 2010 ProPlus SKU. (Microsoft is declining to provide any other information, at this point, on its planned Office 2010 line-up.)

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only and require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 to run. It also will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

SharePoint Server 2010 won’t support Internet Explorer 6. From the SharePoint Team blog: SharePoint 2010 will be “targeting standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems. In addition we’re planning on an increased level of compatibility with Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x on non-Windows Operating Systems,” according to the SharePoint Team Blog.

SharePoint 2010 will feature a “Web-enabled Ribbon control” and support greater use of Silverlight controls

CMIS support will allow interoperability between SharePoint 2010 and other content management systems

The architecture supposedly won’t change as it did between SharePoint Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, thus insuring less compatibility issues and a smoother upgrade path (at least in theory)
There’s a new feature, known as “faceted search” coming in the 2010 SharePoint release. No details available yet.

A new version of FAST Search for SharePoint will be made available at a lower cost. Meanwhile, according to contractor and SharePoint blogger Lars Fastrup (whose blog entry is the source of a lot of this post), “the SharePoint team have scrapped their efforts to make the SharePoint search engine scale beyond 50 million documents in a single index. The argument will be to move to the FAST search engine instead.”

Source: www.zdnet.com

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version

Bs Raju — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:31:57 +0000

Here is the link to download the Trial version of Standard and Enterprise editions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007.

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