SharePoint Conference 2009 Opening Keynote Highlights

The following are some of the highlights from the Opening Keynote by Tom Rizzo and Steve Ballmer.

Tom Rizzo

• Welcome Message, Funnies, Fun Facts about the Conference.

Steve Ballmer

• SharePoint Public Beta Available in November
• SharePoint Workspace Application in Office 2010 (Replacing Groove)
  • Take SharePoint Information Offline
  • Slow Links Support
• End users can create their own custom SharePoint Applications (No Comments)
  • Access Services
  • InfoPath Form Services
  • SharePoint Designer

Tom Rizzo – Demo 1

• SharePoint Development on Windows 7 and Vista
• SharePoint Designer
  • Continues to be free
  • SharePoint Designer supports creating External Content Types mapped to external databases with CRUD Support (Create Read Update and Delete)
    • These appear as Lists on the SharePoint site
      • Same (or similar) support for sorting, filtering, views, etc.
    • Can Map to types such as “Outlook Contacts” that are fully integrated with Office 2010
  • XHTML Support
• Visual Studio
  • Very tight integration with SharePoint 2010
  • Web Part Development very much like User Control (ASCX) development
  • Easily step through code and insert breakpoints
  • Developer Dashboard
    • Integrated Diagnostics
      • Performance Counters
      • Call Stack Data
  • Sand Box Solutions
    • Gives greater control to IT Administrators (Farm Admins)
      • Can Allocate Quotas based on performance data
      • Can easily manage and terminate faulty solutions

Steve Ballmer

• SharePoint Online and Cloud allow you to build solutions that run:
  • On Premise
  • On the Cloud
  • In Mixed Mode

Tom Rizzo – Demo 2

• End User Empowerment
  • New Product Page
  • Ribbon for Web Content Management
    • One-Click Page layout
    • Full Fidelity Copy Paste from MS Word 2010
  • Siverlight based Media Player Web Part
  • Fast Navigator Search Web Part (Queryless, Faceted, Drill Down)
    • Product Catalog
    • Slider Capabilities like those on the Bing Travel Site

Jeff Teper – VP Office Business Platform

• Support for much larger lists and libraries
  • Million + Items on Lists
  • 10’s of Millions in Libraries
• Taxonomy Management
  • Tagging
  • Content Types can be managed across site collections, web applications, and across all of the farms in your organization.
• Digital Media / Records
  • Define Records in place rather than going to a record center
• Partition Search Indexes 2
• Visio Services
  • Integrate diagrams with Live Data
• Take Business Intelligent Dashboards offline
• Power Pivot (Previously called Gemini)
  • 100 Million Rows in Excel
  • Publish to Server with SharePoint
  • SQL Server Power Pivot for Excel
  • SQL Server Power Pivot for SharePoint

Jared Spataro – Demo

• Page Editing
  • Preview changes on the glass as you are changing fonts (while hovering over the different fonts without having to select one). Like MS Word.
  • Add images to pages directly from your PC (don't need to be in picture/image library)
  • Resize Images on the screen like in a WYSIWYG
• Check-out multiple documents
• Create Document Sets
  • Manage Workflows (among other things) for groups of documents simultaneously
• Integrated Taxonomy Picker in Office 2010
• Facebook Wall like functionality to track what you and other colleagues are up to (document ratings, recommendations, documents worked on, etc.)
• View Peoples “Recent Content” directly from People Search Results
• Note Board – on MySites
• Excel Services Co-Editing
• Manipulate Large Datasets (100s of millions) very quickly
  • Filtering, Sorting, etc.
• Decomposition Tree in Performance Point allows us to very quickly break down where data is coming from.
• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Workspace 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5

Jeff Teper

• 500+ Power Shell SharePoint Commands
• Extensive usage tracking reports
  • Published Usage logging schema allows us to easily write our own reports.
• Visual Upgrade Approach
  • Upgrade keeping the same 2007 UI
  • Dynamically switch to the 2010 UI when ready
    • Ability to preview site in SharePoint 2010 UI without committing changes

Arpan Shah

• Central Admin
  • SharePoint Help Analyzer
    • Tells you if there is something wrong with your farm
      • Rules that check security, performance, configuration (based on best practices)
  • WSS is now SharePoint Foundation
• Demo of SharePoint from a users standpoint using Firefox

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