Rich Authoring

• Improved standards and compliance
• New digital media assets
• Improved asset library
• New metadata management
• Search Engine Fields  - show up in page edit mode
• Title, Description, keywords - all useful in SEO
• Many fields provide auto complete and suggestions

New wiki page

• Font is constrained in a page, but not in the wiki
• When inserting an image from your desktop, SharePoint asks which library to upload it to, and then does it for you

Image content type

• Copyright now a site column
• Change position of the image with the text
• Assign categories

New enterprise wiki template

• Improved, fewer clicks
• New ratings control on the wiki page
• Ability to aggregate and use in rollup views

Content Query Web Part

• In SharePoint Designer, ability to not only restrict to a particular library type, but also take a value and use it to drive the filtering. For example, pass in Location from the page and use it to filter results to US locations only.
• Customize fields are now down in the GUI and no longer requires XSLT.

Branding Options

• Out-of-the-box
• Built-in theme
• Custom theme and alternate master page
• Fully custom

Variations

• Operations have moved to a timer service which allows pause/resume support
• More control on create hierarchies operation
• UI improvements
• Complements Multilanguage user interface (MUI) which includes user interface elements and taxonomy (not content)

Content Deployment

Point in time snapshots on SQL Enterprise with more logging and diagnostics

Publishing Workflow

• SharePoint Designer enhancements for declarative workflows which means in addition to list workflows, you can have reusable and site workflows.
• Import from Visio and Export to Visio - great feature for business users to design workflows
• Seamless between Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer workflows

Insight

• Traffic Analytics
• Search Analytics
• Social, ratings and tagging
• Health monitoring and developer dashboard

Platform Enhancements

• New Host Header Site Collections (vanity URLS)
• New streaming in blob cache
• Improved library scale
• New user solutions

As you might have notiticed, today was a big day for introducing the upcoming SharePoint 2010 new features and the next three days will be a deeper dive into those. More to come on that. 

Good night from Las Vegas!

Sandra Tersteeg

Technolgy Business Consultant

Allyis, Inc. | www.allyis.com