• New User interface including the new Ribbon
A streamlined new user interface including the Ribbon is an intuitive and contextual web user interface that makes users more effective, reduces training, provides better performance and lowers cost.
• Web Edit
Web Edit allows users to easily customize a site, making it possible to respond more quickly than ever to changes in your dynamic business environment.
• Silverlight Web Part
The Silverlight Web Part lets you quickly and securely integrate Silverlight applications and rich media into your site taking the user experience to another level.
• Rich Theming
Combined with Web Edit, rich theming allows you to skin your SharePoint site using your favorite Office client themes. Change the colors and fonts to customize the site to turn your “SharePoint” site into “your” site.
• Multiple Browser Support
Experience the richness of SharePoint across multiple browsers. By supporting Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari, SharePoint allows the broadest reach for connecting people together and allows them to work in new and dynamic ways.
• Visio Services
Visio Services lets you share data linked diagrams in real time with a high-fidelity and interactive experience so that everyone can access consistent and up-to-date information, even those who don’t have Visio.
• SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer comes with a new UI, enhanced modeling capabilities and improved workflow capabilities that makes collaboration between designers and developers more seamless while allowing team creativity and productivity.
• Business Connectivity Services (the evolution of the Business Data Catalog)
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) allows you to connect to line-of-Business applications, web services and databases and surface your data in a user friendly way enabling users to interact and update it easily in the web and in the office client.
• SharePoint Workspace
SharePoint Workspace (formerly named Groove) is a rich client for SharePoint that lets you take your SharePoint lists and libraries offline including the ability to update content and sync it back in when you’re re-connected.
• Rich Media Support
Regardless of the type of rich media, SharePoint and Office are ready to help you work with that media easily. Whether it’s SharePoint’s support for Silverlight and rich media services or PowerPoint’s new inline video editing capabilities, your information and presentations will come to life in new and dynamic ways.
• Streamlined Central Administration
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.
• SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer
The SharePoint Best Practices 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.
• Usage Reporting and Logging
The new unified logging database in SharePoint 2020 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.
• Large List Resource Throttling
Resource throttling for large lists gives your granular control over the server performance impact of list and libraries that contain several thousand to millions of items while automatically educating users on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently.
• Unattached Content Database Recovery
The new unattached content database recovery feature allows you to temporarily mount an 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.
• Visual Upgrade
Visual upgrade gives you the option to upgrade SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without impacting or changing the user interface in existing sites. The upgraded site initially looks and behaves just like it did in SharePoint Server 2007 but you’re able to flip between the SharePoint Sever 2007 layout and site features and the new SharePoint 2010 layout and site features. This gives you all of the new platform capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with the flexibility of choosing when you upgrade your site’s look and feel.
