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SharePoint 2007 shipped a simple organizational tree view, many customers wanted something
richer with which to look at their organizational hierarchy and the rich profi le information stored
in their organization. SharePoint 2010 ships a Silverlight - based organizational browser. The
advantages of using Silverlight are a better navigation experience and the ability to quickly navigate
the organizational hierarchy without postbacks to the server.
Outlook Social Newsfeeds and Expertise
No social solution would be complete without integrating into the most popular information
management client that people leave open on their desktop all day — Outlook. While Outlook and
SharePoint integrate today for working with tasks, discussions, and documents, Outlook 2010 now
integrates with SharePoint and other social technologies, such as Facebook or MySpace, through
its ability to surface richer information about people such as pictures, activity feeds, previous
conversations, and even previous instant messaging sessions. By showing related information, you
can quickly surmise the semantics around the conversation and the people involved.
Beyond social newsfeeds, Outlook supports expertise mining by discovering, surfacing, and
allowing you to approve keywords associated with you based on your email communications. These
keywords are stored with your profi le, so they are searchable, which makes connecting to experts in
an organization easier.
Microblogging and Mobile Client
One of the new developments on the Internet is microblogs — 140 character blogs — from
services such as Twitter. With SharePoint, you are able to create microblogs and, with the new
implementation of the SharePoint Mobile client, write those microblogs on your mobile device.
The mobile client also supports browsing your SharePoint sites, synchronizing the content offl ine
to your mobile device, and performing searches. By having a mobile client, you can quickly
fi nd information about people, including their status updates, tags, expertise, and other social
information.
Social Search
Once you start using the new social features of SharePoint, fi nding information becomes easier
because of the ability of the search engine to leverage the social information contained in other
pieces of the product. Tags work with search queries, content rating can be used to refi ne results,
and you get better social distance calculations and expertise results because of the enhanced people
profi les. An improved search user interface makes fi nding the right information easier with a
preview of Offi ce documents, expertise location, and better navigators for fi ltering down to the right
content or person.
WHAT ’ S NEW IN SEARCH
With the acquisition of FAST, Microsoft is making a lot of changes in search from the low - end to
the high - end. With these changes come new challenges for the developer in understanding which
technologies to use and how to write custom code. But, it also presents new opportunities to
innovate in the applications you create that are powered by search.
What ’ s New in Search
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