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What’s New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Enterprise Search SharePoint search enables you to define a custom ranking
model to use for search queries and uses Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to
crawl and index external data. End users will appreciate the new search capacities, especially
connectors for Windows 7, which allows the same search of SharePoint sites to be conducted
directly from Windows 7 and offers preview and drag-and-drop options. Search query sug-
gestions are available both while the user is typing the query and after the query run.
Microsoft also offers the optional FAST Search for SharePoint to accelerate SharePoint
search in enterprise environments and to provide enhanced features to search, such as pre-
views of actual content in search results.
This list is hardly exhaustive but does give you an idea of what to expect when you start
working with SharePoint Server 2010. The subsequent chapters of this book will provide
both more detailed information regarding the topics presented here and a more complete
presentation of everything contained, both new and updated, in SharePoint Server 2010.
In Exercise 1.2, you will explore the new SharePoint 2010 features.
EXERCISE 1.2
Explore Other New SharePoint Server 2010 Features
1. Open a web browser; then go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
ee557323(office.14).aspx
or search for What’s New In SharePoint Server 2010 at
http://msdn.microsoft.com.
2. When the web page loads, select one or more of the following links on this page and
review the content:
What’s New: Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
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What’s New: Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
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What’s New: PerformancePoint Services
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What’s New: Excel Services
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What’s New: User Profiles and Social Data
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Word Automation Services Overview
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3. After reviewing the desired content, make these pages favorites in your web browser
and then close your web browser.
As you can see, there is a lot more to learn about what’s new in SharePoint Server 2010
than you might imagine. In many ways, Microsoft’s current incarnation of SharePoint Server
is more feature rich and more challenging to administer than any of its predecessors.
Another change you’ll notice is that the Ribbon, introduced with Office 2007 and
Windows Vista, is fully integrated into SharePoint Server 2010, as shown in Figure 1.2.
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