SharePoint 2010 - Tweetbits - SPC09 Day01

Collection of notes from Live tweets of news from SPC09 Day 01

SharePoint 2010 - Tweetbits - SPC09 Day01

• Visual Web parts.
• SharePoint Developer Dashboard - shows detailed information about web parts loading on the page including the call stack
• Web part inserts no longer require web part zone in #SharePoint 2010
• Tons of new monitoring and testing tools; even links to autofix problems it finds
• SharePoint 2010 can support millions of items in a list, tens of millions in a document library
• Throttling -Control how many resources specific lists, sites etc. may use
• New product PowerPivot announced - PowerPivot allows end users to sift through massive amounts of data
• PerfomancePoint Services, Visio Services, Access Services
• SharePoint 2010 - publish Access database by users
• Rest APIs for Excel content
• SharePoint will mine your Outlook to find keywords that describe your areas of expertise
• SharePoint will only be 64bit
• SharePoint Foundation replaces WSS
• Business Continuity Services is the new BDC -can create connections in SP designer. No more XML files. And now you can update as well as read data.
• BCS data connected to office is cached in the clients automagically if offline
• SP2010 will emphasis data location tranparency with 2 way communication abilities.
• XSLT is replacing CAML in SP2010 for list views
• No more "hive"... from now on say SharePoint Root!
• SSP is gone - replacement - SP Service Application - Build on WCF. Built in Management
• End user ability for mashups
• SP2010 composites support RAD development, mashups
• Compositing / Mashup capabilities of SharePoint Designer 2010 - External Content Types
• MySites get facebook like features - including wall posts, relationships and activity logs
• Major UI Improvements - ribbon, etc
• Digital Asset Management
• SharePoint is now ready to manage digital media contents, content rendering is greatly improved
• ReportBuilder - Easy UI to build map mashup of SharePoint data and line of business data
• SharePoint Workspace Mobile and ability to see SharePoint via Micro browser
• New list type: External List powered by Business Data Services
• Application pages in SharePoint Foundation now reference site master page:
• Skinning of List Views
• SharePoint dynamic views
• In the new SharePoint designer 2010, it is now much easier to customize list forms. new, edit, display forms
• SharePoint 2010 Workflow visualization on WF status page, new WF action to copy docs and move to records center
• Reusable SPD workflow
• Social Tagging,revamped My Sites, Silverlight org chart
• Video streaming capabilities available in SharePoint 2010
• Video media assets handled in 2010. Admin can ratchet down download speed if needed due to bandwitch restrictions
• New built-in taxonomy features will make building information architecture much easier in SP 2010
• Document sets can be moved through workflows etc as a group or as the seperate files
• Multiple document checkout
• Organize and Navigate documents with metadata
• Integration of FAST search engine - shows product catalog by searching FAST to display on page without any search query.
• Spell checking
• Autocomplete
• SharePoint 2010 support for XHTML, WACG, REST, JSON, ATOM and more
• InfoPath forms allow extremely easy customization of the List Forms graphically, validation, list aggregation.
• WCM: Rich text content uses the ribbon and styles can be locked done
• CQWP now support dynamic querying from page parameters
• New Features for CQ Webpart for SharePoint 2010 - Query tags, multiple repositories, multiple content types
• WCM: Now you can tie page fields to content query web part filters (contextualise) + no exporting of XSL to customise fields.
• Allows you to filter by dynamic properties such as a field value from the current page
• WCM: Media webpart with ribbon context support.
• Content organizer - lets you create rules to route uploaded content to specific libraries / sites powerful wcm interface
• SharePoint 2010 support true multilingual support. Including column names
• Manage Metadata Service combined with Taxonomy picker and navigator
• New sandboxed applications - will isolate 'bad' apps from taking the SharePoint servers down.
• API block list. Sandbox can keep your code from calling other 3rd party APIs.
• Sandbox solutions are deployed at the site collection level unlike regular solutions
• Sandbox solutions can use a 'full trust proxy' to reach outside the sandbox
• SandboxedSolutions - Separate Process UserCodeService / SandboxWorkerProcess/ SandboxWorkerProcessProxy
• Must have user code services running on all WFE that will support sandbox.
• Sandboxed Solutions - Deploy WSP into solution gallery in DB (NOT FS). Code is Loaded on demand into seperate process 
• SPUCWorkerProcess.exe controls resourcing to stop managed code from killing your farm
• Can change application.master in SP2010
• SharePoint 2010 will have Custom Error Pages
• 8GB is min RAM for decent SharePoint server (in production). SP 2010 will "not even load" with only 2GB
• Will allow users to decide when to upgrade their sites to the new UI
• FileShare migration to #SharePoint 2010 via Content Organizer imports properties and can trigger policy workflows. 
• Drag file from files system into #SP2010 moves the files and replaces the originals location with links
• New Visual Upgrade process, no instant merge like the last version. Better facility for patching and upgrading!!
• SharePoint servers can now be controlld via Group Policy - There are no AD schema extensions for SP2010 but new SP2010 install blocker/controller available for AD
• SP2010 can auto rollover your service account passwords for you - cool feature.
• Over 500 powershell cmdlets to ship with 2010 beta - includes what if command
• "Claims-based authentication makes Kerberos look like a walk in the park"
• Ability to run timer jobs on demand - and they have a progress bar!
• Host Header mappings at Site Collection level, health monitoring
• Event log Flood Control triggers on same error generated multi times. Writes to log suppressing tht msg for set amt of time
• Export from unattached db
•  Granular Restore Utility built into 2010-just tell Central Admin where the DB is and you can walk to the content you need to recover
• SharePoint 2010 every piece of content gets a unique id so you can find it even if it has been renamed or moved
• You can specify a failover sql server in central admin so SharePoint will auto switch when you are mirroring
• High Availability Servicing in #SP2010 - Read and Write access during update service windows
• Build our own Analytical Reports on the new SharePoint 2010
• BI usage dashboard with 'back in time' feature
• SharePoint Admin: Enhanced analytics and ability to write custom reports
• Events wizard and expanded events
• New wizard to provision farm services
• Deploying WSPs can now be done through the web UI
• New Central Admin tool - Nice health check feaure. rules based, extensible
• SharePoint in the cloud
• You can now pump log file data to a database server rather than just a "log" file.
• Nice integration with outlook
• "Save site as template" now outputs a WSP which imports into VS 2010 as a new project.
• SharePoint Client API used for simplistic crud and batch commands for performance
• "Dollar" SharePoint tokens for things like assembly ref and feature guid making life simpler for all devs
• Full developer support for SharePoint 2010 on Vista and Windows 7  
• Visual Studio 2010 provides “x-ray” technology and improved diagnostic for web part development
• New studio feature map folder
• VS2010 understands SharePoint in the Server Browser
• VS2010 has a new SharePoint concept called Mapped folders, where you can store information and it will be deployed to SP as part of the deployment process
• VSeWSS is heavily improved on for pure 2010 integration of vs and sp. VS 2010 is a must for SP 2010 dev
• Pre & post deployment actions in #VS2010, extendable packaging and deployment config editor

Last but not the least: Public Beta of SharePoint 2010 will become available in November 2009

A big shout out and thanks to all the Live Tweeters at SPC09!

Cheers!