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In the past few months, I am learning and working with SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. I read articles, Go to Events, Listen to Web Cast, Participate in courses, Basically trying to absorb SharePoint 2010 in any way I can.

During this process, every time that I bumped into something new, or improved with SharePoint 2010, I wrote it down.
After a Few months, I ended up with this huge list of features.
Some are trivial, some are repeated in different flavors, but if you think to yourself something like “So.. What’s new in SharePoint 2010?” don’t expect it to be short.

I have tried to Categorize the list into 3 different categories: End User\Designer, Dev and IT. As with SharePoint, not everything is well defined into a category.

Anyway, Here’s the list:

End User\Designer

Single master page for both application and site pages

Web Parts can now be integrated inline with text and wiki content, and doesn't require a Web Part Zone.

Visio can be used to initiate a workflow design process.

UI changes:
Status bar
Notifications area
Dialogs
Ribbon

Inline editing in lists

Bulk operations on list items

Wiki can now link to pages/lists/items/docs and provides intellisense

Auto save and Undo stack for browser based page editing.

List views now use customizable XSLT for rendering.

List views can be further customized with InfoPath.

List now supports field validations and duplicates control

List now supports relationships\joins

SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint (ex gimini)

Workflow approval tasks can be customized with SPD.

Workflows can be associated at the site level.

Social:
Taxonomy
Rating
note board
bookmarking
Like

There’s an InfoPath viewer web part

Chart WP

External Content Types
Which are created with SharePoint Designer

Silverlight media player supports streaming, caching

Windows Media Server integration for files larger than 2GB

Document IDs (create custom Doc ID provider)

Document sets

Metadata navigation

Search refinement

Wildcard search

As you type suggestions

new keyword query syntax

Phonetic matching for names (itai sakory finds itay shakury)

Email mining

Office Themes support (thmx)

Create custom actions from SPD

Select multiple web parts on the page

BCS in office client

No more explorer view

Access Services

Governance

content types syndication

records

In place record declaration

InfoPath rules - send data to web part, insert related list

Edit CEWP in place

Rich text editor supports XHML

Dev Features

Linq 2 SharePoint

Developer Dashboard

Visual Studio Tools

Import wsp (from Vs, SPD, or Browser)

Win 7 development supported

Client API

REST Services (DataServices)

Standards support (XHTML, WCAG)

Events - synchronous after

Sandbox solutions

Better workflow project\items

WF events (SPWorkfloweventreciever)

WF external data exchange

WebTemplates - site collections scoped site definitions

Property bag features element

Feature\solution upgrade infrastructure

Solution Dependencies

Add fields to CQWP

Contextual filters for CQWP

IT Features

Power Shell

Health reports and analyzer

Services architecture

ULS logging

More control over timer jobs (dedicated servers)

Index partition

Types and subtypes for profiles (sets of metadata)

Really scales out

Better Multi tenancy support

Site collection subscription group

Service App partitioning

LTK - Load testing kit

Request throttling

Remote blob

Claims based Authentication

Multiple authentication providers (novel,sun,bdc. Custom)

Profile import not just from AD

XSS Security

CQWP is not safe for scripting

Check effective permissions UI

Managed accounts

GP deny installation on a machine

new AD service connection point (node called SharePoint farms)

Upgrade: DB and in-place

Block specific SPD features

Automatic Multi server patching

Support for multiple DB versions simultaneously

SMS Alerts for health issues

Timer jobs can be run manually

open logging DB

Customize usage reports with excel

Web analytics web part

Automatic best bets based on analytics

Granular backup\restore

Host header site collections

Unattached content db restore

Mirroring support

Search custom ranking model (not FAST)

RegExp in Search crawl rules