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Microsoft Voices of Launch

Microsoft Holland is trying out something new. They will do a virtual launch of Office and SharePoint 2010 through their website Voices of Launch.

Check out their site: http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/office/social/Default.aspx?tag=share

SharePoint Online 2010 Anonymous Access

SharePoint Online 2010 will have a lot of new features compared to the current version. For people wanting to host websites with SharePoint one of the most interesting new features is the possibility to enable anonymous access in SharePoint online. This feature combined with all the great WCM features of SharePoint 2010 will allow people to create websites in SharePoint which are hosted by Microsoft. The details of the SharePoint Online anonymous access offering are not available yet. However it is something to look forward to.

SharePoint Online 2010 Overview

Microsoft is working hard to get SharePoint 2010 ready for the market. Currently Microsoft runs SharePoint 2007 with Microsoft Online Services/BPOS. However a lot of information about SharePoint Online 2010 was given during the SharePoint Conference. Over the next few weeks I'll do some posts about the different options SharePoint Online 2010 will bring based on this info. For now if you want to know which SharePoint options will be available in SharePoint Online 2010 please revert to the list below.

Microsoft announced that they will make SharePoint Online 2010 available in the months following SharePoint 2010 general availability.

Below you'll find the complete list:

SharePoint Online 2010 – Sites

Available now:

• RSS Content Syndication
• Privacy & security
• Audience Targeting
• Site and document aggregation
• Site Manager
• Mobile Device Support
• SharePoint sites and Documents Roll up web parts
• Integration with SharePoint designer (except site backup and restore)

Available in 2010:

• Portal Site Templates
• Site Directory
• Colleagues and membership web parts
• User Profiles import
• Extranet Access
• Anonymous Access
• Large Scale Internet Sites
• Multi-lingual user interface
• New UX
• Cross Browser Support (Safari, IE, FF)
• Office 2010 Client integration

SharePoint Online 2010 – Communities

Available now:

• People and groups lists
• Calendars
• Email Integration
• Task Coordination
• Surveys
• Document Collaboration
• Issue Tracking
• Templates

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Standard Site templates
• Improved Wikis and Blogs
• Social Networking Web part
• Real time presence and communication
• Tagging
• Rating
• Note Board
• Tag Cloud
• Activity Feed
• Standard Meeting Site Templates
• SharePoint WorkSpace
• Improved My Sites

SharePoint Online 2010 – Content

Available now:

• Document Information Panel
• Document Action Bar
• Retention and Auditing policies
• Navigation controls
• Content publishing
• Page Layouts

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Improved Content authoring
• Slide Libraries
• Document Management Site Templates
• Standard Enterprise and Publishing Site templates
• Policies, auditing and compliance
• Improved Records Repository
• Legal Holds
• Metadata and taxonomy
• Content Organizer
• Metadata driven Navigation
• Document IDs
• Document Sets
• Office Web Apps

Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):

• Integration with Microsoft information rights management (IRM)
• Site variations
• Content staging and deployment
• Configure Information Management

SharePoint Online 2010 – Search

Available now:

• Search in a single site collection

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Enterprise content sources
• Cross site-collection search
• Admin & Management
• Indexing Controls
• Business Date Search (via Federated Query)
• Phonetic Search
• People search

Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):

• Business Data Search (via Indexing)
• FAST
• Defining new custom content sources
• Crawling BDC Data
• Relevance Features
  • Did you mean?
  • Query Recommendation
• Configure crawled file type
• Authoritative pages

SharePoint Online 2010 – insights

Available now:

• Integrated business intelligence dashboards
• Key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Filter web parts
• Integrated flexible spreadsheet publishing
• Share manage and control spreadsheets
• Web-based business intelligence using excel services
• Data connection libraries
• Business data web parts
• Business data actions
• Report center
• Visio Integration
• Web Analytics
• Improved usage analytics

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Performance Point Services

SharePoint Online 2010 – Composites

Available now:

• Forms libraries
• Custom non-code workflows
• Centralized forms management and control
• Design once development model
• Form import wizard
• Integrated deployment model for no-code forms
• Compatibility Checker

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Improved Forms Technology
• Improved Workflows
• Business Document Workflow Support
• Partial trusted workflow actions
• Browser based forms
• Improved BDC (Read/Write)
• External Lists
• Access Services
• Improved SharePoint Designer
• Sandbox Solutions

Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):

• Custom Installed InfoPath form templates

SharePoint Online 2010 – Service Specific

Available now:

• Multiple Site Collections per customer
• Manage Site Collection Features and quota
• Off-boarding of customer data

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Vanity domains for non-SSL sites only
• Tenant admin across site collections
• Better control of FQDNs
• Managed path site collections
• Standard and Enterprise USL

SharePoint Online 2010 – Other

Available in SharePoint Online 2010:

• Project Online
• Access Services

Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):

• Configure blocked file type
• Self service site creation
• Custom Managed Paths
• Roll up usage Analytics

Download Office & SharePoint 2010

Starting today you are now able to download SharePoint and Office 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/2010

Custom Code in SharePoint Online

During the SharePoint Conference which is being held in Las Vegas this week, Tom Rizzo explained in his opening keynote, SharePoint Online will be able to host custom code created by developers. It will now be possible to create custom code in Sandbox Solutions from within Visual Studio 2010. This custom code can then be deployed to an On Premise SharePoint environment but can also be published to a SharePoint Online environment.

Because support for custom code in SharePoint online was one of the key points SharePoint Online was missing opposed to the On Premise version I personally believe this option will drive adoption of the SharePoint Online version even faster than is the case right now.

SharePoint Online for Internet Sites!

During the SharePoint Conference which is being held in Las Vegas this week Steve Ballmer announced during his opening keynote SharePoint Online will be available in both a standard version, comparable to the current SharePoint version and an all new SharePoint Online for Internet Sites version. With this new version Microsoft will host SharePoint sites which are published on the internet for companies. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites will be available On Premise in 2 different versions. Both a Standard and Enterprise version. Currently it is unclear which of both versions the SharePoint Online for Internet Sites will be.