SharePoint 2010 - Part 2

Welcome back for the Part 2 of this SharePoint 2010 Introduction. Click the following link to read SharePoint -  Part 1.

Now I will share to you all the components comprises SharePoint 2010

Sites

The sites capability includes functionality that delivers and personalizes content to users, provides manageability and scalability to administrators, enables developers to customize and extend SharePoint, and allows an enterprise to implement SharePoint along with other solutions or to consolidate the functionality provided by disparate collaboration solutions into SharePoint.

Content Delivery

The sites capability offers the following components, features, and functionality to deliver content to users:

Core content structures

• Web applications, site collections, sites, lists, libraries

Services to render content

• Multiple browsers
• Mobile browsers
• Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0)

Rich Web experience

• Ribbon user interface (UI): Familiar Office UI
• Web Edit: Rich content editing

Interfaces for rich and offline client experiences

• Office client applications
• SharePoint Workspace
• Office Web Applications

Following are some important points related to content delivery:

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 delivers the core functionality of SharePoint and provides most of the features in the sites capability.
• Content structures such as Web applications, site collections, and sites.
• SharePoint 2010 features significantly expand browser support.
• SharePoint is compliant with WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards out of the box.
• A number of components, services, features, and interfaces of SharePoint are designed to deliver a unified, efficient, and familiar experience to end users.
• SharePoint 2010 offers a variety of modalities through which users can interactwith content, including Office client integration, SharePoint Workspace and other applications that provide offline access to SharePoint, and Office Web Apps, which enable browser-based viewing, editing, and coauthoring of documents.

Content Personalization

The sites capability offers the following components, features, and functionality to support personalizing the delivery of content:

Features that personalize the user’s experience with content

• My Sites
• User tagging
• Content targeting
• Multilingual support

Following are some important points related to content personalization:

• One user may not need, want, or be allowed to see the same content that another user sees. The SharePoint sites capability delivers functionality to individualize to personalize the user experience.
• My Site is a user’s individual Web page, exposing that user’s profile, shared information and documents, expertise, organizational relationships, and social activities to other users. Additionally, a user’s My Site can provide a personalized navigation and view of enterprise resources.
• User tagging is an important new functionality of SharePoint 2010. Documents, lists, libraries, sites, and users can be tagged. These tags can then be used to associate a user with content that is of interest to that person.
• Content targeting is the ability of an administrator to “push” content to one or more users based on those users’ shared characteristics, including their group membership.
• SharePoint provides multilingual support. SharePoint can support content, services, and tags in a wide range of languages. A site can be rendered in a particular language to a user in that user’s language and can be switched to another language on the fly.

Manageability and Scalability

The sites capability offers the following components, features, and functionality to ensure scalable, manageable deployment in an enterprise:

• Central management
• Governance, security, and compliance at multiple levels of every feature
• Operations management
• Deploy, secure, configure, backup, monitor, audit, and update.
• Central Administration (UI) and Windows PowerShell support
• Tools and guidance
• Enterprise scalability, manageability, and availability
• Capacity
• Topology
• Performance
• High availability

SharePoint is centrally managed using the Central Administration site and Windows PowerShell. It supports governance, security, and compliance at multiple levels, for almost every feature.

Customization and Extensibility

The sites capability offers the following components, features, and functionality to enable an organization to customize and extend SharePoint:

• Theming and branding
• Out of the box solutions, templates, and Web Parts
• Custom solutions: From no-code to Microsoft Visual Studio
• Workflow, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath Services, Microsoft Visio Services, Microsoft Excel Services, Microsoft Access Services
• Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight
• Business Connectivity Services: Interact with line-of-business data
• SharePoint and client object models
• Web services, application programming interfaces (APIs; SharePoint and client object models), REST
• ISV and community solutions
• Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com
• Manageability: Constrain, debug, manage application life cycle

Following are some important points related to customization and extensibility:

• Themes and branding features support customizing the look and feel of SharePoint sites.
• You can deliver rich functional solutions using out of the box solutions, templates, and Web Parts.
• SharePoint is a platform on which you can easily create and deploy solution from simple, “no-code” solutions to more complex solutions developed with Visual Studio.
• SharePoint provides ways to interact with line-of-business applications and data sources. One of the most important data connection and interoperability features is Business Connectivity Services.
• There is a vast ecosystem of community and ISVs who support and extend SharePoint.
• With SharePoint, an enterprise can govern and manage code customizations and extensions.

Interoperability and Platform Consolidation

The sites capability offers the following components, features, and functionality to support a variety of relationships with other systems in an enterprise:

• Interoperability
• Platform consolidation
• Replace point solutions
• Integrated capabilities: One platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet

SharePoint provides a unified infrastructure that delivers a broad range of functionality that might take several tools from other vendors to deliver, at which point you have to know how to integrate them. This infrastructure gives you a way to deploy, secure, manage, maintain, back up, and monitor operations.