As promised, I continue the series of analyzing the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek videos with the SharePoint 2010 Overview video.

• My SharePoint:
  So they changed the My Site to My SharePoint. I guess they put the My Links in there too. But does it mean they rethought the whole “My Site” concept? I hope so. In my experience the My Sites (which are separate site collections per user) are not frequently used. Most company documents should be stored in team sites anyway. They should only be used to store information users want to share with coworkers only (blogs for example). Not many people like to target such a small group, however.
  

  SharePoint 2010: My SharePoint

• Site Pages:
  So what are these site pages? It is definitely a library of pages within a team site. But it is a special one, as it gets special tie ins in the user interface (SharePoint Designer, View All Pages). In the end it strangely ressembles the Pages library of MOSS 2007. This would mean that Publishing pages are the default now within Team Sites. (you can see they edit a “wiki content” publishing control) I think this is a good thing, aspecially if they merge every page to one kind of page. This would also mean WSS (or whatever they will name the free version, if there is one) will contain publishing features or something in the likes. I’m really curious how this turns out to be.
    
  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Pages I

   

  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Pages II

   

  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Pages in SharePoint Designer

   

• Site Workflows:
  I developed quite a few workflows, so this one I’m a pretty interested in. If this is what I think it is, it means that they’ve implemented workflows being able to run within the context of sites, instead of only list items.
  I wonder how this ‘ll be implemented, as it’s pretty tied in with the list item concept. I hope they created a new programming interface in the object model, similar to the ISecurableObject (which is implemented by SPWeb, SPListItem and SPList), and hopefully it’ll be open to use.
  However it turns out, it’ll mean being able to develop a whole new kind of workflows which would really fill up a lack in the product.
  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Workflows

  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Workflows in Site Settings

• Office Web Apps:
  One of the more discussed feature of the new 2010 version of Office is the presence of web versions of the main applications. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and appearantly also a Visio viewer. This is what Windows blogger Paul Thurrott said: “The Office Web Applications will be distributed via Office Live…. while businesses can actual host on-site.”My guess is that the on-site version will be wrapped in some sort of enterprise version of SharePoint 2010. And I think you’ll have 3 ways to use them: Office Live, on-site SharePoint and SharePoint online (BPOS). But behind the scenes they’ll all use SharePoint 2010 technology (application pages). You can find lots of clues of SharePoint as host, in the urls and such. (application pages, document libraries, …) Too bad there doesn’t really seem to be consistency in the naming conventions of the urls (some get separate folders within the _layouts dir, some get viewer, …). I hope they’ll fix this in the final release.Also, it seems you’ll be able to use them directly as a web part in your pages.
  

  SharePoint 2010: Word Web Application

  

  SharePoint 2010: Powerpoint Web Application

  

  SharePoint 2010: Visio Web Viewer

  

  SharePoint 2010: Client Application Web Parts

• Themes:
  It seems you can now push themes to subsites and make ‘em inherit from the parent site. Nice!
  

  SharePoint 2010: Applying Themes I

  

  SharePoint 2010: Applying Themes II

Ok, that’s it for the overview video. Hope you’ve liked it. See ya!

• List Settings:
  There seem to be some new options in there. More particulary: Validation Settings, Rating Settings, Metadata Navigation Settings, Per Location Settings “unknown” settings (can’t really read that one) and Generate File Plan Report . Don’t really know what they all could mean. 
  

  SharePoint 2010: List Settings

• Send To Connections:
  Pretty obvious here. In the previous version we were allowed to have only one custom send to. This menu item seems to point to multiple ones!
  

  SharePoint 2010: Send to Connections

• Webservice for clientside SP manipulation:
  I guess this is the new webservice intended to run the queries we can launch on client side using the new client object model (more info on this in a later post)
  

  SharePoint 2010: Client Side Web Service

• Site/List Export:
  This is a nice feature! Three things I noticed
  • Why oh why has this to be a timerjob? Can’t we just export directly?
  • Oh, we got a new file format: .cmp. I wonder what goodness is inside!
  • Nice work with the version export. We have some nice options there.
    

    SharePoint 2010: List/Site Export

• Site Settings:
  They showed us a quick look at the site settings. Looks like they changed the behaviour of this application page. It shows now the local navigation bar. Also some small new things: Search and Offline Availability (probably for the new SharePoint Workspace (groove)), Related Links Store Management and Term Store Management. Nifty!
  

  SharePoint 2010: Site Settings

Nice things in this video. SharePoint 2010 looks different, but we do recognize a lot of the options. Don’t let the ribbon fool you. I’ll try to post some more video reviews soon.

Good night all!