Features in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 contains lots of features. Some of the features list below

à Under Sites

Accessibility:

Use SharePoint more effectively with improved accessibility, including built-in support for keyboard navigation and support for industry-wide accessibility standards.

 

Cross-Browser Support:

Access SharePoint through Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari

Multi-lingual User Interface:

Take advantage of out-of-the-box support for multilingual experiences in SharePoint 2010. Give your people language options in site navigation, menus, the SharePoint Ribbon, and customized list fields.

Out-of-Box Web parts:

Use more than 40 out-of-the-box Web Parts to add functionality anywhere in a site with point-and-click simplicity.

SharePoint Health Analyzer:

Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.

SharePoint Ribbon:

Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.

Streamlined Central Administration:

Manage SharePoint 2010 more efficiently with a streamlined administration experience. Use the SharePoint Ribbon to configure and manage your server farm.

Unattached Content Database Recovery:

Temporarily mount an unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection, or export sites and lists without a recovery farm.

Visual Upgrade:

Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 but keep the SharePoint 2007 look-and-feel until you are ready to switch. View a site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it.

Web parts:

Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page and the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.

Windows PowerShell support:

Achieve greater control and productivity with Windows PowerShell, a command line shell and scripting language. SharePoint 2010 offers a snap-in so you can take advantage of PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments and manage your server farm and automate tasks with out-of-the-box cmdlets.

à Under Communities

Blogs:

Use the new SharePoint Ribbon to format blog text and easily upload images.

Colleague Suggestion:

Keep your colleague network current with an automated service that suggests colleagues based on your reporting structure, communities membership, e-mail distribution lists, Office Communicator contact lists, and analysis of most common Office Outlook e-mail recipients.

My Content:

Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.

My profile:

Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.

Organization browser:

Navigate your organizational structure to see managers, peers, and direct reports.

Photos and Presence:

Help people recognize each other with photos. Use presence to email, IM, or call someone with the click of a button.

Rating:

Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.

Recent Activities:

Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.

Tags:

Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.

Wikis:

Create pages that combine the ease of wikis with the functionality of Web Parts.

à Under Content

Compliance Everywhere:

Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content.

Document Sets:

Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses.

à Under Search

Contextual search:

Tailor different results and refinement options based on the profile of the user or audience.

Metadata-driven Refinement:

Use the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 to narrow the results of your search and find the right content faster.

People and Enterprise search:

Search for people by name or by associated terms.

à Under Insights

Business Intelligence Center:

Use the examples in this dedicated SharePoint site template to help you get started with your Business Intelligence projects.

Dashboards:

Create rich dashboards that convey the right information the first time, aggregating content from multiple sources and displaying it in a Web browser in an understandable and collaborate environment. Rich interactivity lets you to analyze up-to-the-minute information and work with the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.

Decomposition Tree:

Perform root cause analyses using powerful analytics to examine core data. View only the most pertinent information using the new Decomposition Tree.

Visio Services:

Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.

à Under Composites

Access Services:

Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.

Browser-based Customizations:

Customize pages and Web Parts to create Web sites that meet your specific business needs.

Business Connectivity Services:

Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).

Sandboxed Solutions:

Maintain security and manage system performance with Sandbox Solutions. Sandbox Solutions separate code from other processes, improving the security and helping you control resources and prevent performance problems.

SharePoint Designer:

Deliver no-code customizations with the new tools in SharePoint Designer, including List and Content Type editors, reusable workflows, XSLT templates, and external content types.

Silverlight Web Part:

Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web Part.

Reset the content index in SharePoint Server 2010

1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a service application administrator for your FAST Search Content Search Service Application.
2. In Central Administration, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications.
3. On the Service Applications page, in the list of service applications, click your FAST Search Content SSA.
4. On the Search Administration page, under Crawling, click Index Reset.
5. On the Search Service Application: Index Reset page, click Reset Now.
6. A confirmation dialog box appears; click OK to confirm the content index reset. The Search Service Application: Search Administration page opens and the System Status is displayed.

Before you start any new crawls, you must manually clear the content from the content collection your FAST Search Content Search Service Application was feeding to. The default collection name is sp. Note that clearing the content collection is irreversible.
To clear a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection, log onto the server that hosts FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint and follow this procedure.

Clear the content collection

1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
4. Click the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
5. At the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell command prompt, type the following command:
Clear-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name <collection name>

Where:
<collection name> is the content collection you are about to clear.

Wait for the command to finish. This may take some time.

Adding a robots.txt to SharePoint 2010

I manage a number of SharePoint farms some of which are web facing and configured to allow Anonymous access. However, business requirements dictate that one of the environments, should not be indexed by any of the search engines.

How do you prevent you web facing farm from being indexed? Well, if you want to block search engines from indexing your site you need to create a robots.txt file and place it in the root of your root site.

What is a Robots.txt

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file placed in the root of your site to tell search robots which pages should and should not be visited/indexed. It is not mandatory for search engines to adhere to the instructions found in the robots.txt but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do.

It is important to note that a robots.txt does not completely prevent search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall) and the fact that you may have a robots.txt file on your site is something like putting a note "Please, do not enter"

on your unlocked front door. Put simply, it will not prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter.

It goes without saying therefore, if you have sensitive data, you cannot rely 100% on a robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

The location of robots.txt is very important. It must be in the main directory because otherwise user agents (search engines) will not be able to find it. They do not search the whole site for a file named robots.txt. Instead, they look first in the main directory (i.e. http://www.sitename.com/robots.txt) and if they don't find it there, they simply assume that this site does not have a robots.txt file and therefore they index everything they find along the way. So, if you don't put robots.txt in the right place, don't be surprised that search engines index your whole site.

Creating a Robots.txt

Launch Notepad

Put the following in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /
Save the file as: robots.txt
Adding a robots.txt file to the root of your public anonymous SharePoint site.
Open up your root site in SharePoint Designer.
Double Click the folder All Files
Drag and drop the newly created robots.txt to the All Files folder.
Exit SharePoint Designer.
Alternatively you can create the robots.txt from within SharePoint Designer itself.

To ensure the file is accessible to search engines go to your site URL and append "/robots.txt". Example: http://www.sitename.com/robots.txt