SharePoint 2010 Feature Table
This Article describes the features of SharePoint 2010, it's separated in 3 Parts:
- SharePoint 2010 Foundation Edition Features
- SharePoint 2010 Server Edition Features
- SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition Features
This is not the official Feature list it's collected from different Sources like Blogs, Pages and News.
| Share Point 2010 Foundation Edition - Features | |
| Feature | Description |
| Community - Blog | Several significant blog features are incorporated, including enhanced authoring features and multi-browser compatibility. |
| Community - Discussion Forums | Nothing much change compare to SP 2007 discussion forum except ribbon UI. |
| Communities - Photos and Presence | Help people recognize each other with photos. Use presence to email, IM, or call someone with the click of a button. |
| Communities - Wikis | Feature includes creation of pages that combine the ease of wikis with the functionality of Web Parts. |
| Composites - 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). |
| Composites - Browser based Customizations | Customize pages and Web Parts to create Web sites that meet your specific business needs. |
| Composites - 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. |
| Composites- Workflows | Automate collaborative processes using tasks and forms. Take advantage of improved workflow runtime features in SharePoint 2010, including management, site workflows, custom local services, event receivers, and reliability. |
| Sites - Ribbon and Dialog Framework | Quickly and easily find and use relevant features with the new contextual SharePoint Ribbon. |
| Composite - 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 |
| Composite - Silverlight Web part | Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web Part. |
| Sites - Web Parts | OOB web parts for different collaborative functionalities. |
| Sites - Power Sheel Support | Powershell is a command line tool which used to manage the deployment and other Farm management related functionality. |
| Sites - Cross Browser Support | Access of sharepoint site from Internet Explorer, Mozilla and safari. |
| Sites - Claim Based Authentication | Use claims-based authentication to connect to corporate identity systems--including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, and application-specific databases--and user-centric identity models--like LiveID, OpenID, and InfoCard systems. |
| Sites - Managed Accounts | Reduce administrative expenses by allowing SharePoint 2010 to take control of your accounts. SharePoint 2010 can automatically reset passwords based on domain policies and notify administrators when passwords are expiring. By storing account information in SharePoint 2010, you can keep your information secure and reduce the overhead required to manage it yourself. |
| Sites - Mobile Connectivity | Access sites and content from mobile devices using a modern micro-browser and an access gateway. |
| Sites - Support for Office Apps | View, share, edit, and create Microsoft Office documents in SharePoint using Microsoft Office Web Applications. |
| Sites - MultiLingual Interface | OOB Support. Provides user a navigation option to view site in selected language. |
| Share Point 2010 Server Edition - Features | |
| Feature | Description |
| Communities - Colleague Suggestions | Colleague suggestion feature based on your reporting hierarchy, email distribution list, communities membership, Office Communicator contact lists, and analysis of most common Office Outlook e-mail recipients. |
| Communities - Colleague Network | Create an extensive network of colleagues across your company and keep up-to-date on their activities. Easily add people to your company^s social network through the Add Colleagues feature. |
| Communities - My Profile | The My Profile page contains information about employees, including biographies, job titles, location, contact information, interests and skills, and previous projects. |
| Communities - Organization Browser | Feature provides facility to navigate organization structure to see managers, peers & direct reporting. |
| Communities - Recent Activities | Let people know what you're up to with the Recent Activities feed on your profile page. |
| Communities - 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. |
| Communities - My NewsFeed | View real-time updates from people you follow and the interests you track. My Newsfeed is fully customizable - select what types of activities you want to display, and extend to display third-party activity feeds. |
| Communities - Tags | Classify and Organize large amount of information of company by applying tags. use standardize tags define by organization and unstandard tags by employees. |
| Communities - Tags Cloud | A visual representation of tags in a web part based on its density. |
| Communities - Ratings | Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system. |
| Communities - Enterprise Wikis | Consolidate company-wide information into a centralized, easy-to-manage repository with an Enterprise Wiki. Embed dynamic content-including rich media-and use the Managed Metadata service to categorize pages. Manage wiki pages as records to support company compliance and document retention policies. |
| Content - Content Organizer | Classify content more accurately by using the Content Organizer to automatically route content to appropriate document libraries. |
| Content - Compliances | Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content. |
| Content - Document Sets | Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses. |
| Content - Managed Metadata Service | Centrally define and manage metadata, making it available for use across farms and site collections. |
| Content - Metadata Driven Navigation | Use metadata-driven navigation to easily find information in large document libraries. Browse and discover content using tags and attributes. |
| Content - Multi Stage Disposition | Build policy for sophisticated management of content life cycle with multi stage disposition. |
| Content - Content Type Hub | Centrally define and manage content types, making them available for use across farms and site collections. |
| Content - Document ID Service | Find content, even if it has been moved from its original location, with a unique, human-readable Document ID assigned by SharePoint 2010. |
| Content - Rich Media Management | Easily store, manage, find, and use digital content. |
| Sites - Web Analytics | Better serve your audience by identifying the trends on your sites using Web Analytics. Improve the performance of server farms by planning server resources. |
| Search - People and Expertise Search | Search for people by name or associated terms. |
| Search - Metadata Driven Refinement | Use the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 to narrow the results of your search and find the right content faster. |
| Search - Phonetic and Nickname Search | Search for a person's name as it sounds, without knowing the exact spelling. |
| Search - Relevancy Tuning | Create customized relevance models to meet specific business needs. |
| Search - Windows 7 | Search Sharepoint from windows 7 desktop. |
| Search - Federated Search | Use federated sources in core results, in a small preview of results, or in an instant answer format. Federated Results incorporate information from other sources, Related Searches, and People Results in the search experience. |
| Search - Duplicate Detection | People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests |
| Search - Best Bets | Provide the best results for a keyword using the Best Bets feature. |
| Share Point 2010 Enterprise Edition - Features | |
| Feature | Description |
| Composites - Access Service | Publish access database in sharepoint. |
| Composites - Business Web Parts | Create unique business applications and display information from line-of-business systems using Business Data Web Parts. |
| Composites - Infopath Forms Services | Create rich electronic forms to quickly gather information. Use Microsoft InfoPath to build form-based SharePoint applications and advanced forms that connect to line-of-business systems. |
| Composites - Business data Integration with Office Client | Interact with external business data directly within the familiar user environment of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace. |
| Search - Contextual Search | Tailor different results and refinement options based on the profile of the user or audience. |
| Search - Extensible Search Platform | Meet your company^s complex search needs with an extensible search platform. Build search-driven applications, including 360 Customer Insight applications, Research and Development portals, and Product Support dashboards. |
| Search - Extreme Scale Search | Search billions of documents while maintaining sub-second query times. |
| Search - Similar Results | Find results that are similar to your search query. |
| Search - Thumbnails and Previews | Recognize the right content quickly with thumbnail and preview images in your search results. |
| Search - Visual Best Bets | Return rich, editorialized results for specific search keywords using Visual Best Bets. Target content to specific groups of users by associating Visual Best Bets with User Context. |
| Insight - Business Intelligence Center | Use the examples in this dedicated SharePoint site template to help you get started with your Business Intelligence projects. |
| Insight - Dashboard | 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. |
| Insight - Calculated KPIs | Create powerful key performance indicators (KPIs) derived from multiple data sources. Sample templates enable the creation of KPIs quickly and easily using a powerful new expression editor. |
| Insight - Chart Web Parts | Choose from a wide range of chart types to create advanced visualizations using the data in SharePoint, including SharePoint Lists, Business Connectivity Services, or Excel Services. A simple wizard guides you through the creation of charts empowering you to create your own dashboards quickly and easily. |
| Insight - Data Connection Library | Easily share, manage, and discover data connections by centralizing Office Data Connections (ODCs) in Data Connection Libraries. Access data you need while IT centrally manages the connections and underlying data sources. |
| Insight - Excel Services | Publish Excel workbooks as interactive reports or dashboards. Create rich business experiences with the new JavaScript Object Model, and use the new REST API to easily embed workbooks in other applications. Reuse content in SharePoint dashboards with the new features of Excel 2010 (including Sparklines and Visual Slicers). |
| Insight - Performance Point Services | Access the information you need when you need it with interactive dashboards and scorecards. Easily analyze root causes and make effective decisions by using new features like the Decomposition Tree, visualizations, and improved filtering. |
| Insight - 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. |