This blog lists the support provided by Sharepoint 2010 for different versions of MS Office

Custom search connectors can be added to Windows 7 for searching content within search engines that support OpenSearch standard. A search connector for SharePoint 2010 site can be created

Now a days, i am fighting with SharePoint 2010 new features, that was more interesting……..

Coming to the point, SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise edition provides a “Business Intelligence Center” Site template. Before going to create a site for Business Intelligence, we have to ensure some features are activated.

Note: “Business Intelligence Center” only available in SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise edition.

Features to be activated before creating “Business Intelligence Center”,

SharePoint Server Publishing infrastructure

SharePoint Server Publishing feature enables the publishing components needed for Business Intelligence center. ...

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Sharepoint 2010 has a feature called Managed Metadata which is used for defining corporate wide Taxonomy. Managed Metadata is  hierarchy of terms which once defined can be added as a tag to any item within Sharepoint 2010.

 

 

For defining and managing  metadata terms Sharepoint 2010 has a tool called Term Store Management Tool. This tool is accessed from Site Administration Section of Site Settings page

 



 

The Term Store Management Tool has options for creating and managing Groups, Term Sets and terms. While this tool is simple enough...

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When I was exploring on finding the reason for having FAST Search for SharePoint, I came across this article at Microsoft Blog and I would like to share the same with you all.

TOP 10 Reasons for considering FAST Search on SharePoint  Content Processing Pipeline  For people familiar with the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), the good news is that the most valued capabilities of ESP have been brought into FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and made easier to access and deploy through tight integration with the SharePoint management and development tools.  The open framework in FAST ESP for creating custom content processing pipelines is a good example. Since it was first introduced in version 3 way back in 2002, FAST customers and partners have leveraged advanced content processing and advanced linguistic features to create a wide variety of novel search applications....

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SharePoint Server 2010 Search represents an important upgrade to the existing search for SharePoint 2007. Following are the features included with the SharePoint 2010 Search No more 50 million items limitation: FAST provides powerful capabilities to index hundred millions items, so no more SharePoint 2007 index limitations.

Query Based Search: Now we can use AND, OR, NOT keywords in search query

Wildcard search:- Now we can using * in search query i.e., when you search for sha* you will all Indexed results with starts with sha.

Faceted search/Refinements: Refinements are shown in the panel to filter the results (by tags and metadata). This functionality is supported in the Sharepoint Server 2010 standard edition and above

New search Web Parts: Many search-related Web Parts that enable power users to create customized search experiences that implement automatic filtering, best bets, a refinement panel, featured content or offer pre-defined queries...

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Following are the search technologies available for the SharePoint 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Search: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 provides built-in-search for SharePoint site collection SharePoint Foundation 2010 search should be considered if

The organization doesn’t require enterprise wide search or searching external data sources

You do not need a search to be scoped beyond the site collection level

Your budget doesn’t allow you to purchase additional search capabilities

Microsoft Search Server Express:

Microsoft Search Server Express is a free downloadable product that provides search over enterprise content.

Consider Microsoft Search Server Express if you want an entry-level departmental solution where a single server meets your demand.

Microsoft Search Server 2010: Microsoft Search Server 2010 is an enterprise wide product that...

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Here I'm going to give you a simple snippet of "Retrieving the content type enabled lists" from the site using Client Object Model.

            ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://localhost");            Web web = context.Web;    //Load all the lists from web            ListCollection listCollection = web.Lists;       //Filters the lists has the content type enabled            context.Load(listCollection,                 lists => lists                    .Include(list => list.Title)                    .Where(list => list.ContentTypesEnabled)                                    );   //Execute the Query            context.ExecuteQuery();                                 Console.WriteLine("Lists enabled with ContentType:");   //Print the Content type enabled lists            foreach (var list in listCollection)            {                Console.WriteLine(list.Title);            }

The above code only returns the List collection from particular web,...

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Sharepoint 2010 server comes with two features for allowing navigation based on Metadata. The features are Navigation Hierarchies and Key Filters

In Sharepoint 2007 creating a site theme requires knowledge of CSS, HTM etc. With the advent of Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 creating a site theme has become a breeze. All one has to know is to apply design PowerPoint.