In the wake of our coverage of last month's SharePoint Conference sessions, this is the eighth in a series of posts documenting the keynotes and sessions I attended at the Microsoft "Airlift" event for Office 2010. This four-day event took place in Seattle during the first week of June, was open to participants in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP), and in essence took the form of a mini-SharePoint Conference.
In laying the foundation for their presentation on Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010, Tyler Butler and Kevin Reynolds listed the five key investments for 2010: better page authoring; rich media integration; support for large sites; theming; and Web analytics. Representative demos for each of the five key investments were then presented during the session.
Delivering on the better page authoring goal, the Create New Page button takes you straight to the new page itself, with the in-line Web Edit properties conveniently served right up. Also demonstrated was the fact that Web Parts can now be inserted in-line in 2010, "just like any other piece of content." (I love this!) The position on the page of content blocks shifts automatically based on the placement of in-line content insertions. It was mentioned that support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is included out-of-the-box.
Regarding rich media integration, the embedded (in IE only) Silverlight media player was demonstrated. Featuring contextual options in the Ribbon, there is picker functionality to assist in easily loading video content on a SharePoint page, up to and including preview functionality on mouseover. The option is provided with all videos to have them begin to auto-play on page render (or not, as you wish).
The demo for supporting large sites boasted a number of new features, including: folders are now supported within the pages library for large page libraries; rules can be based on metadata when using the content organizer for pages; content query enhancements include data view mapping, content-content mapping, single-list queries benefit from metadata navigation, and query improvements; content deployment goals include reliability and "diagnostibility," and improved logging; and variations goals include reliability, manageability and recoverability, and server citizenship (memory usage improvements and pause/resume timer job report).
The theming demo included the enhanced color picker which provides a wider range of color choices, including any gradient of available colors, and reference to updated CSS for more elegant handling of color and theme changes.
Examples of enhanced Web analytics demonstrated included new reports, the ability to schedule alerts and reports, and the What's Popular Web Part.
Read our complete coverage of the Office 2010 Airlift sessions:
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Nov 10 2009, 01:30 PM
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John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Bamboo Nation's de facto managing editor and, while he has learned much about SharePoint in his first year, he gleefully awaits the release of SharePoint 2010, and the reset button that release will represent for SharePoint Blank.