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Calendar changes in SP2010

Do you know that feeling when you just got a new toy, the one you were hoping for a long time ago…and then when you start playing with it, it has all these neat little features that you didn’t even know about...I feel like a kid again ;)

Can’t keep up the tension any longer: SharePoint 2010 has some calendar support on steroids :)

In MOSS 2007 and Office 2007 you had this notion of overlay calendars in Outlook: view two calendars on top of each other so you are able to compare. It was a feature only available on the Outlook client.

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SharePoint 2010 now offers the same functionality in the browser. The ribbon of a calendar contains a button ‘Calendars Overlay’ which takes you to a screen where you can add up to ten calendars to the current view. Even more, it allows you to add SharePoint calendars (across site collection boundaries) and Exchange calendars using the Exchange webservices:

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The result is this neat overlay view:

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On the left you see the calendars in the current View. In the calendar you see multiple items lined up next to each other each with their own color code. And just to point out…there is an ‘Add’ button!

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SharePoint 2010 Ignite - Amsterdam

Just came back from the SharePoint 2010 Ignite course in Amsterdam. Together with 150 SharePoint experts I had the chance to discover all the new features in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. It has been an interesting experience to see how the product is evolving to a much more mature application. Some quick random highlights:

  • The architecture has changed a lot to allow a much more scalable and manageable topology. I think the disappearance of the SSP is one of the biggest changes in the product. Instead we now get a whole list of pluggable service applications. But there are a lot of other huge changes which will make our life a lot simpler: extended logging, multiple databases instead of storing everything in the content database, restoring content by using detached databases, sandboxing, …
  • A lot of the problems in SP2007 have been solved. Commonly required features have been introduced. I think of the more mature ECM features (including taxonomies, tagging, rating, publishing of content types, document ID generation, document sets, document linking, …), WCM improvements (introduction of the ribbon, introduction of wiki's), …
  • The UX improvements definitely will make this product easier to use.
  • One major improvement is the BCS, formerly known as the Business Data Catalog. It has never been easier to import external content into SharePoint lists.
  • Search...I'm sure you'll be amazed by FAST search. Visual result sets, deep refiners, contextual search, phonetic search, lemmatization, … search as it should be.
  • Social improvements: I'm not convinced by the value of the social aspects introduced in this version. However, search based on social distance will most certainly improve the results even more. Mixed feelings about this.
  • Excel services and the REST services: certainly something to look in to
  • Powershell administration: I forgot the number, but more cmdlets than you can ever remember exist. Nothing you can't do in PowerShell.
  • …

I can go on like this for hours. Time to get my hands on this and start to play with it…got the SharePoint bug J

More to come.

   

  
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Exciting times

Starting from this week everybody should prepare for a blog-tsunami because SharePoint 2010 has arrived! It looks like Xmas is a little early this year: lot's of goodies and new resources are being published, the long awaited SharePoint Conference is taking place and many enthousiastic geeks have had to wait too long to start blogging on what they discovered in the latest release of SharePoint.

For those of you interested, here is a list of interesting resources:

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