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Introduction
Welcome to the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guide. The goal of this
guide is to help you understand and evaluate SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 is
the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Internet. When
people need to work with other people, with content and information, or with
line-of-business data, they can use the rich, out-of-the-box set of integrated
capabilities in the SharePoint 2010 platform. People can also customize these
capabilities to address specific business needs and integrate them with other
products and solutions. Using the same set of capabilities and tools, companies
can deploy SharePoint 2010 both inside the enterprise (that is, intranets) and
outside of the firewall (that is, extranets, the Internet) so employees,
customers, and business partners can work with the platform. SharePoint 2010
helps companies:
* Deliver the best productivity experience by letting people work together in
ways that are most effective for them. Whether through the PC, browser, or
mobile device, SharePoint 2010 offers an intuitive and familiar user experience.
These capabilities are significantly enhanced by the way SharePoint 2010 and
Microsoft Office® 2010 work together, letting people increase productivity while
using familiar products and tools.
* Cut costs with a unified infrastructure that offers enterprise-scale
manageability and availability. Whether companies deploy the platform
on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 lowers the total cost of
ownership by offering an integrated set of features and by helping companies
consolidate their business-productivity solutions on top of SharePoint Server.
Companies can then reduce costs related to maintenance, training, and
infrastructure management.
* Rapidly respond to business needs with dynamic and easily deployed solutions.
SharePoint 2010 offers the tools and capabilities for end users, advanced users,
and professional developers to design and create business solutions that can be
integrated with existing company data, tools, and processes. The following
section details the new and enhanced features of SharePoint 2010. You can use
this information to evaluate these new features and readily describe their
capabilities to your colleagues, clients, and business partners. 3 Capability
Areas SharePoint 2010 helps people work together in new and effective ways with
a rich set of six integrated capabilities areas. Using SharePoint, people can
set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start
to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions. Sites
SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web
sites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and
publish information to customers. Communities SharePoint 2010 Communities
delivers great collaboration tools—and a single platform to manage them. Make it
easy for people to share ideas and work together the way they want. Search
SharePoint 2010 Search cuts through the clutter. A unique combination of
relevance, refinement, and social cues helps people find the information and
contacts they need to get their jobs done. Content SharePoint 2010 Content makes
content management easy. Set up compliance measures ”behind the scenes”—with
features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content
sorting—and then let people
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Built to deliver the enterprise-grade security and reliability that
businesses require, Microsoft Exchange provides email, calendar and contacts on
your PC, phone and web browser.
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Support for a variety of browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome,
allows you to work and collaborate no matter where you are
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Mobile sync to hundreds of devices, including Windows Phone, iPhone, and Android, means you
can access and update your info while on the go
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Multi-layered anti-spam filtering with continuous updates helps guard against spam and
phishing threats
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A new, unified approach to high availability and disaster recovery helps your business achieve
increased levels of reliability
Cost & time
saving
With an architecture that enables dramatic cost savings in storage,
Exchange Server also delivers powerful features that save IT staff’s time while
equipping users with the latest tools to increase their productivity.
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A greater choice of storage hardware options, including Direct Attached Storage and Storage
Area Networks, and support for less expensive disks that can dramatically lower
overall storage costs
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A new high availability, disaster recovery and backup solution reduces the cost of delivering
business continuity
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Role-based access control, self-service capabilities, and web-based administration tools,
allow you to delegate tasks to users without giving them full administrative
rights. This reduces the burden on IT staff and lowers operational costs
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The built-in capabilities of Exchange ActiveSync allow you to avoid device management costs
and support users on virtually any mobile device
Features
With Exchange, users can access their mailboxes from wherever they go,
with full support for Outlook, a premium web browser experience, and access from
a wide range of mobile devices.
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More storage options make it possible to offer users low cost large mailboxes so they can
access all their essential information in one place
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Calendar sharing allows users to share free/busy information with colleagues, even if they
work at another company
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Email archiving, eDiscovery Search, retention policies, and legal hold to help you preserve
and discover data
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Security policies let you create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remotely
wipe data from lost phones.
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Choice of deployment options including Exchange Server on-premises, Exchange Online in the
cloud, and hybrid deployment options
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Instant Messaging and Presence Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 gives users
real-time presence information and enhanced instant messaging (IM) to help them
connect more efficiently and effectively.
Key Features and Functionality
Stay connected with richer presence information
Presence can now display user location and photo while giving users control
through enhanced privacy settings. Presence status can be set by a user or
automatically based on calendar, login status, and more. Users can individualize
access levels for different contacts to share information with them.
Get instant information with more meaningful contact cards
Users can gain greater context with data such as published phone numbers,
organizational structure, and office information through a streamlined contact
card experience.
Connect instantly with IM
Users can start an IM session with a colleague for quick responses to questions.
As more engagement is needed on a subject, invite multiple parties to join in on
the same conversation. Also, get reconnected to the topic by rejoining existing
conversations.
Connect with people outside the organization
Server-to-server federation capabilities allow users to utilize presence and IM
with other Microsoft Communications Server users outside the corporate network.
And the public IM connectivity capability increases reach even further by
allowing connections with several public IM networks such as MSN/Windows Live,
Yahoo!, and AOL. Keep one contact list Contacts are now unified across Lync 2010
and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Audio, Video, and Web Conferencing
Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 makes it easy for users to create, moderate, and join ad
hoc collaboration sessions and online meetings with internal and external users.
A rich user experience and a unified interface make it easy for people to work
together effectively and often even when time or distance prevents in-person
meetings. Overview Richer experience Conferencing is no longer a compromise when
you have video, one-click desktop sharing, easy meeting requests, and even the
ability to start a conference on a mobile phone and continue on a PC. |
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