After attending de SharePoint Conference Last week I some pretty nice features in SharePoint 2010.

I blogged about the first 2 days of the conference but it was to hard to blog directly I suggest you take a look at

My SharePoint Conference page and look up the sessions. You can view the tweets per session.

Some Facts:

• New in SharePoint 2010 is that you can set permissions per item (item level security)
• You can tag the items you put into SharePoint this makes it easy to find your items bag and you can view the tag cloud.

With the tag cloud you can view which items are tending like in Twitter

• It is now possible to set rights In Central Admin who may use SharePoint Designer and what they may change.
• You can create your own document set this is easy when you are making overviews for example you create the financial overview for October and you have documents on various locations you can put them in a set. This in combination with Workflows is extremely powerful
• SharePoint 2010 is more even more meta data driven.
• It is possible to make sandbox solutions think about BPOS only threshold is that solutions are rolled out to site collections and not to the whole farm so you still cannot deploy everything you want…
• As a dev it is always interesting to view how long it takes to render a page in SharePoint 2010 you get a extra dashboard at the end of the page which shows you render time and more.
• There are some new services one of them is you can access MsAccess services.
• I saw a update from a internet facing internet site from 2007 to 2010 it really looks easy in Andrew Connel his session he did a live upgrade in like 75 mins I say WOW basicly you back up your 2007 db and restore it in your new environment then change some tags I hope he is going to make a blog about the exact steps.
• There are Some Silverlight webparts if you do not have Silverlight it shows basic HTML ( I am wondering if there is a 64 bit Silverlight client!! Or when it will be available?)
• The new pages are XHTML this makes it browser compatible almost no Tables in the code generated.
• You can check your database with a powershell command easy for it pros the command is Check-spcontentDatabase
• Ghosted and unGhosted have been changed and are now called customized and uncustomized
• WSS is no longer called WSS but SharePoint Foundation server.
• MySites totally changed Microsoft took a good look at social networking sites like twitter , Facebook and Linkedin it is way easier to search people without scrolling your whole Outlook
• With the new Office suit it is going to be easy to work offline and update when you are coming online
• It is now possible to push the VSTO and Silverlight apps directly from SharePoint easy deployment I call it. There are still some things I think should be done like authorization. Nice feature is that it checks if there are updates on the server before starting up the whole app.
• Visual studio 2010 is really cool they made a huge improvement you can now debug with F5. And it completely build your WSP and deploys it So You can get full control over your solutions.
• You can now Develop from Windows Vista or Windows 7 all do I still prefer to make a VHD with windows 2008 64 bit. I know a lot of devs are working on Laptops because they are on different locations all the time well it is time to upgrade your machines for performance you will need a 64 bit system with at least 8 gb but I can tell if you renew look for a machine that fits 16 gb of ram.
• Content types are upgradable over multiple site collections…
• In 2007 you had to specify the location where your solution had to deploy and get sources this is a new relative path like [$Sharepointroot]
• You can change your preferred Language on the fly if the language pack is installed.
• After you did a upgrade from 2007 site shows up in like the old site you have to change this in sitesettings to view in 2010 view a administrator can set a threshold for like 30 days before everything changes to the 2010 view via Powershell
• It is now possible to restore a document instead of only whole sitecollections
• The Shared Service Provider is now also available in the free edition of SharePoint
• In the managed Accounts it is possible to reset the password this was a big issue in SP2007
• It is even possible to configure SharePoint to logon with your LiveId
• You can use the Correlation id now for looking up errors.
• New is the SharePoint maintenance Engine (SPME) which holds best practice analyzer
• It is now possible to have remote Blob this means you can have blob files on your file system instead of your DB which does not grow that much anymore still a part of the blob is stored in sql.
• 50 million items in one list default view is 5000 items max are 50.000 per scope.
• Default you got 6 lookups in a list cool thing is you can do a cascading delete with little configurations so it is more like are relational Database
• You can even restore from unattached Databases
• It is now possible to take sql snapshots handy when developing.
• In 2007 you had default themes it is now possible to create your own theme in PowerPoint and import it into SharePoint how powerful is that !
• It is now possible to do Linq To SharePoint
• In Visual studio it is possible to do visual webpart design
• You can create workflows with SharePoint Designer or with Visio both ways compatible
• The SharePoint release is planned for April 2010.

Off course I forgot things or mentioned some things wrong feel free to comment on this post.

I did write this post in the airplane so I did not insert pics.

In the beginning of November Beta 2 should be released which is a public Beta for SharePoint 2010 And Office 2010.

I just cannot wait to get my hands on it