Chrome Instant ready for prime time

Chrome Instant

"Chrome search"

If you haven’t yet tried Instant on Chrome, now is a great time to check it out. Instant on Chrome arrived in the stable build last Thursday, which means it’s ready for prime time. Chrome brings the Instant experience to a whole new level—not just search results, but also webpages begin loading as soon as you start typing. To try it out, download the latest releaseand enable Instant in the “Basics” tab of Chrome’s options.

"Chrome Options"

The beginning of SharePoint till SharePoint Foundation Server

Drawbacks of using Website without SharePoint Services:

• Cost
• Code Management
• Bandwidth Usage or management
• Managing Docs, Website, cms, search Feature
• Language options
• Customization
• Lower Dependency on third party for building of website
• Time frame
• Individual coded website (Non-use of standard practice codes abbreviations )
• Department handling
• And many more......

These are the customer challenges that are faced...


Today the demand has increased which includes the following:-  HR,Sales,Corporate website,R&D,Extranet collaboration site,Intranet Logging,B2B,BI-Dashboard,SAP Integration,News,Alerts,Customer Issues,Issue Tracking,Search Feature,Team Site,Knowledge Portal,Project "XYZ", ERP Integration .

"Using SharePoint Services you can over come all these  Verticals "

Basically there are Three Divisions in SharePoint:-

• Administrator
• Developers
• Designing

The current Product and the newest version is SharePoint Services 2010,The first service Pack for SharePoint would be released by March as proposed by Microsoft.The next version is going to be released by 2015.

2001:The first Version was released .It was a simple product,small application ,documents and libraries were supported.It was called as SharePoint server 2001, SharePoint team Service,also know as STS Admin,Tahu Server, It is still used in some banks.Performance and feature wise it was not satisfactory,Hence not a great deal of product.

2003:The start of success story for SharePoint starts here.The Next Version released in 2003 is also discontinued, which was called as SharePoint Portal server 2003,windows share Point services 2.0.This was a HUGE success for Microsoft.It had the following features:Docs,List,Meetings,Outlook,Good Overall Performance.

2006: This was the fastest selling product for Microsoft till date.It had been 40 times more subscribed then Predicted.

2007:SharePoint Service 2007 had Portals,Web Content Management,Best Search Feature,Profile Management,Crawling of sites,Security Trimming.WSS 3.0 had better hardware,better performance.

2010: It only runs in 64 bit OS,Windows 2008 Server.It is knows as Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 .Basically XML web service is called through which SharePoint works.

SHAREPOINT CAN BE DEFINED WITH THE FOLLOWING FEATURES AND DETAILS FOLLOWED BY THE PIE CHART:

1. PLATFORM SERVICES:Workspaces management,security,storage,Topology,Site Model.
2. COLLABORATION:Wikis,Docs,tasks,calendars,blogs,contacts,E-mail integration,Project management "lite",Outlook Integration,Office docs/lists (All related to daily activities)
3. PORTAL:Enterprise Portal Templates,Site Directory,My sites,Social Networking,Privacy control
4. SEARCH: Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,rich peaple & business,data search.
5. CONTEXT MANAGEMENT:Integrated Docs mgmt,Records mgmt,Web content mgmt,Policies,Workflow.
6. BUSINESS FLOW:Rich & Web forms based front-Ends,LOB actions,Enterprise SSO.
7. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARD:Spreadsheets,Data virtualization,Bi Webparts,KPI's,Docs,Server-based Excel.

New Improvements in WSS:-

• New Name-SharePoint Foundation Server
• 64 bit
• Shared Service
• Claims-based Auth
• Power shell
• Multi-tenancy
• Performance Improvements
• Health & Monitoring Improvements
• Manage Accounts
• Improved backup & restore ,High availability .

Pre-requisites  to install SharePoint:-

• SQL Server 2008 /2005 (*SP-3 , *x64 bit)
• IIS 7.0
• .Net 3.5 SP1 or later

New Features in SharePoint 2K10

Some Cool features for SP2K10

10. New SharePoint editions—In an effort to better unify the SharePoint lineup, Microsoft will make some big changes to the SharePoint editions with the 2010 release. Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) is gone, and so is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). The free WSS has been replaced by the new SharePoint Foundation 2010. MOSS is replaced by SharePoint Server 2010, which will be available in either the Standard or Enterprise edition as well as in editions for strictly internal sites and forInternet or extranet sites.

9. New hardware requirements—Like the majority of new Microsoft servers, SharePoint 2010 will ship only as a 64-bit product. If you're deploying SharePoint on new hardware, this situation shouldn't be a problem, but it's definitely a consideration if you're planning to upgrade an existing SharePoint server.

8. New software requirements—In addition to new hardware requirements, SharePoint 2010 will require an x64 edition of either Windows Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. It also requires a 64-bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005.

7. SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer—With the SharePoint 2010 release, SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer will be incorporated as part of the base SharePoint product. This tool provides Microsoft's guidance for SharePoint implementation and troubleshooting. A Problems and Solutions page in the analyzer helps you solve common implementation problems.

6. FAST Search—The new SharePoint release will incorporate the FAST Search technology that Microsoft acquired from the Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer company. The FAST technology provides a superset of the original SharePoint search capabilities. As its name implies, FAST Search is designed for high-end scalability. It supports a number of enhanced capabilities, including a content-processing pipeline, metadata extraction, visual search, and advanced linguistics.

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