Highlights for new features:

Here are some of the highlights from the Keynote this morning. Obviously this does not include all that was mentioned but this should give you a taste of what is coming.

Public BETA available in November

Scale and capability:

• Support for million items for list.
• 10 million items for a library

Rich Media:

• New content types.
• Automatic streaming videos via IIS capabilities and Silverlight control.

Content types for the enterprise. Not site, site collection, web app, farm but for the entire enterprise.

Search:

• FAST offering for SharePoint
• Wild card search support
• Filter navigation much richer and queried in parallel for superior performance
• Preview for search result items such as PowerPoint slides
• 100 million rows for search
• FAST if you need to scale to more content

Insights:

Visio services:

• Business process in diagrams tied to the service infrastructure and available via the web

Power Pivot:

• SQL server Power pivot for excel and SQL server power pivot for SharePoint
• Code Name "Gemini"
• In memory editing for large sets for data
• 100 million rows in excel and mange, audit, filter, analyze in real time. Filter, sort 100 million rows in an instant.

Social Networking:

• Ratings and commenting are supported by default.
• All Office Client application now have browser viewer not just for read only but with edit capabilities.

People Search:

• Supports wildcards
• Support for zero term query to find additional content related to search result such as recent documents etc
• Org chart Silverlight viewer for the organization tied to “People Search”

Admin Capabilities Highlights:

• Upgrade can be performed in stages
• You can upgrade the farm and change the UI later
• You can preview the new look and feel via the visual preview before flipping the switch
• Powershell natively supported for SharePoint.
• 500+ PS commends ships with the BETA release.
• Remote access to the farm and servers via POSH.