1. SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise CAL
For organizations looking to standardize on a complete, end-to-end business collaboration platform to connect and empower people across teams and
geographies, cut costs with a unified infrastructure enabling business productivity, and rapidly respond to business needs with familiar and intuitive interfaces.
Use the Enterprise CAL capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external systems, line-of-business applications, web services, and Microsoft Office;
make better decisions with rich data visualizations, dashboards and scorecards, and advanced analytics; build and maintain robust applications, rich web forms,
and workflow-based solutions.
SharePoint Server 2010 Standard CAL
For organizations looking to deploy a business collaboration platform across all types of content. Use the core capabilities of SharePoint to manage content and
business processes, find and share information and expertise, and simplify how people work together across organizational boundaries.
SharePoint Foundation 2010
For smaller organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based collaboration. Use SharePoint Foundation to
coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and document libraries on the platform that is
the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.
SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise
For organizations looking to create scalable customer-facing Internet websites or private secure extranet sites using the full Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint
Server 2010.
SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard
For small and mid-sized organizations looking to create public Internet sites or basic extranets using the Standard features of SharePoint Server 2010.

2. SharePoint 2010: Feature List
By Capability and License License
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Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description
[Developers] Client Object Model (OM) New Foundation P P P P P The Client Object Model (OM) allows for access to SharePoint APIs from a remote machine. The
object model is optimized for remote access and can be used from Silverlight, ECMAScript, and
.NET applications.
[Developers] Developer Dashboard New Foundation P P P P P The developer dashboard can be enabled on any SharePoint page for monitoring and debugging
purposes. It helps developers write better code by providing diagnostic information including
detailed page request information such as timings, names and resources for all stored procedures
called, memory used, the authenticated user, the number of SPRequest objects, any asserts and
critical events and timings for web part events for the page rendering.
[Developers] Event Receivers New Foundation P P P P P Reacting to Server Events: Events Project Templates in Visual Studio 2010, After-Synchronous
Events, Site-scoped events, Web creation events, List creation events.
[Developers] Installs on Windows 7 New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 can be installed on either Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
for development purposes. This supports developers operating system choice.
[Developers] Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for New Foundation P P P P P Language Integrated Query is a new popular and strongly typed data query syntax which is used
SharePoint directly in C# or VB.NET code. Strongly typed queries provide compile time validation to the
SharePoint list schema and LINQ provides a simpler alternative to CAML queries.
[Developers] Packaging Solutions Improved Foundation P P P P P The WSS Solution Package (WSP) contains solutions and features to be deployed to a SharePoint
farm. It includes upgrade semantics so that code can be run against existing features during
upgrade.
[Developers] REST and ATOM Data Feeds New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 makes list data available and Excel data available using simple REST and ATOM
protocols. Using ADO.NET Data Services to access REST/ATOM data in a Visual Studio 2010
application makes accessing data from SharePoint 2010 easy.
[Developers] Ribbon and Dialog Framework New Foundation P P P P P The Ribbon in SharePoint provides a similar look to Office client applications. It can be customized
with additional context sensitive ribbons, groups and items. Custom dialogs can be created to
open on top of web pages keeping user context and giving the look and feel of a popup window in
a non-Web application.
[Developers] Sandboxed Solutions New Foundation P P P P P For IT Professionals who have performance and security concerns with third-party code and
solutions, Sandboxed Solutions are a new way to run custom code on SharePoint Servers that
provides administrators with control over resources that are consumed by the custom code. Not
only is the code run in a sandboxed environment, separate from other processes to make it safe,
the resources it consumes can also be controlled to prevent performance issues. Resources are
monitored on the custom code and a limit is applied daily before the custom code is unable to run.
The custom code is also subject to Code Access Security which prevents certain API’s being called.
[Developers] SharePoint Lists Improved Foundation P P P P P For unstructured data storage SharePoint provides lists which can be created at runtime and have
typed data added at runtime. They have built in views for sorting and listing data and built in forms
for creating and editing data. Permissions can be granted for other users to view and or edit a list
and lists can be related to other lists. New in SharePoint 2010 is removal of list size restrictions,
automatic adding of indexes for certain operations, uniqueness requirement option, formula
validation and multiple field lookup for related and external data.
[Developers] SharePoint Service Architecture Improved Foundation P P P P P The SharePoint Service Architecture is an upgrade from the Shared Service Provider Architecture
in SharePoint 2007. It provides an architecture which is easier to build services on using commonly
known WCF interfaces and WCF implementations.
[Developers] SharePoint Timer Jobs Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint timer jobs run on the SharePoint farm periodically and are administered and
monitored by the farm administration user interface.
[Developers] Silverlight Web Part New Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a built in Silverlight web part so that Silverlight XAP applications can be
uploaded to a Document Library and used immediately. Silverlight applications use the Client OM
to access SharePoint data from within the application.
[Developers] Web Parts Improved Foundation P P P P P Web Parts are a simple way to add custom code to a SharePoint site. Once the custom code is
added in a web part the SharePoint Site editor can add the web part to any page and the code is
run to show a small block of user interface when the page is displayed.
[Developers] Workflow Models Improved Foundation P P P P P Workflow models can be created in SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 and deployed
to SharePoint. They can be associated with an item in a SharePoint list, a document in a document
library or directly on a SharePoint site. Workflow actions execute in response to user events and a
workflow instances can be long running.
[Developers] XSLT Views New Foundation P P P P P XLST-based views are now default in SharePoint and external lists. Replaces CAML for Views for
better performance, easier edit in SPD, and simpler coding experience.
[IT Professionals] Accessibility Improved Foundation P P P P P New accessibility improvements enable people to use SharePoint more effectively through built-in
support for industry standards such as WCAG 2.0 AA, Section 508 + VPAT, WAI-ARIA and out of
the box Master Pages based on the XHTML 1.0 Strict DocType. Comprehensive keyboard
navigation support is also included.
[IT Professionals] Claims-Based Authentication Support Improved Foundation P P P P P New Claims-based authentication support is flexible and designed for heterogeneous identity
environments providing and authentication model that works with any corporate identity system,
including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, application-specific databases and new user-
centric identity models, such as LiveID, OpenID and InfoCard systems, including Microsoft’s
CardSpace and Novell’s Digital Me.
[IT Professionals] Configuration Wizards New Standard P P P P New "Wizards" are designed to make the configuration process easier by guiding an administrator
through the steps required to configure pieces of functionality.
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3. By Capability and License License
SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint C SharePoint SharePoint C Search Server Search Server
Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010
Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u
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Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description
[IT Professionals] Cross-Browser Support Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved cross browser support enables people to work the way they want by enabling users the
choice on how they want to interact with SharePoint. Improved cross browser support not only
provides choice on the desktop, but enables support for improved collaboration across mobile
devices.
[IT Professionals] High-Availability Architecture Improved Foundation P P P P P Improvements in supporting IT Continuity Management are designed to simplify high availability
planning and solutions, from improved support for database mirroring, to the new Service
Application architecture meeting your independent service level agreements has never been
easier.
[IT Professionals] Improved Backup and Restore Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved backup and restore enables new opportunities to support IT continuity management
with improvements in its out of the box backup and restore such as configuration only backups,
and improved scale, performance, and resiliency.
[IT Professionals] Improved Governance Improved Foundation P P P P P Metadata creation and management, shared service applications, taxonomy, multi-tenancy,
Sandboxed solutions, content syndication, and policy are new and improved features to guide the
development and use of SharePoint aligning to specific governance processes.
[IT Professionals] Improved Setup and Configuration Improved Foundation P P P P P The new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool simplifies the process of preparing
SharePoint 2010 servers and helps to ensure consistent install bases across servers and server
farms, complimented with new "wizards", SharePoint 2010 has streamlined the deployment
process. New Windows PowerShell integration also extends the deployment process by enabling
administrators to programmatically deploy software and configure SharePoint 2010.
[IT Professionals] Integration with UC (OCS, Exchange) Improved Foundation P P P P P Connecting people and platforms is simplified through SharePoint 2010 allowing you to drive rich
social and collaborations scenarios while minimizing out of the box configuration.
[IT Professionals] Large List Scalability and New Foundation P P P P P Resource throttling for large lists gives you granular control over the server performance impact of
Management list and libraries that contain several thousand to millions of items while automatically educating
users on how to manage large lists effectively and efficiently.
[IT Professionals] Managed Accounts New Foundation P P P P P Reduce administration expenses by allowing SharePoint 2010 to take control of your accounts.
SharePoint 2010 can automatically reset passwords based on domain policies and notify
administrators when passwords are expiring. By storing account information in SharePoint 2010
keep your information secure and reduce the administrative processes of managing it yourself.
[IT Professionals] Multi-Lingual User Interface New Foundation P P P P P Many organizations, not just those that are global or multinational, have employees who speak
different native languages. SharePoint 2010 provides out-of-the-box support for multilingual
experiences. Not only is the SharePoint experience multilingual in areas such as the Ribbon UI,
menus and site navigation, but site owners can also configure fields within lists to support multiple
languages. Additionally, when people create new content they can submit translations of the
content they are entering.
[IT Professionals] Multi-tenancy Improved Foundation P P P P P Whether hosting SharePoint or enabling divisional IT site collection management. You'll find new
controls and capabilities, that enable you to delegate administration tasks and partition data
across customers or business units.
[IT Professionals] Patch Management New Foundation P P P P P Backwards compatibility, Central Administration reporting, and Windows PowerShell integration
provides the tools and resources to enable you to more predictably apply updates and service
packs, minimize downtime.
[IT Professionals] Permissions Management Improved Foundation P P P P P Improvements in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 include six customizable permission levels by
default (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels) and the ability to create
customized permission levels that contain only the specific permissions you need.
[IT Professionals] Quota Templates Improved Foundation P P P P P Improved Quota Templates not only enable you to control the amount of storage used by site
collections, but provide additional controls over the resources consumed by user code solutions.
[IT Professionals] Read-Only Database Support Improved Foundation P P P P P Read-only database support is improved in SharePoint 2010 by enabling it to more seamless
detect and respond to read/write configurations on its database. SharePoint 2010 adapts to a
read-only state by limiting the write-based actions of the user in a clean and effective presentation
enabling administrators to minimize downtime during patching and upgrade operations and
support a larger array of high availability solutions.
[IT Professionals] Remote Blob Storage (SQL feature) New Foundation P P P P P Remote Blob Storage support is designed to enable an organization move storage of large binary
data (BLOBs) from Microsoft SQL Server to external storage solutions or commodity hardware.
[IT Professionals] Resource Throttling New Foundation P P P P P The Remote Blob Storage provider architecture is completely pluggable is designed so another
Resource Throttling provides a way to control the server resources and and provides that the
server can be protected from overload during peak business hours. Through throttling settings,
SharePoint 2010 provides a way for administrators to determine at what level the server will go
into a throttling mode.
[IT Professionals] Secure Store Improved Foundation P P P P P The new Secure Store Service replaces the single sign-on (SSO) feature. The Secure Store Service is
a claims-aware authorization service that includes a secure database for storing credentials that
are associated with application IDs. These application IDs can be used to authorize access to
external data sources.
[IT Professionals] Service Application Platform New Foundation P P P P P The new Service Application architecture provides greater flexibility and reach allowing
administrators to decide what services they would like to provide and how those services should
be positioned across servers. These improvements, in addition to providing API's to build on the
service application architecture, enable SharePoint 2010 to scale and provide the services to meet
changing business needs.
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4. By Capability and License License
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Foundation 2010 Server 2010 Server 2010 ol Server 2010 for Server 2010 for ol 2010 Express 2010
Standard CAL Enterprise CAL u Internet Sites, Internet Sites, u
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Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description
[IT Professionals] SharePoint Health Analyzer New Foundation P P P P P The SharePoint Health Analyzer built into SharePoint 2010 provides an extensible rules based
engine that monitors farm health, and can automatically fix many common configuration and
performance issues right out-of-the box. Through a “Problems and solutions page” in Central
Administration, you can quickly find and fix potential issues across all of the servers in your farm,
or just let the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer do it for you.
[IT Professionals] SQL Server Integration Improved Foundation P P P P P Enhanced SQL Server integration provides a number of improvements in how it interacts with SQL
Server and enables the administrator to unlock its potential, from Transparent Data Encryption to
Snapshot support, SharePoint 2010 is more capable than ever of delivering solutions that are
closely tied to SQL Server.
[IT Professionals] Streamlined Central Administration Improved Foundation P P P P P You’ll find a revamped and streamlined administration experience in SharePoint 2010. Everything
is at your fingertips within Central Administration to help you get your job done, including the
addition of the Ribbon to make configuring and managing your server farm even quicker and
easier.
[IT Professionals] Unattached Content Database New Foundation P P P P P The new unattached content database recovery feature allows you to temporarily mount an
Recovery unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection or export sites and lists
all through the Central Administration UI, and without the requirement of a recovery farm.
[IT Professionals] Upgrade Improvements (i.e., Improved Foundation P P P P P More upgrade choices and improved predictably are designed for administrators and users alike,
Upgrade Checker) through enabling multiple upgrade sessions, and improvements in reporting, administrators can
more easily address implement and resolve upgrade concerns while users are empowered with
the choice on when to upgrade their sites to the new user interface through Visual Upgrade.
[IT Professionals] Usage Monitoring and Logging Improved Foundation P P P P P The new unified logging database in SharePoint 2010 is the central repository for your SharePoint
farm to log usage and health data to. The database schema will be fully documented to give you
the power and flexibility of writing your own reports in addition to the ones we provide. You’ll also
be able to log your own events and tracing data through a new logging Object Model into the
database. Your insight into server usage and performance just became a whole lot easier.
[IT Professionals] Visual Upgrade New Foundation P P P P P Visual Upgrade allows SharePoint administrators to decide if they want to keep Office SharePoint
Server 2007 visuals after upgrade, giving the user their familiar look and feel, and has the option to
switch to new look later. This allows the site administrator the ability to first view the site with the
SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it. This setting is at the Web level allowing for
a very granular, flexible experience.
[IT Professionals] Windows PowerShell Support New Foundation P P P P P Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language that helps IT professionals
achieve greater control and productivity. SharePoint 2010 provides a Windows PowerShell profile
so you can take advantage of Windows PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments. Hundreds of
cmdlets that will be shipped out-of-the-box to help IT professionals to manage their server farm
and automate their tasks.
Communities Ask Me About New Standard P P P P Identifying expertise within a large organization can be difficult and the subject matters can evolve
over time. The Ask Me About section on a user’s profile is a great way for people to list their areas
of expertise, and also to invite colleagues to ask them to share their knowledge.
Communities Blogs Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes improved Blog functionality with a new user interface, improved
commenting, editing, and content management features. The rich text editor includes the Ribbon
UI and supports easy image uploads and rich formatting. Blog posts can also be managed as
records supporting enterprise compliance and document retention policies.
Communities Colleague Suggestions Improved Standard P P P P Based on your organizational hierarchy in Active Directory, membership in SharePoint
communities or email distribution lists, communications from Office Communicator contacts, and
an analysis of Office Outlook emails, SharePoint 2010 will suggest appropriate colleagues to add to
your social network. This automated suggestion service helps keep your network and interests
updated and recent.
Communities Colleagues and Membership Improved Standard P P P P Connect with people across your enterprise social network with Colleagues and Membership.
Adding people to your enterprise social network is simple through the Add Colleagues feature that
supports privacy options for different levels of permission settings. It also allows you to add
colleagues to your immediate workgroup, or to specify a category group for those colleagues.
Communities Discussion Forums Improved Foundation P P P P P SharePoint 2010 provides a discussion list where users can create new discussion topics and
respond to existing ones in a threaded format. The structure of the threads can be followed
naturally, as if reading the transcript from a conversation. The discussion forums has an improved
rich text editor that includes the Ribbon UI.
Communities Enterprise Wikis New Standard P P P P The Enterprise Wiki template is built on the SharePoint publishing framework to support scalability
and security, while also encouraging a collaborative content management process through a wiki
interface. Enterprise Wikis help consolidate company-wide information into a centralized, easy-to-
manage repository. The rich text editor includes support for interwiki linking, embedding rich
media and ability to stream them, page ratings, and categorization.
Communities Keyword Suggestions New Standard P P P P Based on email communication patterns from Office Outlook 2010, SharePoint 2010 will suggest
key phrases that the end user can select and add to their "Ask Me About" or "Interests" section of
the My Site profile to communicate their interest in topics or areas of expertise.
Communities My Network New Standard P P P P My Network is an enterprise newsfeed that displays a real-time feed of updates from the people
you’re following and interests you’re tracking. Users can select what type of activities they are
want to see in their newsfeed. The newsfeed is also extensible to display 3rd party activity. An
enterprise newsfeed helps users stay connected and up-to-date on the people and topics they care
about.
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5. By Capability and License License
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Capability Feature New / Improved SharePoint Edition Description
Communities My Sites: People Profiles and Improved Standard P P P P The My Site comes with 2 views: a public profile and a personal site. The personal site gives you a
Personal Sites central location to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts. The People
profile pages contain rich information about employees including a bio, job title, location, contact
information, interests and skills, and previous projects. This makes finding the right people and
subject matter experts across the company much easier. With SharePoint Search, you can find
people based on names, nicknames, wildcard, or search for people by expertise skills based on the
information stored on their My Site.
Communities Note Board New Standard P P P P The Note Board is a great way to post comments, ask questions, or otherwise interact with other
people or site communities. All My Sites will have a Note Board in the public profile. This open
forum of communication helps lower the barriers to participation, relieves email overload, and
opens up discussions to multiple people.
Communities Organization Browser New Standard P P P P With a rich Silverlight user interface, the Organization Browser is an exceptional browsing
experience that allows people to smoothly navigate through the organizational structures to see
peers, direct reports and management chains by drilling into their relationship to one another and
their My Site profile information.
Communities Photos and Presence Improved Foundation P P P P P Everywhere you see a person’s name, you also see their photo and presence status. This helps
personalize business communities, and makes identification and connections between people
effortless. Tight integration with Microsoft Unified Communications tools allows 1-click
communications directly from SharePoint.
Communities Ratings New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a 5-star rating system that may be applied to SharePoint pages,
lists/libraries or individual documents. Ratings help apply quality management controls, so users
can search and sort for the best content.
Communities Recent Activities New Standard P P P P The Recent Activities feed on a person’s My Site public profile page is a helpful way to understand
what that person has been working on. The Activities shown are the same ones listed for the My
Network newsfeed items. The Recent Activities list gives visitors deeper insight into what’s going
on in your role or organizations and helps build a more connected community.
Communities Social Bookmarks New Standard P P P P Social Bookmarks are a great way to manage and remember your favorite sites. The sites can be
external or internal URLs and they can be shared with colleagues. This helps increase
discoverability of resources across the organization.
Communities Status Updates Improved Standard P P P P Status Updates are a great, informal way to let people know where you are or what you’re doing.
When changes are made to your status update, this will show up in your Recent Activities and for
you under your colleagues' My Network as part of their newsfeed.
Communities Tag Clouds New Standard P P P P SharePoint 2010 includes a Tag Cloud web part that helps people navigate through the tag
taxonomy by visually depicting the most popular tags. Users can have a personal tag cloud to help
them navigate more easily or share what content or pages are important to them with the rest of
the organization. Tag clouds can also help surface what resources are available per site collection.
Communities Tag Profiles New Standard P P P P Tag Profile pages are communities of interest around a specific keyword or topic. These profiles
show a list of items that have been tagged with the term – this could be documents, sites, wiki
pages and more. The profiles also show who tagged the content. Tag profiles make it easier to get
more context around this term because of the relevant content and people associated with it. The
tag profile pages also contain a list of the members following this tag, as well as a note board for
any discussions.
Communities Tags New Standard P P P P Tags or free form metadata help classify and organize the vast amount of information in your
organization. SharePoint 2010 supports both a centralized metadata taxonomy system, as well as
social tagging. Tags in this context are social tags which users specify their own terms, so they can
associate it with a keyword in the managed taxonomy system or provide their own keyword.
Communities Wikis Improved Foundation P P P P P Creating, editing and managing wiki pages have become easier than ever in SharePoint 2010. Rich,
visual editing tools and inline multi-media support help bring your pages to life with a live preview
of the edits made. SharePoint pages combine the ease of wiki editing with the deep functionality
of web parts. Wikis can also be managed as records supporting enterprise compliance and
document retention policies.
Composites Access Services New Enterprise P P Publish your Access databases to SharePoint to share them with others. With Access Services you
will be able to reduce database versioning problems and simplify the deployment of Access forms
and reports to other users, while reducing governance risks.
Composites Browser-Based Customizations Improved Foundation P P P P P From calendars and tasks to charts and enterprise data, SharePoint provides users with rich
building blocks to create collaborative solutions rapidly, directly on the browser, with a standard
user interface, simplified commands on the Ribbon, web edit, and out-of-the-box workflows and
web parts for a variety of common scenarios.
Composites Business Connectivity Services: BDC Improved Foundation P P P P P Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service enables you to declaratively model external systems, so
Service that you can expose external data in SharePoint Server 2010. The BDC provides connectivity to
various types of external systems, and it has built-in support for connecting to the following types
of data sources:
• Databases
• WCF and Web services
• Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies
• Custom data sources; BDC provides a pluggable connector framework which developers can use
to plug in connectors for new external system types to enable access to these new data source
types via BDC
Composites Business Connectivity Services: New Foundation P P P P P Enables users to surface data from external systems to existing SharePoint Lists.
External Data Column
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