| Feature Title | Microsoft Source | Category | URL to source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event handlers cover more events, and they can be synchronous | Mike Fitzmaurice | Applications and Development | Blog |
| Support for 3 kinds of Web Parts | Maurice Prather | Applications and Development | Blog |
| 100 percent use of ASP.NET framework | Jonathan Kauffman | Applications and Development | Blog |
| Further growth of WSS as a development platform | Mike Ammerlaan | Applications and Development | Slide Show |
| Tools and APIs for integrating data in multiple ways | Jonah Burke | Applications and Development | Slide Show |
| Out-of-the-box facilities for blogs, with comments | Mike Morton | Collaboration Features | Video |
| ‘Richer’ calendars, surveys, discussions and email integration | Jeff Teper | Collaboration Features | Dev Team Blog |
| Offline capabilities using Outlook and Groove | Jeff Teper | Collaboration Features | Dev Team Blog |
| Enhanced email alerts, more informative, with filters | Mike Morton | Collaboration Features | Slide Show |
| Facility to submit postings to WSS discussion boards via email | Mike Morton | Collaboration Features | Video |
| Out-of-the-box facilities for wikis (easily-edited knowledge-sharing pages) | Mike Morton | Collaboration Features | Video |
| Recycle bin for deleted items | Mike Fitzmaurice | Content and Document Management | Blog |
| Library/list content types will control metadata, views, workflows and events | Mike Fitzmaurice | Content and Document Management | Blog |
| Automated migration of CMS sites to the new SharePoint-based architecture | Gerhard Schobbe | Content and Document Management | Dev Team Blog |
| New version of CMS will be built natively on WSS architecture | Gerhard Schobbe | Content and Document Management | Dev Team Blog |
| Facilities to make it easier to build/manage sophisticated internet/intranet sites | Jeff Teper | Content and Document Management | Dev Team Blog |
| Integrated facilities for document, records and content management | Jeff Teper | Content and Document Management | Dev Team Blog |
| Support for easy file format conversion within libraries | Arpan Shah | Content and Document Management | Blog |
| FrontPage-based Template Designer for content management | Arpan Shah | Content and Document Management | Blog |
| Scheduled deployment of content via integrated CMS features | Arpan Shah | Content and Document Management | Blog |
| Content deployment to production by site collection, updates only | Ryan Stocker | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Ability to participate in Office 12 records retention/information policy framework | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Information Rights Management in document libraries | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Major and minor versioning, with enforced checkout | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| FrontPage wizard for workflow development | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Digital signature integration for workflow | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Triggering of events such as automated relocation of documents on expiration date | Rob Lefferts | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Extensible file format support | Dustin Friesenhahn | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Permissions-based display of versions | Dustin Friesenhahn | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Ability to set version limits | Dustin Friesenhahn | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| Reusable column (field) definitions | Dustin Friesenhahn | Content and Document Management | Slide Show |
| A Records Repository built from a special WSS site template | Microsoft.com article | Content and Document Management | http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/ecm.mspx |
| Support for spell check, tables, and stylesheets in Content Management | Microsoft.com article | Content and Document Management | Article |
| Customized XML “property sheets” can be set up in Office apps with values saved directly as WSS metadata | Steven Sinofsky | Content and Document Management | Keynote at PDC’05 |
| Backwards compatibility with Windows Server 2003 | Mike Fitzmaurice | Hardware and Operating System | Blog |
| Continuing growth in “next generation file server” concept | Jeff Teper | Hardware and Operating System | Dev Team Blog |
| Improved caching, improved scalability | Ryan Stocker | Hardware and Operating System | Slide Show |
| Integration with a new “Business Data Catalog” | Mike Fitzmaurice | Integration with Enterprise Systems | Blog |
| Ability to create both browser-based and client-based InfoPath forms | Tudor Toma | Integration with Enterprise Systems | Blog |
| Focus on use of metadata rather than coding for business data integration | Jonah Burke | Integration with Enterprise Systems | Slide Show |
| Centralized security and auditing when integrating w/ other systems | Jonah Burke | Integration with Enterprise Systems | Slide Show |
| Use of SharePoint sites for email archiving | Mike Fitzmaurice | Integration with Office | Blog |
| Rendering of spreadsheets as HTML | Mike Fitzmaurice | Integration with Office | Blog |
| Access will treat SharePoint site data as data sources | Mike Fitzmaurice | Integration with Office | Blog |
| Much easier to integrate enterprise applications, custom databases and Web services | Jeff Teper | Integration with Office | SharePoint Dev Team Blog |
| Easy, no-coding creation of dashboards from Excel spreadsheets | David Gainer | Integration with Office | Blog |
| Addition of a type of document library for handling Bus. Intelligence reports | Jeff Teper | Integration with Office | Dev Team Blog |
| SharePoint as a portal for all BI facilities within SQL Server and Office 12 | Microsoft press release | Integration with Office | Article |
| Ability to insert a slide into PowerPoint from a WSS “Slide Library” | Arpan Shah | Integration with Office | Blog |
| Two-way synchronization capabilities with Outlook | Mike Morton | Integration with Office | Slide Show |
| Metadata-based archiving of email to Records Repository from Outlook | Rob Lefferts | Integration with Office | Slide Show |
| Ability to create forms with ASP.NET controls | Mike Ammerlaan | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Ability to create custom data field types, with validation | Mike Ammerlaan | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Version history for all list and library, showing what changes were made | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Ability to set multi-line text fields as “Append-only” on any list | PJ Hough | Lists and Data Management | Blog |
| Lookup fields allow selection of multiple values | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Enhancements to Issue list template | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Project task list for lightweight project management | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Gantt view available in any list type with date fields | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Lists can receive incoming email and extract data | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Better filtering, sorting, navigating in views | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Folders available within all lists, with custom folder properties | Dustin Friesenhahn | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Lookup fields can reference fields on lists and libraries on other sites | Dustin Friesenhahn | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Cross-web list views, displayed in custom web parts | Dustin Friesenhahn | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| Custom Column Indexing to speed retrieval on large lists | Dustin Friesenhahn | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| New views can be based on any existing view (not just the default view) | Mike Morton | Lists and Data Management | Slide Show |
| A vastly improved backup and restore model | Maurice Prather | Maintenance and Support Features | Blog |
| Multiple options for upgrading to new version | Jonathan Kauffman | Maintenance and Support Features | Blog |
| Same basic WSS architecture, new APIs backward-compatible | Dustin Friesenhahn | Maintenance and Support Features | Slide Show |
| Content can be syndicated via RSS on a per-site or per-list basis | Mike Morton | RSS and Data Export | Video |
| Ability to send SharePoint lists to mobile devices | Mike Fitzmaurice | RSS and Data Export | Blog |
| Embrace of both content management and Business Intelligence capabilities | Jeff Teper | Scope and Focus of Platform | Dev Team Blog |
| Broad growth in 6 major areas: Collaboration, Portal, Search, Content Mgmt., Bus. Process and Bus. Intelligence | Jeff Teper | Scope and Focus of Platform | Dev Team Blog |
| “Featurization” to allow selected deployment of major features | Jeff Teper | Scope and Focus of Platform | Dev Team Blog |
| Better search features, including “Best Bets” and alternate suggestions | Mike Fitzmaurice | Search and Aggregation | Blog |
| Enhanced MySites w/ aggregation, personalization and social networking | Jeff Teper | Search and Aggregation | Dev Team Blog |
| Improved search, more consistent between SPS and WSS | Jeff Teper | Search and Aggregation | Dev Team Blog |
| Highlighting of hit results, powerful search of business data | Arpan Shah | Search and Aggregation | Blog |
| Integration of SPS search w/ Windows Desktop Search | Arpan Shah | Search and Aggregation | Blog |
| Search strategy aimed at addressing special enterprise needs | Arpan Shah | Search and Aggregation | Blog |
| Unghosted pages will cease to be a significant issue | Mike Fitzmaurice | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Extensive use of Front Page for site design | Mike Fitzmaurice | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Publish InfoPath forms as SharePoint sites | Mike Fitzmaurice | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Better support for non-IE browsers | Jonathan Kauffman | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Easy global change of UI via master pages | Arpan Shah | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Greater separation of presentation and coding logic | Arpan Shah | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| More out-of-the-box support for multi-lingual deployments | Arpan Shah | User Interface and Presentation | Blog |
| Control of feature deployments at site, app and server farm levels | Mike Ammerlaan | User Interface and Presentation | Slide show |
| Simplified site definition files, most info now in INET.XML | Mike Ammerlaan | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Extensible toolbars, menus, settings pages | Mike Ammerlaan | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Each WSS site has a Master Page gallery | Mike Ammerlaan | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Addition of breadcrumb navigation | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Use of a “security-trimmed” interface | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Quick Launch bar on all pages and easily customizable | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| More professional, out-of-the-box user interface themes | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Video |
| Ability of CSS developers to do direct editing of a site’s CSS stylesheets | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Video |
| UI updates in Meeting Workspaces, but essentially the same functionality | Mike Morton | User Interface and Presentation | Slide Show |
| Item-level permissions in all libraries and lists | Mike Fitzmaurice | User Management and Security | Blog |
| Improved authentication — no longer bound to NTLM | Maurice Prather | User Management and Security | Blog |
| Simultaneous LDAP & Windows authentication | Jonathan Kauffman | User Management and Security | Blog |
| Site groups can have an associated distribution list | Mike Morton | User Management and Security | Slide Show |
| Improved interface for editing document properties | Rob Lefferts | User Management and Security | Slide Show |
| Multi-step serial and parallel workflows using WWF workflow templates | Arpan Shah | Workflow | Blog |
| Workflow is initiated wherever a user is working – via SharePoint, Outlook, or the document itself | Rob Lefferts | Workflow | Video |
| Workflow can be associated with documents, content types or libraries | Steven Sinofsky | Workflow | Keynote at PDC’05 |
