What's New in SharePoint Foundation 2010

• Business Connectivity Services (BCS) the next version of BDC in MOSS 2007 is now included in SharePoint Foundation.
• Streamlined Central Administration with Ribbon interface
• Claims based Authentication : to support any corporate identity system like Active Directory, Domain Services, LDAP-based directories, application-specific databases, and user-centric identity models.
• SharePoint Maintenance Manager : enables SharePoint Foundation to automatically check for potential configuration, performance, and usage problems.
• Ability to send SMS alerts to mobile phones
• Client APIs : There programming models supported : Managed APIs (for ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript), .NET managed client & Silverlight client), Web Services & Web Part Page Services Component (WPSC)
• Microsoft Sync Framework as part of SharePoint Foundation : allows other Microsoft and third-party applications to synch more easily with SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployments.
• Mobile : Mobile Web Part adapters, Mobile SMS and many new controls.
• LINQ to SharePoint Provider on server side.
• Ribbon Interface
• Sandboxed Solutions : allows site collection users to upload their own custom code solutions. stored in a solution gallery.
• Shared Services Provider (SSP) has been replaced by Service Application Framework : supports WCF, Round Robin Load Balancing, Claims based identity.
• Silverlight Web Part for simple and quick hosting of Silverlight controls.
• Stsadm.exe administration tool has been replaced by Windows PowerShell.

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