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• The beta of Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 is now available
• The CTP of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 is now available
• Expression Studio now shipping
• Microsoft Silverlight Streaming
• Windows Live Platform

• Forms-based authentication module that extends the SQL Server membership provider and scopes users down to the individual site.
• Web services that provision WSS sites as well as both Active Directory and SQL Server users.
• Web parts that facilitate adding new users and changing user passwords.
• HTTP module that redirects a subdomain such as: http://blogs.intranet.fabrikam.com to http://intranet.fabrikam.com/blogs

The Solution Kit is composed of two integrated applications.

• The first is the Solution Configurator which is a tool that a Hoster would use to configure solutions based on templates.
• The second is the Starter Kit which a Hoster's end-customer would use to build a site based on solutions that were created though the Solution Configurator

• All the standard search features to be found in MOSS 2007.


• Improved Boolean search (AND, OR, NOT)


• Wildcard search.


• NEAR search.


• Consistent search across MOSS and WSS sites. The scopes "This site" and "This list" are now fully configurable and will take the user to the Ontolica search center instead of the WSS search page in the /_layouts folder.


• Site dependent search tab configurations. This is a quite pervasive new feature in Ontolica that deserves a posting of its own - I will blog about it soon.


• Complete web based configuration UI. No longer any need to mess around with overly complex XML configuration files like you had to in Ontolica for SharePoint 2003. We took some beating for that one over the years ;-)


• Federated search. This feature will basically enable you search multiple SSP's from within the same Ontolica search center.


• Improved meta data search. Add your own meta data to the advanced search page with a few clicks. Select between a text box, a dropdown box or a lookup dialog for value input.


• Display custom properties in search results with a few clicks.


• Improved Bets Bets. Ontolica will add support for images and audience targeting.


• Configurable action menu on results. Ontolica will include a fully configurable drop down menu on search results. The default actions that ship with Ontolica are:
  
• View Propeties (teleports the user to the document library list item representing the document).


• Edit in Microsoft Office Word / PowerPoint / Excel.


• Alert Me


• Add to My Links


• View Details.
  
• Drill Down. Provides the user with a dynamic list of suggestions for refining his or her search. It basically works by analyzing the meta data on the search results. The list of meta data (properties) to provide suggestions for are also fully configurable. Ontolica will in the default configuration be able to provide suggestions for Sites, Authors, File types and Content types.


• Quick filters. Will allow you to easily configure some expression based filters that appear as radio buttons below the keyword input field.


• Document details page.


• Improved people search. Basically nicer thumbnails and more info displayed on each result.


• Image search. Ontolica will ship with a preconfigured search tab optimized for image search like you know it from Google / Live Search.


• Search result grouping. Group you results by Author, Site, Size, Date or some custom property.


• XSLT enabled web parts. All Ontolica search web parts are XSLT enabled to give you full control of the look & feel when required. Even the Ontolica search box in the upper right corner is XSLT enabled. You will, however, only need to worry about modifying the default Ontolica XSLT templates if you have needs that go far beyond common customization scenarios. You can really configure and customize Ontolica to a great extent before you need to worry about XSLT, which I know many of you do not really want to or have time to.


• Configurable web parts. All Ontolica web parts have a dedciated configuration page where you can easily configure the various options og the web part.


• Customizable search dialog. Create your own custom search forms.


• Plugs into the SharePoint feature framework. Ontolica search can be activated/deactivated on the site collection level.


• Site template for easy creation of new Ontolica search centers.


• Solution based installation process. Ontolica installation and deployment relies on the new solutions framework in Windows SharePoint Services V3.

• Media Library serves as a front end in which media content items in the digital asset management system are displayed as thumbnails.
• Media Viewer displays information such as annotations and time codes in Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers format and offers sophisticated, built-in playback controls.
• Media Annotator allows groups of people to collaborate on media assets through video annotations, digital inking and discussions.
• Media Import facilitates the upload of media files and automatically launches associated workflows, such as information-gathering processes.
• Media Cart provides an individualized area for storing media assets that people want to edit themselves or push out to appropriate editors.

• Overview
• Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Hosting
  

• New! Ofgem - http://www.ofgem.gov.uk - built by Parity
  


• Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust - http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk - built by ContentAndCode
  


• The Body Shop - http://www.wise-woman.net/ - built by ContentAndCode
  


• Fifteen - http://www.fifteen.net/ - built by ContentAndCode
  


• LloydsTSB - www.shareview.co.uk - built by Conchango
  


• Corgi - www.trustcorgi.com - built by ArtemisCorp
  


• Ministry of Sound - www.hedkandi.com - built by cScape

• Intranet sites (My Sites, team sites, and published intranet content)
• Partner Web site
• Customer Web site (including content deployment across server farms)

• Video
• Deepfish Home

• Site collections (Database scope) 50,000 ... Total throughput degrades as the number of site collections increases.
• Web sites (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating subsites of a given Web site does not perform well much
  beyond 2,000 subsites.
• Web sites (Site collection) 250,000 - You can create a very large total number of Web sites by nesting the subsites. For example, 100
  sites each with 1000 subsites is 100,100 Web sites.
• Documents (Folder scope) 2,000 ... The interfaces for enumerating documents in a folder do not perform well beyond a thousand entries.
• Documents (Library scope) 2 million ... You can create very large document libraries by nesting folders.
• Security principals (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The size of the access control list is limited to a few thousand security principals, in other words users and groups in the Web site.
• Users ( Web site scope) 2 million ... You can add millions of people to your Web site by using Microsoft Windows security groups to manage security instead of using individual users.
• Items (List scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating list items does not perform well beyond a few thousand items.
• Web Parts (Page scope) 100 ... Pages with more than 100 Web Parts are slow to render.
• Web Part personalization (Page scope) 10,000 ... Pages with more than a few thousand user personalizations are slow to render.
• Lists (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating lists and libraries in a Web site does not perform well beyond a few thousand entries.
• Document size (File scope) 50 MB ... The file save performance degrades as the file size grows. The default maximum is 50 MB. This maximum is enforced by the system, but you can change it to any value up to 2 GB (2047 MB) if you have applied Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1.

For SharePoint Portal Server, here's an extract from the Capacity Planning whitepaper:

It is important to understand the ramifications of the different features and functions of the SharePoint Portal Server solutions to size the system so that the performance of the system is good.

The following table lists some of the SharePoint Portal Server objects and describes their recommended use. "Typical" indicates comfortable and well tested; "maximum" indicates that the system can support that number, but not without some performance ramifications or
special configurations.

An asterisk (*) indicates a hard limit; no asterisk indicates a tested or supported limit.

• Portal sites (full) - typically 2 ... maximum 15 *
• Portal sites (child) - typically 10 ... maximum 100 *
• Areas - typically 1,000 ... maximum 10,000
• Best Bets - typically 1,000 ... maximum 25,000
• Area depth - typically 5 ... maximum 20 *
• User profiles - typically 50,000 ... maximum 1,000,000
• Audiences - typically 500 ... maximum 10,000
• Audience memberships - typically 500,000 ... maximum 5,000,000
• SSO credentials - typically 100,00 ... maximum 100,000
• Search indexes - typically 3 ... maximum 32
• Content sources -typically 25 ... maximum 250
• Search scopes - typically 25 ... maximum 250 *
• Indexed documents per content index - typically 100,000 ... maximum 5,000,000
• Indexed documents - typically 2,500,000 ... maximum 20,000,000
• Thesaurus entries - typically 1,000 ... maximum 10,000
• Alerts - typically 50,000 ... maximum 1,000,000
• Team sites - typically 10,000 ... maximum 250,000
• Personal sites - typically 10,000 ... maximum 250,000