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What is your fave feature?

Managed Metadata fields with Taxonomies (term stores, term sets, etc)

I like them all, for different reasons. Today my fave is Access Services because it allows users to oublish their database solutions to sharepoint. And according to the guys at spc, it is super optimized and will run just as fast as if it were hosted in SQL.

Managed Metadata is definitely a contender, but I prefer to favorite features of the Foundation version. I don’t know, I just don’t consider MOSS or SP Server as ‘SharePoint’ but rather first-party addons to SharePoint.

As such, my most favorite feature has to be the new service application framework.

Despite what some people will have you believe, Service Apps aren’t hard to write or even scary. It’s a bit like custom field types; if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s like brain surgery with boxing gloves and a hatchet. After you get the flow of it, it’s beautiful.

Totally agree with furuknap on the addon thought, confuses the hell out of business users to see MOSS in some places and SharePoint in others particularly when authors are really talking about SharePoint core not the paid for feature set.

The Managed Metadata / Taxonomy Management is first on my list, getting organisations to adopt and maintain good content types so you can use them as the basis for metadata with search was always a massive challenge in 07, now that there is a clear alternative you can put in the hands of a SharePoint librarian its going to make the organisational change aspects of deploying SharePoint much easier to deal with.

unique IDs for document and document sets. customizable too. thanks u very much ms.