SharePoint v3 Top Ten Features: Start drooling

This is the top 10 list of features in SharePoint v3 according to Lawrence Liu:

1. A “Global” Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity for “additive” templates
2. OOB document review/approval workflow with support for digital signatures
3. Integration with Outlook — read/write access to SharePoint datetypes: calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents
4. All SharePoint Lists provide RSS feeds!
5. SharePoint Lists (e.g. Discussion Boards, Calendars, Document Libraries, Announcements) can accept incoming e-mail
a. Discussion Boards maintain e-mail threading and full HTML messages
b. Calendars process incoming iCals
c. Document Libraries map attachments to documents
6. File level security (i.e. access control) in Document Libraries
7. List item versioning that shows metadata changes
8. Complete control of site branding — apply custom master pages and page layout, define custom site navigation
9. Support for multi-lingual sites!
10. Policy based document archiving and records management with compliance reporting.

There is also a top 10 by Arpan Shah which outlines the following:

– Security/Auth “stuff” from supporting the ASP.NET 2.0 authentication provider model and security trimming to single item security. 🙂
– Built on top of Whidbey – support for ASP.NET 2.0 web parts, nav/auth provider models, master pages :-), and more
– SPS/CMS integrated architecture from end-user to development and deployment
– RSS, Wikki and Blogging support.. the RSS support is especially great w/ the new version of Outlook… or any RSS reader really
– Content types – very cool and super useful.. define a content type that includes metadata and actions
– Recycle bin – IT orgs will love that
– Lists – things like eventing support, scalability
– Search investments – relevancy and User Experience are fantastic
– ECM investments – from content creation, sharing, searching, publishing to retaining
– Workflow based on Windows Workflow Foundation

Considering we have no access to this stuff, and probably won’t for quite some time these lists are quite impressive! If they keep even half of this we’ll be really well off.