Rik asks:
"Keith, do you have a link to the details of SP2 of Sharepoint?"
Certainly!
Mike Fitzmaurice is talking a lot about it on his blog
Maurice Prather is also talking about it on his blog
I also dug up a little more about it to satisfy my own curiousity. Man they have got some COOL stuff coming down the pipe. I wish I was at PDC to attend these talks...
SP2:
- Will support ASP 2.0, but only on WSS. SPS will not support this until v3 next year.
- Apparently there is a new version of SmartPart that allows ASP 2.0 Web Part user controls to be hosted in WSS SP2.
- Not much else being talked about that I have seen except bug fixes in SP2.
SPS/WSS "v3":
- Due after Q2 of 2006.
- Ghosting isn't such a big concern anymore. Why? Because v3 will allow you to use ASP 2.0 Master Pages, and Frontpage 12 will be able to work with it. Sweet!
- You won't be limited to windows integrated authentication anymore. Why? Because v3 will support authentication providers from ASP 2.0! Extranet developers of the world rejoice!
- All sharepoint lists can be exposed via RSS. Also some templates for Blogs and Wikis.
- Huge improvements to Workflow support.
- A document recycle bin.
- Item-level security.
- A new Business Data Catalog - you can define your line of business data and web parts can consume it. Sounds like an enterprise level data dictionary of sorts.