Continuing on from my posts listing reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 I will now look at Multimedia (Assets) and announcements.
The 6 points I’m looking at regarding upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 are:
- Page based on Wiki
- Tagging / Notes / Rating
- Multimedia (Assets)
- Easier Announcements
- Web Apps
- PowerPoint Publishing
Multimedia (Assets) and Announcements
There is now an asset library in SharePoint giving you a really great place to store images and videos. The main advantage over 2007 is just the way in which images are displayed on the page. No longer do you have to suffer with a list if thumbnails, they now go across the page and happily move around to fit different browser sizes.
If you store videos in the asset library then you can play them from the browser (remember that SharePoint 2010 plays nicely with Firefox too) using the nice Silverlight viewer.
For those of you who have gone through the pain of adding pictures into announcements in SharePoint 2007 will absolutely love this feature. In my opinion this is how announcements should always have worked. Click New, insert, image from computer, browse, OK. The picture is then in and can be resized, text layout changed and announcement written!
You can see in the screen snip that there is an insert Video/Audio button. Unfortunately this is greyed out 
sorry as far as I’ve seen no ability to add YouTube clips OOTB…yet.
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Larry W. Virden
April 28, 2010 at 3:40 pm (UTC 0)
What version(s) of Office are integratable with SharePoint 2010? From what I have read, SP 2010 requires installation as a 64 bit app – right? So does the Office being used also have to be 64 bit? Somewhere I read someone concerned about either dataview of lists or perhaps it was exporting a list to Excel being a problem if both office and sp 2010 weren’t both at 64 bits.
I’m just trying to figure out what is doable.
Chris McKinley
June 16, 2010 at 8:44 am (UTC 0)
SP2010 server does indeed have to be x64, in fact, all your back end servers inc SQL should be x64 too. The office client can be either x86 or x64 and i’ve not come across or heard any problems using office client 32bit with sharepoint 2010.
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