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 In the post yesterday SharePoint Foundation OOTB web Parts I said that I would cover the web parts available with SharePoint Server 2010 for a comparison of the two versions. With the server version there are 11 categories but in SharePoint Foundation there are only 5 which is very understandable when you compare a free version to a fully featured server application that can support millions of users.  This list of web parts is based on the enterprise edition the next time I do a standard install I will also list those.  

The categories and web parts are as follows:-

 List and Libraries

   Announcements – Use this list to track upcoming events, status updates or other team news

   Calendar – Use the Calendar list to keep informed of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and other important events

   Links - Use the Links list for links to Web pages that your team members will find interesting or useful

   Shared Documents – Share a document with the team by adding it to this document library

   Site Assets – Use this library to store files which are included on pages within this site, such as images on Wiki pages

   Site Pages – Use this library to create and store pages on this site

   Tasks – Use the Tasks list to keep track of work that you or your team needs to complete

   Team Discussions – Use the Team Discussion list to hold newsgroup-style discussions on topics relevant to your team

Business Data

   Business Data Actions – Displays a list of actions from Business Data Connectivity

   Business Data Connectivity Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data Connectivity

   Business Data Item – Displays one item from a data source in Business Data Connectivity

   Business Data Item Builder – Creates a Business Data item from parameters in the query string and provides it to other Web Parts

   Business Data List – Displays a list of items from a data source in Business Data Connectivity

   Business Data Related List – Displays a list of items related to one or more parent items from a data source in Business Data Connectivity

   Chart Web Part – Helps you to visualize your data on SharePoint sites and portals

   Excel Web Access – Use the Excel Web Access Web Part to interact with an Excel workbook as a Web page

   Indicator Details – Displays the details of a single Status Indicator. Status Indicators display an important measure for an organization and may be obtained from other data sources including SharePoint lists, Excel workbooks, and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services KPIs.

   Status Lists – Shows a list of Status Indicators. Status Indicators display important measures for your organization, and show how your organization is performing with respect to your goals.

   Visio Web Access – Enables viewing and refreshing of Visio Web Drawings

Content Rollup

   Categories – Displays categories from the Site Directory

   Content Query – Displays a dynamic view of content from your site

   Relevant Documents – Displays documents that are relevant to the current user

   RSS Viewer – Displays an RSS feed

   Site Aggregator – Displays sites of your choice.

   Sites In Category – Displays sites from the Site Directory within a specific category

   Summary Links – Allows authors to create links that can be grouped and styled

   Table Of Contents – Displays the navigation hierarchy of your site

   Web Analytics web Part – Displays the most viewed content, most frequent search queries from a site, or most frequent search queries from a search center

   WSRP Viewer – Displays portlets from web sites using WSRP 1.1

   XML Viewer – Transforms XML data using XSL and shows the results

Filters

   Choice Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values entered by the page author

   Current User Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts by using properties of the current user

   Date Filter – Filter the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter or pick a date

   Filter Actions – Use the Filter Actions Web Part when you have two or more filter Web Parts on one     Web Part Page, and you want to synchronize the display of the filter results

   Page Field Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts using information about the current page

   Query String (URL) Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts using values passed via the query string

   SharePoint List Filter - Filters the contents of Web Parts by using a list of values

   SQL Server Analysis Services Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from SQL Server Analysis Services cubes

   Text Filter – Filters the contents of Web Parts by allowing users to enter a text value

Forms

   HTML Form Web Part – Connects simple form controls to other Web Parts

   InfoPath Form Web Part – Use this Web Part to display an InfoPath browser-enabled form

Media and Content

   Content Editor – Allows authors to enter rich text content

   Image Viewer – Displays a specified image

   Media Web Part – Use to embed media clips (video and audio) in a web page

   Page Viewer - Displays another Web page on this Web page. The other Web page is presented in an IFrame

   Picture Library Slideshow Web Part – Use to display a slideshow of images and photos from a picture library

   Silverlight Web part – A web part to display a Silverlight application

Outlook Web App

   My Calendar – Displays your calendar using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later

   My Contacts – Displays your contacts using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later

   My Inbox – Displays your inbox using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later

   My Mail Folder – Displays your mail folder using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000

   My Tasks – Displays your tasks using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later

PerformancePoint

   PerformancePoint Filter – This web part displays PerformancePoint filters. Filters may be linked to other web parts to provide an interactive dashboard experience. Filter types include lists and trees based on a variety of data sources

   PerformancePoint Report – This web part displays PerformancePoint reports. Reports may be linked to other web parts to create an interactive dashboard experience. Report types include: Analytic charts & grids, Strategy Maps, Excel Services, Reporting Services, Predictive Trend charts, and web pages

   PerformancePoint Scorecard – This web part displays a PerformancePoint scorecard. Scorecards may be linked to other web parts, such as filters and reports, to create an interactive dashboard experience.

   PerformancePoint Stack Selector – This web part displays a PerformancePoint Stack Selector. All PerformancePoint web parts, such as filters and reports, contained in the same zone will be automatically stacked and selectable using this web part.

Search

   Advanced Search Box – Displays parameterized search options based on properties and combinations of words.

   Dual Chinese Search – Used to search Dual Chinese document and items at the same time.

   Federated Results – Displays search results from a configured location

   People Refinement Panel – This webpart helps the users to refine people search results

   People Search Box – Presents a search box that allows users to search for people

   People Search Core Results – Displays the people search results and the properties associated with them.

   Refinement Panel – This webpart helps the users to refine search results

   Related Queries – This webpart displays related queries to a user query

   Search Action Link – Displays the search action links on the search results page

   Search Best Bet – Displays high-confidence results on a search results page.

   Search Box – Displays a search box that allows users to search for information.

   Search Core Results – Displays the search results and the properties associated with them

   Search Paging – Display links for navigating pages containing search results.

   Search Statistics – Displays the search statistics such as the number of results shown on the current page, total number of results and time taken to perform the search.

   Search Summary – Displays suggestions for current search query

   Search Visual Best Bet – Displays Visual Best Bet

   Top Federated Results – Displays the Top Federated result from the configured location

Social Collaboration

   Contact Details – Displays details about a contact for this page or site.

   Note Board – Enable users to leave short, publicly-viewable notes about this page.

   Organization Browser – This Web Part displays each person in the reporting chain in an interactive view optimized for browsing organization charts.

   Site Users – Use the Site Users Web Part to see a list of the site users and their online status.

   Tag Cloud – Displays the most popular subjects being tagged inside your organization

   User Tasks – Displays tasks that are assigned to the current user.

   What’s New – This Web part shows new information from specified lists and libraries

   Whereabouts – Use to display Whereabouts information.

One of the most popular post I have written recently is the Web Analytics Reports in SharePoint 2010 so I thought I would just write a quick follow up on another component to the built web analytics side of SharePoint 2010, and that is the OOTB (out of the box) web part for displaying the results on a dashboard page.

This webpart is quite limited as compared to the full reports you can only see 3 sections of the reports that is:-

Most Viewed Content, Most Frequent Site Search Queries or Most Frequent Search Centre Queries

You can also choose from this site collection, this site and subsite or this site only. The only other filtering you can do with the webpart is the time period to display ranging from 24 hours up to 180 days and also the amount of items to display in the results up to a maximum of 100. The best thing I found with this webpart is the RSS feature which will enable me to monitor basic usage information from within Outlook.