Before publishing a post on how to activate the site features, I am writing this post to describe brief introduction behind some usefull features which would be beneficial from business point of view.
Site Features
The site features available by default in SharePoint Server follow:
• Content Organizer: Allow for the creation of rules based on metadata to route content to the appropriate location.
• E-mail Integration with Content Organizer: Extend the site content organization features to receive and route e-mail messages.
• Group Work Lists: Use this to identify if the Group Work Calendar list should be made available.
• Hold and eDiscovery: Allow for the tracking of external actions that suspend the disposition of documents.
• Metadata Navigation and Filtering: Provide lists with settings pages allowing them to be configured to use metadata tree views and filter controls.
• Offline Synchronization for External Lists: Enable the ability to synchronize lists with Outlook and SharePoint Workspace.
• PerformancePoint Services Site Features: Make the PerformancePoint Services list and document library templates available.
• SharePoint Server Enterprise Site features: For enterprise license deployments of SharePoint Server, this feature activates the enterprise services, such as the business data catalog, forms services, and Excel services.
• SharePoint Server Publishing: Include resources like the Pages library needed to create and publish web pages within a site.
• SharePoint Server Standard Site features: Enable the standard SharePoint Server features, such as user profiles and searching.
• Team Collaboration Lists: Also available in SharePoint Foundation and this feature enables team collaboration services in a site that allows for the use of lists and libraries.
• Wiki Page Home Page: Create a wiki page as the site’s home page.
Site Collection Features
The following site collection features are available in SharePoint Server 2010:
• Advanced Web Analytics: Makes web analytics reports available.
• Content Type Syndication Hub: Creates a site that will act as the enterprise metadata hub site.
• Custom Site Collection Help: Creates a library used to store custom help documents for the site collection.
• Disposition Approval Workflow: Makes available a standard workflow that is used to manage the expiration of documents.
• Document ID Service: Assigns IDs to documents. (These IDs can be used to retrieve documents independent of their current location.)
• Document Sets: Provides the content types needed to create document sets that allow the grouping of multiple documents to be managed as a single entity.
• In Place Records Management: Enables the ability to define and declare records
• Library and Folder Based Retention: Allow list managers to set retention schedules on libraries and folders.
• PerformancePoint Services Site Collection Features: Enables the PerformancePoint Services content types and site definitions
• Publishing Approval Workflow: Enables a workflow for the routing of pages for approval as part of the page publishing process
• Reporting: Enables SharePoint Foundation 2010 report creation capabilities.
• Search Server Web Parts: Makes available web parts that are needed by Search Center sites
• SharePoint 2007 Workflows: Makes the set of workflows that are available as part of SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) available within the SharePoint 2010 server environment
• SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features: Enables enterprise site features that are available with the enterprise license of SharePoint Server, such as business data catalog, forms services, and Excel services
• SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure: Enables publishing-related functionality, such as welcome page management, master pages, and page layouts.
• SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features: Enables standard features introduced by SharePoint Server, such as user profiles and enterprise searches
• Three-state workflow: Makes available a standard workflow that is used to track the state of items in a list
• Workflows: Enables the SharePoint Server 2010 standard workflows
Any of the listed site and site collection features can be enabled or disabled to control the capabilities made available in the SharePoint environment.
Note: Some site and site collection features work together to provide sets of capabilities. It is important to understand the complete impact of disabling a site or site collection feature before making changes.
If you have any doubts/queries regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know,thanks..
