Microsoft SharePoint new features in service pack 1

Microsoft has released SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in the last week of June, 2011. This service pack includes all the public updates that were released through June 2011, and all the cumulative updates that were released through April 2011. It also consists of previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, this Service Pack also include enhancements and couple of new features.

Following are some new features included in the SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1):

1. As you know SharePoint's Recycle Bin don't protect the sites or site collections. If you delete a site then it is gone forever, including all of the content. But now Microsoft has introduced a new feature "Site Recycle Bin" in SharePoint 2010 SP1. This feature will enable self-service recovery of site collections and sites which is very similar to the way users currently recover items from the existing recycle bin.
2. A new improved storage space allocation feature enabling site collection owners to have a better understanding of their storage usage and helps them take action to clean up content from their site, similar to the one in MOSS 2007 but in a improved way.
3. Google Chrome Support for SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Apps.
4. Another new feature included in the SharePoint 2010 SP1 is Shallow Copy which improves the performance of moving site collections between content databases when using remote blob storage. This new feature can greatly reduce the time it takes to perform this administrative function.

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