SharePoint 2010

I have been working with SharePoint 2007 for almost 3 years now but have just this week started the process of moving to SharePoint 2010. I installed in in the VM the other day and started reading about some of the new features. A couple of things I have been reading that I think are some nice changes:

1. Event log flood protection - As someone who has experienced the messages in the log file repeating constantly and taking up a lot of space in SharePoint 2007, this sounds great. If a repeating message is detected it is suppressed and only occasional reminders that it is still occurring are reported.
2. Powershell replacing STSADM  - I love Powershell so the fact that you can now do all the administrative tasks that used to be done with STSADM in Powershell is great. It should make it much easier to create powerful administrative scripts to perform common functions.
3. Ribbon UI - OK, this one kind of worried me because I have not been a big fan of the Office ribbon, I am used to it now but I still prefer the old menus and toolbars. I have to say though that from what I have seem so far, the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 seems to really be a good addition to make it easier to get to common functions without having to search around and should save quite a bit of time.

I am really looking forward to digging in and starting to create some new sites and doing some development against 2010.

-Z