Here are some major differences between two products, talking about OOTB Navigation feature limitation about SharePoint Foundation 2010:
There are two limitation areas/concerns:
- OOTB Navigation UI:
Since there is no Publishing feature on Foundation, when using UI to customize the Navigation on Site Setting, UI looks different comparing with Server 2010:
for instance, have to add separate links to show on Top Nav bar or Left Nav Bar, while in Server 2010 you can choose show Sub Site or Sub Page (if turn on Publishing feature); There is a virtual editor for Navigation Editing and Sorting in SP Server 2010, Foundation version does not have one, etc.
2. Navigation Providers:
Using master page you can also change the navigation Providers for sitemap to configure the site map resources for both Global Navigation and Current Navigation bars, in SP2010 Server there are 8 more SiteMapProviders available OOTB, includes:
1) 1 Search related site map provider:
ExtendedSearchXmlContentMapProvider, which is a Provider for navigation in Extended Search page, it uses the site Map File under IIS web app directory “_app_bin/layouts.sitemap”
2) 6 Publishing features related Providers:
a). GlobalNavSiteMapProvider, CombinedNavSiteMapProvider, CurrentNavSiteMapProvider, CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode — there providers also help to configure second level navigation bars on the master page
b). GlobalNavigation and CurrentNavigation, these are Providers for MOSS Global and Current Navigations, which are useful to help Visual Upgrading “look and feels” feature for SP2010.
3) 1 Portal related navigation Provider:
SiteDirectoryCategoryProvider, which is a Site Directory category provider. Site directory feature is not really working well on SP2010 server, I have no knowledge about what the future of the site directory on later version.
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