SharePoint 2013 New Features Overview

1. SharePoint 2013

2. What is SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a Web application platform
developed by Microsoft.
The most common uses of SharePoint include:
Intranet portal:
A SharePoint intranet portal is a way to centralize access to
enterprise information and applications on a corporate network.
Enterprise content and document management:
SharePoint is often used to store and track electronic documents
or images of paper documents.
Extranet sites:
SharePoint can be used to provide password-protected, web-
facing access to people outside an organization.

3. What is SharePoint
Internet sites:
A SharePoint intranet portal is a way to centralize access to
enterprise information and applications on a corporate network.
Internet sites:
Using the 'Publishing' features, SharePoint can be used to
manage larger public websites.
Configuration and customization:
Web-based configuration
SharePoint Designer
Integration & Development Models

4. SharePoint History
Dashboard
SharePoint 2001/2003
SharePoint 2007
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2013
Office 365
Cost

5. SharePoint 2007

6. SharePoint 2010

7. Roles and Responsibilities
SharePoint Architects
SharePoint Developers
SharePoint Web Designers
SharePoint Administrators
IT Administrators
Content Contributors
Business Users

8. Architecture

9. Architecture
Platform level improvements and new
capabilities:
Shredded Storage
SQL Improvements
Cache Service
Request Management
Themes
Sharing
host-named site collections

10. Service applications
New service applications and improve existing ones.
Office Web Apps is no longer a service application
Web Analytics is no longer service application, it’s part of
search

11. Declar. App
&
Workflow
Events
CSOM
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Customizations in SharePoint

12. Authentication
Default Mode of Authentication Claim Based
Authentication.
SharePoint 2013 now supports OAuth, the
open standard for authorization.
– Allow Building Internet sites and extranets that rely on
external identity providers such as LiveID or
Facebook will become more common.

13. Apps - The Cloud Application Model
Farm Solution
Sandbox
App Model Rest/API
– Hosting
• Provider-Hosted App
• Autohosted App Azure
• SharePoint-Hosted App
– Scope Web and tenant
– Market Place
• Pingar: automatically extract metadata from documents
• RecordPoint: centralize record management configuration.

14. Apps - The Cloud Application Model

15. Social Computing

16. Social Computing
Microblogging
– Rich microblog mention @ and # tag
– Share content, links, and media
– Follow people, sites, content, and conversations
Activity Feeds
– Provides a view into recent activity related to content, links,
media, and people
Full integration of social features with
Windows Phone 7, and therefore Windows
Phone 8
Yammer

17. Social

18. Social
Communities
– Community sites with self-service
administration and moderation
– Modern community features such
as achievements and reputation
Discussions
– Modern discussion boards
Blogs
– Client application integration
– Categories, comments, and
moderation

19. Enterprise Content Management
The Discovery Center
Site-level retention polices
Enterprise Metadata Management

20. Unified Discovery across Exchange,
SharePoint and Lync
Find it all in one place (unified console)
Find more (in-place discovery returns the richest
data)
Find it without impacting the user (Give legal
team discovery, leave IWs alone)Discovery Center in
SharePoint
Unified Preserve, Search and Export
Exchange Web
Services
Connect to Exchange to get mailbox
data
Lync Archiving to
Exchange
Exchange is the compliance store for
Lync
Search Infrastructure Exchange and SharePoint use the same
search platform

21. Site-level retention polices

22. Site-level retention polices
Compliance levels extended to sites
Policies include:
– Retention policy for sites and Team Mailbox associated
with site
– Project closure and expiration policy

23. Enterprise Metadata Management
Metadata as enabler for different functionalities
– Navigation, term and search driven pages, etc.
Numerous new capabilities for term store manager
to enhance term usage models

24. WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT

25. Device based rendering
Different channels defined in site level.
Specific control to define mobile rendering areas
in content.

26. Design Manager and general rendering
changes
Empowering Web Designers
Site design & branding using the technologies
web developers already know & love (HTML,
CSS, JS) – using their preferred design tools.
Design manager for assisting uploading
templates and modifying them on-fly for

27. Enable Intelligent Experiences
• Metadata
navigation
• Topic Pages
• Clean URLs
• Content by Search
• Refinements
• Recommendations
(item-to-item,
popularity)
Events Analytics Engine
Mined
Recommendations
Search Engine

28. Catalog
• Item Catalog
• Easy Catalog
import/sync

29. Authoring.Conto
so.com
Contoso.com/WorkAt
Contoso
“En-
US”
Contoso.com/ca
reers
Contoso.fr/carri
ères
Variati
ons
Search
Crawl
“Fr-Fr” Contoso.fr/TravaillezChez
Contoso
Transla
tion
Content Search
Webpart
animate
Create WCM sites

30. Content By Search Web Part
Similar to Content by
Query Web Part – but
based on indexed content
Show content cross site
collections
New presentation template
model for easy content
presentation fine tuning
Easy editors as web part
editors for defining planned
query

31. Cross-site publishing (XSP) and
catalogs

32. Managed navigation
Drive your navigation and URLs
based on Term Store hierarchies
Clean URLs for actual end users
– www.contoso.com/careers
– www.contoso.com/aboutus
Define settings for navigation
in terms store manager
Provides also dynamic topic
pages capability for minimizing
amount of physical pages for
catalog type sites.

33. Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Search
Filter query by
CATEGORY:
COMPUTERS
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/co
mputers
Use page
maincategory.a
spx
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
Managed navigation, search and topic
pages

34. SEO improvements
Features SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2013
Clean URLs http://www.c.com/Pages/cars.a
spx
http://www.c.com/cars
Home Page Redirects HTTP 302 for
http://www.c.com to redirect to
/pages/default.aspx
Home page served from address
www.c.com – no redirect for
browser
Country code top-level
domains (ccTLDs)
http://www.c.com/en-
us/Pages/cars.aspx
http://www.c.com/es-
mx/Pages/coches.aspx
http://www.c.com/cars
http://www.c.mx/coches
XML Sitemaps None Automatically generated and
referenced in robots.txt
SEO Properties
(e.g. Meta Description)
<title> and <h1> must be
identical
Browser title
Meta description
Meta keywords
Webmaster Tools
integration
None Assists with ownership verification

35. Variations and multilingual
enhancements

36. Image renditions
Image transformation dynamically in SharePoint
Thumbnails are actual thumbnails
– Images
Consistency sized images
– Resizing will resize actual image, not only it's
presentation
– Optimizes page payload
Cropping for targeting areas of pictures

37. Video improvements
Enable easy enterprise podcast
scenarios
Video support improvements
– Embedding to any content
page
– Thumbnail generation
– Renditions also for videos
– External video support to store
– Multiple encodings for single
video
Video player as HTML 5
implementation
– Fallback to Silverlight

38. Usage analytics
Built to scale from ground up
Analytics changed to be search driven
– Based also on usage counts, click
through and item relationships
Personalized search queries based on
particular user and usage analytics data
– “Recommended for you”
Includes preconfigured Content By
Search
Web Part – “Top Pages”

39. UX improvements
Web server caching improvements
Introduction of a minimal download strategy
A new Theme engine
Improved support for mobile devices
Implementation of HTML5 and increased web
browser support
RTE Improvement

40. Mobile
Classic and Contemporary
views for mobile browsers
Automatic Mobile Browser
Redirection
Target different designs
based on user agent string
Office Mobile Web Apps
Windows Mobile Apps
Push notifications
Microsoft Push Notification
Service (MPNS)
Location

41. Business Connectivity Services
Enhancements to external lists
Support for SharePoint Apps and Office Apps
An event listener, which makes it possible for SharePoint to
receive events from external systems
Support for Open Data (OData) BDC connection
Representational State Transfer (REST) and SharePoint Client
Object Model (CSOM) enhancements against both external lists
and ECTs

42. Search

43. Uncover knowledge

44. Search
Results Block
– Promoted Results were formerly known as Best Bets
– Result Blocks Template
Search Refinement
– Entity Extraction made available as a metadata selection
in the refiners.
– Deep Refiners
– Visual Refiners
Search Navigation

45. Search
Query Suggestions
Thumbnail Previews
– Search popularity and view counts from the analytics
component
– A preview for office documents as long as we have Office
Web Apps available* or some other rich preview such as
an image or video
– Additional actions i.e. Follow, Edit or View
Continuous crawling option
Language detection and entity extraction in
iFilter
Phonetic name variations for People Search

46. Search
Remote SharePoint Servers and Exchange
Content Sources
OOB Query Building Tool
Keyword query language enhancements
Entity extraction through Term Store (Managed
Metadata)
Export and Import Search Configuration options
Customize “Did you mean …” feature using
Query spelling correction

47. Search
Query Rules Engine.
Search REST Service for remote execution
of queries from client applications.

48. Workflow

49. Workflow
Workflow now treated as a service in
SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 has improved CSOM & REST
API’s for workflow
SharePoint Workflow Improvements
Designer Text/Visio switch Mode
Workflow Powered for SharePoint Apps

50. Business Intelligence
Excel BI
– Instant analysis through In
Memory BI Engine
– Power View Add-in
Excel Services
– Improved data exploration
– Field List and Field Well
Support
– Calculated Measures and
Members
– Enhanced Timeline
Controls

51. Business Intelligence
PerformancePoint Services
– Filter enhancements and Filter
search
– Dashboard migration
– Support for Analysis Services
Effective User
Visio Services
– Refresh data from external
sources – BCS and Azure SQL
– Supports comments on Visio
Drawings
– Maximum Cache Size service
parameter
• Health Analyzer Rules to report
on Maximum Cache Size