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Friday, August 24, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Overview

Thursday, August 23, 2012

SharePoint 2010 vs. SharePoint 2013 (Preview)

SharePoint 2013 is the successor of SharePoint 2010, at the time of writing this post (Aug 2012), the Preview version of SharePoint 2013 was released.

The requirements remain almost the same for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013, both can run in a 6-bit machine, the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit has already happened while moving from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint Server 2013

SharePoint Server 2013 is the Successor of SharePoint Server 2010; it provides a number of additional features to enhance the usage of SharePoint. At present a preview version of SharePoint 2013 has been released.

Some of the key feature additions to SharePoint 2013 are as follows.

Claim based authentication
Support for OAuth 2.0
Distributed Cache server
Community Sites
eDiscovery
Support for Mobile Devices
Microblog
Support for OData
Support for REST based HTTP requests
Introduction of Apps
Introduction of Analytics Processing Component for Search
Introduction of SharePoint 2013 Workflow

To know more about the new features in SharePoint 2013 refer to the posts

SharePoint 2013 Hardware and Software Requirements
SharePoint 2013 Authentication
SharePoint 2013 Sites
SharePoint 2013 Communities
SharePoint 2013 Content
SharePoint 2013 Search
SharePoint 2013 Insight
SharePoint 2013 Composites
SharePoint 2013 Claim Based Authentication
SharePoint 2013 Support for OAuth 2.0
SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache Service

What’s New in SharePoint 2013?

SharePoint Server 2013 is the Successor of SharePoint Server 2010; it provides a number of additional features to enhance the usage of SharePoint. At present a preview version of SharePoint 2013 has been released.

To view the feature enhancements in SharePoint 2013 refer to the following posts.

SharePoint 2013 Authentication
SharePoint 2013 Sites
SharePoint 2013 Communities
SharePoint 2013 Content
SharePoint 2013 Search
SharePoint 2013 Insight
SharePoint 2013 Composites

The following are removed (deprecated) in SharePoint 2013, some of these features might still be seen on the Preview version, but will be removed once the actual version roles out.

1. Visual upgrade

2. Document Workspace site template

3. Personalization Site template

4. Meeting Workspace site templates

5. Visio Process Repository site template

6. Imaging Web service

7. Web Analytics - Replaced with Analytics Processing Component.

8. Windows Classic mode Authentication – Replaced with claims-based authentication

SharePoint 2013 Composites

The following are the new Composite (Business Process Model) features in SharePoint 2013.

Feature	Description
SharePoint 2013 Workflow	The SharePoint 2010 Workflow is retained in SharePoint 2013, in addition the SharePoint 2013 Workflow module can be plugged in as an Add-On. Built using Windows Workflow Foundation 4, OAuth and iFrame model. Workflow activities are invoked using loosely coupled web services that use messaging APIs based on WCF to communicate with SharePoint
Workflow - no-code web service calls	Ability to call web services without adding any code.
Workflow - Visual workflow	visual workflow can be created by adding the Visio 2013 Preview add-in.
Workflow - Building blocks	New workflow building blocks added: Stage, Loop, and App Step.
Workflow - REST Support	Provides REST-based service endpoint for publishing, managing, and running workflows

SharePoint 2013 Search

The following are the new Search features in SharePoint 2013.

Feature	Description
Analytics Processing Component	The Analytics Processing Component is used for search in SharePoint 2013. It searches both the content and the usage of the content to improve search accuracy and relevance. Content analytics: Analyzes key words, inbound/outbound links etc crawled and stored in the index. Usage analytics: Analyzed the content usage like Clicks, Views, ratings, recommendations and stores them with the search index, to improve search accuracy and provide additional information/ recommendations.
Content Search Web Part	Displays content that was crawled and added to the search index
eDiscovery Template	Allows creating separate case templates for specific purposes. Ex: Create a new case for a new Contract. Allows users to search content from various sites and site collections, farms, Exchange servers etc and store the results of the search in the eDiscovery site. Allows the user to view the original saved version and the latest version of the artifacts, provided the artifacts get modified after the discovery is done.
Continuous Crawling	New documents added will now appear instantly in search results without waiting for the indexing process to be completed.
High Scalability	SharePoint 2013 search uses the high scalability model of FAST Search Server.

SharePoint 2013 Insight

The following are the new Insight (Business Intelligence) features in SharePoint 2013.

Feature	Description
Excel BI - Vertipaq Engine	A new In-Memory BI Engine is added to allow instant analysis of millions of rows, with full integration with Excel Services.
Trend analysis	Allows performing Drill downs on Pivot Table / Charts
PivotChart	Allows creating a PivotChart reports without including a PivotTable.
Dashboard Migration	Allows copying a Dashboard with its dependencies from one site to another.

SharePoint 2013 Communities

The following are the new Communities (Collaboration) features in SharePoint 2013.

Feature	Description
Microblog	Allows users to post short messages and publish them instantly to all users in the network. The posts will be displayed as feeds to other users. Other user can post replies to the micro blogs instantly. The Distributed Cache service enables sharing the blogs posts and feeds instantly by caching them.
Mobility	Allows integrating SharePoint Applications and Services with Windows Phone applications. Offers new, optimized viewing experiences across different mobile platforms. Compatible with mobile browsers like Internet Explorer Mobile, Safari, Android Browser etc.
Community Sites Template	Users can start and participate in forum threads in the Community Sites, this helps users to share information and get suggestions from other users.
Community Portal Template	New Template, offers a search option to view the list of Community sites across sites and site collections. Allows the user to find a community site and join the community.

SharePoint 2013 Content

The following are the new Content (Enterprise Content Management) features in SharePoint 2013.

Feature	Description
Standard and Simplified Web Development	SharePoint 2013 enables developing solutions using Web Standard technologies like HTML, JavaScript , CSS, etc and supports Open protocols like OAuth and OData. This helps standardizing the development process and enables easy sharing of information with other platforms.
BCS – OData Support	Business Connectivity Services now allows connections to applications/services which use the OData Protocol. SharePoint can now expose data in a format which supports OData and also access external data which are modeled based on OData Protocol. Visual Studio 2010 can automatically generate the BDC model for external OData sources, to help accessing data easily.
BCS – REST Support	REST endpoint are defined for almost all the API in the Client Object Model, hence SharePoint 2013 can share information requested using REST format URIs
BCS - External Content Types Support	External content types can now be accessed from SharePoint 2013 using WCF Services
BCS - External Event Receivers Support	Now event receivers can be defined to trigger when a change happens outside the SharePoint 2013 system, Ex: We can define an event receiver to trigger when data changes in an external database.
Apps	Apps are complete modules on their own, they contain all the resources required for them to function, Apps can be plugged in into SharePoint sites to provide additional functionality, without any change to the underlying SharePoint system, they are light weight and easily portable, hence can be installed and un-installed easily.
BCS – App Support	BCS connections can be defined with App scope, and can be stored separately. These BCS models are stored in the App itself, hence reducing dependency on the Server.
External lists	Lists based on external data now allow paging and sorting before rendering the list to improve performance.
Site-based retention	SharePoint 2013 allows retention policies to be applied at a site level, so that the policy is applied uniformly to all the contents in the site. When the site policy expires the policy of all sub items get expired automatically, and finally get deleted along with the site policy. The site retention policy also applies to the Exchange server mailboxes associated with the site, so when the site policy expires and get deleted, the associated emails also get deleted automatically.