SharePoint 2013

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.

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 configurationSharePoint DesignerIntegration & Development Models

SharePoint History

DashboardSharePoint 2001/2003SharePoint 2007SharePoint 2010SharePoint 2013Office 365Cost

SharePoint 2007

SharePoint 2010

Roles and Responsibilities

SharePoint ArchitectsSharePoint DevelopersSharePoint Web DesignersSharePoint AdministratorsIT AdministratorsContent ContributorsBusiness Users

Architecture

Architecture

Platform level improvements and new capabilities:Shredded StorageSQL ImprovementsCache ServiceRequest ManagementThemesSharinghost-named site collections

Service applications

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

search

SharePoint2007

SharePoint2010

SharePoint W15

Services (IIS, Apache, Other, …)

Services (Azure, IIS, Apache, Other…)

Services(Azure, IIS, Apache,Other, etc…)

SP2007 SP2010 SP15

Declar. App & Workflow Events

Custom Code

Custom Code

CSOM

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Customizations in SharePoint

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.

Apps - The Cloud Application Model

Farm SolutionSandboxApp 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.

Apps - The Cloud Application Model

Social Computing

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

Social

SocialCommunities

– 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

Enterprise Content Management

The Discovery CenterSite-level retention policesEnterprise Metadata Management

Unified Discovery across Exchange, SharePoint and LyncFind 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

Site-level retention polices

Site-level retention polices

Compliance levels extended to sitesPolicies include:

– Retention policy for sites and Team Mailbox associated with site

– Project closure and expiration policy

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

WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Device based rendering

Different channels defined in site level.Specific control to define mobile rendering

areas in content.

Design Manager and general rendering changesEmpowering Web DesignersSite 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

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

Catalog

• Item Catalog• Easy Catalog

import/sync

Authoring.Contoso.com

Contoso.com/WorkAtContoso

“En-US”

Contoso.com/careers

Contoso.fr/carrières

Variations

Search Crawl

“Fr-Fr”

Contoso.fr/TravaillezChezContos

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Translation

Search IndexContent Search Webpart

animated

Create WCM sites

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

Cross-site publishing (XSP) and catalogs

Managed navigationDrive your navigation and URLs

based on Term Store hierarchiesClean URLs for actual end users

– www.contoso.com/careers– www.contoso.com/aboutus

Define settings for navigation in terms store manager

Provides also dynamic topicpages capability for minimizingamount of physical pages for catalog type sites.

AudioCamerasComputersHome appliancesPhonesTV and video

TERM STORE NAVIGATION TAXONOMY

Search

Product Catalog

Filter query byCATEGORY: COMPUTERS

Friendly URLhttp://contoso.com/computers

Use pagemaincategory.aspx

CONTENT SEARCH WEB PART

Managed navigation, search and topic pages

SEO improvementsFeatures SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2013

Clean URLs http://www.c.com/Pages/cars.aspx

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.aspxhttp://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 titleMeta descriptionMeta keywords

Webmaster Tools integration

None Assists with ownership verification

Variations and multilingual enhancements

Image renditionsImage transformation dynamically in SharePointThumbnails are actual thumbnails

– ImagesConsistency sized images

– Resizing will resize actual image, not only it's presentation

– Optimizes page payloadCropping for targeting areas of pictures

Video improvementsEnable easy enterprise podcast

scenariosVideo support improvements

– Embedding to any content page

– Thumbnail generation– Renditions also for videos– External video support to store – Multiple encodings for single

videoVideo player as HTML 5

implementation– Fallback to Silverlight

Usage analytics

Built to scale from ground upAnalytics 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”

UX improvements

Web server caching improvementsIntroduction of a minimal download strategyA new Theme engineImproved support for mobile devicesImplementation of HTML5 and increased web

browser supportRTE Improvement

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 AppsPush notifications

Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS)

Location

Business Connectivity Services

Enhancements to external listsSupport for SharePoint Apps and Office AppsAn event listener, which makes it possible for SharePoint to

receive events from external systemsSupport for Open Data (OData) BDC connectionRepresentational State Transfer (REST) and SharePoint Client

Object Model (CSOM) enhancements against both external lists and ECTs

Search

Uncover knowledge

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

Search

Query SuggestionsThumbnail 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 optionLanguage detection and entity extraction in

iFilterPhonetic name variations for People Search

Search

Remote SharePoint Servers and Exchange Content Sources

OOB Query Building ToolKeyword query language enhancementsEntity extraction through Term Store (Managed

Metadata)Export and Import Search Configuration optionsCustomize “Did you mean …” feature using

Query spelling correction

Search

Query Rules Engine.Search REST Service for remote execution

of queries from client applications.

Workflow

Workflow

Workflow now treated as a service in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 has improved CSOM & REST API’s for workflow

SharePoint Workflow ImprovementsDesigner Text/Visio switch ModeWorkflow Powered for SharePoint Apps

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

Business IntelligencePerformancePoint 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