SharePoint 2013

Service Applications

• The Application Management Service manages licenses and permissions for SharePoint apps

• SharePoint Translation Services provides automated, machine-based translation of documents and content

• The Work Management Service aggregates task data from other business platforms in SharePoint My Sites

• Office Web Applications and Web Analytics are no longer service applications in SharePoint 15

Office Web Applications

• Office Web Applications is now a separate server product

• You can scale your Office Web Applications and SharePoint deployments independently

• One Office Web Applications farm can serve multiple SharePoint farms

• Use Windows PowerShell to associate your SharePoint farm with an Office Web Applications farm

SharePoint Apps

• A new way of distributing and exposing functionality through the SharePoint UI

• App logic can run in the cloud or in the local environment

• Apps can be purchased or downloaded from the Office Marketplace

• The Corporate Catalog site collection makes apps available across a SharePoint web application

• Apps can only access SharePoint functionality through the CSOM

SharePoint 2013 and OAuth 2.0

• OAuth enables users to share specific resources with third parties without sharing their access credentials

• Third parties are issued with an access token

• An access token grants access to a specific resource for a defined period of time (for example 30 minutes)

• SharePoint 15 implements and extends OAuth 2.0 for two scenarios: Application authentication and authorization

Server to server authentication

OData Connections

• BCS includes native support for OData

• Generate BDC models from OData automatically in Visual Studio

• Build BDC models from OData interactively in SharePoint Designer

• OData provides access to a wide range of third party systems and data sources

External Events

SharePoint

SharePoint BDC

External System

OData endpoint

Operations

Notifications

Alerts

External List Enhancements

• Performance improvements Limit number of results returned

Sorting is performed by external system

Filtering is performed by external system

• Users can export external list data to Excel

Search Crawl

• Continuous crawl Alternative to scheduled incremental crawl

Crawl processes are started automatically as required

Keeps index as fresh as possible

• Entity search Crawler looks for specific words or phrases, or entities, in

unstructured content

Could include product names or project codenames

Create and deploy dictionaries containing your entities

Entities are stored as managed properties

Search Crawl

• Continuous crawl Alternative to scheduled incremental crawl

Crawl processes are started automatically as required

Keeps index as fresh as possible

• Entity search Crawler looks for specific words or phrases, or entities, in

unstructured content

Could include product names or project codenames

Create and deploy dictionaries containing your entities

Entities are stored as managed properties

Excel Services

New Excel Client Features

SQL Server Analysis Services

PowerPivot Data Models

Excel Services

PerformancePoint Services

• Apply styles to dashboards

• Export dashboards in their entirety

• Interact with dashboards on iPad devices

• Connect to Analysis Services data sources using per-user authentication without configuring Kerberos

What's New in Composites

Access Services and Access Apps

SharePoint Workflows

• Using BCS Data in SharePoint Composites

Access Services and Access Apps

• Access Services now uses SQL Server as the data store Each Access application has its own SQL Server database

Improves performance

Improves scalability

• Power users can create Access apps Create a data-driven application in the Access client

Package and distribute the application as a SharePoint app

Offers robust, code-free solutions to business problems

SharePoint Workflows

• New, backwards-compatible workflow architecture

• Switch between declarative and visual designers

• Use workflow stages to build state machine-like functionality without writing code

• Built-in action for calling SOAP web services

Stage: Confirmed

Stage: Resolved

Stage: Assigned

What’s New in Enterprise Content Management

Team Folders

Document Sets

Managed Metadata

• Project Sites

Team Folders

Team Folder

Documents are stored in SharePoint

Emails are stored in Exchange

Users can work with folder contents from SharePoint, Outlook, or OWA

Document Sets

• Improved functionality Create folders

Add OneNote notebooks

Capture versions of document set as a whole

• Improved search and query experience Specific result type with icon

Search within document sets

Supported by CBS and CBQ web parts

Managed Metadata

• Use managed metadata to drive a variety of different functionality Provide navigation structure for publishing sites

Create search-driven pages

• Share term sets with specific site collections

• Specify the ways in which users can use your term sets

• Enhanced multilingual support Add support for any language, language pack not required

Use SharePoint Translation Service to translate terms

Project Sites

• Project Summary web part

• Visual timeline for project tasks

• Shared calendar

• Team notebook

Site-based Compliance

Project Phase Actions

Start • Site owner assigns a policy template to the project site

In Progress • Retention policies are automatically applied to SharePoint artifacts and team emails

End • Team folders are removed from Outlook UI

• Expiry policy criteria are enabled

Expiry • Project artifacts are deleted

In-place Preservation

• More sophisticated alternative to putting content on hold

• Creates a snapshot of content at a particular point in time

• Users can continue to create, modify, and delete content

• Users with permission to perform eDiscovery can locate and retrieve preserved content

• You can preserve any site artifacts and team mailboxes

• Queries define preservation scope

Discovery

Discovery Case

Sources

SharePoint Sites

Exchange Mailboxes

File Shares

Queries

Date Ranges

Authors

Free Text Search

Discovery Sets

Exports

My Sites

• Simplified UI

• Improved content management Default save location for Office clients

Easy to share or move documents

• Improved feeds and microblogging Participate in conversations

Use mentions (@user)

Use hashtags (#keyword)

Follow people, documents, sites, and hashtags

“Like” comments and replies

Community Sites

• Organize discussions by category

• Rate posts using star ratings, likes, and best replies

• Enable users to earn points and achievement levels

• Award gifted badges to recognize expertise

Following Objects in SharePoint

People

Pages

Sites

Tags

Microfeed

App

My Site

What’s New

Mobile Browsing

• Mobile browser experiences Contemporary view – for mobile browsers that support

HTML5

Classic view – backwards compatible for older mobile browsers

Automatic mobile browser redirection to most appropriate view

• Contemporary view offers enhanced features Command button – easy access to key commands

Navigation Window – full-screen navigation

Tap-to-open links

• Device channels Customize look and feel for different mobile clients

Specify master pages, page layouts, and style sheets

Push Notifications

SharePoint Site

Device Application

App Web Service

MPNS

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1. Mobile user installs a cloud-hosted app

2. App registers for notifications from SharePoint

3. App web service handles SharePoint events

4. App web service sends HTTP POST to Microsoft Push Notification Service

5. MPNS sends push notification to device

Cross-Site Publishing

Content Site Collection

Publishing Site Collection A

Content Search Web Parts

Publishing Site Collection B

Content Search Web Parts

Search IndexLibraries and Lists

• Document libraries and lists are enabled for cross-site publishing

• Content is indexed by search service

• Publishing sites use Content Search Web Parts to retrieve and display indexed content

Rich Content Authoring

• Rich HTML content Copy from Word to HTML web parts

Add iFrames to HTML fields

• Enhanced video support New Video content type

Choose video frame as thumbnail preview image

• Create image renditions Create multiple renditions of a single image

Different sizes and dimensions

Different portions of the source image

Search-Driven Content

• Search-driven web parts Display dynamic content using queries

Query can include dynamic property values and navigation terms

• Refiners Enable users to drill down into search results

Specify refinement terms manually or use managed navigation term set

New Search Architecture

SQL

SharePoint

File Shares

Exchange

BCS

ParsersParsers

Parsers

ParsersParsersFormatHandlers

ContentPipeline

Analyzer Indexer

QueryEngine

Index

Query Pipeline

CSOM

App

Managed Navigation and Rollup Pages

Publishing Site CollectionProduct Catalog Site Collection

Site NavigationProvides

navigation structure to

Retrieve context

information from

Managed Metadata Term Set

Product List

Uses metadata

field values from

Query indexed data from Rollup Pages

The Product Catalog

• Create a Product Catalog site collection

• Make your product list available as a catalog Ensure the list is indexed

• Create a Publishing Portal site collection

• Configure a catalog connection to the product list Use the managed metadata term set from the product

catalog for site navigation

Define a rollup page for categories

Define a rollup page for items