2. SharePoint Events
• Puget Sound User Group – TONIGHT at 6:30
– 205 - 108th Ave NE, Suite 400, Bellevue, WA
– http://psspug.org
• SharePoint Saturday Redmond – THIS
SATURDAY
– One Microsoft Way, Building 33, Redmond
, WA 98052 (On Campus)
– http://spsred2013.eventbrite.com/
4. Background
• BS Computer Science, Math, Business
• 5 years at IBM in Sales and Distribution
• 10 years in Seattle at various startups
– Large volume transaction processing (Credit, Debit, Loyalty)
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2007
– CISSP, CCNP, JAVA, MCSD, SharePoint 4x
• CEO ACS, leading SharePoint courseware provider to
Microsoft Certified Training centers
– Top selling titles in Development, BI and Search
• SharePoint Sr. Architect
– eBay
– General Atomics
5. Features at a glance
• eDiscovery
• Managed Metadata
Navigation
• Search
• Site Mailboxes
• Mobile Device Support
• Social Features
• New Authentication Model
– Integration with Exchange
and Lync
• New Application Model
– Remote Application hosting
• Improved Client Object Model
– Increased integration with
other applications New
Workflow Engine (4.0)
• New Office Web Apps
Architecture
• Enhance Business Intelligence
Feature Support
– PowerView
• Embedded Code
• GeoLocation column type
• Work Management
6. eDiscovery
• Compliance has become a hot topic with organizations in
recent years
• Legal groups needs IT controls to support legal
actions, these include
– Ability to find content that individuals have access too
– Ability to find specific content across the organization
• Project specific content
• ITAR
• Classified
• Confidential
• Interface must support finding the content across entire
network
– SharePoint, File Shares, Exchange, etc
8. Managed Metadata Navigation
• Traditionally organizations that run SharePoint
have had to create their own custom
navigation components
– This requires skilled SharePoint developers
• Managed Metadata Navigation allows for
navigation to be built and managed with no
coding involved
– Currently limited to only one Site Collection
10. Search
• SharePoint Search and FAST Search has been integrated
– No need for separate search architecture
– Most FAST features are now available in SharePoint Search
• New Architecture
– 5 fully redundant capable roles
• Highly scalable
• New Search Query Web Part
– Not available in Office 365 (soon!)
• New and improved features include:
– Result Sources
– Result Types
– Query Transforms
12. Mobile Device Support
• Device Channels
– Allows for specifically targeting mobile devices
– Different master pages and CSS can be used to display
the same content as regular PCMAC users
• Device Panels
– Rather than at a device level, you can specifically
setup pages to target content differently based on the
device
• Office Web Apps mobile support
– Touch support is supported for devices when viewing
and editing Office Documents
13. Social
• Easier to “Share” content with other users
• More options to “Follow”
– Sites, People, Documents and Tags can be followed
• User and site feeds
– Support hashtags and mentions
– Trending tags
• Search Integration
– Likes and replies are tracked in search results
• New Community site template
– Allows for reputation trackingscore
• Future
– Tighter integration with Yammer
15. New Authentication Methods
• OAuth 2.0 is now supported
• Allows for high-level (not Full-trust)
applications to be built
– Impersonate a user, without the need for their
password
– Example is integration with Exchange and Lync
– Enables the eDiscovery features
16. New Application Model
• Rather than deploying applications to the
SharePoint Farm, they can be hosted outside of
SharePoint
– Makes deployment and updates much easier
– Product (2010->2013) upgrades are also much simpler
• Three modes:
– Autohosted
– Provider Hosted
– SharePoint Hosted
18. Improved Client Object Model
• In order to support the new application model
more server side functionality is exposed via
REST and JavaScript
• Allows for more integration with applications
hosted outside of SharePoint
– No need to build applications that run inside
sharepoint
19. New Workflow Engine
• SharePoint workflows now support the .NET
4.0 engine
– In 4.0, the workflow host is now run outside of
SharePoint and in Windows Azure Workflow host
– Provides for more robust workflow architecture
• Older SharePoint workflows are still supported
– Still run inside the SharePoint host
21. Office Web Apps
• Office Web Apps (OWA) has been redesigned
with new architecture
– Now runs outside of SharePoint
– Old FAST Servers can be reallocated to run OWA
• OWA supports a myriad of mobile devices
– Touch support is enabled for iPhone, iPad and
Windows Phone
• Other Microsoft products can utilize it via
standard WOPI interfaces
– Example: Exchange Server
23. Embedded Code
• Adding JavaScript and video to SharePoint was
difficult at best in previous SharePoint
versions
• New Embedded Code feature allows users to
add this markup via a Script web part
25. GeoLocation Column
• GeoLocation field type has been added to
allow for location based data
• Editing the data can utilize standard browser
features that can pull from local GPS
information of the device
– Can be iPhone, iPad, GPS enabled mobile device
27. Work Management
• Work management is a service application that
aggregate tasks across your SharePoint farm and
other applications
• My Tasks page (part of My Site), includes:
– Exchange tasks
– SharePoint tasks
– Outlook tasks
– Project Server tasks
• Tasks can be filters and updated from this page
29. Project Server 2013
• Not a part of base install of SharePoint 2013
BUT…
• It’s just flat out amazing!
– Portfolio Analysis rocks!
• Businessstrategy Drivers
• Resource vs Cost analysis for scenario replay
30. Microsoft SharePoint Courses
• 20331 – Core Solutions of Microsoft SP 2013 (5 day)
• 20332 – Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SP 2013 (5 day)
• 20488 – Developing MS SP 2013 Core Solutions (5 day)
• 20489 – Developing MS SP 2013 Advanced Solutions (5 day)
• 55050 – SP 2013 End User Level I (3-day)
• 55052 – SP 2013 End User Level II (2-day)
• 55037 – SP 2013 Search (5-day)
• 55014 – Upgrade End User Skills to 2013 (3-day)
• 55026 – Upgrade Developer Skills to 2013 (5-day)
• 55034 – Project Server Inside Out (5-day)
32. Summary
• SharePoint 2013 has many improved upon
features
• UI has some work
– Most likely you will customize it
• Global Navigation still a challenge
– Should improve
• Search is core to most features
– Requires a properly designed architecture
33. Questions?
• What’s on your mind?
– Anything is fair game
• IT Pro
• Executive
• Developer
• End User
