10. What’s New
Shredded Storage
Distributed Cache
Request Management
License Mapping
App Model / SharePoint Store
What’s Changed
Office Web Apps
Workflow
Search
Security
11. What is it?
Stores changes instead of entire new version
Does it help me?
Yes (in a lot of scenarios)
Database growth should be slower than in 2010
Improved I/O
What else should I know about it?
Works best with OpenXML Office docs
Documents are not shredded on upgrade
12. What is it?
Stores various types of information in memory
Does it help me?
Claim token caching
Social Feature Caching
What else should I know about it?
Adjust your memory considerations
Do NOT use dynamic memory
During install assigns 10% of total physical memory
Update-SPDistributedCacheSize –CacheSizeInMB <CacheSize>
When “stopping” service use Graceful shutdown
Stop-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance –Graceful
Remove-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance
13. What is it?
enables administrators to manage the routing and throttling of incoming
requests
Does it help me?
It can in certain scenarios
Most admins will not use
What else should I know about it?
Does not replace your load balancer
Managed through PowerShell
14. What is it?
Enables admins to map licenses to users associated with AD Groups
Does it help me?
Yes - buy CALs for what your users are using
Mixing CALs in a farm is fully supported
What else should I know about it?
Managed through PowerShell (have you figured out you need PowerShell yet?)
17. What is it?
New development model for “customizations”
Heavy use of the client side object model
Does it help me?
If you don’t want server side code – YES
If you want server side code – NO
What else should I know about it?
Need wildcard DNS A (HOST) record for app domain
companyapps.com
Wildcard SSL Certificate
Use SSL otherwise OAuth tokens unsecured
SharePoint Store
App Requests
Enabled or Not
18. What else should I know about it?
App Catalog (Special site collection) used for managing approved apps
App Licensing
No explicit setting prevents site owners from purchasing apps, use App
Request process
URL Structure
https://<prefix>-<appID>.<appdomain>
Example: https://hrapp-4a9cce52782633.companyapps.com
Related Service Applications
Subscription Settings
App Management
User Profile Service (High Trust Apps)
19.
20. What is it?
Allows for viewing and editing Office documents in browser
Does it help me?
Yes - eliminates need to open client application
Yes - allows for co-authoring
Yes - preview capabilities
21. What else should I know about it ?
Separate product now
Needs its own server( No really, it does...)
Read-only is free
SSL Certificate (Wildcard Certificates NOT supported)
22. What is it?
Enables new workflow actions / conditions
Does it help me?
Actions
Calling HTTP web services
Start List / Site workflow
Translation
Project Support
Conditions
“Valid” SharePoint User
Skip Project Stage
Components
Non-sequential workflows using stages
App Steps
Looping
23. What else should I know about it?
Requires SharePoint Server (Standard or Enterprise)
Requires User Profile Service Application
Separate installation
Azure Workflow Manager
Azure Workflow Client
Can be installed ON or OFF of SharePoint servers
Requires routable DNS entry
Should utilize SSL for OAuth connectivity
24. What is it?
Single service instance using FAST as the base service regardless of
Foundation, Standard or Enterprise
Does it help me?
Site Admins can now managed components
Result Sources (Scope Replacement)
Result Types
Query Rules
Schema (Managed Properties)
Farm Settings
Search Dictionaries
Result Sources
Query Rules
Crawl Schedules (Continuous Crawl)
25. What else should I know about it?
Search Components
26. What else should I know about it?
Search Topology can only be managed through PowerShell
Don’t forget to remove inactive topologies
$searchInstance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Local
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$clone = $ssa.ActiveTopology.Clone()
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $searchInstance
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance
$searchInstance
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance
$searchInstance
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $searchInstance
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $searchInstance
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance
$searchInstance
$clone.Activate()
27. Claims vs. Classic
And the winner is……Claims
Claims is needed for full functionality
Switch to claims post-upgrade or before upgrade?
Post-upgrade allows for easy fallback if needed
Pre-upgrade seems cleaner and makes upgrade easier
Time will tell...
Sharing
Facebook like
Very easy to break inheritance (Is this a good thing?)
28.
29. Web Content Management (WCM)
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Search
Access Services 2013
User Profile Service
Machine Translation
App Management / Subscription Service
Work Management
30.
31. Metadata navigation
Use Term Sets to navigate your site
Clean URLs (e.g. /west/northwest/wild)
SEO Improvements
Meta Description
Keywords
SiteMap
Channels
HTML5 / CSS3
Theming
32.
33. Records Management
Site based retention policies
eDiscovery improved
search and in-place hold
Drag and Drop
Browser Support
Firefox - latest version
Chrome - latest version
IE 10 desktop
IE 8 or IE 9 only if Office 2013 is installed
Team Mailbox
Adding site mailbox allows users to share communication concerning project
Requires Exchange 2013
34.
35. Terminology
Result Sources (Scope replacement)
Display Templates (JavaScript kills XSLT)
Search Schema (Managed / Crawled Properties)
Query Rules
Promoted Results (Best Bets, can be defined at service application)
Result Block (Group like results)
Continual Crawling
Results also include social content
All analytics controlled in Search
Search web parts have been re-written
New Content Search Web Part (Enterprise Only – NOT in Office365)
When using Office Web Applications, includes document previews
Admins can force a re-index of specific lists / libraries
Managed Properties have more power
Query, Search, Retrieve, Refine, Sort
36.
37. Requires SQL 2012 and a dedicated server
Allows users to create web applications
Each App gets its own SQL Server database (not
access)
databases are created with GUID in name
Access 2013 client is required to build your app
it then gets published to SharePoint
Replacement for Info Path?
38.
39. Direct AD Import vs. FIM
Direct AD Import
Much faster
Single domain
Start here
Switch to FIM if you need the features
Social Feature Dependencies
News Feed
SkyDrive Pro
Has nothing to do with SkyDrive (thank you Microsoft Marketing)
Allows sync between SharePoint and your PC
New version of SharePoint WorkSpace
If you want social you need MySites
40.
41. Provides a central location where service administrators configure and
administer the following features:
User profiles – contain detailed information about people in an
organization. A user profile organizes and displays all of the properties
related to each user, together with social tags, documents, and other
items related to that user.
Profile synchronization – provides a reliable way to synchronize
groups and user profile information that is stored in the SharePoint
Server 2013 profile database together with information that is stored in
directory services across the enterprise.
42. Enables translation for pages and documents
Documents: docx, doc, docm, dotx, dotm, dot, rtf
Pages: html, htm, aspx, xhtml, xhtm
Other: txt, xlf
Out of the box uses Microsoft Translator
Mostly utilized through development API’s
Requires Server to Server authentication and app
authentication
Translation also works in Word Web Application
Service Application Dependencies
App Management
Subscription
User Profile
44. App Catalog site per web application
Publish “acceptable” apps
Manage App Request
Internet Facing Apps
Web Application feature
Requires routable internet DNS
45. Task Aggregation
View and track to-dos and tasks
Can be aggregated from Exchange, Project Server and SharePoint
Tasks can be cached on users MySite
Requirements
Search Application
User profile service application