Difference between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013

1. Difference between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
S.No Sharepoint 2010 Sharepoint 2013
1 What is SharePoint 2010 -It is a What is SharePoint 2013 (Preview) -
previous or I should say current A new version of Microsoft famous
version of SharePoint that was Collaboration portal called SharePoint.
released in year 2010. The version adds few new exciting
features such as Social
Feed,SharePoint Apps and cross-site
publishing.
2 Development Changes – Development Changes –
• SharePoint 2010 Introduced • In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft
Sandbox solutions to help Introduced a new Cloud App Model
developers deploy code that for designing Apps for SharePoint.
did not effect the whole farm. Apps for SharePoint are self-
• In SharePoint 2010 you could contained pieces of functionality
use Server Object model and that extend the capabilities of a
Client Object model (.Net SharePoint website. You can use
Managed, ECMASCRIPT and HTML, CSS, JavaScript and
silverlight) to extract data from protocols like the Open Data
SharePoint. protocol (OData), and OAuth to
• In SharePoint 2010 developers communicate with SharePoint using
were also developing Farm Apps.
solutions as they did with the • Tools – SharePoint 2013 has
previous SharePoint 2007 Introduced new Tools for App
version. development. Visual Studio 2012
now lets you develop apps for
SharePoint and apps for Office. In
addition a new web-based tools
called “Napa” Office 365
Development Tools were
introduced for developing apps.
• No more Sandbox solutions.
SharePoint 2013 sandboxed
solutions are deprecated. So all we
got is the New App model and the
Old SharePoint Farm solutions.
3 Social and Collaboration Social and Collaboration features –
features -SharePoint 2010 had Microsoft in SharePoint 2013
very few social capabilities. Introduced new Social capabilities for
• My sites better collaboration in the
• Tags and Tag profile pages company.New Features added are
• Notes • Interactive feed
• Community Site
• Follow people
• Follow Sites

2. 4 Search –SharePoint 2010 had Search -SharePoint 2013 includes
Introduced Integrated FAST several enhancements, custom content
search as an Enterprise search. In processing with the Content
addition to this build-in Enrichment web service, and a new
SharePoint search is still widely framework for presenting search result
used in companies. types. Some of the features added are –
• Consolidated Search Results
• Rich Results Framework
• keyword query language (KQL)
enhancements
5 Enterprise Content Enterprise Content Management
Management (ECM) -SharePoint (ECM) -
2010 on the other hand had SharePoint 2013 added some of the
Introduced Managed metadata and best capabilities of an ECM software.
taxonomy as a part of new ECM The newly added stuff is
benefits for SP 2010. This version • Design Manager
did not had Managed Navigation • Managed Navigation
and Cross-site Publishing. • Cross-site Publishing
SharePoint designer was a • EDiscovery
primary tool to modify Master
pages instead of the new Design
Manager.
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