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SharePoint 2013: Improvements and new capabilities

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SharePoint 2013 Architecture:

In general, the model on which SharePoint 2013 is built on is same as the previous version SharePoint 2010. However, there are numerous platform level improvements and new capabilities introduced in the SharePoint 2013:

  • Shredded Storage
  • SQL Improvements
  • Cache Service
  • Request Management
  • Themes
  • Sharing

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Service applications in SharePoint 2013:

There are new service applications introduced in SharePoint 2013 and improvements done in existing service applications. Office web app and Web Analytics are no longer a service application. Below is the list of all the service applications in SharePoint 2013.

  1. Access Services Web Service Application
  2. App Management Service Application
  3. Business Data Connectivity Service Application
  4. Search Service Application
  5. Excel Services Application
  6. Managed Metadata Service
  7. PerformancePoint Service Application
  8. PowerPoint Conversion Service Application
  9. Secure Store Service Application
  10. Machine Translation Service
  11. Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application
  12. User Profile Service Application
  13. State Service
  14. Visio Graphics Service Application
  15. Security Token Service Application
  16. Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service Application

A separate post about service applications in SharePoint 2013 will be written later.

Enterprise Content Management:

SharePoint 2013 now supports Site-level retention policies with following features:

  • Compliance levels extended to sites
  • Policies include:
    • Retention policy for sites and Team Mailbox associated with site
    • Project closure and expiration policy

Below screenshots show the Site Policies screen in SharePoint 2013.

Discovery Center is a new feature in SharePoint 2013:

  • Designed for managing discovery cases and holds
  • Establishes a portal through which you can access discovery cases to conduct searches, place content on hold, and export content

eDiscovery capabilities:

  • Support for searching and exporting content from file shares
  • Export discovered content from Exchange and SharePoint

Team folders feature of SharePoint 2013 provides seamless integration of Exchange and SharePoint to provide best of both worlds and end user flexibility.

Web Content Management:

Following features are introduced in SharePoint 2013 web content management:

  • Support the tools and workflows designers use
  • Variations & Content Translation
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Cross Site Publishing
  • Video & Embedding: Now you can embed YouTube videos in SharePoint 2013 sites very easily, below is the screenshot showing video embedding

Image renditions: Wow, this is a great feature. Now SharePoint 2013 will take care of image resizing without loss of image quality. Below screenshot shows image rendition feature in SharePoint 2013.

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