New feature in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 Architecture

• In general model has stayed same as in previous version

• Numerous platform level improvements and new capabilities

• Shredded Storage

• SQL Improvements

• Cache Service

• Request Management

• Themes

• Sharing

Service applications in SharePoint 2013

• New service applications available and improvements on existing ones

• Office Web Apps is no longer a service application

• Web Analytics is no longer service application, it’s part of search

 Enterprise Content Management

• Site-level retention policies

• Compliance levels extended to sites

• Policies include:

• Retention policy for sites and Team Mailbox associated with site

• Project closure and expiration policy

• Discovery Center

• 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 capablities

• Support for searching and exporting content from file shares

• Export discovered content from Exchange and SharePoint

• Team folders

• Seemless integration of Exchange and SharePoint to provide best of both world and end user flexibility

   Web Content Management

• Support the tools and workflows designers use

• Variations & Content Translation

• Search Engine Optimization

• Cross Site Publishing

• Video & Embedding

• Image renditions

• Clean Urls

• Metadata navigation

Social

• Microblogging

• Share content, links, and media

• Follow people, sites, content, and conversations

• Activity Feeds

• Provides a view into recent activity related to content, links, media, and people

Search

• New Search architecture with one unified search

• Personalized search results based on search history

• Rich contextual previews

Business Intelligence

• Excel BI

• Instant analysis through In Memory BI Engine

• Power View Add-in

• Excel Services

• Improved data exploration

• Field List and Field Well Support

• Calculated Measures and Members

• Enhanced Timeline Controls

• PerformancePoint Services

• Filter enhancements and Filter search

• Dashboard migration

• Support for Analysis Services Effective User

• Visio Services

• Refresh data from external sources – BCS and Azure SQL

• Supports comments on Visio Drawings

• Maximum Cache Size service parameter

• Health Analyzer Rules to report on Maximum Cache Size

Mobile

• Classic and Contemporary views for mobile browsers

• Automatic Mobile Browser Redirection

• Target different designs based on user agent string

• Office Mobile Web Apps

• Excel

• PowerPoint

• Word

• Push notifications