What’s New 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