There are a lot of great features at the forefront and behind the scenes in the new SharePoint 2013 Server. This is an introductory session which will help you get a good feel for the new features and functionality of SharePoint 2013 Server including first looks and demos. Whether you are an IT Pro, Developer or End User, if you have worked with any version of SharePoint before, this session will give you a good feel of some of the features that you will love in SharePoint 2013.
5. What’s discontinued and modified?
Document/Meeting Workspace/Group Work/Personalization Site Templates
Organization Profiles
Inserting Barcodes and Labels from Office
PowerPoint Broadcast from SharePoint
Web Analytics
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6. What’s discontinued and modified? cont’d
RSS feed of Search Results
Custom Help
Visio Pivot Diagrams based on a SharePoint Task list
Visual Upgrade
Chart Web Part and Status Indicators
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7. What’s discontinued and modified? cont’d
SharePoint Designer “Design View”
Impacts:
Creating full-featured Data view Web Parts (DVWPs)
No more Data form web parts to connect to lists, libraries, databases or web services
Workflow Initiation/association forms can’t be modified
Simple page formatting changes won’t be possible
Unable to Preview your changes
Custom filtering using XSLT
Drop web parts easily into web part zones
Master page and page view editing
Only code view in Wiki Pages, Site Pages, List View pages, Web Part Pages
No conditional formatting, web part connections
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11. Hardware Requirements
Memory Processor Disk
Single Server
Foundation
(Integrated or 8 GB x64 1x4 80 GB (OS)
Standalone Database)
Single Server
(Integrated or
Standalone Database)
24 GB x64 1x4 80 GB (OS)
*Development
Environment/Evaluati
on
Web / Application
Servers
12 GB x64 1x4 80 GB (OS)
*Pilot, Production,
Source: SPC 2012 a Farm
Servers in (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx)
13. Deployment Requirements
SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2010
Workgroup Unsupported Supported
Domain Controller Developer Installation Supported for SBS
Client OS Unsupported Developer Installation
Dynamic Memory in
Unsupported Unsupported
VMs
Windows Web Server Unsupported Supported
Source: SPC 2012
14. Browser Support
Client Computer Browser Support SP 2010 SP 2013
Internet Explorer 10 32-bit Supported Supported
Internet Explorer 10 64-bit Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
Internet Explorer 9 32-bit Supported Supported
Internet Explorer 9 64-bit Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
Internet Explorer 8 32-bit Supported Supported
Internet Explorer 8 64-bit Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
Internet Explorer 7 32-bit Supported Not supported
Internet Explorer 7 64-bit Supported with Limitations Not supported
Internet Explorer 6 Not supported Not supported
Google Chrome (latest released version) Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
Mozilla Firefox (latest released version) Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
Apple Safari (latest released version) Supported with Limitations Supported with Limitations
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20. Development Environment for your Apps
hardware and software requirements
CloudShare
Amazon Web Services EC2
Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Office 365 with SharePoint 2013 Preview
SharePoint 2013 Developer Site
Provides support for Windows PowerShell 3.0.NET Framework 4.5Provides in memory distributed cachingProvides support for information protectionEnables the creation & consumption of OData services
Minimal Download StrategyDownloads delta between page requestsImplements a download manager interfacing between controls/content placeholders on page and server to determine what content requires updateRequest ManagementPrioritizes and routes incoming requestsRoute requests to Web servers that have good health characteristics Identify and block known bad requestsPrioritize requests by throttling lower-priority requests (such as services that run in the background) and serving higher priority requests (such as end user requests)Route requests of specific types (such as search) to specific servers in the farmCache ServiceNew distributed cache service based on Windows ServerAppFabric Distributed CachingShredded StorageFiles shredded and stored in SQL ServerUpdated bits are mapped to shredded BLOBsMitigates request and update roundtrips to WFE(s)Deferred Site Collection UpgradesSeparation of schema and site collection upgradeSchema is upgraded to SharePoint 2013 and run with SharePoint 2010 features and visualsEnables existing SharePoint 2010 site collections to work unchanged in SharePoint 2013Site Collection Health ChecksExposed to Site Collection Administrators (cmdlets for Farm Administrators)Identifies common known issuesMissing Features and TemplatesHelps address post-upgrade issues:I.e. (Un-ghosted files)Evaluation Site CollectionsAllows Site Collection Administrators to preview SharePoint 2013 w/o upgrading production Site CollectionEnabled through a copy of production Site CollectionAnalytics based on SearchFind relevant information (improve search relevance) – based on views, click thru, etc.See what others are looking at (“hot” indicators and usage numbers – i.e. what’s popular based on # of views as well as # of unique users to view)Understand how much content is being used (i.e. viewed) and how it compares to other documents See discussion thread usage and find the hot topicsUse this popularity info to populate views through the Content by Search (CBS) WebPart
Demo: Office 365 Preview Site Apps in Site Content