SharePoint 2013 includes several new and improved features for IT professionals. It introduces new service applications for app management, translation services, and work management. The distributed cache service and request management features were added to improve performance. Support for SQL 2012 and shredded storage provide more flexible storage options. Additional enterprise content management, business intelligence, and mobile features were also introduced.

1. What‟s New in SharePoint 2013 for IT
Pros NOEL, CCO
MICHAEL
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS
ZAGREB, 11/28/2012

2. sponsors

3. Michael Noel
• Author of SAMS Publishing titles “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed,” the upcoming “SharePoint 2010
Unleashed,” “SharePoint 2003 Unleashed”, “Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes,” “Windows
Server 2008 R2 Unleashed,” “Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed”, “ISA Server 2006 Unleashed”, and
many other titles .
• Partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com / +1(510)444-5700) – San Francisco, U.S.A. based
Infrastructure/Security specialists for SharePoint, AD, Exchange, Security

4. What we will cover
• Hardware and Software Requirements
• New Service Applications
• Distributed Cache Service
• Request Management
• User Profile Service Improvements
• ECM/WCM Improvements
• Shredded Storage
• FAST Search Improvements
• SQL Data Tier Improvements

5. Hardware and Software Requirements
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2012
(Preferred)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 w/SP1 or SQL Server 2012 (Preferred)
Type Memory Processor
Dev/Stage/Test server 8GB RAM 4 CPU
„All-in-one‟ DB/Web/SA 24GB RAM 4 CPU
Web/SA Server 12GB RAM 4 CPU
DB Server (medium environments) 16GB RAM 8 CPU
DB Server (small environments) 8GB RAM 4 CPU

6. 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

7. New Service Applications
• App Management Service – Used to manage the new
SharePoint app store from the Office Marketplace or the
Application Catalog
• SharePoint Translation Services – provides for language
translation of Word, XLIFF, and PPT files to HTML
• Work Management Service – manages tasks across
SharePoint, MS Exchange and Project.
• Access Services App (2013) – Replaces 2010 version of
Access Services

8. App Management Service Architecture

9. Translation Services Architecture
Document Translation Parsing Engine

10. Work Management Service Architecture

11. Access Services 2013 – Architecture
Overview

12. Service Databases
• Service Applications with their own
DBs:
• App Management Service
• Business Data Connectivity
• Managed Metadata Service
• Search
• Secure Store Service
• SharePoint Translation Services
• State Service
• Usage and Health Data Collection
• User Profile
• Word Automation Service
• Access Services App databases

13. Cross farm services in SharePoint 2013
• Remote farms don‟t need perms to parent
farm DBs
• Any farm can publish SAs
• One web application can use both local
and remote SAs
• Enables centralized “enterprise” SAs
• Support only in specific service applications
• Business Data Connectivity
• Managed Metadata Service
• Search
• Secure Store Service
• SharePoint Translation Services
• User Profile

14. Service Applications and WAN environments
Service application Recommended for WAN environments?
Search
Managed Metadata
Machine Translation Service
Business Data Connectivity
User Profile
Secure Store Service

15. Distributed Cache Service
• A new Windows service – the AppFabric Caching Service – is
installed on each server in the farm when SharePoint is
installed
• It is managed via the Services on Server page in central admin
as the Distributed Cache service
• The config DB keeps track of
which machines in the farm
are running the cache service

16. Distributed Cache Setup
• The farm account is used as service account for Cache
Service
• Like user profile service in SharePoint 2010, during setup
the service account should have elevated privileges (i.e.
local admin)
• After setup is complete you should lower the privileges
for the account

17. Distributed Cache Distribution
Distributed Cache service Distributed Cache service Distributed Cache service
(Windows service) (Windows service) (Windows service)
Distributed Cache service Distributed Cache service
(Windows service) (Windows service)

18. Request Management (RM)
• The purpose of the Request Management feature is to give
SharePoint knowledge of and more control over incoming
requests
• Having knowledge over the nature of incoming requests – for
example, the user agent, requested URL, or source IP – allows
SharePoint to customize the response to each request
• RM is applied per web app, just like throttling is done in
SharePoint 2010

19. RM Components
Request Manager (RM)
Request Throttling and Routing
Throttle if appropriate, or select which WFE’s the
request may be sent to
Request Prioritization
Filter WFEs to only ones healthy enough for the
request
Request Load Balancing
Select a single WFE to route to, based on
weighting schemes like health

20. RM Routing and Pools
• Routing rules route requests and are associated with MachinePools
• MachinePools contain servers
• Servers use weights for routing – static weights and health weights
• Static weights are constant for WFEs; health weights change dynamically based on
health scores
Routing Rule #1
Routing Rule #2
Static Weight = 1 Static Weight = 1 …
Health Weight = 4 Health Weight = 4
Routing Rule #n

21. User Profile Import options in SharePoint
2013
SharePoint Farm
FIM
External
System
Direct Active
Directory Import
User Profile
Service Active Directory
Application
C#

22. Business Connectivity Services
Improvements in SP 2013
• OData Support as data source
• Eventing FrameWork for external notifications
• Provides also alert capability for external lists
• Support for SharePoint Apps
• BDC models scoped for app level, not to farm level
• External list enhancements
• Performance improvements, Data Source Filtering, Sorting,
Export to Excel
• CSOM API

23. Shredded Storage

24. SQL 2012 Data Tier Design Options
AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Two AGs
• Content AG with four
replicas – Synch and
Asynch
• Service App/Farm
DBs on separate AG,
2 Synch copies only
• Read-only farm in
remote office
attached to content
DB copy
• DR farm in remote
DC on standby to
connect to content
DB copy

25. Claims-based Authentication
• SharePoint 2013 continues to offer support for both claims
and classic authentication modes
• However claims authentication is THE default authentication
option now
• Classic authentication mode is still there, but can only be managed
in PowerShell – it‟s gone from the UI
• Support for classic mode is deprecated and will go away in a future
release
• There also a new process to migrate accounts from
Windows classic to Windows claims – the Convert-
SPWebApplication cmdlet

26. 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

27. Enterprise Content Management
• 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

28. Unified Discovery across Exchange, SharePoint and
Lync
• Find it all in one place (unified console)
• Find more (in-place discovery returns the richest data)
• Find it without impacting the user (Give legal team discovery, leave IWs alone)
Discovery Center in Unified Preserve, Search and Export
SharePoint
Exchange Web Services Connect to Exchange to get mailbox data
Lync Archiving to Exchange is the compliance store for Lync
Exchange
Search Infrastructure Exchange and SharePoint use the same search
platform

29. Central Place to view all Cases

30. Add, manage and export discovery sets

31. Site Based Compliance & preservation
• Compliance officers create policies,
which define:
• The retention policy for the entire site
and the team mailbox, if one is
associated with the site.
• What causes a project to be closed.
• When a project should expire
• Can set also site collection as read
only
• Policy also available optionally from
self site creation
• Policies can be replicated from
content type hub cross enterprises

32. Team Folders – Exchange and SP Integration
• Documents are stored in
SharePoint
• Emails are stored in Exchange
• Team Folders can receive
emails and have their own
email address
• Easy access to both from
Outlook and SharePoint
• Unified compliance policy
applies to both

33. 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

34. Search
• New Search architecture
(FAST based) with one
unified search
• Personalized search
results based on search
history
• Rich contextual previews

35. Search - Logical Architecture

36. Index Architecture
 An index partition is a logical portion
Servers Partition #1 Partition #2 Partition #3 of the entire search index.
 Each partition is served by one or
Index Servers
more index components (or
1, 2 & 3
Primary Secondary Secondary “replicas”)
Replica Replica 1 Replica 1
 In a partition there‟s only one
primary (or “Active”) replica
who‟s the only one that writes
Index Servers Secondary Secondary
Primary Replica data in a partition
4, 5 & 6 Replica 1 Replica 2
 Other secondary (or “passive”)
replicas are there for fault tolerance
and increased query throughput
Index Servers Secondary Secondary
Primary Replica
7, 8 & 9 Replica 2 Replica 2  Index can scale in both horizontal
(partitions) and vertical (replicas)
ways
Index Servers Secondary Secondary Secondary  Partitions can be added but NOT
10, 11 & 12 Replica 3 Replica 3 Replica 3 removed

37. 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

38. Business Intelligence
• 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

39. 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

40. Session Summary
• General Service Application Model Unchanged, but new
features added
• Search completely overhauled and FAST bolted on
• User Profile Synch now has options for no-FIM (pull only,) FIM
from 2010, and Full FIM
• RM and Distributed Cache Feature added for performance
• Shredded Storage improves storage options
• SQL 2012 adds additional options at the data tier, including
AOAG

41. Michael Noel
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www.cco.com
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