SharePoint
2013 New Features
Overview: SharePoint Server 2013
provides a comprehensive solution for connected information work that enables
people to transform the way they work while preserving the benefits of
structured processes, compliance, and existing IT investments.
SharePoint
Server 2013 has been optimized for the way people work, providing people with a
familiar, consistent view of information, collaboration, and process, and IT
with a comprehensive, easily-managed and integrated platform to meet the needs
of the business.
Branding
The
design features in SharePoint 2013 offer an improved process for designing a
public-facing internet site or an internal-facing intranet site with
pixel-perfect branding. If you are a professional web designer who knows HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the skills necessary to design a
SharePoint site. The new features in a publishing site minimize the amount of
SharePoint knowledge that is required to successfully design and brand a
SharePoint site.
Business
Connectivity Services
Business
Connectivity Services offers improvements to the way that SharePoint 2013 and
Office 2013 clients can access data that is stored outside of SharePoint. These
improvements include support for apps in SharePoint, external list improvements
to provide functional parity with other SharePoint lists, and support for OData
Business Data Connectivity (BDC) connections. Visual Studio 2010 can connect to
an OData endpoint through business Connectivity Services to automatically generate
a BDC model for OData data sources. There is a SharePoint 2013 event listener
and subscriber to receive notifications from external systems when data
changes.
Business
intelligence
SharePoint
Server 2013 business intelligence applications and tools let you organize your
vision of organizational goals, processes, and performance requirements. Create
powerful data mash-ups using PowerPivot, with the ability to process billions
of rows, create data models and facilitate sharing and collaboration with Excel
Services. Power View provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting. With PerformancePoint
Services and Dashboard Designer, along with Visio Services, create
sophisticated dashboards capable of integrating reports and metrics from
multiple data sources that are customizable for your audience.
eDiscovery
The
eDiscovery functionality in SharePoint 2013 provides improved ways to help
protect your business. These improvements include the ability to perform
eDiscovery queries across multiple SharePoint farms and Exchange servers, to
preserve and export discovered content, to preserve content in-place from
Exchange mailboxes and SharePoint sites while allowing users to continue
working with content, and support for search and export from file shares.
Identity
management
Authentication
enhancements in SharePoint 2013 ease the process of using claims-based
authentication. Additionally, support for server-to-server authentication and
app authentication by utilizing and extending the Open Authorization 2.0 (OAuth
2.0) web authorization protocol enables new scenarios and functionality for
Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, and apps in the SharePoint Store or App
Catalog.
Mobile
devices
SharePoint
Server 2013 offers new, optimized viewing experiences across different mobile
platforms. Additionally, there are several features that are available to help
improve both worker productivity and usability on the device.
Records
management and compliance
The
records management and compliance features in SharePoint 2013 provide improved
ways to help you protect your business. The records archive and in-place record
retention from earlier versions of SharePoint Server are still supported, and
SharePoint 2013 introduces retention policies that can be applied at the site
level.
Search
Enterprise
search in SharePoint Server 2013 includes many of the capabilities of
SharePoint Server 2010 and provides numerous improvements, such as in query
processing and targeting of search results. Administrators can configure search
to enable users to find relevant information more quickly and easily than ever
before.
Social
computing
The
social computing and collaboration features in SharePoint 2013 offer an
improved administration and user experience, in addition to new functionality
for enterprise users to share and collaborate with others in their
organization. The introduction of Community Sites offers a forum experience to
categorize discussions around subject areas, and to connect users who have
knowledge or seek knowledge about subject areas. Additionally, the new
Community Portal enables a search-driven result page of communities for users
to discover and explore from a link on their My Sites. Improvements to My Sites
offer a more intuitive workflow for users to develop their personal profiles,
store content, and keep up-to-date with activities of interest through the use
of the new microblog and feeds experience.
Upgrade
The
upgrade features in SharePoint 2013 offer several improvements, such as upgrade
for service applications and site collections, and a site health checker. The
database-attach method is the only supported way to upgrade databases to a new
environment that is based on SharePoint 2013. In-place upgrade is not
supported. Additionally, the upgrade process now separates the upgrade of
software and databases from the upgrade of the SharePoint sites.
Web
content management
The
web content management improvements in SharePoint 2013 simplify how you design
publishing sites, and enhance the authoring and publishing processes of your
organization. It also contains new features that use enterprise search to
surface dynamic web content on publishing sites.
