Friday, January 23, 2015

SharePoint 2013 features Presentation Collection

1. Introduction to SharePoint 2013: This presentation describes the SharePoint 2013 from high level and describes the various new features in new SharePoint.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M01V1_introduction.pptx

2. Requirements for SharePoint 2013: This presentation describes the Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2013. This also covers the browser support for new version of SharePoint along with set-up and deployment considerations.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M02V1_requirements.pptx

3. Request Management in SharePoint 2013: This presentation  describes the Request Management feature in SharePoint 2013. Request Management feature allows to control the incoming requests to SharePoint and route it to the appropriate servers.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M03V1_requestmgmt.pptx

4. Analytics Platform in  SharePoint 2013: The Analytics Platform replaces the Web Analytics service application in SharePoint 2013. The presentation describes the new Analytics service in details.

5. Distributed Cache Services in  SharePoint 2013: There is a new distributed cache service in SharePoint 2013, based on Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Caching. This service is used in features like authentication token caching and My Site social feeds. The presentation describes the new Distributed Cache service in details.

6. Alternative Service Mapping and Self Service Site Creation: The self service site creation has been updated in SharePoint 2013. The following decks describes these changes along the changes in the Alternate Access Mapping.

7. Themes in SharePoint 2013: The themes engine in SharePoing has been revamped and everything is based on HTML instead of a proprietary format.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M04V3_themes.pptx

8. Sharing in SharePoint 2013: The ways people can request access on a SharePoint site and how these access can be granted are simplified and improved significantly to solve few long standing problems. Below presentation helps to understand the changes done in this area.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M04V4_sharing.pptx

9. Office Web Applications: Learn about the Office Web Apps introduced in SharePoint 2013.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M05V1_intro.pptx

10. Deploying Office Web Applications: Presentation showing the requirements for Office Web Apps and different topologies. It also explains how these services can be scaled up.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M05V2_deploy.pptx
11. Deploying Office Web Applications: Presentation showing how the Office Web Applications can be managed including patching.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M05V3_operations.pptx

12. Service Applications in SharePoint 2013: The Service application model which was introduced in SharePoint 2010 is further enhanced in SharePoint 2013 and few new services have been introduced. A deck describing the various service applications in SP2013:
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M06V01_serviceapps.pptx

13. Access Service Application in SharePoint 2013: Learn about the Access Service Application with the deck.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M06V02_accesssrv.pptx

14. App Management Service Application: SharePoint 2013 has introduced the apps model. As part of that a new Service Applicaiton has been introduced which manages all the apps installed in the farm. This service is accessed every time there is any interaction with the apps.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M06V03_appmgmt.pptx

15. Business Connectivity Service in SharePoint 2013: Significant changes have been introduced in the BCS Service. This service now provides alerts for the external lists. External list have been enhanced for performance improvements, Data Source Filtering, Sorting & now allow Export to Excel. Read more in the presentation.

16. Excel Service in SharePoint 2013: Read more about the changes done in the Excel Services.

17. User Profile Service in SharePoint 2013: User Profile Services has been worked to improve the performance. Changes are described in the deck.

18.  Machine Translation Service in SharePoint 2013: A new service has been introduced in SP2013 to provide built-in translation capabilities on the SharePoint platform. This service utilize the cloud based translation services.

19.  Performance Point Service in SharePoint 2013: Learn about the changes in the Performance Point Services in SharePoint 2013.

20.  Visio Services in SharePoint 2013: Learn about the changes in the Visio Services in SharePoint 2013.
21.  Work Management Service in SharePoint 2013: A new service is introduced in SP2013 which helps to consolidates tasks for a user from multiple various applications and display them in Sharepoint. These various apps can be Project Server, Exchange Server other SharePoint Farms etc. This service does not have any configuration option from Central Administration.

22.  Word Automation Service in SharePoint 2013: Word Automation Service has been enhanced from SP 2010 to covert files immediately. Also now for this the file does not need to be stored in SharePoint.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M06V11_wordautomation.pptx

23.  Word Automation Service in SharePoint 2013: Word Automation Service has been enhanced from SP 2010 to covert files immediately. Also now for this the file does not need to be stored in SharePoint.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M06V11_wordautomation.pptx

24.  Enterprise Search – Architecture and Topology: The slide deck describes the search architecture in SharePoint 2013 and various components associated with it. Read it in more details with the deck.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M07V1_archtopology.pptx

25.  Enterprise Search - Crawl and Content Configuration: The slide deck describes the connectors, content sources and other various components. Now SharePoint supports continuous crawling which enables to surface newly published documents into the search results almost instantaneously.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M07V2_crawl.pptx

26.  Enterprise Search - Query Configuration: The slide deck describes the ranking, query rules and how to implement the same.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M07V3_query.pptx

27.  Enterprise Search - New Search Results Display Options: The slide deck describes some of the cool changes done in search results display. Now we can define Results Type which is a combination of Rules, Property List and Display Template. The query suggestion has also been revamped and now these are  also consider the current users browsing history and activities on SharePoint site. Read more in the slide pack.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M07V4_searchinterface.pptx

28.  Social Features in SharePoint 2013: Social features has got big face lift in SharePoint 2013. Now we can follow people as well as the content (documents, sites, tags). Read more at:
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V1_intro.pptx

29.  Community Sites in SharePoint 2013: Communities is a new feature which can be created by using a new Site Definition. This is available as a Site Template to all the site collections and sites. It is basically a SharePoint feature which can also be activated on any site. Really powerful to create very cool interactive site OOB. Read more to get idea about this new thing in SharePoint.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V2_community.pptx

30.  My Site – Architecture and Administration in SharePoint 2013: Learn about the changes done in the My Site Infrastructure.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V3_mysitearch.pptx

31.  My Site Feed in SharePoint 2013: Learn about Microbloging Feeds, Group Conversations and Like Features in SharePoint 2013.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V4_mysitefeed.pptx

32.  Following in SharePoint 2013: With SharePoint 2013 people can follow other people, Sites, Documents & Tags. Read more abt this in the below deck.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V5_mysitefollow.pptx

33.  My Documents in SharePoint 2013: Now on My Site you can have a consolidated list of all your docs.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V6_mylib.pptx

34.  My Tasks in SharePoint 2013: My Tasks provides the ability to have a single, aggregated, view of all user tasks across SharePoint Sites, Project Sites and Exchange. This is done by using a new Service Application called Work Management. Read more with the presentation.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M08V7_mytasks.pptx


35.  New Features in ECM in SharePoint 2013: Microsoft has improved the eDiscovery capabilities significantly along with some new cool features in Document Sets. Now the Document Sets can be downloaded  Read more with the presentation.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M09V1_ecm.pptx

36.  New Features in WCM in SharePoint 2013: Some new cool things like Content By Search Web Part, much easier URL to remember along with improvement on Images and videos are few of the things.
Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M09V2_wcm.pptx
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

SharePoint 2013 Service Applications - Overview

SharePoint 2013 is very much rich for service applications. Below is the list of all service applications available in SharePoint 2013 with its short description.
Access Service
Access Services in SharePoint Server 2013 allows to host Access databases in SharePoint within the context of an Access app. This app is new in   SharePoint Server 2013 and it can build using Access 2013 desktop client.  The data available can be edited, viewed and new items can created using this app. 

Access Service 2010
The access database which is created previously in SharePoint 2010 can be modified or published using access service 2010 in SharePoint 2013.
It’s important to provide name of the existing access database while creating this service in SharePoint 2013. Start access database service 2010 from CA manage services on server

App Management Service
The App Management Service is new service in SharePoint 2013. Its stores and provides information related to the SP App licenses and permissions. All apps downloaded from SP app market place licenses are stored in this service.
The App Management Service is accessed each time app is requested or used in SharePoint to verify validity of the request

Business Data Connectivity Service
Business data connectivity service was available in SharePoint 2010 and it’s continued in SharePoint 2013. This service is used to communicate with external databases to bring external data in to SharePoint.

Excel Services Application
Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is a shared service that you can use to publish Excel 2013 workbooks on SharePoint Server. The published workbooks can be managed and secured according to your organizational needs and shared among SharePoint Server 2013 users, who can render the workbooks in a browser. Excel Services was introduced in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and is available only in the Enterprise edition of SharePoint Server 2013.

Machine Translation Service
The new Machine Translation Service enables you to reach more people with new cloud-based translation services capable of translating not only sites, but also their content. These services have a comprehensive set of APIs, REST, and CSOM support, so content can be pre-translated when needed, or translated on the fly by users—asynchronously, synchronously, or streaming

PerformancePoint Service
PerformancePoint Services is a SharePoint Server 2013 service application. It enables users to create business intelligence (BI) dashboards that provide insight into an organization's performance. You can create custom reports, filters, tabular data sources, and scorecard transforms to extend the native functionality of PerformancePoint Services.

PowerPoint Automation Service
PowerPoint Automation Services is a new service application in SharePoint Server 2013 that provides automatic server-side conversion of PowerPoint Presentations from one format to another, for example, a PowerPoint Presentation in Open XML File Formar .pptx format can be converted into Portable Document Format (.pdf) for archival purposes, distribution to clients who do not have Microsoft PowerPoint installed, or to protect the presentation from editing.

Managed Metadata Service
The managed metadata service application makes it possible to use--what else--managed metadata. The managed metadata service identifies which database to use as your term store. When you create new terms or users add keywords, those are stored in that database.

Search Service
SharePoint Server Search is a service application which we have come to learn about over the past few articles that it is independent of other services and is no longer tied to the Shared Services Provider (SSP) that was introduced in SharePoint 2007.
SharePoint 2010 search architecture is made up of the Crawler, Indexing Engine, Query Engine and the User Interface and Query Object Model.  We now have greater flexibility and expandability with our search design in 2010 and can setup not only multiple Query Servers but can now scale out our Index server and add multiple instances.
This service crawls content for the search index. This service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. The service cannot be stopped or started from the Services on Server page. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

Secure Store Service
The Secure Store Service is an authorization service that runs on an application server. The Secure Store Service provides a database that is used to store credentials. These credentials usually consist of a user identity and password, but can also contain other fields that you define. For example, SharePoint Server 2013 can use the Secure Store database to store and retrieve credentials for access to external data sources. The Secure Store Service provides support for storing multiple sets of credentials for multiple back-end systems.
State Service
The State Service Application is often overlooked by SharePoint administrators. It is a common source of errors in the server application logs when missing from the farm. As the name implies, this service application maintains state for user sessions and many out of the box features.
If you want to know the health and status of your SharePoint farm, you need to get this service application up and running. Unlike the Web Analytics Service Application from SharePoint 2010
User and Health Data Collection Service
Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application collects Data about Usage and Health of your farm. This information is used for Health Monitoring and this is also required for running the Web Analytics Service. If you do not have a Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application or your Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy is stopped, you will not see any data in the Web Analytics Report.

User Profile Service
The user profile service provides out SharePoint farm with all the social networking features plus more. This stores information about users in a central location.  In order to provision My Sites, enable social computing features such as social tagging and newsfeeds, and create and distribute profiles across multiple sites and farms, you must enable the User Profile service application.

Visio Graphics Service
The Visio Graphics Service is a SharePoint Server 2013 service application that allows users to share and view Visio diagrams by using Visio Services. The service application also enables data-connected Visio 2013 diagrams to be refreshed and updated from different data sources.

Word Automation Services
Word Automation Services is a SharePoint Service Application that is used for server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word. A few new features like on demand file conversion and support for converting streams are introduced in Word Automation Service in SharePoint 2013
Work Management Service
One of the brilliant features in SharePoint 2013 personal site is providing the user with a single view of all the tasks assigned to him in all the SharePoint sites (projects, teams…etc.). The Work Management service application is responsible for collecting this information and not only from SharePoint sites, the Work Management service application can aggregate the tasks from Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Project server and a custom provider model can be integrated.
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service
This service was primarily used for multi-tenency support in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, it is also necessary for apps.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx#ConfigureAppServices
Request Management
Request Manager is functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables administrators to manage incoming requests and determine how SharePoint Server 2013 routes these requests. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712708.aspx

Search Host Controller Service
This service manages the search topology components. The service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

Search Query and Site Settings Service
This service load balances queries within the search topology. It also detects farm-level changes to the search service and puts these in the Search Admin database. The service is automatically started on all servers that run the query processing component. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application
This is the core service for running your sites. It configures IIS to host the sites providing the SharePoint to end users.

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service
This service supplements the main Timer service with configuration settings for timed workflow events.

Lotus Notes Connector
Lotus Notes Connector provides connectivity for search to crawl Lotus Notes content within a Domino database. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591606.aspx

Claims to Windows Token Service
The Claims to Windows Token Service (c2WTS) is a feature of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The c2WTS extracts user principal name (UPN) claims from non-Windows security tokens, such as SAML and X.509 tokens, and generates impersonation-level Windows security tokens. This allows a relying party application to impersonate the user. This might be needed to access back-end resources, such as Microsoft SQL Servers, that are external to the computer running the relying party application. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539091.aspx

Distributed Cache
The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The microblog features and feeds rely on the Distributed Cache to store data for very fast retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2013. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219700.aspx#cache http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219613.aspx

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Microsoft withdrawaing support for O365 Public website

One of the shocking news for O365 customers that Microsoft is withdrawing support for public website on O365. This feature will be available to existing customers for next two years and after that these customers will have to go for third party tool for it.

 The new customers who are going to go for O365 license purchase from Jan.2015 on wards will not get this feature for their O365 account.

 Microsoft told the reason behind withdrawing the support for this feature is very lees usage of this feature and poor response from customers. Microsoft don't want to invest in this as its used by very less customers,instead MS want to invest more n some thing other which can help their customers to get benefited.
Microsoft advised to use certain third-party services that integrate directly with Office 365 for this function and not yet disclosed which third-party services it will recommend, but instead is saying details will be coming on this in January 2015.The KB note is promising that the coming, supplemental third-party public-website offerings will do more than just provide users with "a basic online presence;" they will include "more robust tools and solutions”.

Please check below link for more information.

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3027254


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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Important Points in SharePoint Project Management

SharePoint Popularity
According to Microsoft SharePoint is its most sale able product which has 100+ millions users for this technology until now.
A recent Gartner report calls SharePoint “the most widely used document- and collaboration-centered platform.” It  has won the battle for the enterprise.
SharePoint is a top-rated product that will be around for many years to come. If you’re thinking of adopting it then you are driving in right road.

SharePoint – Multiple skills
SharePoint is not one application it’s beyond that. It contains
Content Management
Search- Advanced and Fast
Collaboration
Social Networking- News feed, Discussions, Blog etc.
 Portals- Internal and External
 BI
 LOB Application Connectivity

Support from Other Technologies
SharePoint depends on some other technology and it includes
Windows Server OS
Active Directory
Internet Information Server (IIS)
SQL Server
Active Directory
Domain Name System (DNS)

All these software must need to work properly to work SharePoint in efficient way

Special Skill Required for SharePoint Support
No doubt that SharePoint is easy and implement with consideration of business users but still it require some SharePoint knowledge to manage and operate it. Any business user who have some web handling knowledge can work on SharePoint sites. When it comes to do some configuration settings, Implementation and creating some infrastructure then a SharePoint skilled resource is required

Planning SharePoint Projects
Before starting any SharePoint Project it make sense to do some initial home work. It should cover
Preparing the data dictionary (taxonomy)
Preparing the roles and permission matrix

Planning foe design and development approach (Categorizing the modules to developed using CSOM, SOM and OOB feature)
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Share Point 2013 App Hosting Types

Hosting Types


 
Share point Hosted Architecture

Provide Hosted App
Auto Hosted App


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Monday, May 26, 2014

Differences between a records archive and in-place records


The following table describes differences between what you can do with records in a record center and with records that are managed in-place in a collaboration site. The differences are presented from the point of view of both records managers and employees collaborating on a project team. 

Note:- This information is taken from MS tech-net site and published in this blog as part of social collaboration cause
Differences between a records archive and in-place records
Factor
Records archive
In-place records
Managing record retention
The content organizer automatically puts new records in the correct folder in the archive’s file plan, based on metadata.
There may be different policies for records and active documents based on the current content type or location.
Restrict which users can view records
Yes. The archive specifies the permissions for the record.
No. Permissions do not change when a document becomes a record. However, you can restrict which users can edit and delete records.
Ease of locating records (for records managers)
Easier. All records are in one location.
Harder. Records are spread across multiple collaboration sites.
Maintain all document versions as records
The user must explicitly send each version of a document to the archive.
Automatic, assuming versioning is turned on.
Ease of locating information (for team collaborators)
Harder, although a link to the document can be added to the collaboration site when the document becomes a record.
Easier.
Clutter of collaboration site
Collaboration site contains only active documents.
Collaboration site contains active and inactive documents (records), although you can create views to display only records.
Ability to audit records
Yes.
Dependent on audit policy of the collaboration site.
Administrative security
A records manager can manage the records archive.
Collaboration site administrators have permission to manage records and active documents.
The following table describes differences between the two records management approaches that might affect how you manage IT resources.
Resource differences between a records archive and in-place records
Factor
Records archive
In-place records
Number of sites to manage
More sites. That is,, there is a separate archive in addition to collaboration sites.
Fewer sites.
Scalability
Relieves database size pressure on collaboration sites.
Maximum site collection size reached sooner.
Ease of administration
Separate site or farm for records.
No additional site provisioning work beyond what is already needed for the sites that have active documents.
Storage
Can store records on different storage medium.
Active documents and records stored together.

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