A Big boost for social features in SharePoint 2013 which were an extension for the features introduced in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013 Collaborating and exchanging information options have been improved a lot, Features like Micro Blogging, Community sites and sharing introduced in SharePoint 2013. The productivity pillars for Social Features are shown as below
My Sites in SharePoint 2013
My Site is a personal site in SharePoint for user. This post outlines the steps to set up My Sites in SharePoint 2013. My Site depends on User Profile service application and managed Meta data service application. Optionally Search Service application requires to be configured but it is not required. Optionally you can configure profile synchronization to configure user and group information...
Application Hosting Models in SharePoint 2013
New Application Development model was introduced in SharePoint 2013 which allows the developers to extend the SharePoint platform. This post discusses the different hosting models available for the developers in SharePoint 2013. You need to understand the App Identity concept before knowing the details of Hosting Models. App Identity in SharePoint 2013 Why do we need App Identity when there is a...
SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Features
This post discusses the new features introduced in SharePoint 2013 for Business Intelligence and how you can do the things in better way using SharePoint 2013, PowerPivot and Power View. SharePoint is really about organization, discovery, building out new solutions and managing those solutions. So With Microsoft BI tools how do you explore the data? How do you mine the data? How do you visualise...
SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses about SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 developer tools in Visual Studio 2012 which helps you to build the application more easily and efficiently. SharePoint 2013 allows you to develop the apps, What is Apps in SharePoint 2013? Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces which gives the functionality that extends the SharePoint site. You have the developer tools to build...
Workflow changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about key workflow changes in SharePoint 2013 and creating a sample workflow using SharePoint designer 2013. New Workflow management using Windows Azure workflow in SharePoint 2013. New advanced Visual Workflow designer in SharePoint designer 2013 makes it easy in creating workflows. You can now copy and paste the operations in Workflow Designer.There is no designer and...
User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013. One of the key change is better performance in Active Directory Profile Synchronization. It reduced the import time from up to 2 weeks down to 60 hours for extremely large organisations having 200K users. This has been tricky in earlier versions. Several optimizations are already been added in SharePoint...
PerformancePoint Service changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses the key changes and features of performance point services in SharePoint 2013. PerformancePoint services allow you to bring the data from multiple data source and present that information in the form of charts, graphs and dashboards. You can publish these dashboards to SharePoint. The end user can drill into the data presented on dashboards and helps in making decisions...
Site Collection themes in SharePoint 2013
This post speaks about themes in SharePoint 2013. Themes engine in SP 2013 has been re-designed and everything is now based on HTML5 instead of proprietary format. You now no longer need to use PowerPoint to create custom themes. You can customize themes in SP 2013 by applying background image, fonts with live preview and color palette. The below are list themes available as out-of box in...
Service Application architecture in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses the Service Application architecture in SharePoint 2013 and compares the key changes in architecture model with SharePoint 2010. The building model for Service Applications is same as it introduced in SP 2010.Like in SP 2010 service applications can be consumed from within the web application.