Tag: sharepoint 2013 features

Here's a condensed version of the previous development post…

• There are several new DLLs in SharePoint 2013:
• Microsoft.Office.Policy.Client
  Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Applications
  Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.ExchangeAdapter
  Microsoft.Office.TranslationServices.Client
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.DocumentManagement
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Applications
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerRuntime
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles
  Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.Client
  Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkManagement.Client
• DLL Summary
• Looking at these, you can see most of the work went into supporting Client
  side object model calls around Document Management, Search, the server core,
  taxonomy and user profiles!
• Search has been improved upon in MANY different ways – watch for my two
  books coming out in early 2013 that will show you all these changes in depth!
• The translation service dll has been added for machine translation interface
• Exchange Adapter for SharePoint Search…looks like fun to explore as
  well!
• Microsoft.BusinessData.dll
• This implies more integration with SecureStore and some more interesting
  Callback type scenerios. 
• The ODataExtensionProvider looks rather interesting
  and deserves some more review!
• Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement.dll
• We now have VideoSets on top of DocumentSets!
• Microsoft.Office.Policy
• Lots of changed to the Records Managment featuress in SharePoint 2013
• Some older tech was removed, and newer shiner tech added
• There is some kind of analytics reporting on your document managent now
• The new Discovery features of SharePoint are highlighted in this code set
  (Case, Custodian, SourceGroups,
• A new ProjectPolicy class in Information Management Policy (not
  visible yet in the UI – will be in RTM
• Microsoft.Office.Server DLL
• A new licensing layer has been added to SharePoint Server core (for the App
  Store)
• A brand new Data Access Layer has been built for SharePoint Server core
  (Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.Sql.*)
• A new set of powershell commandlets and classes for Scale Out
  Databases:
  • Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletSplitScaleOutDatabase
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletAddScaleOutDatabase
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletRemoveScaleOutDatabase
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletGetScaleOutDatabase
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletGetScaleOutDatabaseDataState
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletSetScaleOutDatabaseDataSubRange
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletSetScaleOutDatabaseDataRange
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletClearScaleOutDatabaseDeleteDataSubRange
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletGetScaleOutDatabaseLogEntry
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletClearScaleOutDatabaseLog
    Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SPCmdletGetScaleOutDatabaseInconsistency
• A new Distributed Caching layer has been added to SharePoint 2013
• Some new helper classes were added
• Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Connector
• An entire set of connector components for search have been built for BDC
• Several event handerls are exposed here
• Microsoft.Office.Server.Search
• Too many to post here…it looks like a big chuck of the core of Search has
  been re-written
• VERY Noticable that ALL FAST search pages have been
  removed
• Too many to post here…again, huge chuck of the Search core has been
  rewritten, noticable additions include:
• A FULL REST API for Search
• MASSIVE SET OF UPGRADE CLASSES – looks like search will be the longest
  upgrade component of SharePoint 2013 migrations
• New set of refinement utilities
• A new RankerTuning – must be similar to the ranking engine features of
  FAST
• Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfile
• A new FeedCache feature
• Several new ADImport classes
• More ManagementAgent classes (takes advantage of more advanced features of
  MIIS)
• SocialPermissionsProvider
• A massive chunk of Microfeed oriented classes
• Set of "Followed" focused classes
• Set of "Social" classes (Actor, Feed, Post)
• Set of Upgrade classes for migration
• New powershell commandlets:
• Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveActivityItems
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletUpdateMicroblogLMTCache
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletUpdateMicroblogFeedCache
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletSocialAppPermissionsBase
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletAddSocialAppPermissions
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveSocialAppPermissions
• Microsoft.Office.Word.Server
• Mainly addition of classes to support the new IMMEDIATE feature and some
  other job processing utility classes
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
• Client object model calls to the BDC!!!
• Remote Event Receivers!
• New GeoLocation features
• New Push Notification features
• Enhanced MIME Type features
• Microsoft.SharePoint
• Azure Access Control classes
• MASSIVE set of Microsoft.Online.Administration classes
• SPThrottlineRule
• SPRequestManagement
• TONS of Azure AppDeployment classes (a small sample):
  • Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.RemoteWebHostConfigurationSettings
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.RemoteWebSiteAccount
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.RemoteWebSiteConfigurationFile
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.RemoteWebSiteDeploymentConstants
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.Scaffolding.AzureAppContext
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.Scaffolding.AzureAccount
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.Scaffolding.AzureStorageAccount
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.Scaffolding.SqlAzureAccount
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AppDeployment.Scaffolding.HostedServicePrefix
• Some kind of RemoteWebHost packaing service classes:
  • Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.AntaresConfiguration
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.AntaresDeploymentClient
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.AntaresDeploymentException
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.DeploymentBaseOptionsWrapper
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.DeploymentObjectWrapper
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.DeploymentSyncOptionWrapper
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.DeploymentSyncParameterWrapper
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Packaging.RemoteWebHost.Client.WebDeploymentWrapper
• SPDatabaseSnapshotter and SPSqlDatabaseSnapshotter classes for
  backup!
• New GeoLocation field
• Lots more RBS BlobStore classes
  • Microsoft.SharePoint.LockBytesFromBytes
    Microsoft.SharePoint.BytesFromLockBytes
    Microsoft.SharePoint.DisposableLockBytes
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPHostBlob
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPHostBlobStore
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamHostBlobStore
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamHostBlobStore+Config
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamHostBlobStore+UpdateImpl
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPReadOnlyHostBlobStore
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CobaltOutput
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SeedingBlobs
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CobaltCoreHostServices
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CoordinatedStreamBuffer.IClose
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CobaltStream
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CobaltStreamRevokableContainer
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamType
    Microsoft.SharePoint.HostBlobStoreSchema
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamSchema
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamSchemaExtensions
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamStore
    Microsoft.SharePoint.CoordinatedStreamBuffer.ISPFileStreamManager
    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileStreamManager
• More Distributed caching features
• A new Microsoft.SharePoint.Marketplace.CorporateCuratedGallery namespace
• A set of OAuth2 classes:
  • Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.HttpAuthenticationChallenge
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.HttpAuthenticationResponseHeader
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.HttpTokenReader
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.IIdentityClaimsResolver
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.OAuth2BearerAuthenticationModule
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.OAuth2BearerCredentials
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.OAuth2EndpointIdentity
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2BearerCredentials
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2Client
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2ErrorResponseException
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2SecurityTokenType
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2SecurityTokenManager
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2SecurityTokenManager+SPOAuth2SecurityTokenCacheKey
    Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.OAuth2.SPOAuth2SecurityTokenManager+RawSecurityToken
• A new packaging namespace – likely for the AppStore managment
• The new WOPI classes:
  • Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiAction
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiCapability
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiZone
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiType
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.DiscoveryDataTypes
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.ActionEntry
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.RedirectionEntry
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.ProofKeySet
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.DiscoveryData
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.DiscoveryData+ZoneAppSort
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiUrlData
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.DiscoveryEntryNotFoundException
    Microsoft.Office.OpenWebApplication.WopiOM
• TONS of new Mobile Rendering controls:
• MASSIVE set of Denali Diagnostics classes:
• A TON of new Diagnostics montiors
• Lots of upgrade classes (for moving from 2010)
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal
• Lots of new publishing focused web parts

I'm sure that's much easier to read than lines of namespaces and classes 🙂

Enjoy!
Chris

Twitter – @givenscj

Last Updated – 7/17/2012 12:07pm… 

Here's a list of things that I have seen change so far:

Let's start with WORST feature (from this is a SUPER BAD IDEA standpoint):

• Azure based workflows with SharePoint Designer – this is a total disaster about to happen.  End Users have NO CLUE what EAI stands for nor how to implement it properly.  This stuff requires computer science degrees and careful planning!    To allow this type of workflow will literally get lots of people fired (or merely reduces in rank).  If you don't know what EAI is, read up on it know before you start playing with this stuff. If mutil-platform workflows were easy, everyone would be doing it.  This stuff goes for upwards of $400/hr to design right!
• This can only work if you can lockdown the Azure workflow calls (which I haven't research yet)
• For more info on what EAI really is, turn to the GOD – Martin Fowler – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321200683?tag=enterpriseint-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0321200683&adid=1SKS2N0FK4WW4VAPGWWG&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eaipatterns.com%2F

And the rest of stuff that is pretty cool:

• Push Notifications to mobile devices (this one is VERY interesting) 
• Workflow are now .net 4.0 based!  This is a VERY important point and requires lots of testing!
• Logging now has directories!  No longer a single file with all log entries!  – YEI!
• Site Deletion Policies with a new "Site Closure" feature (basically hides the site from users without deleting it)
• ASP.NET 4.0 instead of ASP.NET 2.0
• Two new service applications:
• Machine Translation – for translating your documents into other languages –
• Translation Services! – BY FAR THE COOLEST PART OF SP15!
• MMS SUPPORT IS INCLUDED!!! – I wrote this for 2010, but cool to see it actually OOB now!
• Work Management Service – task aggregation across work management systems
• THIS IS SUPER COOL BY THE WAY – AGGREGATE ALL TASKS IN MULTIPLE PLATFORMS (SHAREPOINT, EXCHANGE, PROJECT SERVER)
• Claims  auth changes
• No more need for sticky session – THIS IS HUGE!  – THANKS MICROSOFT!!!
• SharePoint is actully ahead of the curve this time – JSON responses in metadata endpoints – AWESOME!
• More service application databases support log shipping – WOOHOO! 
• Integration with AppFabric (Request Mangaement) 
• Shredding Database – (Deduping files and reducing wire line byte transfer)
• New Micro blogging feature (sorry NewsGator)
• Document Conversion has an IMMEDIATE feature (I could have used this months ago!)
• If you don't know what DS is, it allows you to "Programmatically" convert documents to mutliple formats (DOC->DOCX, DOCX-PDF) and at the same time, to execute field updates like Table of Content (TOC) in place in a library
• Extensible Analytics framework
• When using the "Rating settings" you have the option to "Like" rather than "Rate"
• No More PowerPoint (.thmx) themes, back to HTMLHTML5
• DataSheet View Editing of MMS Columns in list – THIS ROCKS!
• Developer Dashboard looks sweet now, it was only ok before
• *Somewhat* improved permission prem
  equest management
• Wish Group were global and not scoped at Site Collection levels = LAME
• Office Web Apps is seperate server (not a service app anymore) 
• Utilizes WOPI – Web Application Open Platform Interface
• User-defined funtions don't work anymore 🙁 
• Improved URLs for Office Web App links (they aren't ugly anymore)!
• Office Web Apps can now CREATE documents (not just edit and view pre-created ones)
• Office Web Apps has more supported (client like) features
• Print
• Ink
• Animations
• New REST based API for OWA programming/development
• Image and Video rendering is improved greatly!
• Just add some videos and pictures into a document library and check it out for yourself!
• A new look and feel with a new header menu that includes:
• A link to Social
  Newsfeed
   
• A link to the
  Microsoft SkyDrive
• A link to the Site of
  the farm
• The typical user
  JavaScript dropdow
• A new “settings” link
  (similar to “site Actions” in previous SharePoint versions
• A help link
• A feedback link
• A “Share” link for
  granting access to a site
• A “Focus” link that
  hides all but the main content area of a page
• Removal of the retarded "Claims" vs "Windows" auth radio button in web app creation 
• A new "Apps" link in Central Administration for accessing an App Marketplace
• New site templates:
• Developer Site
• Project Site
• Community Site
• Multipage Meeting
• Discovery Center (old Records Center)
• Community Center
• Product Catalog
• A newly designed "My Site Host"
• New Error page with Expandable details
• New "Metro" look and feel on the team sites
• Office Web Apps is no longer a service application
• Web Analytics is part of Search Service Application
• eDiscovery – Export from a file share into SharePoint
• Personalized search results based on search history

Stay tuned for a killer Development blog post!
CJG

@givenscj