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Table of Contents 1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 2
1.1 What is SharePoint? ............................................................................................................ 2
1.2 CMS, DMS & RMS ................................................................................................................ 4
1.3 History of SharePoint........................................................................................................... 6
1.4 SharePoint Basic Elements ................................................................................................... 9
1.5 Features of SharePoint ...................................................................................................... 18
1.6 Differences in SharePoint Versions ..................................................................................... 22
1.6.1 WSS 3.0 vs. MOSS 2007................................................................................................... 22
1.6.2 WSS 3.0 vs. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 .......................................................... 24
1.6.3 SharePoint Server 2007 vs. SharePoint Server 2010 .......................................................... 24
1.6.4 SharePoint Foundation 2010 vs. SharePoint Server 2010................................................... 26
1.6.5 SharePoint Foundation 2013 vs. SharePoint Server 2013................................................... 27
1.6.6 NET vs. SharePoint.......................................................................................................... 35
Key points .............................................................................................................................. 35
Next in Series.......................................................................................................................... 36
SharePoint 2013 JumpStart .................................................................................................. 36
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SharePoint 2013 Introduction
Intent
SharePoint is changing the dynamics of new era by providing the desired information instantly in secured
manner. This eBook appraises the users about SharePoint introduction, history, and various versions available
since its evolution and the new features of SharePoint 2013.
The user will also come to know about SharePoint features that small, mid & large organizations use to carry
out day-to-day tasks or complex business processes.
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1. Introduction
1.1 What is SharePoint?
SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint, let`s all explore, why SharePoint is becoming popular amongst
organizations nowadays. SharePoint was born out of a simple idea: Sharing Documents. Microsoft developed
family of software products called SharePoint, to perform features like File Sharing, Collaboration, and Web
Publishing. In simple terms, SharePoint acts as the single platform to share, communicate, store, and
collaborate the content, documents, and records.
SharePoint 2010 family of products consists of:
1. SharePoint Foundation 2010
2. Search Server 2010 Express
3. SharePoint Server 2010
4. Search Server 2010
5. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
6. SharePoint Designer
SharePoint 2013 family of products consists of:
1. SharePoint Foundation 2013
2. SharePoint Server Standard 2013
3. SharePoint Server Enterprise 2013
4. SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint enables to create intranet/internet/extranet portals, collaboration sites, document management
solutions and content management sites. It`s versatile in nature and supports a number of enterprise features
in a collaborative environment. SharePoint is based on Microsoft pri mary development tool . NET, henc e the
solutions created using SharePoint are easily customizable.
SharePoint
Share Communicate Store Collaborate
Content Document Records
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SharePoint can be used for something as simple as creation of list of contacts, or for something as complex as
a project management dashboard/KPI for a large store or an organization.
Let`s take a simple example of an organization A, having 2 departments
Accounts
Sales
An organization individual uses individual computers to store the information.
The customer seeks information from the organization. The organization CEO seeks information from
departments. Department individuals store information, in their own Systems. It takes lots of time to fetch the correct information, which is not even a secure.
A sample of conversation:
CEO to Sales Manager: I want the Sales report Month Wise.
Sales Manager Replies: Sir Files were stored in my computer but hard drive was Corrupted and Data is Lost.
CEO----YOU are fired!
CEO to Accountant: I want the department wise accounts.
Account Manager Replies: Sir! I have sent you an email yesterday for that and today I am on Leave.
CEO---- I did not receive it, I want it now!
Customer want to know how the company is performing, customer goes to various departments for
information, but it takes a long time to seek information.
Now Let`s take an example of an organization B, having same departments.
Accounts
Sales
Organization has SharePoint implemented.
The customer seeks information from the organization. The organization CEO seeks information from
departments. All the information is stored in Organization Intranet Portal, with roles and rights defined to retrieve the information. The information is highly secure and retrieved using various search criterias.
A sample of conversation:
CEO to Sales Manager: I want Sales report Month Wise [No need even to Ask, when CEO Log on to intranet
Portal, the dashboard displays all the information].
Sales Manager Replies: Sir I keep all the files on Intranet Portal please have a look from there. [No Data Loss, Easy and quick retrieval].
CEO----YOU are fired turned to Good Job keep it UP.
CEO to Accountant: I want the department wise accounts.
Account Manager Replies: Sir you have received the email as well as SMS as I do all the work in Organization Intranet Portal, which is a workflow enabled to send the important updates in via emails and SMS.
CEO---- I didn`t receive it, I want it now turned to my Mistake I will check it Just now.
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Customer want to know how the company is performing, goes to various departments for information, but it
takes a long time to seek information.
Turned to
Customer- goes to the Internet Portal and fetches the desired information.
It is just one of the examples; the capabilities of SharePoint are much more than that.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 provide capabili ties to meet business-critical needs such as managing content, business processes, simplifying to find and share information across boundaries and enabling informed decisions.
SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010 provides collaborating fea tures, which makes it handy for end users to create, manage, build SharePoint sites and share information quickly.
With SharePoint 2013 the concept of apps, mobile views enable users to workout anywhere using mobile also. Users can download the apps in the mobile.
1.2 CMS, DMS & RMS
Before taking a deep dive in SharePoint, let us understand the three key systems content management system, Document management system and Record management system. Most of the abilities of these systems have been incorporated in SharePoint.
Content Management System: Content is a piece of digital data, which becomes information, for users
according to their needs. Content can be in any form document, images, pictures, sound, video, email, Web Pages, websites, etc. Content management system enables the flow and editing of the content in user -friendly approach.
In precise Content management system enables to create, edit and publish data, constrained with a set of
rules, validations and workflow that ensure validated content.
Key Features of CMS are:
1. WYSIWYG [What you see is what you get]: The editor displays the content as the final output, and
make easier for user to view the final output. 2. Customization: CMS enables to customize the user requirements and accommodate them rather than
using the default settings. 3. Rich Multimedia Support: Support various types of fi les, web pages, web content.
4. Search: Search for various data types and content types on the basis of keywords 5. Workflow: approving and authorizing the content in user defined steps.
Document Management System: Document is the digital data stored in the form of word, excel, PowerPoint, PDF format. DMS enables users to create, store, manage expiry and retrieval of documents with ease.
Key Features of DMS are:
1. Metadata: The documents are being stored with keywords, which enable searching the documents
easily.
2. Capture: Enable to store the scanned documents in the form of images /documents.
3. Security: Documents being created are secured on the basis of user roles and rights
4. Integration: Integrating various external systems to document management system, so that
documents can be shared easily.
5. Workflow: approving and authorizing the document in user defined steps.
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Record Management System: Record is the set of interrelated piece of information related to entity. Record
management system enables creation and editing of records from its origination until its disposal. Simple example of records in an organization could be employee information, personal details, Birth Certifica te, etc.
Key Features of RMS are:
1. Sorting/Indexing: The Records being stored are arranged in ascending or descending order.
2. Normalization: Removing redundant records and storing unique information
3. Security: Providing the secure user roles and rights for the records to be viewed and created
4. Workflow: Defining the flow of records on the basis of users rights
5. Notification: sending alerts to users, when the records are being created, stored, archived, or deleted.
It is very difficult to provide the exact dis tinction between all three systems, as there exists a very thin line
between all three.
A table given below provides the key features
Features CMS DMS RMS
Security Yes Yes Yes
Metadata Yes Yes Yes
Search Yes Yes Yes
Workflow Yes Yes Yes
Multiple website Support Yes No No
Versioning Yes Yes Yes
Content Type Management Yes Yes No
Publishing Yes Yes No
Multilingual Yes Yes No
User Interaction Yes Yes Yes
Content Page Creation\Edit\Delete Yes No No
Folder Structure No Yes No
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1.3 History of SharePoint
Development of SharePoint has a long history; many pre products were created before actual product came to existence.
Pre-SharePoint
Before SharePoint 2003, in 1996 Microsoft launched a product called Microsoft Site Server for man aging websites and the user's authentication/authorization. In 1998, Microsoft launched Site Server v 3.0 with
following features:
Indexing and Search
Content Management Product Management
Order Processing
Site Personalization
Ad Server
Site server was a low-cost product with good content management abilities, but it lacked document management and taxonomic abilities.
In 1997, Microsoft came with Microsoft Office FrontPage, which had HTML WYSIWYG editor, used to create and administer websites. Microsoft launched the last version of FrontPage in 2003, having abilities to view code, design and support asp.NET.
Neither Site Server nor FrontPage provides the ability to collaborate different information such as videos, files,
applications, and documents.
SharePoint Products
Site Server V 1.0 (1996)
Site Server V 3.0 (1998)
SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) in 2001
SharePoint Portal Server
2003
Office SharePoint
Server 2007
SharePoint Portal Server
2010
SharePoint Server 2013
Microsoft Frontpage
SharePoint Team Services (STS) in 2001
Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Foundation
Server
SharePoint Foundation
2013
SharePoint Designer 2007
SharePoint Designer 2010
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Previous Versions of SharePoint
Two versions of SharePoint came out in 2001.
1. SharePoint Team Services (STS)
2. SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)
The SharePoint Team Services (STS) developed from the Microsoft FrontPage, considered bottoms -up technology that means creating website was still left to end users. The websites created using STS supports maximum of 75 users. STS was also known as Office webserver. SharePoint Team Services (STS) was intended
as a departmental Intranet and used SQL Server as backing store.
The SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) developed from the Site Server, is for site administrators. SPS is used to index and search fi les stored on STS.
There was still a clear disconnect between the STS and SPS. The move to integrate their functionality drove the development of SharePoint.
SharePoint 2003
Microsoft launched WSS 2.0 and SharePoint Server in 2003 separately. Windows SharePoint service 2.0 was freely available as a component with Microsoft windows server 2003. WSS 2.0 enables organizations to create websites and portals easily for information sharing and document collaboration.
SharePoint 2003 was considered the first integrated and comprehensive solution for sharing information, files,
applications, and creating websites. It integrates the capabilities of STS and SPS. It allows website & dashboard creation using easy user interface. SharePoint 2003 server is a licensed product. It provides all the features of WSS 2.0 and many additional features.
SharePoint 2003, stores the entire top-level site configuration and data in a single database. This limit s`, the effec tive size that a site collection could grow; even backups and restores were time consuming. The web parts (web parts are reusable components that di splay content on web pages) available were more compatible, but they were very complex to create. Permissions were clumsy and difficult to maintain.
SharePoint Portal
Server 2001
SharePoint Team Services "V1"
SharePoint Portal
Server 2003
Windows SharePoint
Services (WSS 2.0)
[Free]
Content Management Server 2002
Office SharePoint Server 2007
Windows SharePoint
Services (WSS 3.0)
[Free]
SharePoint Portal
Server 2010
SharePoint Foundation
Server
[Free]
SharePoint Portal
Server 2013
SharePoint
Foundation
2013
[ Free]
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SharePoint 2007
Microsoft upgraded WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 by stil l keeping it as freely available.
Until now, end users started enjoying the experience of SharePoint and providing feedback with the demand of more and more new features. In 2007, Microsoft came up with the new product termed as "SharePoint 2007". This product was in integration with the Microsoft base office user product called "Microsoft office," so
Microsoft termed this product as "MOSS 2007 [Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007]. Moss 2007 integrates with windows server, SQL Server and the .Net Framework.
In the earlier versions of SharePoint, the primary site-editing tool was FrontPage that at least in theory can be
used for other web creation projects as well. With SharePoint 2007, FrontPage was extensively updated and re-branded as Office SharePoint Designer. SharePoint Designer allowed easy customization of sites without needing to write any code. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a new product for creating and customizing Microsoft SharePoint Web sites and building workflow-enabled applications. It provides the
professional quality design tools that you need to create great-looking SharePoint pages that are compatible with a wide range of browsers.
SharePoint 2010
The hunger and desire to add more and more user-friendly features according to user needs continued and in Apri l 2010, Microsoft came up with the latest version called SharePoint 2010. The technology WSS 3.0 is upgraded to SharePoint Foundation Server. Like WSS 3.0 Microsoft continued its practice to keep the technology SharePoint foundation server as free version. SharePoint latest versions 2010 centers its focus on
the Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insight, and Composite.
SharePoint 2013
The era of internet, that started from 1990`s grown up and now people started demanding for mobile apps with less storage. Microsoft provides the ability to create apps using SharePoint 2013. However, Microsoft
SharePoint 2013 provides following key capabilities:
1.Share 2.Organize 3.Discover
4.Build 5.Manage
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SharePoint is a server-based product; prior to start using SharePoint must be deployed. The product can be
deployed in two ways:
1. On Premise: With an on-premise deployment your organization builds, configures, and manages its own SharePoint environment. You can do this using many different approaches, which include maintaining your own data center or dedicated hosting in an offsite data center, partnered with a
hosting provider.
2. Office 365 SharePoint Subscription: Office 365 is a shared multi -tenant hosting experience where you
subscribe to SharePoint services that are hosted and maintained by Mic rosoft in its data centers. You are given a set of guidelines around storage space and development options and must follow those within your environment.
1.4 SharePoint Basic Elements
SharePoint sites/Portals contain various elements. Let`s take an exampl e of an academic institution and see
how implementation of SharePoint with its various elements help them becoming best institution.
An academic institution named ABC Public School, until XIIth Standard has following objectives:
1. Communicate Real -time with Student Parents.
2. Communicate within Departments.
3. Communicate with Students when they are at home.
4. Principal wants to see number of admissions, dropouts, attendance.
5. Teachers to upload the class sessions, notes, and extra practice exercises .
6. Communicate to the Vendors that cater to school.
7. Various Announcements, Events, and extra circular activities need to be shared in School.
8. Instant SMS to be sent for various activities.
9. Information can be viewed and updated from mobile, with defined SLA.
10. Students can attend virtual Class, from Home.
11. Zone to show top prominent personalities.
12. Teachers can write their blogs on various topics and encourage students to do so.
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Let us understand the basic elements of SharePoint before provide the solution to meet School Objective.
Parents sends children School
Parents wait till Student come
back from school
Parents dont know whether
student reaches School or not
Student not feeling Well didnt
went to school
Student asked home work and notes to Friends
None of the Friend Shared the
information
Principal wants to See Admissions,
Dropouts, Students performances
Principal ask to Teachers and Support Staff
Staff Replied:they will compile and it
will take 2 days
SharePoint Elements
1.Site 2.Site
Collection
3.List
4.Document Library
5.Image Library
6.Content Type
7.Site Columns
8.Features
9.Workflow
10.Layout
11.Navigation
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Site: Site is a collection of web pages used to store information in an organized manner. It stores a l ist of
documents, discussions, events, tasks, and many other types of information. Site provides controlled access to
share information among users, i .e. authorize users are allowed to access the site & its elements. User can
configure following elements in SharePoint site:
Templates: Template acts as stencils, to create similar attribute elements.
Language: SharePoint has ability to create multilingual sites. Administrator installs language packs on the server to translate the portal in another language. User can select a language-specific site template while creating new site.
Security: You can define unique user groups and permissions for each site as well as site elements.
Navigation: Site navigation reflects the relationships among the sites in a site collection. User can fine-tune site's navigation experience by configuring unique navigation links in each part of site's hierarchy. Therefore, planning navigation and planning sites structures are closely related activities.
Web pages: Web pages in sites or site collection display information.
Site layouts: Site Layout dictates the overall look and feel of the SharePoint site.
Themes: Themes specify the appearance of site in terms of Color & font.
Regional settings: Regional settings are specific to particular country or geography, suc h as locale, time zone, sort order, time format and calendar type.
Search: User can make each site having unique search settings. For example, you can specify that a particular site never appear in search results.
Content types: A content type defines the attributes of a l ist item, a document, or a folder.
Workflows: Workflow defines the action or series, of actions to be performed.
Sub-site: A sub-site is a single SharePoint site within a site collection. A sub-site can inherit permissions and
navigation structure from its parent site or can be specified and managed independently.
Site collection: SharePoint site collection is a logical grouping of multiple SharePoint site or hierarchical site
structure. For, e.g. Sites for various teams or departments of an organization can be grouped logically in one
site collection. A site collection consists of a top-level site and one or more sites below it. Each top-level site
and any sites below it in the site structure are based on a site template and can have other unique settings and
content.
List: A SharePoint list is a collection of records related to an entity like a student, employees, etc. Records in
lists are termed as items. A l ist contains columns or fields that define the item data or metadata. List in
SharePoint can be created using a GUI interface by defining the metadata types. Once the List is being created,
it is very easy to add, edit, delete, and search items in it.
Document Library: A Document l ibrary allows users to easily store, upload, share, collaborate, and track
documents or files. Users can also store the properties related to documents called metadata to make the
documents easily searchable.
Image library: An image library allows users to easily store, upload, share, collaborate and track images or
digital pictures. Users can also store the properties related to images called metadata to make the images
easily searchable.
Task list: A task l ist in SharePoint displays a collection of tasks to be performed.
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Content type: A content type is a reusable collection of metadata (columns), workflow, behavior, and other settings for a category of items or documents. Content types enable user to manage the settings for a category of information in a centralized, reusable manner.
Site columns: A site column is a reusable column definition, or template that you can assign to multiple lists
across multiple SharePoint sites. Site columns are useful if user organization wants to establish some
consistent settings across l ists and libraries.
Custom control: Custom controls have a file extension as .ascx. User can share custom controls,
across web applications. There is no visual designer for creating custom controls hence, user cannot drag and
drop custom controls.
User control: User creates user controls using a designers tool, having file extension as .ascx. User cannot
share user control across web applications.
Web part: Web Parts are customizable plug and play components that empower information
workers to create personalized user interfaces by simply dragging and dropping them on a Web
page. Web parts allow customization at both design time and run time. There are two types of web
parts.
1. In-built web parts Web parts that are included in SharePoint. Developers can drag them from web
part galleries and drop them into web part zones.
2. Custom web parts User create custom web parts using Microsoft Visual studio.
A Web Part is composed of the following entities:
The Web Part description file (.dwp) is a portable container of default and personalized p roperty values for the Web Part.
SharePoint Elements
12.Custom Control
13.User Control
14.WebPart
15.Master Pages
16.Content Pages
17.Page Layout
18.Themes
19.Site Definition
20.Site Template
21.Web Solution Package
22.Power Shell
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The Web Part assembly file (.dll) contains the logic and code for the Web Part. User installs webpart on the server running Windows SharePoint Services.
Resource fi les that support the Web Part; these are also stored on the server.
User stores the current values of the Web Part properties in the tables of the Windows SharePoint Services database.
Master pages: Master pages are template that other pages can inherit from to keep consistent func tionality.
The pages that are inherited from master pages are referred as content pages. Master pages allow developers
to keep consistent, reusable, web based code (html, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) at one high level place, so that the
content pages can concentrate on their specific web based code. A content page refers to a master page and
the ASP. Net framework merges the two pages together to make one page.
Content pages: Content pages implement a master page. Content pages contain an attribute, which informs
the compiler that the page should be, merged with a master page. This attribute is part of the page directive
tag called the MasterPageFile.
Page Layout: Page layout dictates the overall look and feel of a web page. A page layout relies on a content
type to determine the kind of content that can be stored on pages. Page layout contains field controls and web
part.
Theme: SharePoint theme represents a collection of graphics and cascading style sheets that can modify how
a website looks. Using themes, we can change font and color scheme of the sites.
Site definition: Site definitions are the foundations on which all sites and user templates are built. These are
the collection of XML or ASPX files. Site definition contains information of web parts, lists, features, and
navigation bars to be included in the site.
Site template: A site template provides the basic component and layout of a new site created under
SharePoint. A site template contains specific design information about a site, including the list that is part of
the site, web part pages used in the site, the sites themes and borders, changes to the quick launch bar, as
well as some site content (such as document l ibraries). Site templates are used to allow the rapid creation of
websites and basic content in a SharePoint system.
Following is a list of site templates available.
Template Purpose Category in a Site Collection
Category in the Site
< Select template later>
An empty site for which you can select a template later.
Custom N/A
Basic Meeting Workspace
Sites on which you can plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for
managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents.
Meetings Meetings
Blank Meeting Workspace
A blank meeting site that you can customize based on your requirements.
Meetings Meetings
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Blank Site A blank site that you can customize based on your requirements.
Collaboration Blank & Custom
Blog A site on which a person or team can post ideas,
observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
Collaboration Content
Decision Meeting Workspace
A site on which you can track status or make decisions at meetings. It provides lists to create
tasks, store documents, and record decisions.
Meetings Meetings
Document Workspace
A site on which colleagues can work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files,
a task list for assigning to-do items, and a link list to point to resources that are related to the document.
Collaboration Collaboration, Content
Group Work Site This template provides a groupware solution that teams can use to create, organize, and share information. It includes the Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the document
library and the other basic lists.
Collaboration Collaboration
Multipage Meeting
Workspace
A site on which you can plan a meeting and capture the meeting's decisions and other results. It
provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees. It also provides two blank pages that you can customize based on your requirements.
Meetings Meetings
Social Meeting Workspace
A site on which you can plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event.
Meetings Meetings
Team Site A site on which a team can organize, author, and
share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions.
Collaboration Collaboration
Features: Feature is a functional component, which contains various SharePoint elements. Feature can be
activated or deactivated at various scopes throughout a SharePoint instances, such as farm, site collection,
web, etc. Features have their own receiver architecture, which allow you to trap events suc h as when a feature
is installed, uninstalled, activated, or deactivated. User can define several element types in features l ike menu
command, template, page instance, event handler, workflow, l ist instance, l ist definition, and link commands.
Web solution package (WSP): Web solution package is a cabinet file that contains, site and feature
definitions, web part file, templates, assemblies, and code access security policies. It contains a web manifest
that defines the list of features, site definitions, res ource files, web part fi les, and assemblies to process when
the solution is deployed. The directory structure within the cabinet file dictates the resulting structure on the
web front-end computer. WSP creates a fi le with extension .WSP.
SharePoint designer: It is a specialized HTML editor and web design freeware for creating and modifying
Microsoft SharePoint sites and web pages. It is a part of Microsoft SharePoint family products.
SharePoint designer workflow: One of the most powerful features of SharePoint designer is the ability for
non-programmers to create business tailored workflow to improve business process management. SharePoint
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designer workflow is an easy, cheap, and somewhat l imited entry point to wor kflow development. They are
easy because most end users and administrators can become workflow developers without too much training.
Content Editor Web part: It is a universal plug in adapter. It is used to connect SharePoint pages to the rest
of the world. User can use content editor web part to add html/CSS/JavaScript, embed videos or widgets,
formatted text, tables, hyperlinks, images, and display content from other SharePoint sites to a web part page.
Content query web part: Content query web part displays a dynamic set of items based on a query that user
build by using a web browser. The query displays selected items. User can set presentation options to
determine how these items are displayed on the finished page.
Rating: It provides user the ability to rate content (of any type, l ists, documents, pages on a site, and even
content types) and stores that rating information in the database.
Blogs: It is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary,
description of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Enterprise wiki: An enterprise wiki is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of information
across an enterprise.
Tagging: The ability to tag documents enable user to search document easily with keywords.
Recent activity: The recent activity is a helpful way to understand what the person has been working on
recently.
My site: These are the individual mini sites and acts as a central location to view and manage all of a us ers
documents, tasks, etc.
Audience targeting: The content inside lists, libraries, web parts, etc., can be targeted to appear only for the
users who are members of a particular group or audience. The audience can be identified via SharePoint
groups, distribution lists and security groups.
Business intelligence: It provides business intelligence feature that allows tracking key performance
indicators and BI dashboards into the team site.
Business data catalog: Business data catalog (BDC) integrates external data into the SharePoint server. It is a
one-way communication.
Business Connectivity Services (BCS): In SharePoint 2010, it is all about connecting to external data. BCS
enhances the SharePoint platforms capabilities with out-of-box features, services, and tools that streamline
development of solutions with deep integration of external data and services. It is a two-way communication.
Single sign on: It allows users to log on to a variety of applications with the single username and password.
Windows PowerShell: It is the new command line interface and scripting language designed for system
administrators to perform tasks l ike backup, restore etc.
Stsadm: Stsadm is command line utility located at the following path on the drive where SharePoint Products
and Technologies is installed: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin.
Stsadm provides a method for performing the administration tasks l ike backup, restore etc.
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Sandboxed solutions: Sandbox creates a virtual environment, which enables to execute the untrusted
solutions in restricted environment, without affecting actual environment.
Ribbon interface: This act as the UI enhancement in the product. It provides the commands to be executed
in the form of Icons.
ULS Logging: It captures and writes events to trace logs.
Digital asset management: SharePoint server 2010 includes a new asset library specially designed for
managing and sharing digital assets such as audio, video, and other rich media fi les.
Service application framework: It provides a platform that allows developers to build scalable
middle-tier applications.
Claims based authentication: It provides a new authentication model that supports any corporate identity
system like active directory domain services, LDAP-based directories, application-specific databases, etc.
The purpose of claims-based authentication is to make authentication simple for all users. For example, you
may want to setup a SharePoint site that is accessible by both internal and external users, such as clients.
Internal users might use one mechanism such as Windows -based authentication and external users might
want to use another method, such as forms -based authentication. No matter what authentication protocol
was used, your SharePoint application gets a signed set of claims so it has the information it needs about the
user.
Classic-mode authentication: In the classic authentication mode, only mixed-mode authentication is
available. In mixed-mode authentication, a single SharePoint web application has to be extended to additional
IIS applications with different URLs and authentication providers. The same content is used for the different
URLs, but the different authentication providers can change the access users have, and their permissions.
OAuth: is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data. It is also a safer and more secure way for
people to give you access. OAuth is web standard to manage permission and security for modules like App on
web. In simple word OAuth, protocol is used to authenticate and authorize apps and service. User needs
OAuth to use context token.
To authorize requests by an app for SharePoint to access SharePoint resources on behalf of a user.
To authenticate apps in the Office Store, an app catalog, or a developer tenant.
For example, OAuth is used in cases where calls have to be made from a remote web server to SharePoint
2013 on behalf of a user. You would not use OAuth to make a call from the app web or from a remote
webpage using the client l ibrary, for example.
To access resources, an app has to request app permissions. In general, delegated authorization codes or
access tokens are issued by the OAuth security token service (STS). An example of OAuth STS is Windows Azure
Access Control Service (ACS) OAuth endpoi nts. In contrast, the WS-Federation STS and the Security Assertion
Markup Language (SAML) passive sign-in STS are primarily intended to issue sign-in tokens. Social networking: Connects public to MY site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with
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Web Service: Web services are small units of code designed to handle a limited set of tasks. Web service
provides methods that you can use to work remotely with a deployment of windows SharePoint services.
The above-mentioned SharePoint elements and components enable academic institutions to become best. To
achieve the objective of the Academic Institution mentioned in above example, technology Consultant created
Public facing portal with restrictive permissions.
1. SharePoint Internet Portal [www.abcschool.com] can be viewed by anyone contains
a. Master and Content pages
b. Video Web part to display school virtual tour
c. Site Collection & Sites
d. Graphs web part to display the School progress
2. SharePoint Intranet Portal[http://myabcschool :9999] used by school teachers , principal, and students
contains
a. Graphs & Dashboard web part to display the School progress, number of admissions,
dropouts, attendance.
b. Subsites are created to Communicate within Departments.
c. Document Libraries are created for teachers to upload, share the class sessions, notes, and
extra practice exercises.
d. Announcement Web part is used to display Various Announcements, Events, and extra
circular activities information in School.
e. SMS gateway is integrated to send instant SMS for various activities.
f. Login Id s` to view information Real -time to Student Parents being provided which can be
accessed even from home.
g. Students attend virtual Class using Video player web part, from Home.
h. School Communicate with vendors to upload their bills etc. in scanned format same day, and
share any issue and concern using issue tracker web part.
i . Information can be viewed and updated from mobile, with defined SLA.
Principal wants to See Admissions,
Dropouts, Students performances
Principal ask to Teachers and Support Staff
Principal logs on to Portal and see the
Dashboard:no need to ask asnybody
Student not feeling Well didnt went to
school
Student asked home work and notes to Friends
Student Log on to Portal and play the
recorded class room session
Parents sends children School
Parents wait till student come back
from school
As Class Teacher takes attendence in Mobile device: Parents know student reach school
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j. Teachers can write their blogs on various topics and encourage students to do s o.
The above-mentioned usage of SharePoint for Academic institution, demonstrate few abilities but capabilities
of SharePoint are much more is described in subsequent sections.
1.5 Features of SharePoint
As mentioned earlier, SharePoint product family contains many products & evolution of these products started
long back. It contains various features related to CMS, DMS, and RMS. The key versions, which made
SharePoint Popular, are Moss 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 crosses the boundaries of browser and reach at mobile desktop, to enhance the employees
productivity when the users are away from the office. With the enhanced mobility access, employees can
access information, share and edit the presentation or documents instantly.
Microsoft has labeled SharePoint 2010 as a business collaboration platform for enterprises and the web
because it opens up new domains for managing a number of activities from the workplace like:
Document management
Web content management
Workplace collaboration
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 revolves around six pil lars, which covers SharePoint 2010 in entirety.
Sites: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 uses different sites, which help users in getting relevant information quicker.
These sites can be used through internet, intranet or extranet. It enables users to share information, data and
expertise across organizations. Organizations can take advantage of personalization, content management,
and social networking and collaboration activities through any type of site.
Communities: the new version of SharePoint allows users to work together in different ways. Microsoft has
enhanced the social feature of SharePoint 2007 in SharePoint 2010 and has made it look better. Communities
allow people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge, and find information on various topics easily.
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Content: SharePoint content shifts SharePoint 2010 from a departmental solution to an enterprise solution.
There has been massive improvement in content wherein users can add a significant number of documents to
SharePoint. They can even use external data storage options to store more data.
Search: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has acquired FAST search server, user improves the search tremendously.
Now, users not only can search for content, but also people. User can opt for better language options with
thumbnails and previews. User can even sort out the search queries and study similar search to get relevant
search results.
Insights: with the help of SharePoint insights, users can access information through different data sources like
dashboards, scorecards, reports and more. To help users, Microsoft has introduced performance point server
to the SharePoint platform. It is also known as Performance point services for SharePoint. It helps users
discover right people and expertise to make better business decisions.
Composites: SharePoint being a complete platform helps users in creating their code solution on premises or
in the cloud. Complex applications are developed with the help of well -known tools l ike:
InfoPath
SharePoint designer 2010
Visio 2010
SharePoint 2013, provides gamut of new features, however top 10 key features are:
1. SharePoint 2013 Is Cloud Ready
SharePoint 2013 is built to enable and help usher in cloud services. User can run SharePoint 2013 completely
in the cloud through Office 365 and have almost all of the features of SharePoint on-premises. If User wants to
enable every feature of SharePoint 2013 and still stay in the cloud, user can opt for a solution where user can
run it on VMs in the cloud through Windows Azure or Amazon Web Services. If running in the cloud makes
some sense, but user have some features that user want to stay on-premises, user can implement a hybrid
architecture.
Some enterprises are not ready to embrace the cloud just yet, even if they know that cloud services will be in
their infrastructure within the next couple of years to be forced upon. User can still do everything on premises
in SharePoint 2013 with no help from the cloud at all
2. Workflow Integration with Workflow Manager
In SharePoint, workflow is huge, so it makes sense to talk about some of the improvements in workflow in
SharePoint 2013. For example, SharePoint workflows will now integrate with Workflow Manager.
3. Machine Translation Services
Machine Translation Services is one of the new features of SharePoint 2013. Machine Translation Services
performs automatic content translation by the same Web Services that translate for Bing.
If the content needs to be translated consistently into one or more languages, then the Machine Translation
Service in SharePoint 2013 is going to be a huge help to content creators.
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4. SharePoint Store
This is one of the most recognizably different feature changes in SharePoint 2013. This is not something like
workflow, which already existed and is now made more robust. The SharePoint App Store is something
completely new, where your organization and even individual users can choose to l icense, activate, and use
software within SharePoint.
5. Improved Search Capability
Search is one of the killer features in SharePoint. SharePoint can index websites, SharePoint sites, and even
existing NTFS fi le shares. Analytics is now integrated into the search engine. This is huge, because it modifies
how search results are displayed.
User might think that searching for leave request form would include the content related to the leave
request form that was highly trafficked, and user would be right. However, with integrated analytics,
SharePoint Search identifies that people searching for leave request form it bypasses other content and
chooses the actual leave request form. Once Search learns which content people are actually searching for, the
search results are improved.
Another huge improvement is the ability to use query rules to create promoted results. As in the previous
example, you could specify that when users search for leave request form, they be provided the form they
are looking for as a promoted result.
Search presentation is not the only thing that got an upgrade. Crawling gets a nice feature upgrade, too, with
Continuous Crawl. SharePoint search can now place a content scope under Continuous Crawl," making new
content appears in search results that much faster.
6. Simplified Licensing
This is not so much a feature unto itself, but it is worth mentioning here because the improvements made to
the licensing allow you to get access to features that were previously restricted to additional l icense fees.
FAST Search, which carried with it an additional cost in SharePoint 2010, is now integrated into the SharePoint
2013 search service no extra l icense, no extra fee.
In SharePoint 2010, you also had to take on the more expensive For Internet Sites l icense if your server
provided any services to Internet users. In SharePoint 2013, Internet users are included as part of the Standard
and Enterprise SharePoint Server l icenses. No more FIS l icense concerns.
7. Increased Performance
Performance gains in SharePoint 2013 are widespread. The new version takes a streamlined approach to
handling data from the bits stored on disk to the application presentation. For instance, only data that has
changed on a viewed webpage is sent to the client. Any pieces of the SharePoint s ite that remain unchanged
after the page is updated stays presented from cache. A similar approach was taken at the SQL level: If user
makes a change to a document stored in your SharePoint document l ibrary, only the delta is modified in SQL.
This can have a dramatic performance improvement, especially in cases where the editing of large documents
are taking place.
8. Full Cross-browser Functionality
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SharePoint 2007 was Internet Explorer-only. SharePoint 2010 tried to work with other browsers, but the
differences were apparent and frustrating. Working with Chrome or Firefox would work in some parts of
SharePoint 2010, but for doing some features, you just had to switch to IE to get things done. This was due to
the reliance on Active X to perform site adminis tration. Even though some items could be done in other
browsers, for anything that required Active X you could only perform that in Internet Explorer.
SharePoint 2013 now works with no Active X controls, so you can do everything from working with lists and
sites to fully managing your farm through Central Administration through any modern browser.
9. eDiscovery Advances
Performing discovery for an audit or investigation can be a time-consuming, error prone, and frustrating
process. Unfortunately, it is also a completely unavoidable and mandatory process in many organizations. e-
discovery is the process of identifying data that has been accessed, either edited, or communicated about
either a person or a topic. This is for legal professionals to make a request to give me all of the documents
dealing with X former employee" (or partner, contractor, product, or client).
SharePoint 2013 includes an eDiscovery Center site template; whats more, it makes the process of finding the
data available through Enterprise Wide eDiscovery. Enterprise Wide eDiscovery lets SharePoint 2013 be the
central authority for finding this documentation, whether it exists in an Exchange 2013 mailbox, Lync 2013, a
SharePoint site, a searched website, or an NTFS share.
If the legal team needs to find all data relevant to their investigation, a discovery can be completed quickly and
the results saved off in a format that can be accessed later.
10. OData Connections in Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services is not new, but l ike workflow and search, its such a huge part of SharePoints
successful features, that its improvements are worth mentioning. Especially this one, because SharePoint
already did a great job of surfacing data from external sources through Business Data Connectivity, that the
inclusion of OData is the frosting on the cake.
For those that are not aware of OData, it is a protocol for posting data to the web, can be used to connect to
web data:
Netflix
Ebay
DBPedia (an OData representation of Wikipedia)
Datalab
Pluralsight
Stack Overflow
TechEd 2013
Twitpic
Server Fault
Research.microsoft.com
In addition, not only are websites making their data accessible through OData, but other applications make
their data available as OData producers, too.
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SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Team Foundation Server
SQL Server 2012
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Windows Azure Table Storage
Sitefinity CMS by Telerik
1.6 Differences in SharePoint Versions
SharePoint since its history comes in various versions:
1. Windows Shared Services 3.0
2. MOSS 2007
3. SharePoint 2010 Foundation/Standard/Enterprise 2010
4. SharePoint Server 2013 Foundation/Standard
5. SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
Below are the tables l isting the key differences among the key SharePoint versions:
1.6.1 WSS 3.0 vs. MOSS 2007
Feature Name / Area WSS (3.0) MOSS 2007
Collaboration
Standard site templates Inc. Inc.
Social networking web part N/A New
Wikis Inc. Inc.
Blogs Inc. Inc.
Email integration Inc. Inc.
Document collaboration Inc. Inc.
Real time presence and communication
Inc. Inc.
Enterprise Portal N/A
My site personal site N/A New
User profiles N/A New Audience targeting N/A New
Site Manager N/A New
Mobile device support Inc. Inc.
Colleagues and membership web parts
N/A New
Privacy & Security N/A New
Content syndication N/A New
Integration with SharePoint designer (FrontPage technology)
Inc. Inc.
Integration with outlook 2007 Inc. Inc.
Integration with access, excel, PowerPoint, word 2007
Inc. Inc.
Enterprise search
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Feature Name / Area WSS (3.0) MOSS 2007
Search results Inc. Inc.
Enterprise content sources N/A New
People search N/A New
Business data search N/A New
Indexing controls N/A New
Administration management N/A New
User interface Inc. Inc.
Enterprise content management
Business document workflow support
N/A New
Document information panel Inc. Inc.
WYSIWYG web content editor N/A New
Page layouts N/A New
Navigation controls N/A New
Content authoring N/A New
E-mail content as records N/A New
Records repository N/A New
Business process forms
Browser based forms N/A New
Centralized forms management and control
N/A New
Compatibil ity checker N/A New
Integrated deployment model for No code forms
N/A New
Form import wizard N/A New
Design once development model N/A New
Business intelligence
Business data catalog N/A New
Key performance indicators N/A New
Integrated business intelligence dashboards
N/A New
Web based business intelligence
using excel services
N/A New
Data connection libraries N/A New
Business data web parts N/A New
Platform services
Notification service N/A New
Single sign on N/A New
Excel spreadsheet developer reuse and extensibil ity
N/A New
Workflow Inc. Inc.
Support for ASP. Net 2.0 Inc. Inc.
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Inc.-Included, Imp-Improved, New, N/A Not applicable
1.6.2 WSS 3.0 vs. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
Feature Name / Area WSS (3.0) Foundation 2010
Business Connectivity service N/A New
Windows PowerShell N/A New
Sandboxed solutions N/A New
Claims based authentication N/A New
Central administration N/A New
Client object model N/A New
Ribbon Interface N/A New
ULS Logging N/A New
Service application framework N/A New
Upgrade N/A New
Health monitoring N/A New
Audience targeting N/A New
Silverlight web parts N/A New
Browser based customization N/A New
Workflows N/A New
SharePoint designer N/A New
Microsoft synch framework N/A New
InfoPath form services N/A New
Inc.-Included, Imp-Improved, New, N/A Not applicable
1.6.3 SharePoint Server 2007 vs. SharePoint Server 2010
The table presented below will describe the key features between Moss 2007 & SharePoint 2010:
Feature Name / Area SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010
Sites
Office Integration Inc. Imp
Line-of-Business Integration Inc. Imp
Enterprise Management Operations Inc. Imp
Management tools and reporting Inc. Imp
Web Analytics N/A New
Mobile Connectivity Inc. Imp
Full-fidelity viewing N/A New
Editing to mobile N/A New
Contextual Ribbon N/A New
Microsoft Silverlight N/A New
Office Web Applications N/A New
Tagging N/A New
Audience Targeting Inc. Imp
Communities
People profiles Inc. Imp
Photos and presence N/A New
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Feature Name / Area SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010
Micro blogging N/A New
Note Board N/A New
Recent activities N/A New
Organization Browser N/A New
Add colleagues Inc. Imp
Social bookmarks N/A New
Tags N/A New
Blogs Inc. Imp
Wikis Inc. Imp
Enterprise Wikis N/A New
Ratings N/A New
Colleague suggestions Inc. Imp
Keyword suggestions N/A New
Content
Compliance Everywhere N/A New
Flexible Records Management N/A New
Shared Content Types and Managed Metadata Service
N/A New
Content Organizer N/A New
Rich Media Management N/A New
Document Sets N/A New
Word Automation Services N/A New
Support for Accessibility Standards N/A New
Search
People and expertise search Inc. Imp
Search from Windows7 and Windows Mobile
Inc. Imp
Common connector framework for indexing and federation
Inc. Imp
Scale and performance via Imp topology architecture
Inc. Imp
Ability to build search-powered
applications
Inc. Imp
Refinement panel and sorting N/A New
Social behavior improves relevancy N/A New
Thumbnails, previews, and view in browser
N/A New
Advanced content processing with
strong linguistics
N/A New
Insights
KPI details N/A New
Dashboard Designer Inc Imp
Enhanced navigation, including fi ltering and sorting
N/A New
Publish more workbooks N/A New
JavaScript Object Model N/A New
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Feature Name / Area SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010
PowerShell scripting N/A New
Richer fidelity with Excel workbooks N/A New
Support for Analytical Services formatting
N/A New
Additional data sources, including external lists and "Power Pivot" workbooks (naming to come)
N/A New
Imp strategy map connection and
formatting
N/A New
Seamless management of dashboard content
Inc. Imp
Integrated fi lter framework N/A New
Calculated KPIs N/A New
Imp visualizations N/A New
Chart Web Parts N/A New
Business Intell igence Centre N/A New
Composites
Browser-based customizations Inc. Imp
Business Connectivity Services N/A New
SharePoint Designer Inc. Imp
Human workflow Inc. Imp
Form Services Inc. Imp
Visio Services N/A New
Access Services N/A New
Sandboxed Solutions N/A New
Inc-Included, Imp-Improved, New, N/A Not applicable
1.6.4 SharePoint Foundation 2010 vs. SharePoint Server 2010
Just to say simply, SharePoint foundation is the basic, while SharePoint Server 2010 contains
advanced features. Even to install SharePoint Server SharePoint Foundation installation is must. The
basic question remains when to opt for which SharePoint Foundation or SharePoint Server?
The Question is too difficult, but answer is too simple. Answer is Depends on user Requirements
not on Organizational Size
Feature Name / Area SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010
Excel Services N/A New
Visio Services N/A New
Web analytics N/A New
Windows PowerShell Inc. Inc.
Multil ingual interface Inc. Inc.
Ribbon interface Inc. Inc.
Enterprise search N/A New
PerformancePoint services N/A New
Word automation services N/A New
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Feature Name / Area SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010
Sandboxed solutions Inc. Inc.
Business connectivity services Inc. Inc.
Audience targeting Inc. Inc.
Mobile connectivity Inc. Inc.
User profiles and social data N/A New
Enterprise content management N/A New
InfoPath forms services Inc. Inc.
Workflows Inc. Inc.
Query enhancements Inc. Inc.
Inc.-Included, Imp-Improved, New, N/A Not applicable
1.6.5 SharePoint Foundation 2013 vs. SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint 2013 majorly focuses on two core aspects 1. Apps 2. Mobile.
Like previous versions, Microsoft launched SharePoint 2013 also in three editions. The difference in
three is stated below.
Difference in SharePoint 2013 Editions
Category Developer features Foundation Server - Standard
Server - Enterprise
General Access Services NO NO YES
General App Catalog (SharePoint)
NO YES YES
General App Deployment: Auto hosted Apps
NO NO NO
General App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps
NO YES YES
General App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps
NO YES YES
General App Management Services
NO YES YES
General BCS: Alerts for External Lists
NO YES YES
General BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs)
NO YES YES
General BCS: Business Data Webparts
NO YES YES
General BCS: External List YES YES YES
General BCS: OData connector
NO YES YES
General BCS: Profile Pages NO YES YES
General BCS: Rich Client Integration
NO NO YES
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General BCS: Secure Store Service
YES YES YES
General BCS: Tenant-level external data log
NO NO YES
General Browser-based customizations
YES YES YES
General Client Object Model (OM)
YES YES YES
General Client-side rendering (CSR)
YES YES YES
General Custom Site Definitions
NO NO YES
General Custom Site Provisioning
NO NO YES
General Developer Site NO NO NO
General Forms Based Applications
NO YES YES
General Forms on Spreadsheets
NO YES YES
General Full-Trust Solutions YES YES YES
General InfoPath Forms Services
NO NO YES
General JavaScript Object Model
YES YES YES
General List and Library APIs YES YES YES
General Remote Event Receiver
YES YES YES
General REST API YES YES YES
General Sandboxed Solutions YES YES YES
General SharePoint Design Manager
YES YES YES
General SharePoint Designer YES YES YES
General SharePoint Store YES YES YES
General Workflow 2010 (.NET 3.5)
YES YES YES
General Workflow 2010 (out of the box)
NO YES YES
General Workflow 2013 NO YES YES
General Workload API: ECM APIs
NO YES YES
General Workload API: Search APIs
YES YES YES
General Workload API: Social APIs
NO YES YES
General Active Directory Synchronization
YES YES YES
General Alternate Access YES YES YES
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Mapping (AAM)
General Analytics Platform NO NO YES
General Claims-Based Authentication Support
YES YES YES
General Configuration Wizards
NO YES YES
General Deferred Site Collection upgrade
YES YES YES
General Distributed Cache YES YES YES
General Host Header Site Collections
YES YES YES
General Improved Permissions Management
YES YES YES
General Improved Self-Service Site Creation
NO NO YES
General Managed Accounts YES YES YES
General Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)
YES YES YES
General OAuth NO YES YES
General Patch Management YES YES YES
General Quota Templates YES YES YES
General Read-Only Database Support
YES YES YES
General Remote Blog Storage YES YES YES
General Request Management
YES YES YES
General Request throttling YES YES YES
General Resource throttling YES YES YES
General Service Application Platform
YES YES YES
General SharePoint Health Analyzer
YES YES YES
General SharePoint Online Admin Center
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General Shredded Storage YES YES YES
General Site Collection Compliance Policies
NO YES YES
General Site Collection Health Checks
YES YES YES
General State Service YES YES YES
General Streamlined Central Administration
YES YES YES
General System Status NOtifications
YES YES YES
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General Unattached Content Database Recovery
YES YES YES
General Upgrade evaluation site collections
YES YES YES
General Usage Reporting and Logging
YES YES YES
General Windows PowerShell Support
YES YES YES
Content Accessibility Standards Support
YES YES YES
Content Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support
YES YES YES
Content Auditing NO YES YES
Content Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes)
NO YES YES
Content Auditing of View Events
NO YES YES
Content Content Organizer NO YES YES
Content Design Manager YES YES YES
Content Document Sets NO YES YES
Content Document Translation in Word Web App
YES1 YES1 YES1
Content eDiscovery NO NO YES
Content External Sharing: External Access
NO NO NO
Content External Sharing: Guest Link
NO NO NO
Content Folder Sync NO YES YES
Content Information Rights Management (IRM)
NO YES YES
Content In-Place Hold YES YES YES
Content Managed Metadata Service
NO YES YES
Content Metadata-driven Navigation
NO YES YES
Content Multi-stage Disposition
NO YES YES
Content Office ProPlus (Osub) NO NO NO
Content Office Web Apps (edit)
YES1 YES1 YES1
Content Office Web Apps (view)
YES1 YES1 YES1
Content Office Web Apps Server integration
YES YES YES
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Content PowerPoint Automation Services
NO YES YES
Content Preservation hold library
NO NO YES
Content Quick Edit YES YES YES
Content Related Items YES YES YES
Content Rich Media Management
NO YES YES
Content Shared Content Types
NO YES YES
Content SharePoint Translation Services
YES YES YES
Content Site mailbox NO YES2 YES2
Content Unique Document IDs
NO YES YES
Content Video Search NO NO YES
Content WCM: Analytics NO YES YES
Content WCM: Catalog NO NO YES
Content WCM: Cross-site publishing
NO NO YES
Content WCM: Designer Tools NO YES YES
Content WCM: Faceted navigation
NO NO YES
Content WCM: Image Renditions
NO NO YES
Content WCM: Mobile and Device Rendering
NO YES YES
Content WCM: Multiple Domains
NO NO YES
Content WCM: OOTB Recommendations Webparts
NO YES YES
Content WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO)
NO YES YES
Content WCM: Topic Pages NO NO YES
Content Word Automation Services
NO YES YES
BI Business Intelligence Center
NO NO YES
BI Calculated Measures and Members
NO NO YES
BI Data Connection Library
NO NO YES
BI Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts
NO NO YES
BI Excel Services NO NO YES
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BI Field list and Field Support
NO NO YES
BI Filter Enhancements NO NO YES
BI Filter Search NO NO YES
BI PerformancePoint Services
NO NO YES
BI PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration
NO NO YES
BI Power View NO NO YES
BI PowerPivot NO NO YES
BI Quick Explore NO NO YES
BI Scorecards & Dashboards
NO NO YES
BI SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode
NO NO YES
BI SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode
NO NO YES
BI Timeline Slicer NO NO YES
BI Visio Services NO NO YES
Search Advanced Content Processing
YES YES YES
Search Content Search Web Part
NO NO YES
Search Continuous crawl YES YES YES
Search Custom entity extraction
NO NO YES
Search Deep links NO YES YES
Search Event-based relevancy
NO YES YES
Search Expertise Search YES YES YES
Search Extensible content processing
NO NO YES
Search Graphical refiners NO YES YES
Search Hybrid search YES YES YES
Search Managed navigation NO YES YES
Search On-premises search index
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Search Phonetic name matching
YES YES YES
Search Query rulesAdd promoted results
NO YES YES
Search Query rulesadvanced actions
NO NO YES
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Search Query spelling correction
YES YES YES
Search Query suggestions NO YES YES
Search Query throttling NO YES YES
Search Quick preview YES YES YES
Search Recommendations NO YES YES
Search Refiners YES YES YES
Search RESTful Query API/Query OM
YES YES YES
Search Result sources YES YES YES
Search Search connector framework
NO NO NO
Search Search results sorting YES YES YES
Search Search vertical: Conversations
NO YES YES
Search Search vertical: People
NO YES YES
Search Search vertical: Video
NO NO YES
Search Tunable Relevancy NO NO NO
Sites Change the look YES YES YES
Sites Connections to Microsoft Office Clients
YES YES YES
Sites Cross Browser Support
YES YES YES
Sites Custom Managed Paths
YES YES YES
Sites Governance YES YES YES
Sites Large List Scalability and Management
YES YES YES
Sites Mobile Connectivity YES YES YES
Sites Multi-Lingual User Interface
YES YES YES
Sites My Tasks YES YES YES
Sites OOTB Web Parts YES YES YES
Sites Permissions Management
YES YES YES
Sites Project functionality for team sites
YES YES YES
Sites Project site template YES YES YES
Sites Project Summary web part
YES YES YES
Sites Project workspace YES YES YES
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Sites SharePoint Lists YES YES YES
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Sites SharePoint Ribbon YES YES YES
Sites Task list YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: Drag & Drop
YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: NOtebook YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: Simplified Access
YES YES YES
Sites Templates YES YES YES
Sites Themes YES YES YES
Sites Work Management Service
YES YES YES
Sites Usage Analytics YES YES YES
Social Ask Me About NO YES YES
Social Blogs YES YES YES
Social Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation
NO YES YES
Social Community YES YES YES
Social Company Feed YES YES YES
Social Follow NO YES YES
Social Microblogging NO YES YES
Social Newsfeed NO YES YES
Social One Click Sharing NO YES YES
Social People, Sites, Document Recommendations
NO YES YES
Social Personal Site NO YES YES
Social Photos and Presence YES YES YES
Social Profile NO YES YES
Social Ratings NO YES YES
Social Site Feed YES YES YES
Social Skydrive Pro NO YES YES
Social Tag profiles NO YES YES
Social Tasks integrated with Outlook
NO YES NO
Social Trending Tags NO YES YES
Social Wikis NO YES YES
Add-Ons Additional Storage - - -
Add-Ons App Hosting: Base - - -
Add-Ons App Hosting: Per User
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Add-Ons Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services
- - -
Add-Ons Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code
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1.6.6 NET vs. SharePoint
There is lots of difference between both technically, but the key lies in understanding the User
requirements. In Simple terms, the key differences are:
Feature Name / Area .NET SharePoint
Creation Code need to be written even to achieve simple functionality
Lots of pre-defined web parts and elements available no need
to write the code. Time Takes time to create the code and
test Very less time required
Skil led Professionals Skilled professionals are required to
create the functionality
Even novice professionals can
do so easily License Requirement Not required at the time of
deployment of solution Free versions available, but in case of extensive requirements
License is required
Key points
1. SharePoint is a tool, used to build portals, collaboration, and content management sites. It also
supports document management and record management.
2. It is built on the .NET platform and its versions are:
Microsoft SharePoint 2001
Microsoft SharePoint Portal server 2003
Microsoft Office SharePoint server 2007
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
3. SharePoint Server is based on the technology called windows shared services [WSS].
4. WSS is freely available (downloadable) product.
5. MOSS 2007 is built on WSS and it is l icensed product.
6. Moss 2007 functionality revolves around six pillars, i .e. Collaboration, Portal, Search, Content
Management, Business Process, Business Intell igence
7. Moss features are:
Business intell igence
Business data catalog (BDC)
Enterprise search
User profile support
8. Microsoft SharePoint server 2010 has six pillars, i .e. Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights,
and Composites.
9. Microsoft SharePoint server 2010 features are:
Business connectivity service
Fast search
Sandboxed solution
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Windows PowerShell
Visio service
10. SharePoint 2013 top five features are :
Cloud Ready
Workflow Manager
Translation Service
SharePoint Store
Simplified Licensing
Next in Series
SharePoint 2013 Architecture
The next book in series contains the details about the architecture of SharePoint 2010.
o Architecture Concepts
o Software Application Architecture o Topology, Server and Web service o Web server [IIS], Elements of IIS, Modules of IIS, Authentication modes of IIS
o SharePoint Architecture o SharePoint Interaction, SharePoint IIS Interaction o Difference in User Request Processing in .Net vs SharePoint o Physical folder structure
SharePoint 2013 JumpStart
The series SharePoint 2010 JumpStart by Vishal Gupta comprise 21 eBooks. These eBooks are written in simple language covering all the aspects of SharePoint 2010 and are based on prac tical scenarios with real life
day-to-day examples. Being an architect for mission critical large-scale projects, I am exploring SharePoint for past eight years, and
Microsoft technologies for near about 15 yrs. My focus is to relate the technology with r eal l ife problems in simplistic manner. The eBooks appraises more towards practical approach and issues faced while doing customizations, development and deployment of the SharePoint.
These eBooks can be read and purchased individually by experts as per need, while novice users can purchase them sequentially to become SharePoint 2013 expert.