What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for IT Professionals

1. What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for IT Professionals Oksana Prostakova

3. Agenda • Hardware and Software Requirements • Upgrade and Provisioning • Service Applications and Framework • Performance and Availability

4. Hardware and Software Requirements

5. Hardware Requirements Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx)

6. Software Requirements Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Provides support for Windows PowerShell 3.0 Provides support for Windows PowerShell 3.0 .NET Framework 4.0 .NET Framework 4.5 Windows Server 2012 Prerequisites Windows Management Framework 3.0 Application Server Role Web Server (IIS) Role Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Update for the .NET Framework 4 (KB2468871) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Native Client Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405) Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) Windows Server AppFabric Windows Identity Foundation v1.1 Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client Microsoft WCF Data Services Provides in memory distributed caching Provides in memory distributed caching Provides support for information protection Provides support for information protection Windows Management Framework 3.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Update for the .NET Framework 4 (KB2468871) Enables the creation & consumption of OData services Windows Server AppFabric Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client Microsoft WCF Data Services Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx)

7. Software Requirements 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2Service Pack 1 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2012 Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx)

8. Deployment Scenarios

9. Upgrade and Site Provisioning

10. Upgrade and provisioning • In-place upgrade is not supported • The database-attach method is the only supported way • Upgrade process now separates the upgrade of software and databases from the upgrade of the SharePoint sites

11. System Status Notifications • Enables customizable integrated system notifications • Available upgrade • Read-only mode • Scheduled maintenance Plan for site collection upgrades in SharePoint 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff191199(v=office.15)#Notifications

12. Schema vs. Site Collection Upgrade • Separation of schema and site collection upgrade • Schema is upgraded to SharePoint 2013 and run with SharePoint 2010 features and visuals • Enables Deferred Site Collection Upgrade Schema SharePoint Server 2013 Site Collection Site Collection Site Collection … SharePoint Server 2010 What's new in SharePoint 2013 upgrade (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee833948(v=office.15)

13. Deferred Site Collection Upgrade • Enables existing SharePoint 2010 site collections to work unchanged in SharePoint 2013 • No SharePoint 2010 installation required • SharePoint 2013 has all required SharePoint 2010 files included • Default state for all Site Collections in upgraded databases Upgrade a site collection to SharePoint 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219650(v=office.15)

14. Site Collection Health Checks • Rule-based health checks and validation • Exposed to Site Collection Administrators (cmdlets for Farm Administrators) • Identifies common known issues • Missing Features and Templates • Helps address post-upgrade issues: • I.e. (Un-ghosted files) • Site collection level scoped tool • Runs automatically before Site Collection version to version upgrade • Prevents upgrade if blocking issues detected • Does not run before any build to build upgrades Run site collection health checks in SharePoint 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219720(v=office.15)

15. Evaluation Site Collections • Evaluation site collections • Allows Site Collection Administrators to preview SharePoint 2013 w/o upgrading production Site Collection • Enabled through a copy of production Site Collection • Takes advantage of SQL Snapshots where availableCauses no read-only outage as source is snapshot • Available in SQL Enterprise and SQL Developer editions • Uses site collection backup process where SQL Snapshots are not supported Plan for upgrade evaluation sites (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219720(v=office.15)

16. Site Provisioning Modes PAGE RENDERING COEXISTENCE 15 MODE SITE PAGE 14 MODE SITE PAGE • Selective provisioning • Enables provisioning of backward compatible Sites and Site Collections • Webs are provisioned to site collection experience, i.e. SharePoint 2010 site collection provisions SharePoint 2010 Webs IN-PROCESS REQUEST ROUTING WSE/15/Templates/Layouts WSE/15/Templates WSE/14/Templates/Layouts WSE/14/Templates PAGE PAGE /_layouts/ /_layouts/15/ CODE CODE 15 ASSEMBLY 14 ASSEMBLY REDIRECT POLICY SHAREPOINT 2013 APP PROCESS SPACE SP15 CONFIG DATABASE SPSITE SPSITE SPWEB SPWEB SP15 CONTENT DATABASE Plan for site collection upgrades in SharePoint 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff191199(v=office.15)#Notifications

17. Related sessions • 11:30 IT PRO track • Upgrade to SharePoint 2013. What is new and how to make it easy? • RobiVončina

18. Service Applications

19. Service Applications • Not so much changed • New service applications: • Application Management Service • SharePoint Translation Services • Work Management Service • PowerPoint Automation Service • Changed service applications: • Search and web analytics • Office web applications • and more… ;)

20. User Profile Service Active directory direct import Active directory forest with multiple domains, one connection per domain Selection of ous from which to import Import user and group objects Simple text-filters written in LDAP syntax Full and incremental import You can switch back between FIM and AD direct Overview of the user profile service application in SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662538(v=office.15)

21. User Profile Replication Engine Native User Profile Replication Engine No longer shipped as an Administration Toolkit component

22. My Sites and Social Data • Social data stored in content databases versus social database • Social feeds come out of the content database(s) for My Sites • Improves scale and resiliency for social features • Mitigates issues surrounding I/O constraints versus single social database in SharePoint 2010 • My Sites required for some social features • Newsfeed • Following • Social Tags and Notes

23. App Management Service Market Place Corporate Catalog • Provides Market Place and Corporate Catalog Services • Marketplace • Public • Microsoft managed • Corporate Catalog • Private • IT managed On-premise Office 365 Apps you can add asset library announcements contacts calendar

24. Business Connectivity Services Application Server OData • OData support • Support for Open Data (OData) BDC connections, data connections for Windows Communication Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, and .NET assemblies • Support for SharePoint Apps • New App-Scoped BDC Models • External list enhancements Apps Browser Web Parts External Lists Database WCF Metadata Cache BDC Runtime Web Services Client SSO Client Application Server Business Connectivity Services Secure Store Service Database Server Metadata Secure Store

25. SharePoint Translation Service I love SharePoint أنا أحب SharePoint Ich liebe SharePoint • Provides machine-translation services • Translate text from one natural language to another • Cloud-based translation services • Based on WAS architecture • Supports synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming data access • Translates documents, pages, and sites • Extensible • Full trust solutions, REST, and CSOM support Ik hou van SharePoint SharePoint を愛する Me encanta SharePoint Я люблю SharePoint machine translation

26. Work Management Service Provides Task aggregation across work management systems SharePoint Server Exchange Server Read by 3/1/2012 Read by 3/1/2012 Read by 3/1/2012 Microsoft Lync Project Server

27. PowerPoint Automation Service PPTX PDF • Provides file conversation • Similar service as Word Automation Service • Business scenarios • Requirements to convert large amount of old PPT format files to PPTX • Convert presentations from PPTX format to some

28. Improved WAC Urls SharePoint 2010 http://sharepoint/sites/sp15ignite/_layouts/WordViewer.aspx?id=/sites/sp15ignite/Program%20Documents/Outline.docx&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fsharepoint%2Fsites%2Fsp15ignite%2FProgram%2520Documents%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx%3FPaged%3DTRUE%26p5FSortBehavior3D0%26p5FFileLeafRef3Dfbb6fa52%252d91c8%252d42b3%252db7b4%252d26fc586e3e01%252eonebin%26p%5FID%3D777%26PageFirstRow%3D301%26%26View%3D%7B0B08DC31%2D658A%2D42CC%2D98CE%2D996BA18C5DD8%7D&DefaultItemOpen=1&DefaultItemOpen=1 SharePoint 2013 http://sharepoint/sites/sp15ignite/Program%20Documents/Outline.docx?Web=1 Office Web Applications • Separated into new server product • Provides services to: • One or more SharePoint Farms • Exchange Server • Lync • Url accessible File Servers • 3rd party document stores (I.e. Oracle UCM, EMC Documentum, etc

29. Web Analytics analyze data • Service Application removed in SharePoint 2013 • New Analytics Platform based on Search provides: • Find relevant information (improve search relevance) – based on views, click thru, etc. • See what others are looking at (“hot” indicators and usage numbers – i.e. what’s popular based on # of views as well as # of unique users to view) • Understand how much content is being used (i.e. viewed) and how it compares to other documents • See discussion thread usage and find the hot topics • Use this popularity info to populate views through the Content by Search (CBS) WebPart • Extensible for 3rd parties to build into the platform

30. Performance and Availability

31. Minimal Download Strategy • Provides a new navigation framework • Significantly improves page load performance • Navigation within SharePoint feels more like a rich application. • Downloads delta between page requests • Implements a download manager interfacing between controls/content placeholders on page and server to determine what content requires update • Controls and masterpages need to support framework • Supports revert to classic “classic fully rendered page” when controls do not support framework • Can be disabled on per SPWeb basis • Set SPWeb.EnableMinimalDownload to 0

32. Request Management request manager • Prioritizes and routes incoming requests • Route requests to Web servers that have good health characteristics • Identify and block known bad requests • Prioritize requests by throttling lower-priority requests (such as services that run in the background) and serving higher priority requests (such as end user requests) • Route requests of specific types (such as search) to specific servers in the farm Request routing Selects which servers should receive one or more requests Request throttling & prioritization Filters which servers should receive one or more requests based on health Request load balancing Selects a servers to route a request based on weighting schemes (i.e. health)

33. Cache Service users New distributed cache service based on Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Caching Leveraged by Authentication Token Caching and Social Feed Features SharePoint 2012 uses caching features that cloud-based cache (Windows Azure Cache) does not support at this time, so only local cache hosts can be used; may change in the future SharePoint ONLY supports the version of “Velocity” (codename) that it ships – you cannot independently upgrade it application tier application CacheVelocity Client/Local Cache database tier database

34. Shredded Storage SQL SQL read &transmitted to client Change stored& merged • Files shredded and stored in SQL Server • Updated bits are mapped to shredded BLOBs • Mitigates request and update roundtrips to WFE(s) WFE Request submitted to SQL Diff submitted to SQL Client Request submittedto WFE Document updates & diff submitted to WFE

35. Related sessions • 11:30 DEV track • Shredded Storage in SharePoint 2013 • Ivan Padabed

36. Data Platform • Data Platform • Conform to SQL Azure compliance criteria • Remove redundant and unused tables and indices to track links • Reduce input/output operations while browsing document libraries • Use of SQL sparse columns to simplify SharePoint database schema and optimize data access

37. Control

38. Licensing Enforcement and Assignement • Enables licensing assignment to Active Directory Security Groups • Accessible through Windows PowerShell • Get-SPUserLicensing • Enable-SPUserLicensing • Disable-SPUserLicensing • Get-SPUserLicense • Get-SPUserLicenseMapping • New-SPUserLicenseMapping • Add-SPUserLicenseMapping • Remove-SPUserLicenseMapping

39. Summary SharePoint Server 2013 is: • a comprehensive solution for connected information work • that preserves structured processes, compliance, IT investment • optimized for the way people work • through an easily-managed and integrated platform

40. Additional Resources • SharePoint Server 2013 Preview IT Professional Reviewer’s Guide [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34023] • SharePoint Server 2013 on TechNet [http://technet.microsoft.com/sharepoint]

41. Thank you!