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Notes from Sydney SPUG session

Took some notes today @ Sydney #SPUG session "SharePoint 2013 -Technical Overview" facilitated by Aaron Saikovski from Microsoft:


Took some notes today @ Sydney #SPUG session "SharePoint 2013 -Technical Overview" facilitated by Aaron Saikovski from Microsoft:

1. Search is big in SharePoint 2013 + Exchange 2013

2. Managing risks

  • Central policies 
  • Audit policies 
  • RMS encryption 
  • Info protection and prevention policies 
  • Secure configuration for published environments 
  • Protect and preserve 


3. Manage costs

  • Adaptive cross-premise environments with public and private clouds 
  • Comprehensive I/O performance across disk & data 
  • Storage optimization with Shredded Storage 
  • Application aware routing and management ñ max availability and protects from attack 
  • Unprecedented scale through Distributed Cache
  • Social and security tokens ñ claims. 
  • Rich navigation and performance reduction through Minimal Download. Reduce bandwidth. 


4. Manage time

  • Resilient and simple automation with PowerShell 3.0 
  • Option to upgrade on a site collection level. 


5. Upgrade


  • In-Place upgrade has gone. 
  • Only database attach upgrade. 


6. Service Applications


  • Services can be individually consumed by any Web Application 
  • SharePoint 2010 farms can consume: Search, User Profiles, Secure Store, BCS from 2013. 


New:

  • App Management ñ install SP apps from Office Marketplace or the App Catalog ñ user code service?
  • SharePoint Translation Services ñ simple language translations of Word, PPT, XLIFF files into HTML
  • Work Management Service ñ Task aggregation across systems like SharePoint, Exchange and Project 
  • Azure Workflow Server ñ provides externalized host using REST and OAuth to run workflows 
  • Office Web Apps ñ no longer a service application. Office Web Apps are decoupled from SharePoint and require separate server infrastructure. 
  • Web Analytics ñ no longer a service application. Now part of search role. 


7. Search


  • Has been combined into a single enterprise search platform (FAST + SP Search = Enterprise Search) 
  • Deeply integrated into the platform. Social, eDiscovery, Analytics etc. 
  • New topologies, components and features to consider 
  • Scaling and sizing guidance is currently in progress "Continuous crawling" of SharePoint sources 
  • Easier to manage and failover 
  • Keep an eye on TechNet for Upgrade guidance 


Things


  • No more Search Server Express 
  • SkyDrive Pro is an evolution of SharePoint Workspace. 
  • Users must have a My Site created in order to use all social features. 
  • Document preview from Search Results. Needs Office Web Apps. 
  • You can use any Web authoring tool to customize SharePoint pages 


Key Takeaways


  • Plan for Claims Authentication ñ Default 
  • Design for Cloud (Private/O365/Azure/Hybrid) 
  • There are MANY changes 
  • Don't be afraid to scale 
  • Refer to TechNet for guidance 
  • SharePoint 2013 is still a beta product!!

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