1. 2013
Sneak Peek
By K.Mohamed Faizal ,
Lead Consultant, Chief Architect Office
SharePoint community @ NCS - 17th Sep. 2012
www.zquad.in / @kmdfaizal
The content published in this presentation are completely my working opinion & does not reflect any views of my employers.

2. Usual Disclaimer:
All content in this presentation is for
information purposes only with no warranty
or guarantees regarding its accuracy
All product names, logos, brands and other
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respective trademark holders

4. Outline
Share Organize Discover
Design &Build Manage IT Pro Developer

5. Share Ideas

6. Social net @ Work
Post updates to let your
colleagues know what
you’re working on
Follow people, documents
sites and tags
Ask questions ?, Like and
Reply

7. Share content

8. Share Content with Social Power
 Communities
 Community sites with self-service
administration and moderation
 Modern community features such
as achievements and reputation
 Discussions
 Modern discussion boards
 Blogs
 Client application integration
 Categories, comments, and moderation

10. Streamline common tasks

11. Create Sites in few clicks

12. Securely work together

13. Organize Project and Task

14. Manager your to-do list

15. Keep track on Projects
Integrated task with
timeline
Manage Project with
Shard calendar and
Timelines
Task : Gantt chart view

16. Discover Information

17. Discover relevant results and Grow your next work

18. Discover relevant results and Grow your
next work

19. Design and Build

20. Themes
 The themes engine has been completely reworked
 Everything is now based on HTML instead of proprietary format – including support for HTML5
 PowerPoint is no longer used to create custom themes
 You get much richer themes and common building blocks for customizing them
 A background image, palette and fonts with live preview
 You can “try it out” to see how it looks

21. Theme Gallery
 This is what the new theme gallery looks like, along with a sample of an HTML 5 based
theme:

22. Mobile
 Classic and Contemporary views for mobile
browsers
 Automatic Mobile Browser Redirection
 Target different designs based on user
agent string
 Office Mobile Web Apps
 Excel
 PowerPoint
 Word
 Push notifications

23. Developer Perspective
Change on Developer
Perspective

24. SP App Design A Choice of Three Approaches
Developer-Hosted App
SharePoint
“Bring your own server hosting infrastructure” Your Hosted Site
Cloud-based Apps Web
Developers will need to isolate tenants
Get remote events from
SharePoint
Use CSOM/REST + Azure Auto-Provisioned App Azure
OAuth to work with SP
Windows Azure + SQL Azure SharePoint (from
provisioned invisibly as apps are Web WebDeploy,
installed DacPac)
SharePoint-hosted App
Parent
Provision an isolated sub web on a parent Web
web
• Reuse web elements App Web
(lists, files, out-of-box web parts)
• No server code allowed; use client
(from WSP)
JavaScript for logic, UX
animated

25. BCS & Development environment
Key changes in SP15 for BCS
• OData Support as data source
• Eventing FrameWork for external notifications
• External list enhancements
Development environment setup considerations
• Windows 8 OS supports also 64 bit clients in
Hyper-V
• Cloud based hosting of also development
environments for easy and fast availability and
scale for your team
• Windows Azure Workflow service can be installed
on same server as SharePoint
• Office Web Applications has to be installed on
separate server

26. Windows Azure Workflow in SharePoint 15
 Workflow now treated as a service
 Moved to Windows Azure Workflow
 No longer runs in the content farm
 No longer requirement to run on SharePoint WFE / App servers
 Harnesses the latest workflow technology from Microsoft
 SharePoint deployment drives where workflow runs
 Hosted: Azure Workflow
 On-Prem: Windows Azure Workflow Service
 Improves stability, scalability & transparency

27. IT Pro Perspective
Change on IT Pro
Perspective

28. SharePoint 15 Architecture
In general model has stayed same as in
previous version
Numerous platform level improvements
and new capabilities
 Shredded Storage
 SQL Improvements
 Cache Service
 Request Management
 Themes
 Sharing

29. Service applications in SharePoint 15
New service applications available
and improvements on existing ones
Office Web Apps is no longer a
service application
Web Analytics is no longer service
application, it’s part of search

30. Office Web Apps in Wave 15
3rd party
apps
animated

31. Browser Support Matrix
Browser Supported in 15 Supported with limitations Not tested
Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit) X
Internet Explorer 8 (32-bit) X
Internet Explorer 9 (64-bit) X
Internet Explorer 8 (64-bit) X
Internet Explorer 7 (both) X
Mozilla Firefox (Latest version X
in-market)
Google Chrome (Latest X
version in-market)
Safari (Latest version in- X
market)