Shannon Bray - Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions

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• Share . You can share your content and information, spreading it socially, spreading it online, and spreading it easily across multiple places and devices where you might need to interconnect, whether it is on premises, mobile, tablet, in a cloud, or at a client site.

• Organize . This is how you structure and categorize the information, whether it is project, team, or information held in documents using Microsoft Office 2013 applications, such as Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Project, and syncing your content in SharePoint to your desktop with Microsoft SkyDrive Pro.

• Discover . This concept includes connecting people across your organization, the discovery of insights and answers through the use of business intelligence, and finding what youre looking for by using enterprise Search. In this version of SharePoint, Microsoft has invested a great deal of effort into the integration of enterprise Search.

• Build . SharePoint 2013 has undergone major changes to the application model for how to build applications that are hosted on systems that are maintained by organizations, on premises, or when the systems are maintained outside the control of an organization, in the cloud; how to publish these applications internally through a corporate catalog; and how to publish them outside an organization, as well as sharing them across on-premises farms and cloud-based farms through a public store. The new application mode also makes it possible for applications to be shared within Microsoft Office applications using the new Windows 8 interface computers, laptops, Ultrabooks, tablets, and Windows Phone. These are now introduced to the Office 2013 applications.

• Manage . SharePoint 2013 provides better support for managing SharePoint as a platform. It can be run in the cloud with Microsoft Office 365. It contains new archiving, eDiscovery, and case management capabilities that include SharePoint 2013, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, and Microsoft Lync 2013.

You can find more details about Office 365 at office365.microsoft.com.

Microsoft still aims for SharePoint to be a self-service product; that is, a product that provides users with the ability to complete their tasks with no-code solutions by using the browser and Office applications.

SharePoint 2013 consists of two products: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. The exposure of two sets of functionality still exists and is implemented using standard and enterprise client access licenses with a new licensing model. There is no longer a separate Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint. You will find much of the functionality that was included in that product now incorporated as part of SharePoint 2013. Another change is that Office Web Apps (OWA) is a separate product and should be installed on servers on which SharePoint is not installed. Also, if your organization is a heavy user of SharePoint to automate business processes, there are changes that allow you to distribute the workflow business logic onto servers where SharePoint is not installed. How you design your solutions will weigh heavily on the architecture and design strategies that are applied during the planning phases. Because planning is an important aspect, this book also shares with you how SharePoint has changed, what questions you need to ask to be successful in designing the architecture, how service applications work, and much more.