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Monday 26 August 2013

SharePoint 2013 services, features and much more



SharePoint engineers had left the door ajar to a novel concept, which allows all your employees to work in sync. SharePoint is all about sharing relevant information and business business data. This is typically a service that works as a tool, facilitates the overall collaboration amongst the team members as well as the individuals.
Seamless SharePoint Deployments thus helps in supporting the myriad web applications that work in sync with the extranet, internet, as well as across an enterprise. Simply put, if you are actually using this server, then there is practically no need of using any separate systems for doing any of those separate tasks. Well, with this in place you would be in a better position to perform all actions by one system only. The tool has been specially designed and has been plan fully developed to serve business enterprises. With the SharePoint solution in place corporate would be able to achieve a much greater height. Available as a whole suite it offers a large variety of functionalities. The services can be easily customized with the help of web-parts.
Moreover, SharePoint 2013 services include features, aspects  and APIs that you can use to author, design, brand, and can even extend your site, site design and branding elements, and behaviors.

·        Design Manager: SharePoint 2013 has introduced  Design Manager, quite a new interface and central hub for managing all aspects of branding your SharePoint site. The design manager can be found at the top-level site for your site collection and it enables a step-by-step approach for creating design assets that you can use to brand sites. Upload design assets—images, HTML, CSS, and so on—and then create your master pages and page layouts. With Design Manager in place , you only have to edit the HTML files and you can  continue to write custom master pages and page layouts using your ASP.NET and SharePoint development skills. To put simply, it enables you to design great sites without SharePoint developer expertise.
·        Snippet Gallery: SharePoint engineers offers many ready-to-use components—like Web Parts and controls—that you can add to your site's pages.
·        Content Search Web Part: You can use the Content Search Web Part (CSWP) to display search data on your pages.
·        Other managed metadata improvements for sites: SharePoint 2013 introduces several improvements to the managed metadata UI and functionality.

 So, what’s new in SharePoint 2013?

Enjoy a whole new SharePoint Experience: It’s all new and all fresh and Microsoft further guarantees a novel user experience to the people. The new design is clutter free, clean and simple. It’s easy to get a quick access to docs, news feeds and much more. So what’s more? The all new SharePoint now offers you the ultimate advantage to cater to all your activities even through your handheld devices.

Social Networking is universal here: Microsoft has improved the collaboration tools while adding all rich and enhanced micro blogging, Newsfeeds and better scope for Universal social networking.

SkyDrive Pro: Saving, sharing and remaining in sync, drop dead easy here. The all new SkyDrive Pro has made things simple and realistic. It also offers a staggering level of consistency.

SharePoint Sites : if you have created or followed sites, or even if you are trying to promote any site the "Sites Hub" will show them all in one place. The overall team collaboration tools have been so all encompassing that they can now perform tasks, which people would have only imagined