SharePoint Server 2013 Features – Foundation vs Standard vs Enterprise

Access Services 2010

Access Services 2010 allows continued maintenance of SharePoint 2010 Access Service applications by using Access 2010 clients and Access 2013 Preview clients. It doesn’t allow user to create new applications.

Access Services

It allows creation of new Access service applications using the Access 2013 Preview client. You can view, edit, and interact with Access Services database in a browser.

Accessibility Standards Support

Accessibility Standards Support – Most SharePoint user interface (UI) elements, such as links, form controls, and buttons are designed to use Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSA). MSA enables people with disabilities to interact with content by using assistive technologies, such as a screen reader.

Active Directory Synchronization

Advanced Content Processing

Advanced Content Processing – To improve SharePoint Server 2013 search relevance, the document parsing functionality in the content processing component analyzes both the structure and content of documents. Documents parsers extract useful metadata and remove redundant information. For example, parsers extract heading and subheadings from Word documents, and titles, dates, and authors from slides in PowerPoint presentations. For HTML content, redundant generic information such as menus, headers, and footers are removed from document summaries in the search results.

Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)

Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) – Alternate access mappings enable a Web application that receives a request for an internal URL, in one of the five authentication zones, to return pages that contain links to the public URL for the zone.

Analytics Platform

Analytics Platform – The Analytics Platform in SharePoint 2013 replaces the Web Analytics Service application in 2010. Analytics engine has been completely redesigned in SharePoint 2013.

App Catalog (SharePoint)

App Deployment: Autohosted Apps

App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps

App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps

App Management Services

This feature allows you to install apps from the Internal Catalog or the Public SharePoint Store.

Ask Me About

Ask Me About – Ask Me About encourages users to develop and use a community resource that taps into the knowledge of the organization.

Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support

Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support – An Asset Library is pre-configured to use special features that help users manage rich media assets, such as image, audio, and video files.

Auditing

Auditing – Site collection administrators can use the audit feature to track which users have taken what actions on the sites, content types, lists, libraries, list items, and library files of site collections.

Auditing & Reporting

Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes) – Site collection administrators can use the audit feature to track which users have taken what actions on the sites, content types, lists, libraries, and list items of site collections.

Auditing of View Events

Auditing of View Events – Site collection administrators can view audit log reports to determine who is taking what action with the content of a site collection.

Blogs

Blogs – Blogs are similar to Wikis as they allow users to add information, but unlike a Wiki, a blog’s entries are dated and arranged in reverse chronological order (newest first). Under SharePoint, blogs can contain any type of information including text, links, pictures, and other multimedia files.

Business Connectivity Services

With Business Connectivity Services (BCS), you can use SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 clients as an interface into data that doesn’t live in SharePoint 2013 itself. BCS can access external data sources through Open Data (OData), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) endpoints, web services, cloud-based services, and .NET assemblies, or through custom connectors.

BCS: Alerts for External Lists

BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs)

BCS: Business Data Webparts

BCS: External List

BCS: OData connector

BCS: Profile Pages

BCS: Rich Client Integration

BCS: Secure Store Service

BCS: Tenant-level external data log

Browser-based customizations

Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) in SharePoint 2013 provides comprehensive BI tools that integrate across Microsoft Office applications and other Microsoft technologies. These BI tools are: Excel 2013, Excel Services in SharePoint 2013, PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013, Visio Services

Business Intelligence Center

Business Intelligence Center – The Business Intelligence Center site enables you to store data connections, workbooks, reports, scorecards, and dashboards in a central, secure location.

Calculated Measures and Members

Calculated Measures and Members – When you create PivotChart reports of PivotTable reports that use data stored in SQL Server Analysis Services, you can create calculated measure and calculated members for that report.

Change the Look

Change the look – Your website colors, background, and typeface all make up the look of your public website. You can change the look so that it reflects your business brand.

Client Object Model (OM)

Client-side rendering (CSR)

Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation

Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation – SharePoint 2013 Community Sites provide a new set of features to implement game theory, or gamification. One feature is called “Reputation”, where participation earns you points. As you earn points, you earn achievements that are reflected as your reputation. The second feature to point out is called a “Gifted Badge”. The site owner will define a set of badges that allow you to define the name of each badge. Moderators manage the community by setting rules, reviewing and addressing inappropriate posts, marking interesting content as featured discussions, and so on. “Moderation” -Moderators can also assign gifted badges to specific members to visually indicate that the member is recognized as a specific kind of contributor in the community, such as an expert or a moderator. Each community contains information about member and content reputation, which members earn when they actively post in discussions, and when their content is liked, replied to, or marked as a best answer.

Community

Community – In SharePoint 2013, a Community Site is a new site template that provides a forum experience in the SharePoint environment. Use communities to categorize and cultivate discussions among a broad group of people across organizations in a company. Communities promote open communication and information exchange by enabling people to share their expertise and seek help from others who have knowledge in specific areas of interest. You can deploy a Community Portal to promote communities to users within your enterprise.

Company Feed

Connections to Microsoft Office Clients

Content Organizer

Content Organizer – The Content Organizer acts as a gatekeeper for documents. You can automatically manage some important library tasks, such as managing folder sizes and routing documents to different libraries or folders. This not only saves time, but can help make sure that a document library is managed consistently.

Content Search Web Part

Content Search Web Part – The Content Search Web Part (CSWP) is a new feature in SharePoint 2013. It can be most accurately compared to the Content Query Web Part.

Continuous crawl

Continuous crawl – Continuous crawls is a crawl schedule option that is new in SharePoint 2013. It is available only for content sources that use the SharePoint Sites content source type. A continuous crawl starts at set intervals. The default interval is 15 minutes, but you can set continuous crawls to occur at shorter intervals by using Windows PowerShell.

Cross Browser Support

Cross Browser Support – SharePoint 2013 supports several commonly used web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari. However, certain web browsers could cause some SharePoint 2013 functionality to be downgraded, limited, or available only through alternative steps.

Custom Entity Extraction

Custom entity extraction – You create and maintain the custom entity extractor file in a system external to SharePoint 2013 before you import it into SharePoint 2013 to make the custom entity extractor available to the search system.

Custom Managed Paths

Custom Site Definitions

Custom Site Provisioning

Data Connection Library

Data Connection Library – A data connection library is a special SharePoint library that is designed to store and manage shared data connections. These can include ODC files that you create by using Excel.