4. We’re “IT guys” that get our hands dirty.
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5. Who is Theresa Eller?
Experience & Education
• Entrance Software
SharePoint Career Path
•
(Houston, TX)
•
• BA in Public Relations
•
• MA in Teaching & Learning •
with Technology
• Toastmasters International
Member (since 2001)
@SharePointMadam
theresaeller@gmail.com
First SharePoint Site was WSS
Site Owner for Training site
Finance Site Collection Owner
Corporate Trainer for
SharePoint 2010
• InfoPath/Electronic Forms
Advocate
• Farm Administrator/
Production Support
• SharePoint Consultant
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9. Efficiencies for Business Users (1 of 2)
• Drag & Drop files into document libraries
• Up to 100 files
• Add new item now at top of list
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10. Efficiencies for Business Users (2 of 2)
• Sharing (permissions)
• Users can request that
a site, library, or list be
shared with others
• Request must be
approved by owner
• Copy/paste from Word into
Content Editor Web Part
• No extra code to alter formatting
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11. Office Web Apps 2013
• New set of features
• Change tracking
• Comments
• Co-authoring
• Embedding
• Quick (visual) preview
• Share by link
• Can be used outside of SharePoint
• Source: Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration by Shane Young, Steve
Caravajal, and Todd Klindt
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12. Site Mailbox (1 of 2)
• In Outlook, drag
emails, documents,
or attachments into
the site mailbox
• Image Source:
Site Mailboxes in the new Office
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13. Site Mailbox (2 of 2)
• Central filing cabinet
• Place to file project emails and documents
that can only be accessed and edited by site
members
• Emails stored in Exchange
• Documents/attachments stored in SharePoint
• Co-authoring and versioning available
• Requires Exchange/Outlook 2013
• Not available in Outlook Web App
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14. Task Aggregation
• Tasks aggregated from
multiple programs to
one place
• One comprehensive
view of user tasks
• Central point for
managing tasks
• Slide Credit: Understanding Task Aggregation in SharePoint 2013 by Paul Wood
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15. SkyDrive Pro
• Not the same as
your personal
SkyDrive
• Replaces
SharePoint 2010 Workspace
• Allows users to make SharePoint content
available offline
• 100MB storage quota by default
• SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro Blog Post by Ben Niaulin
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17. What’s New in Search (1 of 2)
• FAST now integrated
• Type-ahead (or keyahead)
• Remembers
previously clicked
links
• Search filter options
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18. What’s New in Search (2 of 2)
• Proximity Operators
• NEAR
• Searches for two terms close to each other, with up to
8 words in between
• Searches for second term before or after first term
• ONEAR
• Searches in order (second term after first term)
• Shorten distance between words by using (#)
• e.g., NEAR(4) searches for the terms within four words
of each other
• Continuous Crawling
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19. Quick (Visual) Preview
• View documents without
opening them
• See how many times a
document has been viewed
• Jump to specific sections
with Take a look inside
• PDF preview available with
March 2013 Public Update
for Office Web Apps 2013
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20. Refiners
• Set limits before or
after entering your
search term
• Available with or
without item counts
(where applicable)
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22. 70%
Proportion of companies
using social technologies
90%
Proportion of companies
that report some business
benefit from them
20-25%
Potential improvement possible in knowledge worker
productivity
28
hours
Time each week spent by
knowledge workers writing
emails, searching for
information and
collaborating internally
Statistical Source: McKinsey
• Source: Naomi Moneypenney
• Yammer Presentation at SPTechCon Boston 2013
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25. Yammer Integration
Group Feed
Home Feed
Required Settings
• IE > Tools > Internet Options >
Security tab > Trusted Sites > Sites
• Add the following URLs
• https://*.assets.-yammer.com
https://*.sharepoint.com
https://*.yammer.com
https://login.microsoftonline.com
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26. SPYAM
• Yammer group
dedicated to
SharePoint
professionals
• Ask questions
• Post polls
• Participate in
discussions
• Receive advice
Email me for an invitation to SPYAM!
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27. Community Sites and Portal
• Enhanced version of
discussion boards
• Focus on conversations
• Encourage shared
interests
• Promote gamification
• Badges
• Reputations
• Portal lists all available community sites
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29. InfoPath is NOT Dead
• InfoPath 2013 is not
deprecated
• 2013 is possibly last
version
• Very similar to
InfoPath 2010
• InfoPath Services is
not new or
enhanced
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30. InfoPath Form: Username Field “Breaks”
What We Get
What We Want
• To fix, follow the steps in Lori Gowin’s blog
post:
Upgrading InfoPath and the User Profile
Service Data Connection
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31. What About Access Services 2013?
• Develop Access forms in client, then publish
to SharePoint
• Build a custom web app
• Use a web app template
• Download a web app
from Office store
• Requires SQL Server 2012
• Separate database instance
• No integration with workflows in SP2013
• Future integration is rumored
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33. What Happens to 2010 Workflows?
• SharePoint 2010 Workflow platform has
been carried forward to SharePoint 2013
• Workflows built for SharePoint 2010 will
continue to work in SharePoint 2013
Image Source: MSDN
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34. SharePoint 2013 Workflows
• To use SharePoint Server 2013 workflows:
• Download, install, and configure Workflow
Manager to work with SharePoint Server
• Workflow Manager provides an externalized
host to run workflows
• In SharePoint Designer
2013, choose your
workflow version
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36. New for Site Administrators
• Site collection owners can compare 2010 to
2013 and determine when to upgrade
• Image renditions
• Offer differently sized versions of images
uploaded into SharePoint
• Available only on Publishing sites
• Minimal Download Strategy
• Reload only the elements on a page that differ
from the previously loaded page
• Site feature enabled automatically for Team sites
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37. Different for Site Administrators (1 of 2)
• Create new subsite hidden at
bottom of Site Contents page
• Email a Link to a file is gone
• Instead, right-click file and copy
hyperlink
• Delete unique permissions
• “Inherit Permissions” in SP2010
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38. Different for Site Administrators (2 of 2)
• Site Actions replaced with
Settings icon
• Settings icon returns to right side
• Handy if upgrading from 2007
• Two types of Apps
• Lists and Libraries
• Custom apps from SharePoint store
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39. Improved for Site Administrators
• Out of the box branding
• Composed Looks
• 18 choices with preview
capability
• Color palettes instead of
individual color selections
• Design Manager
• Create custom Master page in HTML
or web development tool
• Edit Quick Launch directly
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