“SharePoint 15″ – Its a hot topic in SharePoint world right now and I finally felt a need to write something about it. I am no expert on SharePoint 15 and I have no inside details about what features are included in SharePoint 15 but I have collected few key features that were mentioned by some of the great SharePoint gurus out there. Don’t forget to check the references for them at the end.
Features -
1. SharePoint 15 will include a new SharePoint Apps Marketplace.
2. New App Store Database Provider – App ‘package’ can be configured to use any back-end database that supports the new Database provider interfaces.
3. SharePoint Apps will support multi-tenant installations so that hosting providers can make available the same set of applications to multiple customers.
4. SharePoint 15 gets a new Education module/option.
(Another FYI – Microsoft is also working on making its Office 365 for Education globally available this summer as the successor to Live@Edu. Microsoft plans three pricing/licensing plans for it, namely A2, A3 and A4, the first of them being free for both students and faculty.)
5. SharePoint 15 and Exchange Server 15 are both getting additional built-in information-rights-management (IRM) document-protection functionality as part of the base products.
6. SharePoint Server 15 will also feature Rights Management Services (RMS) integration.
7. SharePoint 15 supports OAuth.
8. MDS or Minimal Download Strategy (MDS allows websites to take much less bandwidth than with traditional technologies.)
9. Project Online: New Project site to manage lightweight projects.
10. Visio cloud service component.
11. SharePoint Duet: A cloud version of the Duet add-on Developed by SAP and Microsoft that allows SharePoint to integrate with SAP applications.
12. Support for viewing business intelligence content on Apple iPad devices.
13. New Versioning – Now you will be also able to version entire parts of SharePoint. An entire site for instance.
14. Improved Client Object Model – The Client Object Model is extended with Search. Also no need to add Form Digest control in your page you can include that in your ClientContext.
References -
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/details-begin-to-leak-on-microsoft-sharepoint-online-2013/12184
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-sharepoint-15-a-2012-release-target-an-app-marketplace-and-more/12002
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-SharePoint-Online-2013-Details-Leak-259172.shtml
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28768&
http://jeffreypaarhuis.com/2012/03/12/whats-new-in-sharepoint-15-sharepoint-2013/
http://www.collaboris.co.uk/blogs/blog-post/mark-jones/2012/01/31/will-sharepoint-15-%282013%29-finally-get-an-app-store-we-think-so
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Showing posts with label SharePoint 15. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint 15. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
What’s NEW in SharePoint 15
Microsoft is, not surprisingly, not commenting. Anyone who is a member of the Technical Preview is, as Hough points out, under non-disclosure. So the answer is: wait and see.
Hough’s post included a thankfully short chunk of standard language: “Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before.”
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to recognize the trends in the market, some of which Hough indicates in his post, including mobile devices, and the blurring of public and private cloud services and on-premise servers and clients.
Social and search are clearly hot, and Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to investing in these spaces over the years.
Microsoft always works to improve scalability and manageability, and the features of SQL Server 2012 and Windows 8 Server certainly point to significant improvements in those areas, as well as redundancy and recoverability.
You’ve got to assume these features will feed up the “stack” into SharePoint’s capabilities.
There are also rough spots and gaps in functionality in the current versions of the product, and Microsoft has proven over the years that it does recognize many of those and fills them as the products evolve.
So there’s a lot of incredible opportunity for Microsoft to hit it out of the park with Office 15. My hope is that, for the enterprise, the impact of Office 15 could be as significant and valuable as what we’re seeing with the potential of Windows 8 in the client and consumer space.
It’s going to be a very interesting ride, and I look forward to reporting developments to you as Microsoft releases information.
Hough’s post included a thankfully short chunk of standard language: “Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before.”
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to recognize the trends in the market, some of which Hough indicates in his post, including mobile devices, and the blurring of public and private cloud services and on-premise servers and clients.
Social and search are clearly hot, and Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to investing in these spaces over the years.
Microsoft always works to improve scalability and manageability, and the features of SQL Server 2012 and Windows 8 Server certainly point to significant improvements in those areas, as well as redundancy and recoverability.
You’ve got to assume these features will feed up the “stack” into SharePoint’s capabilities.
There are also rough spots and gaps in functionality in the current versions of the product, and Microsoft has proven over the years that it does recognize many of those and fills them as the products evolve.
So there’s a lot of incredible opportunity for Microsoft to hit it out of the park with Office 15. My hope is that, for the enterprise, the impact of Office 15 could be as significant and valuable as what we’re seeing with the potential of Windows 8 in the client and consumer space.
It’s going to be a very interesting ride, and I look forward to reporting developments to you as Microsoft releases information.
WHEN will Office 15 release?
The Technical Preview milestone means that select customers can access the products now, or very soon. These customers typically have a tight support relationship with Microsoft during the preview.
While most customers will work with the product in non-production environments, my experience has been that some push the envelope and the limits of “bleeding edge.” Either way, when something goes wrong, Microsoft works to understand the problem, to support the customer, and to gain in-the-field experience with customer usage and product performance, to improve the product before releasing it as a public beta.
The Office 14 technical preview launched in July of 2009 and the public beta was announced at the SharePoint Conference and made available in November of 2009. That’s approximately four months of technical preview.
If I were a marketing wiz at Microsoft, I’d look at the calendar and spot TechEd North America and Europe in June—four months away—as a great place to pull back the curtain on such a significant overhaul of Microsoft’s lineup of non-OS products.
Doing the math, and looking at the calendar, I can certainly make educated guesses. I’d expect Microsoft to have ambitious targets, but to maintain its traditional public stance of “it’s ready when it’s ready.” Mary Jo Foley reports that her contacts peg the release by the end of the calendar year.
In any event, it’s clearly going to be in Microsoft’s next fiscal year, which runs July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.
It’s also obvious that, regardless of the exact product release date, the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas will be well enough into the product release cycle to be chock-a-block with Wave 15 information.
HOW can I get my hands on it?
Right now, you cannot, unless you or your company are members of the Technical Preview, which according to Hough is already full. Keep in mind that Technical Preview used to be called Beta 1.The product is not meant to be production ready at this stage, and Microsoft’s goal with the preview is to incorporate customer feedback into the product.
Office 15 Technical Preview
Microsoft announced the launch of the Office 15 Technical Preview on January 30. There’s some big news in the short announcement made on the Office Team Blog. Let’s dissect the announcement and get answers to the questions that I hear from people about the next version of Office and SharePoint.
As announced by PJ Hough, the Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office Division, Office 15 reached the Technical Preview milestone on Monday. As word spread like wildfire, the most common questions are these: What’s Office 15? When will it be released? How do I get my hands on it? and, of course, What’s new?
‘Softies regularly refer to this new generation as “Wave 15.” And “wave” might be an understatement: tsunami is more like it. Microsoft’s ambitions are huge, as reported by Hough:
"With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio."
Read this statement again folks: Microsoft is publicly saying it will update cloud services (Office 365), servers (SharePoint, Exchange and Lync), mobile and PC clients simultaneously. Unified communications (Lync/Exchange), Office apps, and collaboration, all at once. Holy upgrade, Batman! That’s huge!
There had been buzz about Microsoft releasing one side or the other (on-premises versus in the cloud) “first.” You might remember that Office 365 launched a full year after the on-prem version of SharePoint.
Not so this time around. Looks like Microsoft is delivering on its promise to be “all in” with the cloud this time around.
As announced by PJ Hough, the Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office Division, Office 15 reached the Technical Preview milestone on Monday. As word spread like wildfire, the most common questions are these: What’s Office 15? When will it be released? How do I get my hands on it? and, of course, What’s new?
WHAT is Office 15?
“Office 15” is the code name for the next versions of Microsoft Office products and services, just as “Office 14” was the code name for what became Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Visio 2010. Of course, the name of the product will likely change and I can’t imagine Microsoft straying from the decade-old trend of branding the product with the year—for example “Office 2012” or “Office 2013.” But, for now, it’s “Office 15” and you’ll hear its components referred to with the 15 moniker for coming weeks and months: SharePoint 15, Outlook 15, Visio 15.‘Softies regularly refer to this new generation as “Wave 15.” And “wave” might be an understatement: tsunami is more like it. Microsoft’s ambitions are huge, as reported by Hough:
"With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio."
Read this statement again folks: Microsoft is publicly saying it will update cloud services (Office 365), servers (SharePoint, Exchange and Lync), mobile and PC clients simultaneously. Unified communications (Lync/Exchange), Office apps, and collaboration, all at once. Holy upgrade, Batman! That’s huge!
There had been buzz about Microsoft releasing one side or the other (on-premises versus in the cloud) “first.” You might remember that Office 365 launched a full year after the on-prem version of SharePoint.
Not so this time around. Looks like Microsoft is delivering on its promise to be “all in” with the cloud this time around.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
7 SharePoint Predictions For 2012
Dan Holme, AvePoint's Chief SharePoint Evangelist, posted the following hot post.
One feature that could be added to Office 365 in the near future is the introduction of an ‘app store’ for SharePoint solutions. In addition, the cloud is also likely to be used more and more as a replacement for temporary infrastructure, becoming a replacement for SharePoint development, testing and proof of concept due to its scalability and flexibility.
The increase in data will drive businesses to implement governance across their SharePoint deployments in order to better manage the content while at the same time ensuring that the data is not accessed by unauthorised personnel. As such, 2012 will see businesses develop governance plans that include input from both a business and IT perspective, imposing stricter rules on access and data management.
Alongside this, organisations are starting to apply ECM methodologies, such as taxonomy and document holds in SharePoint. This will encourage businesses to focus even more on governance and planning.
2012 is set to be a year when businesses will change and develop the ways in which they use and interact with SharePoint. There will be a greater emphasis on governance and planning, and businesses will also look to unlock SharePoint’s full potential through its cloud, mobile and social features. Where SharePoint doesn’t improve natively, third party vendors will offer a solution to help companies maximise the value of this collaboration platform.
2012 will no doubt be another strong year for SharePoint, and this summer Microsoft will release the public beta of the next version of SharePoint, currently code named “SharePoint 15,” and many pundits expect Microsoft to make a big announcement at SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas – watch this space!
1. The Forecast: Cloudy
With the introduction and success of Office 365, 2012 will see more businesses looking to take advantage of the cloud. As additional functionality is introduced to the online platform to bring features up to par with on-premise SharePoint 2010 environments, collaborative workloads such as team sites and extranets are likely to be migrated into the cloud, allowing anytime, anywhere access to business data. Businesses are likely to take a ‘best of both worlds’ approach by buying into hybrid solutions and plugging the gaps between on premise and cloud with the help of third-party software.One feature that could be added to Office 365 in the near future is the introduction of an ‘app store’ for SharePoint solutions. In addition, the cloud is also likely to be used more and more as a replacement for temporary infrastructure, becoming a replacement for SharePoint development, testing and proof of concept due to its scalability and flexibility.
2. Tighter, Stricter, Stronger
Governance will be an important trend in 2012, as the amount of data that businesses are required to store continues to grow. In fact, a study released by research firm IDC, Extracting Value from Chaos, states that the world’s data is doubling every two years. This is making it increasingly difficult to find documents and manage site sprawl.The increase in data will drive businesses to implement governance across their SharePoint deployments in order to better manage the content while at the same time ensuring that the data is not accessed by unauthorised personnel. As such, 2012 will see businesses develop governance plans that include input from both a business and IT perspective, imposing stricter rules on access and data management.
3. Consumerisation of IT
Consumerisation was huge in 2011 and is primed to continue in 2012. A wide variety of computing devices, tools and platforms have permeated the enterprise, and SharePoint has addressed this consumerisation trend by supporting various browsers, operating systems and devices. However, as it stands, mobile support is very limited and focused only on the Microsoft mobile environment. Analyst firm Forrester Research expects third-party software to make SharePoint more accessible for other prevalent operating systems in the near future.4. Moving onwards and upwards
Businesses that are currently using earlier versions of SharePoint today are likely to focus their attention on upgrading or migrating to SharePoint 2010. New features and functionalities supported by the 2010 platform including, social and enhanced enterprise search functions, are appealing to SharePoint users due to the opportunity for fast return of investment.5. Mind the gap
According to Forrester Research, lack of IT skills is an issue for businesses that have deployed SharePoint. The broad scope of technologies that Microsoft has built into SharePoint creates a complex technical environment. As businesses increasingly acknowledge the need to provide support for continuous improvement, adoption and engagement, training and education will be a priority for SharePoint users. Until administrators are adequately trained to manage this evolving platform, the ability to fully optimise SharePoint is limited. This year, third-party vendors will look to address this skills gap and reduce the complexity of SharePoint through automation.6. Taking Control of Data
In 2012, businesses will be looking to concentrate and consolidate content in their SharePoint deployments. Storage optimisation solutions for SharePoint will be the drivers behind this consolidation effort. One such solution is SharePoint’s Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) APIs. However, RBS coding can be complex and time consuming, so expect to see third-party vendors plug this gap through storage optimisation software solutions and solutions that are built directly into the storage hardware.Alongside this, organisations are starting to apply ECM methodologies, such as taxonomy and document holds in SharePoint. This will encourage businesses to focus even more on governance and planning.
7. A little birdie told me….
Social networks are one of the big trends of 2012. Businesses that deployed SharePoint as a collaboration and file share tool are now looking for the next step. Microsoft has been touted as the ‘Facebook for the enterprise’ and is a leader in the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. Businesses will want to take advantage of SharePoint’s new found social capabilities, as well as out-of-the-box enhancements. Expect to see more social features and functions to be added throughout 2012 by both Microsoft and third-party vendors.2012 is set to be a year when businesses will change and develop the ways in which they use and interact with SharePoint. There will be a greater emphasis on governance and planning, and businesses will also look to unlock SharePoint’s full potential through its cloud, mobile and social features. Where SharePoint doesn’t improve natively, third party vendors will offer a solution to help companies maximise the value of this collaboration platform.
2012 will no doubt be another strong year for SharePoint, and this summer Microsoft will release the public beta of the next version of SharePoint, currently code named “SharePoint 15,” and many pundits expect Microsoft to make a big announcement at SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas – watch this space!
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