First Look Clinic: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

•Describe the changes to security and identity management in SharePoint 2013.

Business connectivity and search features provide users with the ability to discover and interact with information seamlessly across SharePoint and other data stores. This module describes the key changes to Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and the search service in SharePoint 2013.

•What’s New in Business Connectivity Services?

•What’s New in Search?

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe the new BCS capabilities in SharePoint 2013.

•Describe the search architecture and changes to the search service in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 includes enhanced support for business intelligence (BI) and SharePoint composites. This module, discusses these changes and examine how they impact the roles of farm and site administrators.

•What's New in Business Intelligence?

•What's New in Composites?

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe the key changes to BI solutions in SharePoint from an administration perspective.

•Describe the new capabilities in SharePoint composites for SharePoint 2013.

Robust and easy to use content management, task management, and records management functionality has long been central to the SharePoint platform. This module, takes a look at the new content management, records management, and compliance features in SharePoint 2013.

•What’s New in Enterprise Content Management

•What's New in Records Management and Compliance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe the new enterprise content management capabilities in SharePoint 2013.

•Describe the new records management and compliance features in SharePoint 2013.

Social computing features and the mobile user experience were major areas of investment in SharePoint 2013. This module, reviews the social changes and examine the improvements for users of mobile devices.

•What’s New in Social Computing

•What’s New for Mobile Users

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe the new social computing features in SharePoint 2013.

•Describe the improvements for mobile users in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 includes new authoring, publishing, and search functionality that makes it more effective as a web content management platform. This module, discusses this new functionality from the perspective of farm and site administrators.

•The Content Authoring Process

•Search-Driven Sites

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe the changes to the authoring process in SharePoint 2013.

•Provide an overview of the new search-driven content features in SharePoint 2013.