New SharePoint templates 2013

SharePoint templates will help users to create the site based predefined features, styles etc. Whenever Microsoft releases a new version, they will come up with additional templates for sites creation.

In this post you will find the what are  the new templates available in SharePoint 2013 which will provide additional features and give more choices for the customer while selection of creating new site.

We will  also see what is the powershell command  that will be used to get all the available templates in SharePoint 2013.

There are few options to find the templates available in SharePoint 2013. One of the options to find the site templates is  

Go to [Central Admin] [Application Management] [Create Site collections under site collection section]

You can see that there are four sections under select a template Collaboration, Enterprise, Publishing and custom. In the below figure the select experience version is 2013.

Please see the below figure for SharePoint 2010 version meetings is the additional template sections, but that has been removed in SharePoint 2013. And few some of the other templates have been removed as well.

I have given the reason at the end of this article  on how SharePoint 2013 support both 2010 and 2013 experience version.

New Site Templates:

Below are the list of new templates available in SharePoint 2013. Some of them really excites the users are developer site and community site.

Community site has major improvements compared to the previous versions of SharePoint.

Collaboration:

• Developer Site
• Project Site
• Community Site

Developer Site:

Developer site templates are used to develop, test and publish apps for office and SharePoint. 

Project Site:

A Site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all Status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.

Community Site:

Community site template for Sharing the information across the organization. Community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a good reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies

Enterprise:

• eDiscovery Center
• Community Portal

eDiscovery Center:

A site to manage the preservation, search, and export of content for legal matters and investigations.

Publishing:

• Product Catalog

Product Catalog:

A Site for managing product catalog data which can be published in an Internet-facing site through search. The product catalog can be configured to support product variants and multilingual product properties. The site includes admin pages for managing faceted navigation for products.

Get all SharePoint templates available:

We can use Get-SPWebTemplate powershell command to get all the available site templates.

#Example of using Get-SPWebTemplate to get list of site templates

Get-SPWebTemplate | FL name,title,CompatibilityLevel > c:\webtemplates.txt

It will generate the output in the below format.

Name               : GLOBAL#0

Title              : Global template

CompatibilityLevel : 15

Features Brief Explaination

In this post we will learn top 10 SharePoint features in the SharePoint 2013 version briefly....

Like every time Microsoft releases the new version of SharePoint, this time also it has come lots of new features which excite each and every one.

List of features:

1. Social:

In SharePoint 2013 the social features have been improved a lot compared to previous version.

Please see the list below of available features in social.

• Can have communities.
• Users can Follow the documents, People, sites, tags, activities etc.
• Easily share the content.
• Improved my sites.
• Save locally.

2. Search:

The major improvement is search in SharePoint 2013. In this version the FAST search is part of SharePoint search functionality.

Web analytics are also part of search to provide more robust reports.

Users can search by metadata, option of previewing the results while configuring the search results and content search webparts

3. Apps for SharePoint:

Apps will be used to provide a  specific functionality of SharePoint sites. By releasing the Apps in this version of the Microsoft and calling everything is an app is making clear that the future is for apps because an end user prospective for them everything is App. Which is a good idea to call it early rather than late. 

4. Online:

• Integration between Desktop and the platform.
• Build for cloud.
• Speeding up the delivery of new features..

5. ECM:

In Enterprise content Management below are new features available in SharePoint 2013.

• Design Manager.
• Cross site publishing.
• SEO enhancements.

6. Workflows:

One of major change is how the workflows will be hosted in SharePoint 2013. It will run in a new service called WINDOWS AZURE WORKFLOW service which will be on a separate server from SharePoint so that in the SharePoint 2013 they have a chance to include loops in workflow actions. Because workflows run on a separate  server, the stability of SharePoint environment will improve.

7. Request management:

Request Management is the new SharePoint feature to control and manage the incoming requests coming through. In this we can set the rules based on the those requests will handled by different WFEs.

8. Drag and Drop:

For an end user prospective this is one of new SharePoint feature which will certainly improve the productivity.

9. Simplified Sharing:

Sharing is easy in SharePoint 2013. In the previous version we call it as assigning permissions for accessing the content of the site.

10. Branding:

For branding in SharePoint can be done by using HTML, CSS, images and so on and uploading them to design manager. The design manager can use to convert the HTML pages into ASP.net master pages which can used in SharePoint.

features of SharePoint

Depending on the business perspective the features of SharePoint are many:

SharePoint Roles in IT industry

SharePoint Roles

In this article I would like to discuss the various SharePoint Roles. SharePoint Roles and Assignment to people is an essential step towards SharePoint project analysis and implementation.

Following are the most important Roles, I could identify here:

• SharePoint Architect
• SharePoint Developer
• SharePoint Designer
• SharePoint Administrator
• SharePoint Trainer
• SharePoint Power User
• SharePoint User

The role involvement is depicted below:

Now let us explore what each Role performs.

SharePoint Architect

Following are the responsibilities of Architect:

• Should be an expert in SharePoint, .NET, and SQL Server
• Analyze requirements and gain business objectives
• Collaborate with Customer
• Define and implement Governance Plan
• Architectural decisions on number of servers, capacity planning, taxonomy, etc.
• Direct developers in building custom solutions
• Direct administrator on SharePoint infrastructure usage
• Configure search center, business intelligence
• Decide on Hold, Retention policies
• Ensure performance and monitoring mechanisms of the implementation

SharePoint Developer

Following are the responsibilities of Developer:

• Develop custom solutions for SharePoint involving Web Parts, Workflows, Object Model
• Submit Deployment Package to administrator
• Should have a good knowledge with SharePoint Out of Box features and programming in .NET
• Responsible for running unit tests, memory tests involved in development

SharePoint Designer

Following are the responsibilities of Designer:

• Expert in HTML, CSS, XML, Master Pages with good understanding of SharePoint features
• Provides customization of SharePoint Site Pages
• Implementation of branding
• Responsible for the non-programming customization's of SharePoint

SharePoint Administrator

Following are the responsibilities of Administrator:

• Expert in SharePoint Out of the Box features, Active Directory, with good amount of networking skills
• Setup Windows Server, SharePoint Servers, Services, Active Directory, IIS etc.
• Monitor the health of Servers, implement retention policies
• Performs Site Collection setup, DNS mapping, users, and Permissions setup
• Assigns new users to groups and sets access to sites based on requirement
• Coordinates with network administrator
• Deploy new solutions, components to SharePoint server
• Executes PowerShell scripts
• Performs backup of content database

SharePoint Trainer

Following are the responsibilities of Trainer:

• Expert in SharePoint from user point of view
• Well knowledge with SharePoint compatible browser, Office applications
• Train customers to a good amount of confidence with implementation
• Train customers in creating Sites, Libraries, Lists and using Office Integration, Search

SharePoint Power User

Following are the responsibilities of Power User:

• Power User is a User with a good amount of knowledge in SharePoint features
• Should be guiding other users during times of difficulties

SharePoint User

Following are the responsibilities of User:

• Should be expert in business functionality and knowledgeable with SharePoint implementation.
• Performs his/her activities through SharePoint.

Please note that Power User and User are scoped from the Customer side. SharePoint Administrator can be from the customer side if it is a customer maintained implementation. In specific scenarios the customer might rely on third party companies to administer SharePoint implementation, where the Administrator will be external to customer premises.

SharePoint 2013 Overview

SharePoint 2013 Overview

• Welcome to the new way to work together. The next version of SharePoint introduces new ways to share your work and work with others, organize your projects and teams and discover people and information.
  

  Share

  Put social to work
  Share ideas, discover answers and keep track of what your colleagues are working with new social features throughout SharePoint.

  Share your stuff
  Publish content to SharePoint from any Office application and share with people inside and outside your organization in a few simple clicks.

  Take SharePoint on the go
  Share documents, update your activity feed and keep in touch with your colleagues from your mobile phone or tablet.
  

  Organize

  Keep projects on track
  Organize all your projects and tasks to get visibility into upcoming deliverable's across SharePoint, Outlook and Microsoft Project.

  Keep your team connected
  Set up a new team site in minutes track meeting notes and bring together all your team's email and documents in one place.

  Store and sync your docs
  Sync your content in SharePoint to your desktop with SkyDrive Pro, so docs are just a mouse click away, even if you're offline.
  

  Discover

  Find experts you never knew existed
  Connect with people across your organization and easily discover interests, past projects and documents they've worked on.

  Discover insights and answers
  Turn raw data into gorgeous interactive reports with Excel 2013 and publish to SharePoint to share insights with the people you work with.

  Find what you're looking for
  Customize and narrow your search to deliver more relevant results, and get recommendations on people and documents to follow.
  

  Build

  Build apps in the cloud
  Build apps on common web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and oAuth with the new Cloud App Model for SharePoint.

  Publish apps to the SharePoint store
  Make your apps available to everyone to try and buy through the public Store or only available to your employees through the corporate catalog.

  Build eye-catching sites
  Use familiar design tools and flexible controls to create dynamic intranet and internet sites to share your organization's vision with everyone.
  

  Manage

  Manage costs
  Reduce your infrastructure costs and extend the boundaries of sharing by running SharePoint in the cloud with Office 365.

  Manage risk 
  New archiving, eDiscovery and case management capabilities extend across SharePoint, Exchange and Lync.

  Manage your time
  Spend more time delivering innovation and less time managing infrastructure with advances in SharePoint scale, performance and management capabilities.

Installation process of Share Point 2013 from Starting to Ending

Apart from all the installations from starting to ending...
The installation Process till share point 2013 is below...For this all internet connection is needed.. if not, in some installation process is mandatory which i have mentioned there only. 

1. Install Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Operating System..
2. In Server Manager, Add  Features to run all the Features of the Operating system.
3. After completion of all the features the system asked you to restart, then after restart you will get all the 42 of 42 features to b installed in your system
4. Then go to Add Roles in Server Manager and add the Active Directory Domain Services to your system. 
5. Then install network Controller drivers which is suited to your Laptop or a Desktop..
6. Now type DCPROMO in RUN and follow the step in this blog Feature and Roles. For this internet connection is needed.
7. After DCPROMO, system will ask you to Reboot, click on checkbox and system will automatically restart.
8. Update your system. Start\Control Panel\System and Security\Check for updates, For this internet connection is needed.
9. After completion of updates, install MS-OFFICE 2013 setup.
10. After Completion of MS-OFFICE, Go for SQL Server R2 installation.
11. Completion of SQL Server, 
12. Go to start---> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2--->Configuration Tools--->SQL Configuration Manager.
13. In that go to SQL Server Services, Stop the SQL Services(MSSQL) Services in side window.
14. Install the SQLServer2008R2SP1-KB2528583-x64-ENU pack, or you can download the pack by clicking the below link SQL Server 2008R2 SP1 Pack
15. Now coming to Installation of sharepoint 2013, first we have to check the Prerequesities, for this go to share point software and click on prerequisiteinstaller.
16. If you get a success message then directly go to the share point setup, if you didn't get the Success message then you need to install them manually..
17. This failure is due to update OS of your system and internet connection also.
18. For this, go to the link http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/DownloadInstall-SharePoint-e6df9eb8
19. Finally you have to configure the Share point Product configuration.., i.e., Central Administration.. for this follow my blog post which already shown.
20. here is the completion of share point 2013 installation process.

Step by step installation process for Sql Server.....

Here are the steps....

 click Installation on the left to display the installation options. We are then going to select New Installation or Add Features to an existing installation.

 On the Setup Support Rules you should be able to just click OK. If you click Show Details it will look something like this…

Enter your product key then click Next

 Accept the license agreement click Next

 On the Setup Support Files click Install

 On the Setup Support Rules screen, you can see that I have a couple warnings

• The .NET warning is that I do not have Internet access on this computer. Not a problem so I am just moving on.
• The Firewall warning will be ignored as well. I will go back and modify the firewall later.
• I will just click Next and move on.
• On the Setup Role – I will keep the default SQL server Feature installation and click Next  On the feature selection, I am going to make many changes…

 check all the check boxes or simple click on select all button, then just simply click next

The next screen is the Server Configuration. We need to do a few things here

• On the Service Accounts Tab change the SQL Server Agent to Automatic startup. 
• We are are going to use the same account for all of our services. just click on the Use the same account for all SQL server Services button to bring up a small dialog box. 
• In the Account Name field select NT Authority\SYSTEM then click OK 
• We will keep the defaults for Collation so just click Next 

On the Database engine configuration Page we have much to do…

• On the Account Provisioning tab I am changing to Mixed Mode. This gives me the capability to manage users from inside of SQL. Without it users have to use Windows authentication. Once you change to mixed mode you will need to put in a password for the “SA” account which is the internal SQL Administrator account. You will need to use a complex password for this. If you do not need mixed mode, you can just leave Windows authentication mode turned on.
• You have to specify SQL Server administrators. In my case, I clicked “Add Current User”.

 then put as it is selected one click on next,

 next,,don't check the check boxes,

 No Error reporting for me so just click Next

•  Almost done. You can show the details on the Installation Configuration Rules if you like,
• All applicable tests should be passed so just click Next

• On the Ready To install screen you can review your configuration and then just click Install.
• Then just let it chug for about 20 mins or so (depending on performance of your machine it could be longer)

installation process of sharepoint 2013....

hai friends

Before installing Sp2013, first we have to install pre-requesties for compatabilty check for SP2013.for this we have to run Prerequisteinstaller

From the above select prerequisiteinstaller

Then click next

Tick the checkbox and click next button

Here it is a long process, so wait for more than 30min.. It need to total of 11 services have to be installed… If we will get the below screen, then all prerequisties will be installed successfully..

Some times there will be errors, then we have to install all the prerequesties manually.. for that, click the below link and download all the prerequesties in the order given in error window...

installation process

click setup

Next enter the product key

Click contine,by selecting the check box

Then we have to choose the file location, default file location will be shown and then click install now

Installation Progress

Successfully installed, then click finish.. After completion of prerequesties, installation process will automatically directed to Sharepoint2013 Product configuration wizard…. Just simply click next

By clicking next, we will get the below window, click on YES

Here we have to connect to a server farm, select CREATE A NEW SERVER FARM and then click next

Here we have to specify the connection to database server Database Server: . or Localhost (that is defined to your computer) Database name is default Username: YOUR COMPUTER NAME.(Ex:RAVICORP\ADMINISTRATOR) Password: your Database Password

Here type the Passphase,That like a passoword..combination of chars,nums,spl chars

Configue the sharepoint Port number between 1 to 65535… System will generate default, if u want to change then click on checkbpx and set a port number as you like..

Then click next

Here, the completing sharepoint products configuration wizard…simply click next

Then automatically a browser will open with a central admin URL… Then you SharePoint installation successfully completed….