Features Removed from SharePoint 2013

Features Removed from SharePoint 2013 which were available in SharePoint 2010

Hello Folks,

Welcome to SharePoint 2013. Microsoft has come up with a new version of SharePoint

i.e  SharePoint 2013. It is said by many SharePoint experts that Microsoft has introduced SharePoint 2013 with some new limited feature and the main aim being; to sell the Office 365 which was hardly sold with SharePoint 2010.

                 

This blog is about the features which are deprecated from SharePoint 2013. There are many features which are deprecated from SharePoint 2013 which were there in SharePoint 2010.  Some of them are explained below:

Upgrading SharePoint Old version with new version:

There is a provision to upgrade SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. This upgradation is done using SharePoint central administrator. Your could choose to use visual upgrade feature to temporary change the site collection and site to previous interface and newly made interface till the whole site database is migrated.  Once the database and site collection upgradation is completed , the user has the option to upgrade the user interface on a more granular level of the website (SPWeb object).

Document Workspace Site Template:

When we you create a Site in SharePoint 2013 then you will not find Document workspace site template.

This collaboration on the document is now provided by Team site template that’s why this feature is removed from SharePoint 2013.

Personalization Site Template:

When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, then you will not be able to create Personalization Site site template in SharePoint gallery.

This template was removed from Sharepoint13 because it was not used widely by SharePoint users

Meeting Workspace Site Template:

When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, all five of the Meeting Workspace site templates are not available. This includes the Basic Meeting Workspace, Blank Meeting Workspace, Decision Meeting Workspace, Social Meeting Workspace, and Multipage Meeting Workspace.

Reason for Change: This was a major decision by Microsoft to remove this feature because SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 provide other features that supported  meetings and collaboration.

Group Work Site Template:

The group work site is not available in SharePoint 2013. The group work site template provides a groupware solution that team can use to share , organization and create information.

Reason for Change: The Group work site was widely used in organization so that Microsoft removed this template from SharePoint 2013.

Web Analytical:

Web analytical feature which was available in SharePoint 2010 has been removed in SharePoint 2013. SharePoint 2013 has introduced a new service that is Analytical processing which is component of Search service.

Reason for Change: Scalability and performance was the main consideration for SharePoint 2013.

Search Query Web Service:

The Search Query Web Service is not available in SharePoint 2013. In SharePoint 2010 the search query web service expose the SharePoint enterprise Search capability to client application.

Reason for Change: In SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model and REST based web service has designed in such a way that you can develop office wide extensibility scenarios.

Note: I have gone through various web sites and prepared a set of notes. The links mentioned below are the one’s I have referred to:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj728659.aspx

Thanks & Best Wishes 

Gireesh Painuly