List Of Features in SP 2013

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.
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.

 

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.
You 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.
 

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