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Deprecated features in SharePoint 2013

Hi SharePoint friends , I hope you all enjoyed my last post on “ Authentication & Authorization ”. In this post I will discuss about the features that have been removed in SharePoint 2013 which was available on SharePoint 2010. Visual Upgrade: You could use this feature to upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 to give Site Collection Owner and Site Owner to preserve the existing user interface temporarily while still upgrading the infrastructure, content databases, site collections and features to the latest version. Now this feature is replaced with “ Deferred Site Collection” upgrade which is considered as more comprehensive upgrade process than visual upgrade. Visual Upgrade preserved only the master pages, CSS files and the HTML files but the Deferred Site Collection upgrade with preserve much more including SPFeature functionality. With the deferred site collection upgrade you can use the UI feature from the previous version more seamlessly than with the visual ...

Enterprise Search

Introduction: Enterprise Search is one of the most compelling features of SharePoint Server 2007. The out-of-the-box capabilities can drastically improve end users’ experience in retrieving relevant information. The same capabilities are available for custom SharePoint applications through dedicated APIs. There are three ways to create and run search queries against the SharePoint API, each with specific advantages. A description of each approach follows. Keyword Search Queries Search Web Service List Query API (SPQuery Class) Keyword Search Queries: This is the most straightforward approach. Once you specify in your code what keywords to look for, you can just run that query and start retrieving results. For its simplicity, the keywords-only approach comes with limitations. In particular you will not be able to define comparison constraints in the query. Search Web Service: SharePoint Server 2007 exposes most of its search functionalities as a web service. You can reference this web...