Visual upgrade :
The visual upgrade feature in SharePoint Server 2010 is not available in
SharePoint 2013. For the upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to
SharePoint Server 2010, you could choose to use the visual upgrade
feature to give site collection owners and site owners the opportunity
to preserve the previous user interface temporarily while still
upgrading the infrastructure and databases, site collections, and
features to the latest version. This allowed site collection owners and
site owners to update customizations to work in the new user interface.
Once the database and site collection upgrade was complete, the user had
the option to upgrade the user interface on a more granular level of
the website (SPWeb object).
Document Workspace site template
When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, the Document Workspace site
template is not available. The scenario of collaborating on a document
is now provided by the Team Site site template. The Document Workspace
site template was removed from SharePoint 2013 to simplify the list of
templates that are available when a user creates a new site collection.
Personalization Site site template
When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, the Personalization Site
site template is not available. The Personalization Site site template
was not a widely used site template. The Personalization Site site
template was removed from SharePoint 2013 to simplify the list of
templates that are available when a user creates a new site collection.
Meeting Workspace site templates
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. SharePoint
2013 and Office 2013 provide other features that support meetings and
collaboration. For example, you can use Lync to conduct live meetings,
OneNote to take notes during meetings, and a SharePoint team site or My
Site to store shared meeting notes.
Group Work site template and Group Work solution:
When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, the Group Work site template
is not available. This Group Work site template provides a groupware
solution that teams can use to create, organize, and share information.
The Group Work site template includes the Group Calendar, Circulation,
Phone-Call Memo, document library, and other basic lists. The Group Work
site template and the Group Work solution are discontinued and not
available in SharePoint 2013.The Group Work site template was not a
widely used site template. The Group Work site template was removed from
SharePoint 2013 to simplify the list of templates that are available
when a user creates a new site collection.
Visio Process Repository site template :
When you create a site in SharePoint 2013, the Visio Process Repository
site template will continue to be available. However, the Visio Process
Repository site template will be removed in the next major release of
SharePoint.The Visio Process Repository site template is not a widely
used site template. The Visio Process Repository site template was
removed from SharePoint 2013 to simplify the list of templates that are
available when a user creates a new site collection.
Unghosting and customizing CSS files
The following methods are included in SharePoint 2013, but will be removed from the next major release of SharePoint:
- Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.Webs.CustomizeCss
- Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.Webs.RevertCss
The Webs.RevertCss method reverts style sheet customization of a file to the default style sheet.
These two methods are stored in Webs.asmx.cs and are defined in Webswsdl.asps.
The methods are outdated and are no longer needed
Imaging Web service
The Imaging Web service provides functionality for creating and managing
picture libraries. The Imaging Web service will be removed from the
next major release of SharePoint. The Imaging Web service is included
and supported in SharePoint 2013.The Imaging Web service is not widely
used. The only client application for the Imaging Web service, Office
Picture Manager, is no longer included with SharePoint 2013. The Imaging
Web service is being removed to reduce security vulnerabilities and to
simplify the number of ways to connect to SharePoint 2013.
Excel Services — Can't edit workbooks in the browser that have external data connections
Workbooks with external data connections that use Windows authentication
cannot be refreshed in the browser. Instead, you are prompted to open
the workbook in the Excel client program. Workbooks that have database
or Windows credentials stored either in the Secure Store Service or in
the connection string can still be edited in the browser. This change
applies only when Excel Web App in Office Web Apps Server is used to
view workbooks, not when Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is
used.
This is a design limitation in SharePoint 2013
Web Analytics in SharePoint Server 2010
Web Analytics in SharePoint Server 2010 has been discontinued and is not
available in SharePoint 2013. Analytics processing for SharePoint 2013
is now a component of the Search service.A new analytics system was
required for SharePoint 2013 that included improvements in scalability
and performance, and that had an infrastructure that encompasses
SharePoint Online. The Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint 2013
runs analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user
actions that are performed on SharePoint sites
Organization Profiles
The Organization Profiles feature is deprecated in SharePoint Server
2013. Organization Profiles contain detailed information about an
organization such as teams, divisions, and other information that
describes the organization’s hierarchy. SharePoint features related to
identities continue to evolve around the core concepts of users and
groups, and SharePoint will not be investing further in OrgID.
Some Search features deprecated from Foundation 2010
The search capabilities of SharePoint Foundation 2013 have changed, and are now based on the same search implementation as SharePoint Server. This provides many improvements, but also means that the search configuration is very different.
and in Server 2010.
SharePoint 2013 uses the web-based interface to show the current status of the topology. You change the topology by using Windows PowerShell. SharePoint Server 2010 also included a web-based option for changing the topology
The thesaurus replacement mode is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.
Search Query web service
In SharePoint Server 2010, the Search Query web service exposes the SharePoint Enterprise Search capabilities to client applications. This enables you to access search results from client and web applications outside the context of a SharePoint site.
Search RSS and search from Windows
The search RSS feature is deprecated in SharePoint 2013. The functionality for performing enterprise searches from Windows 7 depends on search RSS and this element has also been deprecated in SharePoint 2013. The RSS link no longer appears on the results page. This link is replaced by the Search Alerts link.
Custom word breaker dictionaries
Some Search features deprecated from Foundation 2010
The search capabilities of SharePoint Foundation 2013 have changed, and are now based on the same search implementation as SharePoint Server. This provides many improvements, but also means that the search configuration is very different.
and in Server 2010.
SharePoint 2013 uses the web-based interface to show the current status of the topology. You change the topology by using Windows PowerShell. SharePoint Server 2010 also included a web-based option for changing the topology
The thesaurus replacement mode is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.
Search Query web service
In SharePoint Server 2010, the Search Query web service exposes the SharePoint Enterprise Search capabilities to client applications. This enables you to access search results from client and web applications outside the context of a SharePoint site.
Search RSS and search from Windows
The search RSS feature is deprecated in SharePoint 2013. The functionality for performing enterprise searches from Windows 7 depends on search RSS and this element has also been deprecated in SharePoint 2013. The RSS link no longer appears on the results page. This link is replaced by the Search Alerts link.
Custom word breaker dictionaries
The format of the custom word breaker dictionaries has changed in
SharePoint 2013. In SharePoint 2013, you can only create one
language-independent dictionary. In SharePoint Server 2010, you can
create language-specific custom dictionaries (one dictionary for each
language) to edit the word breaker behavior of enterprise search. The
word breaker behavior for East Asian (CJK) languages has not changed in
SharePoint 2013.
Configuration of stemming in the registry
The configuration of stemming in the registry is no longer supported in SharePoint 2013. Modifying stemming entries in the registry has no effect during search. In SharePoint Server 2010, you can turn stemming on or off, or you can replace it with a third-party stemmer by changing the registry. In SharePoint 2013, you cannot use a third-party stemmer.
SharePoint Search SQL syntax
In SharePoint Server 2010, you could construct complex search queries by using SQL syntax.
Configuration of stemming in the registry
The configuration of stemming in the registry is no longer supported in SharePoint 2013. Modifying stemming entries in the registry has no effect during search. In SharePoint Server 2010, you can turn stemming on or off, or you can replace it with a third-party stemmer by changing the registry. In SharePoint 2013, you cannot use a third-party stemmer.
SharePoint Search SQL syntax
In SharePoint Server 2010, you could construct complex search queries by using SQL syntax.
Shallow search refiners
SharePoint Server Search in Office 2010 supported shallow search refiners. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint supports shallow refiners and deep refiners. InSharePoint 2013, only deep search refiners are supported.
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deprecated features
FAST Search database connector
The FAST Search database connector is not supported in SharePoint 2013.
FAST Search Lotus Notes connector
The FAST Search Lotus Notes connector is not supported in SharePoint 2013.
FAST Search web crawler
The FAST Search web crawler is not supported in SharePoint 2013.
The SharePoint 2013 crawler provides similar functionality to the FAST Search web crawler.
FAST Query Language (FQL) deprecated features
The FQL features are aligned with the features of the SharePoint Keyword Query Language (KQL) syntaxURL Query syntax
In FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, the URL-related managed properties (such as site, or path) are tokenized as a text string, and you can query any subpart of the URL. This includes
STARTS-WITH, ENDS-WITH, PHRASE and proximity queries on URL properties. Special characters such as “/”, “_” and “-”are handled as word delimiters.In SharePoint 2013, the entire URL is tokenized as one word. This includes special characters such as “
/”, “_” and “-”. You can query these managed properties by:- Searching for the full string for the site or path.
- Searching for the leading part of the site or path.
- Omitting
the protocol part (http, https), and omitting the leading part of the
domain address in the query expression, for the site managed property.
Specific search scope filters
In SharePoint 2013, search scopes are automatically converted to result sources.
Anti-phrasing
The search anti-phrasing feature in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is not supported in SharePoint 2013.
Offensive content filtering
The filtering of offensive content in search is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.
Substring search
The substring search feature was removed in SharePoint 2013.
Person names and location extractions
In SharePoint 2013, you cannot extract person names and locations from documents by using predefined extractors.
Number of custom entity extractors
In SharePoint 2013, the number of custom entity extractors that you can define is limited to 12.
Supported document formats
SharePoint 2013 no longer supports rarely used and older document formats that are supported in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint by enabling the Advanced Filter Pack. Both the ULS logs and the crawl log indicate the items that were not crawled.
In SharePoint 2013, the set of supported formats that are enabled by default is extended, and the quality of document parsing for these formats has improved.
Content processing extensibility
The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content processing extensibility feature has changed in SharePoint 2013. Content processing prepares an item from a content source for indexing and searching. The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content processing extensibility feature uses a sandbox where your custom code runs.Custom XML item processing
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint includes a custom XML item processing feature as part of the content processing pipeline. Custom XML item processing is not supported in SharePoint 2013.
Adding a test item to the index
DocPush is a test and diagnostic command-line tool that submits test documents to the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint index. A similar command-line tool is not available in SharePoint 2013
