1. Tailor your SharePoint 2013 social layer according to your needs
BEYOND SOCIAL
Tailor your SharePoint 2013 social layer according to your needs
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2. A quick poll Do you use facebook and/or twitter?
Do you practice social computing in your company?
Do you use SharePoint as a social computing platform?
Did you implement any kind of governance for your SC platform?

3. Facebook behind firewall
Enterprise social is…
social software as used in "enterprise“ (business/commercial) contexts
Increases productivity
by 25%
Facebook behind firewall
Just another hype…
Intranet reloaded

4. Enterprise social is… Content oriented Process oriented Compliant
Helps in implementing internal procedures

5. Microsoft & Enterprise Social
SharePoint 2013
Yammer

6. What? SharePoint 2013 and social Custom development
Whole new feature stack
Custom development
On top of the OOB feature set
Governance and management of social data
Development and extensibility
Server
Client

7. Why? Extending the feature set
Governance and management in corporate world
Internal procedures and compliance regulations
Devices, devices…

8. Social computing in SP 2013: The Architecture

9. What is social? User Profiles Following Feeds SPC2012 - Developer
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What is social?
User Profiles
Following
Feeds
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10. Social architecture User Profile Service Managed Metadata Content DB
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Social architecture
Content DBs (per-user)
User Profile Service
Profile DB (per-service)
People and tag following
User profile properties
Managed Metadata
#Hashtags
Content DB
(site collection per-user)
Feed posts
Site and document following
Personal storage space
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11. SPC Developer
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See and do in real-time
Distributed caching service removes the need for ‘activity gatherers’ and timer jobs
All requests are serviced in real-time based on the current state of the social network
Requests rely on a mix of social databases, the distributed cache, and search index
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12. Feeds storage overview
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Feeds storage overview
API
Event
Persisted feed
User‘s personal site content DB
Site’s content DB
Cached feed
Person
Site
Document
Tag
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13. Creating aggregate feeds on-demand
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Creating aggregate feeds on-demand
Gather
Sort
Trim
See
Request count
Sites
Documents
Post
Reply
Roll-up similar data
By most recent reply?
By post date?
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14. Feeds

15. Stored in Odie’s MySite Microfeed / private folder
Stored in Garfield’s MySite Microfeed / public folder
Stored in Garfield’s MySite Microfeed / public folder
Stored in John’s MySite Microfeed / private folder
Stored in the content DB
Stored in the profile DB

16. Feed data structure SocialFeed SocialThread[] Actors[] Attributes
SocialPost[] (RootPost and Replies[])
Attachment
Author
LikerInfo
Text

17. DEMO
SP 2013 NEWFEED

18. An API? Five of them! Client-side Server-side
CSOM: Managed C#, Silverlight
Mobility API: Windows Phone
JavaScript Object model (JSOM)
REST / OData
Server-side
Server Object Model

19. Microsoft Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group
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CSOM + REST
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20. CSOM & social in SharePoint 2013
We still have our old friends
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Microsoft.SharePoint.ClientRuntime
But with social we have a new buddy for social!
*Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Social
*Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles
*Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Microfeed
And a few more new important friends as well
*Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy
*In SharePoint Server

21. CSOM & social in SharePoint 2013
SocialFeedManager – Get Feeds
Everyone, Likes, News, Personal, Timeline
SocialFollowingManager – Get Followed Content
Sites, Users, Documents, Tags
SocialActor
User, Site, Document, or Tag
SocialPost
Text, Attachments, LikerInfo

22. What you can do… Get Profiles and Properties Get Feeds and Replies
Update the Current Users Picture
Create posts for the current user
Use it for
SharePoint Apps
Device apps
Integration purposes

23. What you cannot do… Find out if an account exists
Create a User Profile
Change a User Profile (except of the user picture)
Delete a User Profile
Create/delete/like posts on behalf of another user
Follow/Unfollow social actors on behalf of another user

24. DEMO
CLIENT SIDE

25. SSOM & social in SharePoint 2013
Microsoft.Office.Server.Social
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles
Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed

26. What you can do… As with Client, plus Find out if an account exists
Create MySite
Create/delete/like posts on behalf of another user
Follow/unfollow social actors on behalf of another user

27. What you cannot do… Connect from clients SharePoint Apps
Client side & devices

28. DEMO
SERVER SIDE

29. A way to go… From the… Server OM JavaScript API .Net CSOM API
Silverlight
API
REST
Server X
JavaScript
Remote .Net Client
SharePoint App
Windows Phone
Other platforms

30. Recap SP2013: new cool social features Client API Server side API
Lacks governance and advanced management
Client API
Manipulating feeds, following and likes
Integration in apps and solutions
Lack of governance possibilities
Server side API
Full set of possibilities, no restriction
Suitable for implementing governance features

31. Call for action! Look at the SP 2013 Out of the box features
Consider compliance regulations
Consider internal procedures
Make an implementation plan

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