List of features deprecated in SharePoint 2013

A lot of discussion is carried out to highlight the remarkable features added to SharePoint 2013. However there are many features in SharePoint 2010 which are not present or deprecated in SharePoint 2013. Although Microsoft has tried to provide alternatives for these, if you are migrating from older versions of SharePoint to 2013, you should be aware of these. Here is a list of such feature / functionalities:

 

1.       Web Analytics is not available – SharePoint 2013 has got new analytics processing component and your SharePoint 2010 web analytics will not be migrated to 2013

2.       Visual Upgrade – This option is not present as a part of 2013 migration. But you have an option to defer your site collection upgrade

3.       Discontinued templates/solutions

a.       Document workspace – This functionality is now part of teamsite site template

                  b.      Personalization site – Discontinued due to less use of this template
                  c.       Meeting workspace – Other features provide similar functionality
                  d.      Group work site – Discontinued due to less use of this template
                  e.      Visio Process Repository – Discontinued due to less use of this template

 

4.       Sandbox solution – This functionality is not available in 2013. However if you migrate sites with Sandbox solution they will still work (may go away in next version)

 

5.       Organization profile - This functionality is not available in 2013. But any existing solutions using Organization Profile will work on 2013. Although this will be removed in next major release.

 

6.       Insert Barcode – This command is no longer available in the ribbon.

 

7.       PowerPoint Broadcast – SharePoint expects users to leverage Lync 2013 for similar feature

 

8.       Slide libraries – This has been removed due to design limitation of SharePoint

 

9.       Windows classic mode authentication – Microsoft recommends using Clams Based authentication and does not provide Classic mode by default. Although you can enable this mode using powershell script

 

10.   Refreshing connected workbooks using Windows authentication through Office Web Apps Server

 

11.   Mysite Features – Following mysite features have been removed

a.       Recent activities webpart

                  b.      Colleagues functionality
 

12.   Search of RSS feeds – RSS feeds are no longer available as part of search result

 

13.   Custom Help - Help content added via the Custom Site Collection Help feature or HCINSTAL.EXE will no longer display in SharePoint Online.

 

14.   Chart Webpart – This webpart is not avaialbe any longer. Any migrated webpart will work in 2013 however it will be removed in next major release

 

15.   Deprecated search features

a.       Modifying the search topology using web interface – You can still do it using Powershell

                  b.      Diacritic sensitivity element in the thesaurus
                  c.       Replacement mode within the thesaurus
                  d.      Search Query web service
                  e.      Search RSS and search from Windows
                  f.        Custom word breaker dictionaries
                  g.       Configuration of stemming in the registry
                  h.      SharePoint Search SQL syntax
                  i.         Shallow search refiners
 

16.   Upload multiple documents – this has been replaced with drag and drop features

 
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