SharePoint Service Applications: SharePoint 2013 versus 2010
| Service Applications | Description | SPS 2010 Std | SPS 2010 Ent | SPS 2013 Std | SPS 2013 Ent |
| Access Services | Let’s user view, edit and interact with Access 2010 databases which are published to SharePoint in a web browser |
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| App Management service | Provides administrators the ability to manage new SharePoint apps. Apps can be purchased from an external vendor or developed internally. It checks user access permissions and licensing for app usage. |
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| Application Discovery and Load Balancer service | A.k.a. Topology web service. SharePoint has a built in basic load balancer that provides administrator with fault-tolerant out of the box SharePoint service applications. See SharePoint 2010 Service Application Load Balancer for more details. |
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| Business Data Connectivity service | Gives access to line-of-business data systems – also check out the Business Connectivity Services code samples for SharePoint 2013 |
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| Excel Services Application | Let’s users view and interact with Excel files in a web browser |
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| Machine Translation service | Provides automatic translation of sites and files (See Machine Translation Services in SharePoint 2013 for more details) |
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| Managed Metadata service | Manages taxonomy hierarchies,keywords and social tagging infrastructure, and publish content types across site collections |
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| Office Web Apps Service | Office Web Apps is now a separate product, rather than a SharePoint Service Application. See Use Office Web Apps with SharePoint Server 2013 for more details. | ||||
| PerformancePoint Service Application | Let’s users create dashboards and balanced scorecards |
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| PowerPoint Automation service | Performs automated bulk PowerPoint conversions to other formats (pptx,pdf,xps,jpg,png) (See PowerPoint Automation Services in SharePoint 2013 for more details) |
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| Search service | Crawls content, produces index partitions and serves search queries |
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| Secure Store service | Provides single sign on authentication to access multiple applications or services |
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| State service | Provide temporary storage of user session data for SharePoint Server components |
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| Usage and Health Data Collection service | Collects farm wide usage and health data and provides the ability to view various usage and health reports |
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| User Profile service | Adds support for My Site sites, profile pages, social tagging and other social computing features |
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| Visio Graphics service | Let’s users view and refresh published Visio diagrams in a web browser |
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| Web Analytics service | Collect, reports, and analyzes the usage of SharePoint Server sites. The functionality of the Web Analytics service has been incorporated into the Search service |
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| Work Management service | Enables users to synchronize and aggregate tasks between different Microsoft products such as Exchange, SharePoint and Project Server. See Configure Exchange task synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013 for practical details or the My Tasks aggregation in SharePoint Server and Exchange Task integration white paper |
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| Word Automation service | Performs automated bulk document conversions. |
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| Subscription Settings Service | Provides multi-tenant functionality for service applications. Tracks subscription IDs and settings for services that are deployed in partitioned mode. Deployed through Powershell only. |
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