SharePoint Service List

SharePoint 2013: Service Applications list

Table of Contents

• Access Service
• Access Service 2010
• App Management Service
• Business Data Connectivity Service
• Excel Services Application
• Machine Translation Service
• PerformancePoint Service
• PowerPoint Automation Service
• Managed Metadata Service
• Search Service
• Secure Store Service
• State Service
• User and Health Data Collection Service
• User Profile Service
• Visio Graphics Service
• Word Automation Services
• Work Management Service

Sharepoint Services in 2013

Sharepoint services in 2013:

Here is few of services available in sharepoint 2013

Access Database Service 2010

Access Services 2010 is a service application that allows users to modify and publish in SharePoint Server 2013 an Access web database that was previously created in SharePoint Server 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748653.aspx

Access Services

Access Services enables you to create and customize Access apps for SharePoint. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj714714.aspx

App Management Service

App Management Service is part of the new App support within SharePoint 2013. This service, along with the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service, have to be configured properly to support the new App model. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx#ConfigureAppServices

Business Data Connectivity Service

Business Data Connectivity Service allows you to pull in external data sources into SharePoint, and treat them much like a normal SharePoint list. This allows businesses to connect to existing line of business applications with minimal effort. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681491.aspx

Central Administration

This service is what provides Central Administration on the server. Make sure at least one server in your farm has this running. I don’t know if you can stop this on all servers, I haven’t tried, and I don’t recommend it!

Claims to Windows Token Service

The Claims to Windows Token Service (c2WTS) is a feature of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The c2WTS extracts user principal name (UPN) claims from non-Windows security tokens, such as SAML and X.509 tokens, and generates impersonation-level Windows security tokens. This allows a relying party application to impersonate the user. This might be needed to access back-end resources, such as Microsoft SQL Servers, that are external to the computer running the relying party application. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539091.aspx

Distributed Cache

The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The microblog features and feeds rely on the Distributed Cache to store data for very fast retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2013. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219700.aspx#cache http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219613.aspx

Document Conversions Launcher Service

This service schedules and initiates the document conversions. When SharePoint Foundation passes a document conversion request to the document conversion launcher service, the service must call the appropriate document converter. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979484(v=office.14).aspx

Document Conversions Load Balancer Service

This service balances the document conversion requests from across the server farm. When it receives a converter request from SharePoint Foundation, the document conversion load balancer service must return a URI to the appropriate document conversion launcher service. SharePoint Foundation connects to the specified launcher via .NET Remoting and requests that it convert the specified document. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979484(v=office.14).aspx

Excel Calculation Services

Excel Services is a SharePoint Server 2013 service application that allows users to share and view Excel workbooks. The service application also enables data-connected Excel workbooks and work sheets to be refreshed and updated from a variety of data sources. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219698.aspx

Lotus Notes Connector

Lotus Notes Connector provides connectivity for search to crawl Lotus Notes content within a Domino database. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591606.aspx

Machine Translation Service

Machine Translation Service provides automatic machine translation of files and sites. When the Machine Translation Service application processes a translation request, it forwards the request to a cloud-hosted machine translation service, where the actual translation work is performed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163145.aspx

Managed Metadata Web Service

The managed metadata service application makes it possible to use managed metadata and share content types across site collections and web applications. A managed metadata service publishes a term store and, optionally, content types; a managed metadata connection consumes these. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424403.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Incoming E-Mail

The Incoming E-Mail service allows for users to send emails to libraries within your sites. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service

A sandbox is a restricted execution environment that enables programs to access only certain resources and keeps problems that occur in the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server environment. Solutions that you deploy into a sandbox, which are known as sandboxed solutions, cannot use certain computer and network resources and cannot access content outside the site collection they are deployed in. Because sandboxed solutions cannot affect the whole server farm, they do not have to be deployed by a farm administrator. If sandboxed solutions have been enabled on at least one server in the farm, a site collection administrator can deploy solutions to a run in a sandbox on any server in the farm. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff535775(v=office.15).aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

This service was primarily used for multi-tenency support in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, it is also necessary for apps.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx#ConfigureAppServices

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application

This is the core service for running your sites. It configures IIS to host the sites providing the SharePoint to end users.

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service

This service supplements the main Timer service with configuration settings for timed workflow events.

PerformancePoint Service

PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is a performance management service that you can use to monitor and analyze your business. By providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs), PerformancePoint Services can help individuals across an organization make informed business decisions that align with companywide objectives and strategy. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424392.aspx

PowerPoint Conversion Service

PowerPoint Conversion Service provides unattended, server-side conversion of presentations into other formats. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179894.aspx

Request Management

Request Manager is functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables administrators to manage incoming requests and determine how SharePoint Server 2013 routes these requests. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712708.aspx

Search Host Controller Service

This service manages the search topology components. The service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

Search Query and Site Settings Service

This service load balances queries within the search topology. It also detects farm-level changes to the search service and puts these in the Search Admin database. The service is automatically started on all servers that run the query processing component. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

Secure Store Service

The Secure Store Service is an authorization service that runs on an application server and provides a database that is used to store credentials. These credentials usually consist of a user identity and password, but can also contain other fields that you define http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806866.aspx

SharePoint Server Search

This service crawls content for the search index. This service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. The service cannot be stopped or started from the Services on Server page. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx

User Profile Service

The User Profile service application stores information about users in a central location. Social computing features use this information to enable productive interactions so that users can collaborate efficiently. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662538.aspx

User Profile Synchronization Service

The User Profile Synchronization Service facilitates the creation of user profiles by importing data from directory services, such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You can augment user profiles by importing data from business systems, such as SAP or SQL Server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg188041.aspx

Visio Graphics Service

The Visio Graphics Service allows users to share and view Visio diagrams by using Visio Services. The service application also enables data-connected Visio 2013 diagrams to be refreshed and updated from different data sources. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee524059.aspx

Word Automation Services

Word Automation Services enables unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558278(v=office.14).aspx

Work Management Service

The Work Management Service automates consolidating tasks from SharePoint, Exchange and Project Server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554516.aspx

Sand box solution

What Are the SharePoint Execution Models?

In terms of execution models, there are two principal types of solution in SharePoint 2010:

 farm solutions and sandboxed solutions. 

Within each type of solution, there are various execution models available to you. 

Farm solutions can include components that run in a full-trust environment or components that run under code access security policy restrictions.

 Sandboxed solutions can include components that run entirely within the sandbox environment as well as hybrid approaches that can include various full-trust components. This topic introduces these execution models and describes the key concepts behind each approach.

Overview of Execution Models

Farm vs sand box vs hybrid

What is sand box solution and how it differs from farm solution:

The Sandbox Solution framework provides a mechanism for executing user-provided code outside of the IIS worker process. The Sandbox Solution framework should not be used as a mechanism for enforcing security boundaries when executing user code. Sandbox Solutions are not supported as a security boundary with user code, especially code of unknown origin. We advise against executing Sandbox Solutions of unknown origins.

A Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 solution is a deployable, reusable package that can contain features, site definitions, and other functionality. Solutions can be enabled or disabled individually. You can deploy a solution directly onto your SharePoint Server farm, or you can deploy the solution into a sandbox. A sandbox is a restricted execution environment that enables programs to access only certain resources, and that keeps problems that occur in the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server environment. Solutions that you deploy into a sandbox, which are known as sandboxed solutions, cannot use certain computer and network resources, and cannot access content outside the site collection they are deployed in.

Because sandboxed solutions cannot affect the whole server farm, they do not have to be deployed by a farm administrator. Sandboxed solutions can be deployed by a site collection administrator or, in certain situations, by a user who has the Full Control permission level at the root of the site collection. However, only a farm administrator can configure sandboxed solutions–related settings such as load balancing, tiers, quotas and resource points, and only a farm administrator can promote a sandboxed solution to run directly on the farm, outside the sandboxed environment.

For more reading on sandbox solution and difference between sand box and farm solution use bellow link:

sandbox solution

Sharepoint Features

Share point features:

Share point have evolved its features on every version release.
It was just started as office project for windows xp but sooner its grow into enterprises product.
In order to understand Share Point let us first discuss about features of Share Point.


Share point version:

• SharePoint Portal Server 2001
• SharePoint Team Services (2002)
• SharePoint Services 2.0 (free license) - SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (commercial release)
• SharePoint Services 3.0 (free license) - plus Office SharePoint Server 2007 (commercial extension)
• SharePoint Foundation 2010 (free) - plus SharePoint Server 2010 (commercial extension for Foundation), and SharePoint Enterprise 2010 (commercial extension for Server)
• SharePoint Foundation 2013 (free) - plus SharePoint Server 2013 (extension on top of Foundation), and SharePoint Enterprise 2013.
• SharePoint Online (Plan 1), and SharePoint Online (Plan 2)
• SharePoint Server 2016 - plus SharePoint Enterprise 2016.

In order to discuss features of SharePoint let us discuss key version used even today.

SharePoint 2013 Features:

SharePoint Server 2013 includes a wide variety of improvements and new features. Discover how SharePoint Server gives you new ways to share your work, work with others, organize your projects and teams, and discover people and information.

Some of the features are :

Share

Social features

Community site

OneNote integration with team sites

New ways to work with video and rich media

Organize

Document libraries

Keep track of important SharePoint sites on your Sites page

Keep track of your tasks

Lists

Project sites & site mailboxes

Discover

Search

Business intelligence

Build

Web content authoring

Cross-site publishing

Site customization

Workflows

External data access

Apps for SharePoint

Manage

Security, site management, and site upgrade

eDiscovery and case management

for more reading : sharepoint 2013




SharePoint 2016 Features:

Feature	Description	More information
Access Services	New Access features are available when you deploy Access Services in SharePoint Server 2016 .	For more information, see Access Services.
Compliance features	New compliance features for SharePoint Server 2016 include the document deletion and in-place hold policies.	For more information, see Compliance features.
Customized web parts	The compile time for customized XSLT files used for Content Query, Summary Links, and Table of Contents Web Parts is improved.	NA
Document Library accessibility	SharePoint Server 2016 includes new document library accessibility features.	For more information, see Document Library accessibility.
Durable links	Resource-based URLs now retain links when documents are renamed or moved in SharePoint.	NA
Encrypted Connections	SharePoint Server 2016 supports TLS 1.2 connection encryption by default.	For more information, see Encrypted Connections.
Fast Site Collection Creation	The Fast Site Collection Creation feature is a rapid method to create site collections and sites in SharePoint.	For more information, see Fast Site Collection Creation.
Filenames - expanded support for special characters	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports using some special characters in file names that were blocked in previous versions.	For more information, see Filenames.
Hybrid in SharePoint 2016	Hybrid in SharePoint Server 2016 enables you to integrate your on-premises farm with Office 365 productivity experiences, allowing you to adopt the cloud at your own pace.	For more information, see Hybrid in SharePoint 2016.
Identify and search for sensitive content	SharePoint Server 2016 now provides the same data loss prevention capabilities as Office 365.	For more information, see Identify and search for sensitive content in both SharePoint 2016 and OneDrive documents.
Image and video previews	You can now preview images and videos in SharePoint Server 2016 document libraries.	For more information, see Image and Video previews.
Information Rights Management	SharePoint Server 2016 provides Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities to secure information by encrypting and securing information on SharePoint libraries with OneDrive for Business.	For more information, see Information Rights Management.
Large file support	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports uploading and downloading files larger than 2,047 MB.	For more information, see Large file support.
MinRole	MinRole is a new feature in SharePoint Server 2016 that allows a SharePoint farm administrator to define each server’s role in a farm topology.	For more information, see MinRole farm topology.
Mobile experience	SharePoint Server 2016 offers an improved mobile navigation experience.	For more information, see Mobile experience.
New features in November 2016 PU for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1)	The November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1)offers seven new features for SharePoint Server 2016.	For more information, see New features in November 2016 PU for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1).
New controls for working with OneDrive for Business	SharePoint Server 2016 provides controls at the top of your personal document folders that make common tasks in OneDrive for Business more accessible.	For more information, see New controls for working with OneDrive for Business.
New Recycle Bin in OneDrive and Team sites	SharePoint Server 2016 adds a link for the Recycle Bin in the left navigation area of the OneDrive and Team sites.	NA
Open Document Format (ODF)	SharePoint Server 2016 adds support for Open Document Format (ODF) files to use in document library templates.	For more information, see Open Document Format (ODF) available for document libraries.
Project Server	New Project Server features are available in SharePoint Server 2016.	For more information, see Project Server.
ReFS file system support	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports drives that are formatted with the ReFS file system.	For more information about the ReFS file system, see Resilient File System Overview and Resilient file system.
SharePoint business intelligence	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 and the Power Pivot add-in and Power View.	For more information about SharePoint business intelligence, see Power Pivot add-in and Power View are now available to use with SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2.
SharePoint Search	SharePoint Search Server Application has significant changes to its deployment.	For more information, see SharePoint Search Server Application.
Sharing improvements	SharePoint Server 2016 has many new sharing improvements available.	For more information, see Sharing improvements.
Site Folders view	SharePoint Server 2016 provides a new Site Folders view that lets you access the document libraries in sites that you're following.	For more information, see Site Folders view.
Sites page pinning	This new feature helps you see and follow sites.	For more information, see Sites page pinning.
SMTP Connection Encryption	SharePoint Server 2016 supports sending email to SMTP servers that use STARTTLS connection encryption.	For more information, see SMTP Connection Encryption.
SMTP ports (non-default)	SharePoint Server 2016 adds support for SMTP servers that use TCP ports other than the default port (25).	For more information, see Use SMTP ports other than the default (25).
Web Application Open Platform Interface Protocol (WOPI)	You can now rename files, create new files, and share files from within the WOPI iframe on the browser page.	NA

For more reading on SharePoint 2016



For comparison features between SharePoint 2013 and Sharepoint 2016:

Read here : 2013 vs 2016 features


SharePoint Online features:

Android and Windows 10 Mobile Apps
Modern team sites now integrated with Office 365 Groups

• Office 365 Group Integration
• Team site layout
• Home page for team information
• New site collection limit

Updated SharePoint lists

• Add a list easily from your home page  
• Use Quick Edit to add columns and data in one process 
• Add pre-built list-based apps  
• Use Microsoft Flow to automate workflows
• Use PowerApps to connect SharePoint lists and Libraries as a data source

Modern SharePoint Online document libraries

• Leverage the power of SharePoint with OneDrive for Business usability in your document libraries 
• Copy and move files from the command bar
• Use links to import files from other libraries 

Personalization

• New simplified custom views
• Experience responsive and accessible design 

Upload and manage videos with Office 365 Video

• Upload and share your videos 
• Delete a video or restore a deleted video from a channel 
• Use your videos in Office 365 and SharePoint Online   
• Add subtitles or captions to an Office 365 Video

For more reading for SharePoint online features: 
SharePoint Online features