SUMMARY

The new server-side Office application features for SharePoint 2013 include the SharePoint Office Web App Server, PowerPoint Automation Services, and Machine Translation Services.

Excel Services includes new capabilities with the notion of Excel everywhere with the innovative Excel Interactive View that can bring any commonplace HTML table to life with a couple lines of code. Also, the new OData access to Excel tables stored on SharePoint can extend the uses of data with Excel spreadsheet to even greater uses. Lastly, you can easily create data-centric Apps for SharePoint using the redesigned Microsoft Access client tooling and Access Services powered by Microsoft SQL server for on-premises and Windows Azure SQL Database for Office 365.

For a developer, these Office and SharePoint application services provide the APIs, technologies, and infrastructure to build innovative and powerful solutions. Your solutions can shape end users’ day-to-day activities and help them to be more productive in what they do, which is what building Apps for SharePoint is about.

EXERCISES
You can find answers to exercises in Appendix A.
1. What are the two all-new services in SharePoint 2013?
2. What service was decoupled from SharePoint to become its own standalone server product?
3. What is the new RESTful protocol added to Excel Services that provides access to Excel tables?
4. Access Services was redesigned for SharePoint 2013 — where are the data and content artifacts stored for the solution?

WHAT YOU LEARNED IN THIS CHAPTER

ITEM DESCRIPTION
WOPI Web application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) is the REST-based interface that server applications can use to have documents rendered by the Office Web App Server.
Excel Interactive View This technology enables any standard HTML table to be viewed in an interactive Excel Services viewer by your adding a couple lines of code to the Web page.
PowerPoint Automation Services This SharePoint 2013 server-side only (not Office 365) service converts .ppt and .pptx presentation files to .pptx (in the case of .ppt), .pdf, .xpx, and .zip (when the presentation is converted to .jpg and .png).
Machine Translation Services A new SharePoint 2013 server-side only (not Office 365) service that submits documents to a Microsoft cloud translations service for translation into any supported language. This has privacy concerns to consider for end-user disclosure. See the Microsoft Translator Privacy statement for full details.
Access Services Access Services was redesigned for SharePoint 2013 where all data and content artifacts for the UI are stored in a SQL Server database for on-premises environments and Window Azure SQL Database in the case of Office 365.
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