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Configure services and service applications in SharePoint 2013
Published: July 16, 2012
Summary: Introduces articles that describe how to configure services for SharePoint 2013.
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013
In SharePoint 2013, you can configure individual services independently, and you can implement only the services that your organization needs.
Deployed services are named service applications . A service application provides a resource that you can share across sites in a farm or sometimes across multiple farms, and users can access them through a hosting web application. Service applications are associated to web applications by service application connections .
For more information about service applications and services, see Technical diagrams for SharePoint 2013. If you plan to use Office Web Apps, you must install and configure them to work with SharePoint 2013. For more information, see Overview of Office Web Apps and how they work on-premises with SharePoint 2013.
The following articles on TechNet and related resources provide information about how to configure services for SharePoint 2013.
TechNet articles about how to configure services for SharePoint 2013
The following articles about how to configure services for SharePoint 2013 are available to view online. Writers update articles on a continuing basis as new information becomes available and as users provide feedback.
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Deploy Excel Services to a SharePoint Server 2013 farm by creating an Excel Services service application by using Central Administration. |
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Configure a Business Intelligence Center in SharePoint Server 2013 |
Create a Business Intelligence Center in SharePoint Server 2013 by using the Business Intelligence Center enterprise template and creating a new site collection. |
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Create and configure Machine Translation services in SharePoint Server 2013 |
The Machine Translation Service in SharePoint 2013 lets users automatically translate documents. This topic describes how to create a Machine Translation Service Application and configure the Machine Translation Service by using Central Administration, or Windows PowerShell. |
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Configure PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2013) |
Configure PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013 before you make it available to users |
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Create and configure a Search service application in SharePoint Server 2013 |
This article describes how to create and configure a SharePoint Search service application so that you can crawl content and provide search results to users. |
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Learn how to retrieve, clone, add, move, remove and activate search components in the search topology using Windows PowerShell. Use these procedures to scale out or scale down the search topology of the Search service application |
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This article describes how to create a SharePoint Search Center site and grant site access to users. |
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Learn how to set up SharePoint people search so that users can find people in the organization and the documents that they have authored. |
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Configure result sources for search in SharePoint Server 2013 |
Learn how to create and manage result sources for SharePoint Search service applications, and for SharePoint sites and site collections. |
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Create and configure custom search result types in SharePoint 2013 so that users can readily distinguish and preview different kinds of items in a list of search results. |
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This article describes the SharePoint 2013 Secure Store Service operations that solution designers can use to create target applications that map user and group credentials to the credentials of external data sources. |
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Administer the User Profile service in SharePoint Server 2013 |
Learn how to configure and administer the User Profile service and User Profile Synchronization service. |
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Visio Graphics Service administration in SharePoint Server 2013 |
Learn how to create, configure, list, or delete Visio Services service applications by using Central Administration or Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the process and cautions that are involved in sharing service applications across farms. |
Additional resources about how to configure services for SharePoint 2013
The following resources about how to configure services for SharePoint 2013 are available from other subject matter experts.
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Installation and Deployment for SharePoint 2013 Resource Center |
Visit the Resource Center to access videos, Community Sites, documentation, and more. |
