Service Applications in SharePoint
I am trying to explain the service applications
definitions in this article. Please make a comment if you feel any incorrect.
Access
Services — This service application enables you to create, view, edit, and
interact using either the access 2013 office client or in the browser.
Access
Services 2010 — This service application enables continued maintenance of SharePoint
2010 Access service applications by using Access 2010 and 2013 Office clients.
It does not enable users to create new applications.
App
Management Service — The App Management Service enables you to install apps from the
internal App Catalog or the public SharePoint store.
Business
Data Connectivity Service — The Business Connectivity Service (BCS)
enables you to upload data (BDC) models that define interfaces of other
enterprise line-of-business (LOB) systems and enables connectivity to those
systems.
Excel
Services — This service application enables viewing and interacting with
Excel files from within the browser.
Machine
Translation Services — This service provides automatic machine translation of files and
sites.
Managed
Metadata Service — This service application enables you to manage taxonomy hierarchies,
keywords, and social tagging features of SharePoint 2013. This service application
also handles content-type publishing across site collections.
Performance
Point — This service application supports configuration and monitoring
of Performance Point as a business intelligence (BI) product integrated with
the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2013.
PowerPoint
Automation Service — This service application enables server-side presentation conversions
to and from a variety of file formats.
Search Service — As its
name implies, this service application (which comes with its own topology
management configuration) is used to index content and serves search queries performed
by users or custom code.
Secure
Store Service — This is a credential mapping service to access other
enterprise-level service applications or back-end enterprise systems.
State
Service — The State Service provides temporary storage of any data that
deals with a user session.
Usage and Health Data Collection — This
service application provides storage usage and health information at the farm
level, and provides various reporting functionality on such data.
User
Profile — This user profile service application is one of the core service
applications in SharePoint 2013. This service application supports features
such as My Sites, My links, Colleague tracker, profile pages, personal tags and
notes, and other social features.
Visio
Graphics Service — This service application enables viewing, interacting, and refreshing
of Visio diagrams within a browser.
Word
Automation Services — This service application enables you to view and edit Word documents
in a web browser. It can also be used for document conversions.
Work
Management Service — This Work Management Service enables key user-related information
to be aggregated to a central location. The service supports a provider model
to enable other systems to leverage this service.
Subscription Setting
Service —
This is the key enabling component of the Multitenancy features provided by the
SharePoint 2013 platform
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