1. Personal Site Following
Microsoft SharePoint
9/21/2018
Personal Site Following
Chris Gideon
Architect
Microsoft
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2. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Following - People
Follow People Entry points
People Search
Newsfeed
People Page (About me)
You can now follow people from the PEOPLE page itself of people that are following you, or other people's People pages. The reason this is cool is that if you go to your followers list, you'll see stars next to everyone you're NOT following. So it's one-click away from following everyone who is following you!
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3. Following – Site Follow Site Entry points Search Community Portal*
Site Itself

4. Following – Document
Follow Document Entry points
Search
Library

5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Following – Tags
Follow Tags Entry points
Newsfeed
Profile
TagProfile
Trending #tags web part
through TagProfile page
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6. I’m Following
Gives information about all of the things that user is following
number of people,
Documents*,
Sites*
Tags
Can easily identify all of the things that powers a user’s newsfeed
Allows the user to access all of those things within a single click from the newsfeed

7. Following People
Following people infrastructure in 2013 is the same as it is in 2010
Information about followed people and “followed by” is stored in the Profile Database
The followed person gets notified by if a new follower shows up
Three main improvements we introduced in 2013
Integration with Consolidated Feeds Web Part
My followers: people can now see who are their followers
Following auto-population
Only applies for people in your team

8. Following Sites, Usecase
A new entry is created in the Social/FollowedSites folder
A new entry is created in the Microfeed/Private folder
A new entry is created in Windows Server AppFabric Cache
Users get notified by grabbing the information from the cache
Social
Microfeed
Sites
Private

9. Sites Users access and control the list of followed sites
You can stop follow sites or reach sites directly.
When you follow a site, any microblogs that happen on that site will show up in your newsfeed
true only if the Site Conversation Feature is enabled
Two options to inject sites to people:
Site Promotion (static list managed by the Personal Site Host administrator)
Site Suggestion (built on top of user usage and trends – uses Analytics Search)

10. Following Documents
Following Documents helps users track and get informed on changes and activities that are happening within a document
Every time a document content or its properties change a new system feed gets posted for that document
People who are following the document get then notified
Important: following a document is not a replacement for SharePoint Alerts

11. Following Document Usecase
A new entry is created in the Social/FollowedDocuments folder
A new entry is created in the Microfeed/Private folder
A new entry is created in Distributed Cache
Users get notified by grabbing the information from the cache
Social
Microfeed
Docs
Private

12. SkyDrive - Followed Documents
Users have the ability from Personal Site to access and control the list of followed documents
You can stop follow document or open the document directly.
When you follow a document, any activity that happen across the document will show up in your newsfeed
Documents Suggestion - built on top of user usage and trends, uses Analytics Search

13. Following Tags
On top of the 2010 content tagging in 2013 there’s also the ability to tag microblogging posts
It uses the profile DB to store followed tags
Users can control if broadcast this information in the news feed
People use the “#tagName” syntax to tag a specific Microblogging post, or reply
By start typing the system takes a look at the MMS Keywords and shows it in the post itself
Tags are bounded to the Keywords Term Set
Note: tagging something does not imply that the user has started to follow that tag.
The more common method for this will likely be clicking the “…” menu in the feed when you see a post with a tag in it, and following from there
Might be worth mentioning that #tags are the new default keyword list for both conversations and tagging items in SharePoint.

14. Following Tags
Once a tag is followed the user gets notified every time tag is used on content* or in microblogging posts
For Microfeed posts, no security trimming is applied
For tagging content however, security trimming is applied.
Search is used to retrieve an aggregated view of all the content used by a specific tag
Tagging microblogging posts is not an integrated experience with the “Tag Cloud” page
Tag Cloud keeps showing all the content has been tagged by a specific user
It doesn’t report if a tag has been used in a microblogging post
It *might* be possible to find all of the tags that a specific user created via Search and refiners (e.g. do a search for #*, navigate to the Conversations vertical, refine by author).
* There’s currently a bug so that is if document XYZ gets tagged with #social, you will not see an activity for that.

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.