Top 10 SharePoint 2013 Features Cheat Sheet

OAuth support. This web authorization protocol means that a user or web app can request authorization to get temporary access to specific network resources.

Default claims-based authentication for new web apps. A new Windows PowerShell cmdlet, Convert-SPWebApplication, helps you migrate from Windows classic-mode authentication to claims-based authentication.

Distributed Cache Service for login tokens. A dedicated cache helps avoid the need for additional configuration and makes for less memory utilization in the web front-ends.

Enhanced logging.

OData support. With this web protocol, you can now connect to an external data source.

Event listener. This includes an event subscriber, enabling SharePoint users and custom code to receive notifications of events that occur in the external system.

Support for apps for SharePoint. Lets you add self-contained apps for SharePoint that don't make any changes to the underlying code on the computer running SharePoint Server, enhancing safety and easing installation and removal.

External list enhancements. Users can now filter, sort, or export external lists that display content from BCS content types; performance improvements reduce the load on SharePoint farm database servers.

SharePoint eDiscovery Center. Site template creates a new portal for managing holds and cases, including abilities to search, place holds, and export content.

Improvements to in-place holds. Includes site-level preservation, Exchange mailbox preservation, ability to set permissions for users to access original versions of preserved content.

eDiscovery export. Ability to export the results of an eDiscovery search for later import into a review tool.

Enterprise-wide eDiscovery. Ability to manage eDiscovery across multiple SharePoint farms, Exchange servers, and file shares.

Optimized viewing across different mobile platforms.

One site, multiple renderings. Ability to render a single published SharePoint site in multiple designs to accommodate different devices.

Push notifications. Works for Windows Phones.

Geolocation field type. For mobile app development.

Ability to view business intelligence content.

Office Web Apps. Ability to view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

New and updated policy settings. For the User Profile service application and My Sites in Central Administration.

Privacy and people. New privacy settings and updated people settings.

Microblogging. New microblogging ability on Newsfeed page in My Site.

My Sites. Improved My Sites saving, synchronization, sharing, and moving of content.

New site templates. Community Site and Community Portal. Community Site offers a forum-like experience. Community Portal is a page that surfaces SharePoint site collections and sites.

Visual workflow. Develop workflow visually using Visio 2013 add-in.

No-code web service calls. New action enables no-code web service calls from within a workflow.

Task actions. New actions for creating a task and starting a task process

Coordination actions. New coordination actions between workflows built on SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013

New dictionary type.

Stage, Loop, and App Step workflow building blocks.

New enterprise features in Workflow Manager.

New PowerShell cmdlets.  Cmdlets that manage workflow via Workflow Manager service.

Search UI improvements.

Search result relevancy improvements.

Continuous crawl.

Improved flexibility of search schema.

New search architecture.