Central Administration: entries in service application menu “new” limited?

Question

what is the reason that the menu service application => new in CA is showing only

• App Management
• Business Data
• Secure Store

? And can we get the metadata service into this menu anyhow?

Answer 1

Looks like you are using SharePoint foundation 2013 and Managed Metadata service is not offered for foundation.

Please check this technet for more about comparison between the SharePoint versions.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint__cloud/2013/01/09/sharepoint-2013-onpremise-edition-comparison-chart/