SharePoint 2016 for the Business: Top 10 Compelling Features

Joel OlesonBiz Dev DirectorKonica Minolta

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SharePoint 2016 has Shipped!

To date our disclosure has predominantly been related to our core infrastructure investments as that’s the primary investment area when we begin development – over the course of the next several months we’ll begin sharing (as soon as we know) what specific workload areas will be advanced.SharePoint on-premises will continue to ship on a 2-3 year cadence whereas we update SharePoint Online monthly. Our objective of defining on-premises through the cloud will bring some near term parity, but online will receive new capabilities first. – Bill Baer, SharePoint Team blog.

It’s shipped, but it’s not done… more coming…

Why Upgrade to 2016? “The most reliable, scalable, secure and high performing SharePoint release ever...”

But are there really any new features?

My list for building the business case…Hybrid – Cloud integrationDLP/ComplianceReliability/UptimeFluid updates/Cutting edge

SharePoint 2016 is a Branch of O365 a CLOUD Child

Cloud inspired infrastructure!

#1 Global Navigation - App launcher – Consistency

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/connect-your-app-to-o365-app-launcher

#2 Simplified Usability: New Menu

Ribbon only required for advanced!

“You now have new ways to create contextual solutions that span SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365 from the web, mobile apps and Office. You have simpler and more robust APIs and tool”

Developing for SharePoint 2016

SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Server 2016 document libraries… Simplifying the user experience [file creation, sharing and management]

3. OneDrive Improvements - OneDrive for Business and One Drive for Consumer

Managed in OneDrive: Share & Follow Sites, Folders, Documents

SharePoint Server 2016 improves the sharing experience by making it more natural for users to share sites and files. Just click the Share button at the top right corner of every page, enter the names of people you want to share with, and press Enter.

A pinned site shows at the top of the list of sites that you're following.

Site Folders - Takes you directly to document libraries of sites you’re following.

4. Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

tap tiles or links on the screen to navigateTouch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

Universal Apps - Responsive Office 2016

Filenames - support for special characters including &$@~.. Doesn’t support / \ ? |< > #% - Office 365 is Working on #%... Coming soon!Large File Support – Controls are per web app. Up to 10GB.Durable Links – new service to support for links that won’t break when files move (Already works in Office 365)5000 file limit improved with automatic management of indexes

5. Scalability and Improved File Handling

Large file support

5000 item reality…Better List Scalability

Faster upload, Faster download, Faster sync BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service is built

inFaster site creation and other common operations – site creation now close to 1 second down from 40+ seconds.

6. Improved User Performance

Gotchas!• No SharePoint Designer 2016• No Infopath 2016 Use 2013 versions… they still

work!• Some Excel Services Moved (Refer

to TechNet) Many new BI and Reporting Features require SQL 2016 CTP 3.1

• No more Single Server deployment (SQL on separate box)

• STSADM deprecated• MinRoles requires some planning• Project Server 2016 is available in

SP2016 as an upgrade• No “SharePoint Foundation

License” in 2016 wave

You don’t have to support SP Designer or Custom Master Pages

7. Hybrid Experiences including External Site publishing, Search & Delve

Hybrid Experiences: Delve & Search (requires configuration)

Hybrid search SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016Available Now…

8. Compliance: Preserve/Archive with Document Deletion Centere-Discovery for compliance & data loss prevention + new Auditing and Reporting experiences

New In-Place Hold Policy and Document Deletion Centers policies to preserve or delete items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business for a fixed period of time

Improved reportingImproved auditingImproved analytics

Find PII Data- Credit cards- Bank accounts- Tax ID- Create your own* 51 templates

Compliance:

Auditing streamlined.

Better viewing reportsDeletionsExpirationsChanges to audit settings

New Auditing Reports

From 99.9% expected to 99.99% possible with- Better IT Features such as: Zero Downtime Patching- Minimal patch sizes- Self Healing and Alerting

9. Uptime, Reliability and Security

Hybrid Sites

‒ Alt + N – New

‒ Alt + E – Edit

‒ Alt + U – Upload

‒ Alt + M – Manage

‒ Alt + S – Share

‒ Alt + Y – Synchronization

New Keyboard Shortcuts

Accessibility features for libraries

‒Plan Architecture… The Farm (MinRoles) Currently 8 servers for HA

‒Plan Profile Import (Sync) AD/MIM‒Plan Compliance‒Plan Services: My Sites, User Profiles, Managed

Metadata‒Plan Hybrid integration:

Hybrid Sites OneDrive Yammer or SP Social Search Delve/Profile

2016 Upgrade Planning

SharePoint 2016 Upgrade

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