What s New and Exciting in SharePoint Server 2016 16 TH M AR 2016 KIRAN KAKANUR, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT RIGHTPOINT
SharePoint 2016 is now in RTM March 14 th marks Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SharePoint Server 2016!
Agenda 1. SharePoint 2016 Requirements 2. Recommended Hardware for SharePoint 2016 3. What s new in SharePoint 2016 4. Lessons Learned 5. What s being deprecated in SharePoint 2016 6. Demo 7. Q & A
SharePoint 2016 Requirements Operating System - Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 Windows 10 Universal C Runtime (CRT) 64-bit version of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Datacenter.NET Framework 4.6 SharePoint 2013 Requirements Operating System - Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012.NET Framework 4.5
Recommended Hardware for SharePoint 2016
Recommended Hardware for SharePoint 2013
What s new in SharePoint 2016
What s new in SharePoint 2016 MinRole Cloud Hybrid Search Load Generation Templates in Visual Studio new set of templates Data Loss Prevention (51 Information Content Types) SharePoint 2016 templates in Visual Studio Large File Support (up to 10 GB in size) Fast Site Creation for My Sites (not for Team Sites)
What s new in SharePoint 2016 (continued ) PowerPivot add-in and Power View Power Pivot add-in is part of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in SharePoint-integrated mode is needed for using Power View Shared With Me improvements Recently shared items are immediately visible now Recently Shared Items (RSI) cache Search supports indexing of up to 500 million items per Search Server application Use SMTP ports other than the default (25) Store up to 100,000 site collections per content database, a 5x increase when compared to SharePoint Server 2013.
What s new in SharePoint 2016 (continued ) Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 not supported Database Attach Upgrade method to upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 No site collection compatibility modes in SharePoint 2016 Site Collection Upgrade 3 Options Upgrade sites along with database upgrades (default in v2v upgrade) Manually trigger site upgrade (default in b2b upgrade) First browser after database upgrade
What s new in SharePoint 2016 (continued ) Central Administration site no longer provisioned on all servers by default Suite navigation update App launcher experience is similar to O365 Support for ReFS file system
MinRole Server Role designation New PSConfig parameters LocalServerRole ServerRoleOptional
MinRole (continued ) Role Description Front-end Serve end user requests. Optimized for low latency. Application Distributed Cache Search Service applications, services, and components that serve backend requests. Optimized for high throughput. Service applications, services, and components that are required for a distributed cache. Service applications, services, and components that are required for Search. Custom Single-Server Farm Custom service applications, services, and components that do not integrate with MinRole. The farm administrator has full control over which service instances can run on servers assigned to this role. MinRole does not control which service instances are provisioned on this role. Service applications, services, and components required for a single machine farm. Suitable for development/testing environments. Replaces Standalone Install mode available in previous SharePoint Server releases.
Cloud Hybrid Search On-Premise content is stored in search index in O365 Content queries in Office 365, will return search results from BOTH on-premises and O365 content Metadata encryption used to secure on-premises content Active Directory (AD) synchronization needs to be setup PS scripts needed from MS Connect: CreateCloudSSA.ps1 -> installs cloud search architecture Onboard-HybridSearch.ps1 -> configures server-server authentication, which allows servers to request resources on behalf of users
Cloud Hybrid Search (continued ) Office Online Server (OOS) is needed for enabling previews of on-premises content Benefits: Smaller footprint of on-premises Search Server farm No upgrade of existing installation needed. SP2016 can crawl existing MOSS 2007, SP2010 and SP2013 content farms
SharePoint 2016 Load Generation Templates
SharePoint 2016 Visual Studio Templates
SharePoint 2016 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) DLP Policy created in Compliance Center site collection and assigned to target site collection DLP Query created in ediscovery site collection
SharePoint 2016 DLP Policy Tips
SharePoint 2016 Suite Navigation and OneDrive
SharePoint 2016 Shared With Me
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned Office Online Server (OOS) as opposed to Office Web Apps (OWA) is needed for search previews of on-premise content Parser errors when crawling content with Cloud Hybrid Search SSA Microsoft has PowerShell code to remedy this now Install patch builds by running the files in this order: prerequisiteinstaller.exe sts.msp (reboot server) wssmui.wsp Individual Language Pack installer files Fast Site Collection Creation not supported for Team Sites Removed due to performance issues
Lessons Learned (continued ) InfoPath is not being re-released with SharePoint Server 2016. InfoPath Forms Services will be supported in SharePoint 2016 and Office 365. SharePoint Designer is not being re-released with SharePoint Server 2016. SharePoint Designer 2013 can be used to work with SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 sites. Stsadmin is no longer supported Master Page updates (still called seattle.master) data-accessibility-nocheck="true SharePoint:IECompatibleMetaTag References to Version=16.0.0.0 assemblies No major branding updates yet.
SP2016 vs SP2013 master page differences
What s being deprecated in SharePoint 2016
What s being deprecated in SharePoint 2016 Standalone Install Mode ForeFront Identity Manager client (FIM) Excel Services in SharePoint BI functionality Tags and Notes Stsadm.exe
Demo
Takeaways SharePoint 2016 RTM Download https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51493 SharePoint 2016 Reviewer s Guide https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48713 SharePoint 2016 Documentation https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx SharePoint 2016 Discussion Forum on TechNet https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/office/en-us/home?forum=sp2016 General Availability (GA) for SharePoint Server 2016 - scheduled for May 4 th Rightpoint Consulting http://www.rightpoint.com
Q & A