The document provides an overview of the new features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 such as improved mobile experiences, hybrid OneDrive and site capabilities, enhanced search functionality, and improved security features like data loss prevention. It also discusses deprecated features in SharePoint 2016 and the different options for migrating from previous versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2016 including database upgrades and third party tool based migrations. The presentation is delivered by WinWire Technologies, an IT solutions company specializing in mobility, cloud, collaboration and analytics technologies.
1. Demystifying SharePoint Server 2016
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4. Evolution of SharePoint
Cloud
Connected
Cloud & Enterprise
Social
Content
Management
Core
Collaboration
2001
SharePoint
Portal Server 2001
2003
SharePoint
Portal Server 2003
2006
Office SharePoint
Server 2007
2009
SharePoint
Server 2010
2012
SharePoint
Server 2013
2016
SharePoint
Server 2016
Microsoft
Managed Solutions
Microsoft
Online Solutions
Office 365
6. Improved User
Experiences
Cloud Inspired
Infrastructure
Compliance and
Reporting
• Mobile Experiences
• Personalized Insights
• People Centric File Storage
and Collaboration
• Improved Performance and
Reliability
• Hybrid Cloud with Global Reach
• Support and Monitoring Tools
• New Data Protection and
Monitoring Tools
• Improved Reporting and Analytics
• Trusted Platform
Brings Cloud
innovation to your
datacenter
Get best of both the
worlds
SharePoint 2016
Focus Areas
SharePoint 2016 Overview
7. Installation Requirements
Single Server
Farm Server
Database Server
16-24 GB 64 bit 4 cores
12 – 16 GB 64 bit 4 cores
SQL Server 2014 SP1 or 2016
Installation Scenario Memory / RAM Processor
Windows Server 2012 R2 .Net Framework 4.5.2
SQL Server 2014 SP1 or
2016
SQL Express
X
8. Installation - MinRole
Depending on intended functionality pick the role, Role Conversion
Distributed Cache
Distributed Cache
Application
Service Applications, Services and
Components that serve backend
requests (such as background jobs or
search crawl requests ) belong on
Application Servers
Search
Service Applications, Services and
Components that serve required for
searching belong on Search Servers
Front End
Service Applications,
Services and
Components that serve
user requests belong on
Front-end web servers
Custom
Anything you want
9. Installation – Topology Planning
Front End
Application
Distributed Cache
Search
Custom
Yes No No
Yes Yes No
Yes Yes No
Yes (If hosting Search) Yes (If hosting Search) Yes
No No No
Role Content Farm Shared Services Farm Search Farm
10. New Features – Hybrid OneDrive and Site
Hybrid OneDrive for Business
Office 365 Profiles
Documents Following
Sites Following
Redirection
11. New Features – Hybrid Search & Delve
Unified search and Delve
experience across On-premise
and Office 365
Search Index moved to cloud,
docs stay On Premise
12. New Features – Extensible App Launcher
Suite Bar changes
App Launcher with
Office 365 Apps
13. New Features – Mobile First
Mobile First Touch Friendly Approach
14. New Features – Fast Site Creation
Site collection
creation reduced
from 40 to 1-2 sec
No Feature
Activation
Overhead
Use of Copy-SPSite at the Database level
15. New Features – PWA Integration
Project Web App Integration within SharePoint
16. New Features – Documents
Expanded support for
special characters (&, ~, {,
}), GUID, >128 characters in
file names
Enhanced document library
UI
Show progress of upload
17. New Features - Preview
Preview Images and Videos in Doc
Library and Search
18. New Features – Boundaries
Content DB Size
Site Collections per
Content DB
Maximum File Upload
List View Threshold
Search Indexing
200 GB TBs
2000 100,000
2 GB 10 GB
5,000 >5,000
(Note: Index Columns)
100 Million Items per
Service Application
500 Million Items per
Service Application
Attribute SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2016
19. New Features – Data Loss Prevention
Security is no more a concern
51 OOTB Sensitive Information
Types like SSN, Credit Card No etc.
20. New Features – Automatic Index Mgmt.
SharePoint 2013 list
view threshold
Large List Column
Index Management
21. New Features – In-place Policy center
Site template for In-place
hold policy center
22. New Features – Durable Links
No broken links for
file name changes,
files moved
23. New Features – Contd..
Zero downtime patching
Profile Redirection – One
Profile for Hybrid
Environment
Document discussions in
Yammer
ODF Default File Template –
Edit using program of user’s
choice
Authentication
• SAML based Authentication
• Claims based authentication
• No more Classic
Authentication
24. Deprecated Features to watch out for
ForeFront Identity Manager
No new Designers in 2016 (SPD & InfoPath) – live with 2013
Standalone installation – Install SQL (No more SQL Express)
SharePoint Foundation
Excel Services and PowerBI – Certain Features
1
2
3
4
5
Tags & Notes6
Goodbye STSADM7
25. SharePoint to SharePoint Migration
Migration Options
No In place upgrade
Content DB upgrade
(Only from 2013 to
2016)
Third party tools
based migration
Prepare
• Clean up source farm
• Prepare SharePoint 2016 farm
• Backup customizations
Upgrade Databases
• SQL Server backup and restore
• Upgrade Service Application
Databases
• Create Web Apps and apply
customizations
• Upgrade content databases
Upgrade Sites
• Upgrade site collections
• Site collections in SharePoint
2010 (14) mode will not be
supported for upgrades
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