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SharePoint 2016
Up Close and Personal
Colin Phillips :: SharePoint MVP & Consultant :: itgroove

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Who I am: Colin Phillips
My Background
 16+ Years in Technology
 Today: SharePoint MVP and Consultant
 Previously: 12 Years Developing Software, IT Infrastructure Projects, Workflows, & Other Related
Topics
 B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Victoria
 Microsoft Certified Professional Developer & IT Professional (SharePoint)
My Socialness
Blog: mmman.itgroove.net / Twitter: @itgroove_colin

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The Latest News
• Jeff Teper is back!
• 500% Content growth in SP online Year Over Year
• Decision makers want SharePoint on every device
OneDrive for Business
• Rock Solid Sync
• Mobile across all devices
• Streamlined Web Interface
• The Ribbon is mutating /
disappearing (hint: not just in OneDrive)

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The Latest SharePoint Online News
• Simplified sharing (attachments in Outlook)
• Real-time co-authoring in the Office suite & Office Online
• Office 365 groups (the collaboration glue across 365)
• Much more to come
• Office 365 Video
• Delve & Office Graph
• Discovery of information in SP Online, OneDrive
• Analytics (Predictive)
• Time management / categorization
• Time spent collaborating with / who am I not
• Rollups of teams to managers (data is randomized – they’re not checking up on you)
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The Word of the Day: “Hybrid”
Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid
Microsoft wants to bring the best cloud experiences and merge them with your on
premise data (Important: this merged information will be stored in the cloud)
The big player in the whole thing: Search
BTW – Hybrid!
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Cloud UI Coming to On Premise
The toolbar at the top
The Ribbon is becoming
much less prevalent
• Sometimes being replaced
altogether with new UI
experiences
Do I see a Sync button on that
document library?
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Min Role
You can now install just the role that
you want or change a role of a
particular server later in the lifecycle
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More Administrivia
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Compliance and role
concepts are throughout
Central Admin
Ergo: Zero downtime
patching. With a few
gotchas…

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Even More Stuff!
• Increased file size for uploads
• How much more? Not really saying right now – but
recommendations are to keep it to 10GB or less.
• Project Server built in
• Fast Site Creation
• By using a template, SharePoint can now create Site Collections in ~1
second. Compared to SharePoint 2013 where it can take minutes.
• Currently only available via PowerShell
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For All You Compliance Nuts
Aww shucks, a place
just for you. 
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The Knockout Punch (or Kick?)
The much despised “list view threshold” is being
eliminated
But how, you ask? Sneaky behind the scenes indexing
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Please Sir, I Want Some More
Beta 2 is coming by US Thanksgiving HERE
• Will be 99% feature complete
Modernizing team sites - combining
together with Groups (augment each other,
not compete)
Out of the box mobile Intranet*
And finally,
There WILL BE a vNext of SharePoint Server
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Additional Resources
Hybrid
• http://hybrid.office.com/sharepoint.html
SharePoint 2016 Beta / Beta 2 New Features
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346121%28v=office.16%29.aspx
• https://support.office.com/en-za/article/What-s-new-in-SharePoint-2016-Beta-2-089369b5-c3d4-4551-8bed-22b2548abd3b
• https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/18/announcing-sharepoint-server-2016-beta-2-and-project-server-2016-beta-2/
• http://en.share-gate.com/blog/whats-new-in-sharepoint-2016
Download (Beta 2)
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49961
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Questions?
Contact Info
Colin Phillips
blog: mmman.itgroove.net
Twitter: @itgroove_colin