The May meeting of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group was a panel discussion of the recent Microsoft Ignite conference. Here are the slides from the conference overview.

1. MS IGNITE REPORT
SAN ANTONIO SHAREPOINT USER GROUP, MAY 19, 2015

2. Some Numbers
• Five Days
• 1146 Sessions
–(674 available on-demand)
• ~27 Products
• 47 listed parties
• 23,000 attendees

5. This is early EARLY stuff
• Ignite showed some early bits.
• Not all functions are built
• Not all features have been determined
• All information is preliminary

6. 2016 Requirements

7. Some Changes, Some Sames
• Hardware requirements the same as 2013
• OS and DB requires one of latest two versions
• No “stand-alone install” (SQL Server Express)
• Upgrade/migration same as to 2013
• OAuth and SAML for authentication
• SMTP Encryption, can use non-default ports

8. 2016 Architecture
• Web front End (think End User Role, serves
requests generated by users) – low latency
• Application (think Robot Role, does indexing,
crawling, timer jobs, etc.) – high throughput
• Distributed Cache Role
• Health Analyzer and Role Enforcement for these
roles
• Special Load – allows you to customize services
for the way you do business, does not get Health
Analyzer and Role Enforcement for roles

9. UI is similar to 2013
Expect updates, though, as MS is focusing on
features first, look-and-feel second.

10. Patching
• Patches have smaller footprint
• CAN BE RUN WHILE SYSTEM IS ONLINE –
NO DOWNTIME
• Yeah, that’s big.

11. Boundaries and Limits
Preliminary expectations:
• Content DBs in the TBs range
• 100k site collections per content DB
• List threshhold > 5000
• Max File size 10GB per file
• Index 500 million items

12. Project Server
• Project Server more closely integrated with
SharePoint
– Project content now integrated into the
SharePoint content databases, instead of their
own separate DBs
– You still need to licence Project Server if you want
to leverage the capabilities

13. New Telemetry Dashboard

14. Hybrid
• Compliance across hybrid scenarios
– Classification IDs out of the box for eDiscovery
• Unified compliance console
• Cloud Search Service
– Initially ships as update for SharePoint 2013
– Blended results set for hybrid search
– Delve!

15. Did you know?
• If you are using Office 365/SharePoint Online
you are a Guinea Pig?
– Microsoft is using A/B testing on its users!

16. Not Just SharePoint
• MS Dynamics online
– Fantastic integration with SharePoint and Yammer
• OneNote
– API
– Usage scenarios
• Exchange
– Architecture

17. Why Ignite?

18. Why Ignite?
I know, right?
Seriously, was the Microsoft
marketing department on
something when they named a
congerence in CHICAGO “Ignite”?
WTF?

19. No, I mean “Why go to Ignite?”
• The content is available on demand for free
later
• Some of the sessions were available for free,
live!
• Why spend $4000 to go to the conference?

20. PEOPLE!
NOT HoloLens

21. Yeah,
parties.
But the
walking!

22. The SharePoint Monkey

23. Quotable Me
Strategically Evolve Your Role as an IT Pro – Christian Buckley

24. References
• All sessions - http://s.ch9.ms/events/ignite/2015/
• Additional videos -
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/MicrosoftIgnite
• Download script - http://absolute-
sharepoint.com/2015/05/the-ultimate-script-to-
download-microsoft-ignite-videos-and-
slides.html
• Download script for MS Build! - http://absolute-
sharepoint.com/2015/05/the-ultimate-script-to-
download-build-session-videos-and-slides.html