SharePoint 2016 has evolved in capturing, storing and maintaining large volumes of data. The changes made and the new features list is quite vast; however here I explain some of them which can come handy for everyone.

1. New, improved and deprecated features in
SharePoint 2016

2. Key Topics
New and Improved Features
Deprecated Features

3. New and Improved Features

4. Performance, Reliability & Scalability
Execution
 Improved
performance
 Faster site creation,
upload and download
Trustworthy
 Improved patching
 3x9s availability
 Handle large volumes
of data
99.9%
Resilient
 Improved scalability
and flexibility
 2x increase in search
indexing

5. Faster Site Creation
• Copies Site Collection using SPSite.Copy at ContentDB Level.
• Implements master copies of enabled Site Collections
Benefits
• Improves site collection creation performance
• Mitigates feature activation overhead

6. MinRole
• Allows to configure/define each server’s role in a farm topology.
• Can convert server role later on.
• Services get configured based on the server role, optimizing
farm performance.
Benefits
• Simplified deployment
• Improved performance and reliability
• Simpler capacity planning and farm scalability

7. Durable Links
• Resource Id based URLs
Benefits
• Links remain connected after renaming or moving
• Enables discrete URL on visibility

8. Document Library Accessibility
• Keyboard shortcuts for document tasks
• Announcements for file names and file types when upload in progress
• Alt + N - New
• Alt + E - Edit
• Alt + U - Upload
• Alt + M - Manage
• Alt + S - Share
• Alt + Y - Synchronization

9. Special Characters
• Allows file name with &, ~, { and } characters
• Allows file names longer than 128 characters
• Allows file names with GUID or leading dots
Note:
• % and # are still not allowed.

10. Patching
• 2 MSIs per SharePoint core service and 1 language pack
• Online patching with zero downtime

11. Management
Efficiently manage infrastructure while
maximizing uptime, minimizing failures and
downtime
Manage Cost

12. System Requirements
Hardware Requirements Software Requirements

13. Thresholds and Limits
Boundaries

14. Upgrade and Migration
• Supports upgrade from SP 2013
• March 2013 CU, version 15.0.4481.1005 or higher
• DBs to be upgraded to 15.0.4481.1005 or higher
• Upgrade 14 mode site collections to 15 mode
• Attach SharePoint 2013 databases to SharePoint 2016

15. Governance
Manage Risk
Find the perfect balance
between compliance,
managing records and
collaboration
Control
Efficiently manage
content policies while
preventing data loss
Manage Time
Empower end users while
managing risk,
complexity and costs

16. Content Management
Compliance
Policy Center
In-place
Hold Policy
Center
Data Loss
Prevention

17. Cloud Accelerated Scenarios
Hybrid Sites
Cohesive experience of
SharePoint on-premises
and online sites
Hybrid One Drive
Redirects on-premises My
Sites/OneDrive host to
Online OneDrive for
Business.
Hybrid Search
Unified search results
from O365 & On-
Premise.

18. Hybrid Sites
• Users can follow on premise & online sites
• Single profile for users in Office 365
Benefits
• Integrated Experience

19. Hybrid One Drive
• Sync files with O365 and share with others
• Files accessed directly via O365 from any device
Benefits
• Store business files centrally.
• Reduce on premise storage cost.

20. Hybrid Search
• Unified index for on-premise and cloud content
• Supports search as a service/reduces search crawl
footprint
• Crawls MOSS 2007, SP 2010 & SP 2013 without
upgrading them

21. Services
• Hybrid Sites
Project Server
Delivers unified work,
project, and portfolio
management
User Profile
Bi-directional sync using
external FIM service

22. Project Server
• Integrated with SharePoint 2016
• Runs as a service application
• Delivers unified work, project and portfolio
management.
Note
• Still has separate licensing

23. User Profile
• Improved synchronization
• Supports external synchronization tools such as
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 or other 3rd
party tools.

24. Mobile
• Mobile & touch
• Improved mobile experience
• Tap tiles or links on the screen to
navigate the site
• Switch from the mobile view to PC view
• Better touch UX

25. Deprecated Features
SharePoint
Foundation
Standalone
Install Mode
Forefront
Identity
Manager
(FIM) Client
Tags and
Notes
Stsadm.exe Excel Services BI Capabilities

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