Top 10 SharePoint 2016 New Features with focus on the business user. What's New, What's different, what matters? In this session we dig into the key features of SharePoint 2016 with more emphasis on what you can see than what's happening behind the scenes.

1. Joel Oleson
SharePoint 2016 RC for the
Business
Director of Biz Development
Konica Minolta Business Solutions
@joeloleson
Collabshow.com

2. Who we are….
KM Business Solutions USA
• 1,200 US Direct Sales Reps
• 110 ECM US Employees
• Enterprise National Team
11
Billion
USD

4. Your Tour Guide:
SharePoint Joel
@joeloleson
Collabshow.com

5. IT Preview: Aug 2015
Release Candidate: Q1 2016
RTM: Q2 2016

6. SharePoint 2016 RC now available
B2 full install + RC (update)
SharePoint Server 2016 is our most reliable, scalable, secure and
high-performant server release ever. With built-in Hybrid Cloud
capabilities, it is the premier choice for organizations who are
looking to take advantage of the latest innovations in Microsoft
Cloud

7. Develop against SharePoint 2016 &
Office 365… Consistent API

8. SharePoint 2016 is a Branch from the O365 cloud
#1 Global Navigation: App launcher

9. “You now have new ways to create contextual solutions
that span SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365 from the
web, mobile apps and Office. You have simpler and more
robust APIs and tool”
Developing for SharePoint 2016

10. #2 Simplified Usability: New Menu
Ribbon only required for advanced!

11. SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Server 2016 document libraries…
Simplifying the user experience [file creation, sharing and management]
3. OneDrive Improvements - OneDrive for Business and One Drive for Co

12. Managed in OneDrive: Share & Follow Sites, Folders, Documents
SharePoint Server 2016 improves the sharing experience by making it more natural for users to share sites and files. Just click
the Share button at the top right corner of every page, enter the names of people you want to share with, and press Enter.
A pinned site shows at the top of the list of sites that you're
following.

13. Site Folders - Takes you directly to document libraries of sites
you’re following.

14. 4. Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

15. tap tiles or links on the screen to navigate
Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

16. Universal Apps - Responsive Office 2016

17. Filenames - expanded support for special characters including &$@~..
Still doesn’t support / ? |< > #%
Large File Support – Controls are per web app. Up to 10GB.
Durable Links – new service to support for links that won’t break when
files move (Already works in Office 365)
5000 file limit improved with automatic management of indexes
5. Scalability and Improved File Handling
Large file support

18. Faster upload, Faster download, Faster sync
BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service is built in
Faster site creation and other common operations – site creation now
close to 1 second down from 40+ seconds.
6. Improved User Performance

19. • No SharePoint Designer 2016
• No Infopath 2016
--- The current plan of record is…
Use 2013 versions… they still work!
• Some Excel Services Deprecated Some Moved (Refer to TechNet) some new BI and
Reporting Features require SQL 2016 CTP 3.1 (as of RC)
• Profile Services FIM deprecated. New Options: Microsoft Identity Manager
• No more Single Server deployment
• STSADM deprecated
• MinRoles requires some planning
• Project Server 2016 Preview is installed with SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview.
• No “Free SharePoint” No SharePoint Foundation Release in 2016
Use Office 365 if you need “Cheap or Simple SharePoint”
Gotchas!

20. 7. Hybrid Experiences including External Site publishing, Search
& Delve

21. Hybrid Experiences: Delve & Search (requires configuration)
Hybrid search
Preview for
SharePoint Server
2013 and 2016
Available Now…

22. 8. More Cloud Goodness + Hybrid:
e-Discovery & Compliance Center for DLP
+ new Auditing and Reporting experiences
New In-Place Hold Policy and Document Deletion Centers, which allow you to manage time-based, organization-
wide in-place hold policies to preserve items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business for a fixed period of time, in
addition to managing policies that can delete documents after a specified period of time.
Same data loss prevention (DLP)
capabilities as Office 365.
Improved reporting
Improved auditing
Improved analytics
Some (not all) features in IT Preview:
document deletion and in-place hold policies

23. From 99.9% expected to 99.99% possible with----
Better IT Features such as:
Zero Downtime Patching
Minimal patch sizes
Self Healing and Alerting
9. Reliability and Security

24. • Alt + N – New
• Alt + E – Edit
• Alt + U – Upload
• Alt + M – Manage
• Alt + S – Share
• Alt + Y – Synchronization
New Keyboard Shortcuts
10. New Accessibility features for libraries

25. • 2010 to 2016? Sorry. Requires 2010->2013->2016 w/o Third party tool.
• Database attach (requires site upgrades be complete)
• Foundation can be upgraded to SharePoint Server through DB attach
• Project is now installed as part of the SharePoint Install – has it’s own keys
• SKU upgrade from SP Enterprise to Project
• 15 Mode (2013) sites should be seemless upgrade (read only) for a few
seconds/minutes depending on complexity of site
• 2010 workflows will still work
2016 Upgrade Planning
SharePoint 2016 Upgrade