SharePoint 2016 Beta 2 What's new (End users and IT Pros) Microsoft Innovation Center Mons Belgium

1. 2016 (beta 2)
Overview
Serge Luca

2. Serge Luca
Serge Luca
SharePoint MVP, Brussel
Consultant, speaker, trainer
Managing partner www.ShareQL.com
SharePoint since 2002 (Dev, Infra, Business)
Blog: http://sergeluca.wordpress.com/
sergeluca@ShareQL.com
@SergeLuca
Serge Luca
Started as a developer 37 years ago (13)

3. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

4. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

7. Users bypass the IT
Departments

8. With SharePoint 2016, Microsoft doesn’t
want you to bring your business to the cloud,
but they will bring the cloud to your business

9. SharePoint 2016
Improved User
Interface
Cloud inspired
Infrastructure
Compliance
and Reporting

10. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

11. UI = O365 = SharePoint 2013 +…

12. App Launcher (extensible in the near future)

13. Link to Recycle Bin

14. New Controls in Document librairies
• New controls in document libraries (not for other lists) ; ribbon is still
there, less important for end users

15. Right click on documents (shortcuts)

16. Sharing is easier

17. OneDrive redirection to O365 (1TB,
Groups,…)

18. OneDrive4Business in O365
• Innovates faster
• O365 Groups
• New User Interface
• …much more

19. Hybrid Sites + Pining

20. Profile Redirection to O365 & Delve

21. Durable links : files can be renamed

22. Durable links : files can be renamed
• Links to files have a resource id d=<Guid>
• Even when file is renamed, link is still usable if Guid unchaned
http://nsi-rgc-
farmb/Shared%20Documents/Excel%20Services%20Sample%20Workbook%202013.xlsx?d
=w49a435d117384efc811bb277f3ff902b
=
http://nsi-rgc-
farmb/Shared%20Documents/Excel%20Services%20Sample%20Work?d=w49a435d117384
efc811bb277f3ff902b

23. Filenames - expanded support for special
characters

24. Mobile : improved, touch, non responsive

25. SharePoint 2016 UI

26. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

27. Hardware and
Software
Requirements

28. Hardware Requirements
Like SharePoint 2013 !!!
Single Server
Farm Server
MEM PROC DISK
16-24
X64
1x4
80 GB
12-16
X64
1x4
80 GB

29. Software Requirements
Windows 2012 R2 OR Windows 10 Server
SQL 2014 SP1 OR SQL 2016 (mandatory for BI)

30. Hardware and
Software
Requirements
Boundaries
and Limits

31. Boundaries and Limits
Automatic index
creation
List Threshold
Content database
sizing into TB’s
Content
Database Size
MaxFile Size
increases to 10GB
and removed
character
restrictions
MaxFile Size
100,000 site
collections per
content database
Site Collections
per Content
Database
2x increase in
Search scale to 500
million items
(Search)Indexed
Items

32. What’s new for IT Pros
Hardware and
Software
Requirements
Boundaries
and Limits
Min Role
Topology

33. Min Role
• More Reliable (from 99.9% to
99.99% when combined with 0
downtime patching)
• Easier to set-up & Maintain
Have « more
standard »
Farms
• Better User Experience
• Load balancer always choose
local service
• Simpler Farm scalability
Have
« optimized »
Farms

34. Services end user requests. Servers assigned to this role are optimized for low latency.
Services backend jobs or the requests triggered by backend jobs. Servers assigned to this role
are optimized for high throughput.
Reserved for services that needed to be isolated from other services. 3rd party applications, etc.
Serves distributed cache for the farm. Servers assigned to this role can load balance end user
requests among the web front ends.
Reserved for Search
A high available SharePoint 2016 farm requires :
2 WFE
2 APP
2 Search
3 DCache (for stability)
2 SQL Servers
= 11 machines !

35. MinRole

36. What’s new for IT Pros
Hardware and
Software
Requirements
Boundaries
and Limits
Min Role
Topology
More & Better
Hybrid

37. More & Better hybrid
Cloud Search Service Application
• Also available now in SP2010 & SP2013
Distributed Sites
• We can follow sites On Prem and sites in the Cloud
Scenario Pickers
• Will be enhanced with new functionalities in the future

38. Cloud Search

39. What’s new for IT Pros
Hardware and
Software
Requirements
Boundaries
and Limits
Min Role
Topology
More & Better
Hybrid
Microsoft
Identity
Manager 2016
Zero
Downtime
Patching
TLS 1.2
SMTP STARTTLS,
port…
Project Server

40. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

42. Deletion Policies
Ex: policy1: File must be deleted 5 years after
creation date
Ex: policy1 to be applied to TeamSites or to
OneDrive4Business
Ex: policy1 to be applied to the collaboration
site collections

43. Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Search for sensitive Content
• across SharePoint and OneDrive4Business
Leverage 51 built-in sensitive information types
• (credit cards, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, and more).
Identify offending documents, export a report, and adjust accordingly.
Notify the User when saving or Block access to content
Send incident report

46. Compliance

47. History
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

48. Deprecated
• Forefront Identity Manager -> Microsoft Identity Manager 2016
• Standalone Install
• Tags & Notes
• Excel Services in SharePoint ->Office Online Server
Supported
• Infopath
• Workflows 2010
• Full Trust Code
• BI requires SQL 2016 CTP 3.1

49. History & Roadmap
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

50. Upgrade to SharePoint 2016
From SharePoint 2013
(March 2013 Public Update)
Site Collections must be in SP2013
(v15 compatibility mode)
Database attach
No Site Collection
compatibility mode

51. History & Roadmap
Improved User Interface
Cloud inspired infrastructure
Compliance and Reporting
Deprecated & still supported
Migration
Conclusions
Agenda

52. UI Improvement More hybrid
More Standard
Stable
Scalable
More Compliant
2016

53. Merci !
@sergeluca
sergeluca@shareql.com