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SharePoint 2016

Up Close and Personal

Colin Phillips :: SharePoint MVP & Consultant :: itgroove

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 SocialnessBlog: mmman.itgroove.net / Twitter: @itgroove_colin

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 HybridMicrosoft 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: SearchBTW – 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

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 MoreBeta 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 ResourcesHybrid• 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

Questions?

Contact InfoColin Phillipsblog: mmman.itgroove.netTwitter: @itgroove_colin