This presentation provides you an overview of the new features in the product. In this deck, I review, what’s new, what changed and improved and how you can align your organization to be ready for the next wave.

1. What’s New SharePoint 2016
Mike Maadarani
MCM Consulting

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5. Welcome & Introduction
Mike Maadarani, Ottawa
• App Dev and Architecture for over 20 years (17 Years Microsoft, 3
Years with the “Other Guys”)
• Business focused on Enterprise Content Management, Search, &
Publishing Sites
• Architect, trainer, and presenter
mike@maadarani.com
www.maadarani.com @mikemaadarani

6. Server
Changes
Next Steps
Agenda
Closing and Q&A
What’s deprecated?
Overview
What’s new in 2016?
Hybrid

7. History and Roadmap

8. Modernize your on-premises infrastructure improving speed, scale, and user experiences.
SharePoint Server 2016 brings cloud innovation to your datacenter so you can get the best of both
worlds – speed and productivity for your users with flexibility and control for IT.
New user experiences enable
users to quickly and
productively consume new apps
and experiences across devices
and screens.
Improved User
Experiences
Based on our learning from
Office 365, SharePoint 2016
delivers a reliable software-
defined infrastructure
foundation that’s proven at
scale with best in class hybrid
experiences.
Cloud-Inspired
Infrastructure
Integrated data-loss
prevention and protection and
with built-in and cloud
connected compliance,
security, and threat protection
for both administrators and
end users.
People-Centric
Compliance
SharePoint Server 2016 Vision & Value

10. Hardware Requirements
SharePoint
2013
SharePoint
2016
RAM 12-16 GB 12-16 GB
CPU 4 Cores 4 Cores
DISK 80 GB 80 GB

11. Software Requirements

12. Boundaries and Limits
SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2016
Content Database 200 GB 200 GB TBs
Site Collection per DB 5000 5000 100 000
List Threshold 5000 5000 >5000*
Max File Size 2 GB 2 GB 10 GB+

13. MinRole

14. MinRole- Roles
Role Name Description
Web Front End Services end user requests, optimized for low latency.
Application Services all backend jobs
Distributed Cache Used for the DCS; another option is to use it with the
WFE
Search Reserved for Search Services
Single Server Farm Provisions all services on the server for a single server
deployment.
Custom/Special Load Reserved for services to be isolated from other services,
i.e. 3rd party

15. MinRole- Roles

16. MinRole - Roles
-localserverrole
SingleServerFarm

17. What you NEED to know

19. What did we lose?
• No more SharePoint
foundation

20. What did we lose?
• No more FIM
• YAY!

21. What did we lose?
• No Standalone Installation
=
• No more SQL Express

22. No more Excel Services
Deprecated Services:
• Trusted data providers
• Trusted file locations
• Trusted data connection libraries
• Unattended service account
• Excel Services Windows PowerShell
cmdlets
• Opening of Excel workbooks from
SharePoint Central Administration site

23. No more Excel Services
Available with Office Online Server:
• Viewing and editing Excel workbooks
in a browser (with or without the Data
Model)
• Excel Web Access web part for
SharePoint
• ODC file support (no longer requires
Data Connection Libraries)
• Programmability features such as
JavaScript OM, User Defined Function
Assemblies, SOAP and REST protocol
support

25. DLP
 Across O365 or on-premises –
Not Hybrid!
 Document Fingerprinting (CC,
SSN, Government IDs, etc.)
 Policies
 80 Policies in O365 and 10 in SP 2016
 eDiscovery
 Built into Enterprise Search

26. New features
 Zero Downtime Patching – must have redundancy
 Better SharePoint Insights
 Advanced reporting and analytics through O365 Compliance Center
 Automatic List Management
 Auto indexing of columns
 PerformancePoint survived!
 Durable Links – No more bad links!
• *** Requires Office Online Server ***
• *** Only Works with Office Documents ***

27. Enhancements…
 Large File Support
 10GB By default
 Can be changed at Web App Level
 Faster Upload
 Secure SMTP
 More than Port 25

28.  Same experience as O365
 Extensible
 Quick Nav between on-premises and the
cloud
 Pin your sites to it
 Seamless experience with other apps such as
Yammer, OneDrive, Delve, Groups, etc.
…. There is more

29.  Reduce Feature Activation overhead
 Similar to MinRole approach
 Enable it through PowerShell
 Copy to the database
…. And more…

30. …. And more…

31. Project Server
 Delivering unified work, project,
and portfolio management with
native-integration of Project
Server in SharePoint Server 2016
 Integrated Project Server
brings project and portfolio
management closer to the
content that revolves around it
Project Server 2016 natively integrated with SharePoint Server 2016

32. Alt + N – New
Alt + E – Edit
Alt + U – Upload
Alt + M – Manage
Alt + S – Share
Alt + Y – Synchronization
Did someone say usability?

33.  Add anything you want in the filename; + - , &, etc. whatever
you like
What about the invalid characters?

34.  Add anything you want in the filename; + - , &, etc. whatever
you like
What about the invalid characters?

42. Cloud Hybrid Search

43. Sync
SP 2013 SP 2010 SP 2007 Fileshares BCS
Cloud SSA
SPO
Search Index
1
2
34
5
6 7
Search Logical architecture: crawling
Corporate
network
Office 365

45. PowerShell 
• Added 115 *Brand Spanking New* Commandlets!
• I’ll recite them for you now… 
• Highlights:
• Lots of managing Project Server cmdlets
• Enable-SPVideoStreaming – Integration with either O365/Azure Media
• Get-SPAzureVideoServiceAccount << 
• Switch-SPSitesToNewDatabase (Like Move-SPSite but NO downtime!)

46. “The Upgrade”
3rd party tools
Database attach, re-attach
Upgrade From SharePoint 2013
Light your old environment on fire

47. Boundaries & Limits Recap

48. Next Steps

49. Thank you!
mike@maadarani.com
@mikemaadarani
www.maadarani.com