SharePoint 2016 – Preview



Microsoft published today SharePoint 2016 preview notes at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422%28v=office.16%29.aspx. One of the new feature is ‘Mini Roles’, and it would be a great handy tool for SharePoint farm administrator. It will help farm administrator to define roles on each servers i.e. WFE, appServer, Distribution Cache etc. Three primary benefit of this new feature are ‘Simplified Deployment’, ‘Improved performance and reliability’, and ‘Simpler capacity planing and farm scalability’.
Following are new and improved features at a glance are available in SharePoint 2016 preview:
·  Access Services
·  Compliance features
·  Customized web parts
·  Document Library accessibility
·  Durable links
·  Encrypted Connections
·  Fast Site Collection Creation
·  Filenames – expanded support for special characters
·  Hybrid in SharePoint 2016
·  Identify and Search for sensitive content
·  Image and Video previews
·  Information Rights Management
·  Large file support
·  MinRole
·  Mobile experience
·  New controls for working with OneDrive for Business
·  New Recycle Bin in OneDrive and Team sites
·  Open Document Format (ODF)
·  Project Server
·  ReFS file system support
·  SharePoint Search
·  Sharing improvements
·  Site Folders view
·  Sites page pinning
·  SMTP Connection Encryption
·  SMTP ports (non-default)
·  Web Application Open Platform Interface Protocol (WOPI)

Microsoft also announced the following features which are going to be deprecated in SharePoint 2016.
·  SharePoint Foundation – However, SharePoint 2013 Foundation will still alive
·  Standalone install mode
·  ForeFront Identity Manager Client (FIM)
·  Excel Services in SharePoint
·  SharePoint BI Capabilities
·  Tags and Notes features
·  STSADM.exe (no more fun on unpublished stsadm uninstall command)

Personally, I found no logic to shut down couple of features so soon. Microsoft needs to think and listen to the about broader audience and allow the mid/low level farms to setup their mindset to migrate cloud. I believe it is going FAST rather than a smooth way of letting the features down.
Finally, MS team announced the Known Issues on SharePoint 2016 IT preview at https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/mt346109%28v=office.16%29.aspx. I’ll not be surprised to found you another new apart from this list 🙂
You can download SharePoint 2016 preview at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712


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