SharePoint Server 2016 RC released



Microsoft announced the release of SharePoint 2016 and Project Server 2016 at their official blog – https://blogs.office.com/2016/01/20/sharepoint-server-2016-and-project-server-2016-release-candidate-available/
Here the download url of SharePoint server 2016 Release Candidate – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50737
Please note, to install the Release Candidate, you must have an environment configured with SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2. And here SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 url – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49961. Good news is SharePoint 2013 Designer will work with SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Server 2016 will include an ongoing capability to host InfoPath Forms Services.
As its predecessor, SharePoint 2016 will be available on premise, cloud and hybrid model. Expectation is, SharePoint 2016 would be more scalable, reliable and high performances. There are few long holding limitation Microsoft SharePoint containing since MOSS 2007 which are actually wiped out wipe out in this release version. A few examples like 5000 thresh hold factor while retrieving list data, Content database size and many more… Here you can find more about new features of SharePoint 2016 – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346121(v=office.16).aspx

As per Microsoft, Project Server 2016 is now integrated with SharePoint Server 2016 as opposed to being installed as a standalone server. We can preview Project Server 2016 capabilities with SharePoint Server 2016 through provisioning a PWA in Service Application management.
I remembered back to SharePoint Server 2007 world where both the SharePoint and Project server sitting on the same server.
Below the deprecated features in SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate
·  SharePoint Foundation version – Free version is no more available.
·  Standalone install mode – I believe, since SP 2013, Developers habituated with multi server architecture POC farm.
·  ForeFront Identity Manager client (FIM).
·  Excel Services in SharePoint – Excel Services and its associated business intelligence capabilities are no longer hosted on SharePoint Server. Excel Services functionality is now part of Excel Online in Office Online Server Preview (this is the next version of Office Web Apps Server)
·  SharePoint BI capabilities
·  Tags and Notes
·  Stsadm.exe
Regarding migration perspective, any earlier SharePoint versions (excluding SP 2013), needs to touch base with SharePoint 2013 before land on SharePoint 2016 environment and the only one approach would be database attach/detach.
Finally, here the link of SharePoint Server 2016 Forum – https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/home?forum=SP2016
Enjoy SharePoint Server 2016 RC!


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