New Features in
SharePoint 2016:
1.
Zero time down patching :
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No downtime is required to install the SharePoint Cumulative
updates.
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Business users can access the applications while SharePoint
Administrators installing the SharePoint Cumulative Updates.
2.
Fast site collection creation:
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Only one second to improve Site Collection creation
performance by reducing Feature activation overhead.
3. Central Administration is no longer
provisioned on all servers by default.
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SharePoint Server 2016 Central Administration is now provisioned
on the first server in a farm by default when using the SharePoint Products
Configuration Wizard.
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You can provision or unprovision Central Administration on
individual servers in a farm, no matter what the server role is by using
the following methods:
§ The Services on
Server page on Central Administration > System Settings.
§ Windows PowerShell
cmdlets:
§ The psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs operation.
§ The SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard
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Central Administration is not provisioned on additional servers
in a farm by default.
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The MinRole health rule will not attempt to provision or
unprovision Central Administration.
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The state of Central Administration does not affect whether a
server is considered compliant with MinRole.
4.
Minimal Role:
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Allows users to perform a Role based Installations (Application,
Front-End, Distributed cache, search, custom and single server farm).
5. Advanced Schedule scan for health
analyzer.
6. Simplified SSL configuration for
Central Administration site.
7. Durable links:
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Durable Links provide a resource Id based link
for Web Application Open Platform Interface Protocol (WOPI) documents served by
SharePoint and Office Online Server.
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The resource Id assigned to individual
documents is stored in the content database related to the source document.
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When using Durable Links when a user selects a
link to a specific document, SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview looks up the
file by the resource Id and opens it in Office Online Server Preview.
Ø Durable Links allow documents to be moved and renamed without
affecting the integrity of the linking Url associated with a document.
Ø This
is the Feature we need to activate for the Durable Links
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If we rename document or move the document to
some other Document Library/folder when user is trying to access the old URL,
user will be redirected to new url and document will be opened.
8.
New tool bar for the document library
Ø (New,Upload,Sync
and Share for multiple files).
9. Supports
SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 and the Power Pivot add-in and Power View.
10. Supports Open Document Format (ODF) files to
use in document library templates.
11.
Image,
Docs and video previews.
12. Keyboard shortcuts
are provided for document tasks
Ø Alt
+ N - New
Ø Alt
+ E - Edit
Ø Alt
+ U - Upload
Ø Alt
+ M - Manage
Ø Alt
+ S - Share
Ø Alt
+ Y -
Synchronization
13. Web Application Open Platform Interface
Protocol (WOPI):
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You can now rename files, create new files, and share files from
within the WOPI iframe on the browser page.
14. App launcher:
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Allows you to navigate between OneDrive, sites and newsfeed
that can be customized.
15.
Site Folder View:
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Lets you access the document libraries in sites that you’re
following.
16. Suite Navigation is Themable:
17.
Sharing Improvements:
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Create and Share folder,
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Sharing Hint,
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See who the folder is shared with when viewing a folder,
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Members can share,
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Improved invitation mail,
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One-click email to approve or deny a request for access.
18.
Sites
page pinning:
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You can now pin sites that you see on the sites page. A pinned
site shows at the top of the list of sites that you’re following.
19.
Encrypt
Outgoing email:
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Supports SMTP servers that use TCP ports other than the default
port (25).
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Supports sending email to SMTP servers that use STARTTLS
connection encryption.
20.
Remove
Character limit in URL
21.
File
names are now supported:
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Names with special characters like &,@ (% and # are still
not allowed),
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Names that contained a GUID,
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Names with leading dots,
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Names longer than 128 characters.
22.
Adds Recycle Bin link in the left
navigation area of the OneDrive and Team sites:
23. New
Compliance Policy Center & In-Place Hold Policy Center site collection templates:
Ø Allows the organization to manage its governance policies
across site collections.
24. New
Compliance Policy Center & In-Place Hold Policy Center site
collection templates:
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Allows the organization to manage its governance
policies across site collections.
25.
New
115 PowerShell cmdlet
26.
Automatic
list column management indices
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To provide the best query performance within views.
2 27. Better support for mobile
28. Hybrid
Integration:
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Enable the following scenarios between office 365 with
SharePoint On-Prem via Central Administration.
§ Cloud hybrid
search,
§ Hybrid OneDrive for
Business,
§ Hybrid sites
features.
- Workflow
Manager is still part of SharePoint 2016.
- Sandboxed
Solutions are still supported.
- Project Server 2016:
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Project Server 2016 runs as a service application in SharePoint
Server 2016.
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The SharePoint Server 2016 MSI file will contain the
installation files for Project Server 2016 as well.
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A separate installation is no longer required as it was in
previous versions of Project Server.
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Project Server 2016 is installed with SharePoint Server 2016
Enterprise, though is licensed separately.
Limitations for SP 2016:
1.
Search index size
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It has been increased to 500 million items (250 million items in
SharePoint 2013).
2.
Maximum file size upload
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It has increased up to 10 GB. (2 GB in SharePoint 2013).
3.
The list threshold
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It has been increased >5000 per view/query.
4. The
content database size
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It has been increased up to 1 TB (200 GB in SharePoint
2013).
Deprecated Features for SharePoint Server
2016:
1.
InfoPath 2013 and SharePoint Designer
2013
Ø It will be the last versions of those products.However, the
support for InfoPath 2013 and
SharePoint Designer 2013 will match the
support life cycle for SharePoint Server
2016, running until 2026.
2.
STSADM.exe
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The STSADM command-line tool has been deprecated, but it is
included to support compatibility with previous product versions. STSADM is also
in list of SharePoint 2013 deprecated features.
3.
User Profile service (ForeFront
Identity Manager Client)
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SharePoint Server 2016 no longer uses FIM as the synchronization
client.
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FIM (synchronize between Active Directory and SharePoint) is
being removed and the bidirectional sync with AD has been improved.
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The default process is Active Directory Import.
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You can also use any synchronization tool such as Microsoft
Identity Manager 2016.
4.
Tags and Noted
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They are completely deprecated.
5.
SharePoint Foundation
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SharePoint Foundation is no longer available in the SharePoint
Server 2016 release.
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SharePoint Foundation 2013 remains available for use.
6.
Excel Services
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Excel Services and its associated business intelligence
capabilities are no longer hosted on SharePoint Server.
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Excel Services functionality is now part of Excel Online in
Office Online Server.
7.
Standalone Install Mode
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SharePoint Server 2016 doesn’t support the standalone install
option.
8.
The Work Management Service Application
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You couldn’t now aggregate tasks to a central location on
SharePoint because the Work Management Service Application has been removed.
9.
My Tasks and associated Exchange Task
Sync features
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They have been removed because the Work Management Service
Application that is required for both features has also been removed.
10.
BI
Capabilities
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The SQL Server 2014 Power Pivot and Power View add-ins for
SharePoint Server 2016 cannot be deployed or used in SharePoint Server 2016.
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To deploy these add-ins you need to upgrade to SQL Server 2016
CTP 3.1
