Why Upgrade to 2016? “The most reliable, scalable, secure and high performing SharePoint release ever...” But are there really any new features for the business? In this session we'll dig into the Top 10 compelling business reasons to upgrade. Australian Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne

1. SharePoint 2016 for the
Business: Top 10 Compelling
Features
Joel Oleson
Biz Dev Director
Konica Minolta

2. Your Tour Guide:
SharePoint Joel
@joeloleson
Collabshow.com

4. To date our disclosure has predominantly been related to
our core infrastructure investments as that’s the primary
investment area when we begin development – over the
course of the next several months we’ll begin sharing (as soon
as we know) what specific workload areas will be advanced.
SharePoint on-premises will continue to ship on a 2-3 year
cadence whereas we update SharePoint Online monthly. Our
objective of defining on-premises through the cloud will bring
some near term parity, but online will receive new capabilities
first. – Bill Baer, SharePoint Team blog.
It’s shipped, but it’s not done… more coming…

6. Why Upgrade to 2016? “The most reliable,
scalable, secure and high performing SharePoint
release ever...”
But are there really any new features?

7. My list for building the business case…
Hybrid – Cloud integration
DLP/Compliance
Reliability/Uptime
Fluid updates/Cutting edge

8. SharePoint 2016 is a Branch of O365
a CLOUD Child
Cloud inspired infrastructure!

9. #1 Global Navigation - App launcher – Consistency
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/connect-your-app-to-o365-app-launcher

10. #2 Simplified Usability: New Menu
Ribbon only required for advanced!

11. “You now have new ways to create contextual
solutions that span SharePoint Server 2016 and Office
365 from the web, mobile apps and Office. You have
simpler and more robust APIs and tool”
Developing for SharePoint 2016

12. SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Server 2016 document
libraries… Simplifying the user experience [file creation, sharing and management
3. OneDrive Improvements - OneDrive for Business and One Drive

13. Managed in OneDrive: Share & Follow Sites, Folders, Documents
SharePoint Server 2016 improves the sharing experience by making it more natural for users to share sites and files.
Just click the Share button at the top right corner of every page, enter the names of people you want to share with,
and press Enter.
A pinned site shows at the top of the list of sites that
you're following.

14. Site Folders - Takes you directly to document libraries of sites you’re following.

15. 4. Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

16. tap tiles or links on the screen to navigate
Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

17. Universal Apps - Responsive Office 2016

18. Filenames - support for special characters including &$@~..
Doesn’t support / ? |< > #%
- Office 365 is Working on #%... Coming soon!
Large File Support – Controls are per web app. Up to 10GB.
Durable Links – new service to support for links that won’t break
when files move (Already works in Office 365)
5000 file limit improved with automatic management of indexes
5. Scalability and Improved File Handling
Large file support

19. 5000 item reality…
Better List Scalability

20. Faster upload, Faster download, Faster sync
BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service is built in
Faster site creation and other common operations – site creation
now close to 1 second down from 40+ seconds.
6. Improved User Performance

21. Gotchas!
• No SharePoint Designer 2016
• No Infopath 2016
 Use 2013 versions… they still work!
• Some Excel Services Moved (Refer to
TechNet) Many new BI and Reporting
Features require SQL 2016 CTP 3.1
• No more Single Server deployment (SQL
on separate box)
• STSADM deprecated
• MinRoles requires some planning
• Project Server 2016 is available in SP2016
as an upgrade
• No “SharePoint Foundation License” in
2016 wave

22. You don’t have to support SP Designer or
Custom Master Pages

23. 7. Hybrid Experiences including External Site publishing, Search & Delve

24. Hybrid Experiences: Delve & Search (requires configuration)
Hybrid search
SharePoint Server
2013 and 2016
Available Now…

25. 8. Compliance: Preserve/Archive with Document Deletion Center
e-Discovery for compliance & data loss prevention
+ new Auditing and Reporting experiences
New In-Place Hold Policy and Document Deletion Centers policies to preserve or delete items in
SharePoint and OneDrive for Business for a fixed period of time
Improved reporting
Improved auditing
Improved analytics

26. Find PII Data
- Credit cards
- Bank accounts
- Tax ID
- Create your own
* 51 templates
Compliance:

27. Auditing streamlined.

28. Better viewing reports
Deletions
Expirations
Changes to audit settings
New Auditing Reports

29. From 99.9% expected to 99.99% possible with
- Better IT Features such as:
Zero Downtime Patching
- Minimal patch sizes
- Self Healing and Alerting
9. Uptime, Reliability and Security

30. Hybrid Sites

31. ‒ Alt + N – New
‒ Alt + E – Edit
‒ Alt + U – Upload
‒ Alt + M – Manage
‒ Alt + S – Share
‒ Alt + Y – Synchronization
New Keyboard Shortcuts
Accessibility features for libraries

32. ‒Plan Architecture… The Farm (MinRoles) Currently 8 servers for
HA
‒Plan Profile Import (Sync) AD/MIM
‒Plan Compliance
‒Plan Services: My Sites, User Profiles, Managed Metadata
‒Plan Hybrid integration:
 Hybrid Sites
 OneDrive
 Yammer or SP Social
 Search
 Delve/Profile
2016 Upgrade Planning
SharePoint 2016 Upgrade

34. Thank
you to
our
sponsors!