4. About Me
Cloud / SharePoint / .NET solution and technical architect
Over 20 years experience developing business solutions for private
industry & government
Recent clients include CRA, PSPC, DND, StatCan, HoC, Justice, NRC,
NSERC, DFAIT, CFPSA, MCC, OSFI
Specialize in Microsoft technologies
Speaker at user groups and conferences
5. Thank you to my sponsor
CloudShare – Environments Made Easy
http://www.cloudshare.com/
6. Overview
What’s New for End User
◦ Navigation and Content
◦ Modern Everything
◦ Documents and Libraries
What’s New for IT Pro
What’s New for Dev
7. Navigation and Content
“SharePoint Home” site
◦ Site Creation demo
Suite Navigation and App Launcher
◦ Align with Office 365
Modern Team site
Communication site
8. Modern Everything
Lists and Libraries
Sharing Experience
Site pages, webparts and authoring
Search experience
9. Document Libraries
Increased storage file size 15 GB up from 10GB
Use of # and % characters in file and folder names
File path limit of 400 characters
Recycle bin
◦ Recover items delete by others that you had permissions to
10. What’s New for IT Pros
Software Requirements
◦ Windows Server 2016/2019
◦ SQL Server 2016/2017
Implementation / Migration
◦ New farm install, no in-place farm upgrade
◦ DB attach migration from SharePoint 2016 only, no earlier version
◦ 3rd Party content migration
No Feature Packs!!!
◦ Not for SP2019 and not for SP2016
11. Hardware Reqs
Installation
scenario
Deployment type
and scale
RAM Processor Hard disk space
Single server role
that uses SQL
Server
Development or
evaluation
16 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 80 GB for system
drive; 100 GB for
second drive
Single server role
that uses SQL
Server
Pilot or user
acceptance test
24 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 80 GB for system
drive; 100 GB for
second drive and
additional drives
Web server or
application server
in a three-tier farm
Development or
evaluation with a
minimum number
of services.
12 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 80 GB for system
drive; 80 GB for
second drive
Web server or
application server
in a three-tier farm
Pilot, user
acceptance test, or
production running
all available
services.
16 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 80 GB for system
drive; 80 GB for
second drive and
additional drives
12. What’s New for IT Pros
What version exactly: SharePoint 2016/9 ???
◦ Installation path
◦ Update status version numbers
Self-serve site creation config
◦ Select target web app
SMTP
◦ Server authentication
13. What’s New for IT Pros
Favourite Admin Tools
◦ ULS Viewer
◦ SharePoint Manager 2013
◦ HNSC Creator solution
Health Analyzer rules
PowerShell cmdlets
No more IIS6 dependencies
14. What’s New for Devs
Updated SharePoint Framework (SPFX)
◦ SharePoint Framework v1.4.1
◦ Excluding Microsoft Graph APIs
◦ Release date February 15, 2018
PowerApps and Flow (cloud) connect via data gateway
15. What’s Out or Missing
Full parity with SharePoint Online / Office 365
◦ Microsoft Graph
◦ Microsoft Teams
◦ PowerApps and Flow (available with O365 Hybrid config)
Path-based site collections still the norm for user-created sites
◦ HNSC require PowerShell, code or 3rd party
16. Removed
Installation
◦ Automatic mode for incoming email
◦ SQL Reporting Services integrated mode
Code-Based Sandbox Solutions
◦ But still Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service???
Silverlight rendering in PerformancePoint and Visio services
18. Contact Me
John Calvert, Chief Architect
Software Craft, Inc.
John (a) softwarecraft dot ca
softwarecraft dot ca
(a) softwarecraft99
Editor's Notes
App Launcher is bare bones for stand-alone / non-hybrid install
“SharePoint Home” is a My Sites page accessed from the App Launcher which provides a personalized view of followed sites
Replaces similar “Sites” page
Communication site template exists in Office 365 for some time
Modern team sites are not “group connected” as Teams is a cloud-only capability
SP2016 FP2 had no OOTB “modern” webparts
Enterprise Search Centre site template uses classic webparts hence doesn’t have modern search experience
Configure max storage limit in Central Admin in web app General Settings; GUI accepts values larger than 15GB???
Health Analyzer rules detect a missing encryption key needed to retrieve People Picker credentials or SMTP authentication credentials
Get-SPContentDatabaseOrphanedData replaces "stsadm.exe -o enumallwebs"
Several User Profile Synchronization cmdlets
Several Application Credential Key cmdlets
https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/wiki
SPFX latest release for SharePoint Online v1.7, November 8, 2018
SPFX release for SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 2 v1.0.2, early 2017