Building your business case for upgrade or looking to help sell SharePoint 2016 to the departments or business users? This deck is designed to help provide the new features that provide ROI and REJ for SharePoint 2016 deployment.

1. SharePoint 2016:
Top 10 Features
for Business Users
Joel Oleson
SP PS Director
Konica Minolta
@joeloleson

2. Meet Joel
@joeloleson
 1st SharePoint IT guy
 1st Architect of SharePoint Online
 Travel junky – Finish the world in
next 7 years.
 Community Promoter & Builder
 Top SharePoint Office 365
Influencer
 Slides at
http://slideshare.net/joeloleson
 Linkedin.com/in/joeloleson

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

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 more coming…

6. SharePoint Roadmap Announcements
 SharePoint mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows
 SharePoint home in Office 365
 Modern List experiences
 Site activity and insights on the Site Contents page
 Integration of SharePoint sites and Office 365 Groups
 Modern responsive creative page design experience
 Team and organizational news and announcements
 PowerApps and Microsoft Flow integration with SharePoint
https://blogs.office.com/2016/05/04/sharepoint-the-mobile-and-intelligent-intranet/
In Preview: Made it to 2016 or 2016 FP1
FP1 modern OneDrive experience

7. My list for building the business case…
Born from the Cloud - Hybrid – Best Cloud integration
Foundation for the future - Continuous Updates
Mobility – SP Intranet in your pocket
Dev Flexibility – Open. Common API. SPFx coming soon.
Security - DLP/Compliance
Scalability – ½ billion files
Availability – Uptime 99.99%
Reliability – Minroles v2. Tested by millions.
Auditability – Central admin and powershell audits
Compliance -

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

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

10. Custom Tiles in Feature
Pack 2
 Requires Powershell & Feature

12. #2 Improved Libraries
Ribbon only required for advanced actions!

13. OneDrive for Business improvements
 New controls for working with
OneDrive for Business Click a
control to create a folder, upload
files, sync your files for offline use,
or share your files.
 Shared with me A new Shared
with me view takes you to a list of
folders and files that have been
shared directly with you.
 Site folders A new Site folders
view takes you directly to
document libraries of sites you’re
following.
 Recycle bin A new recycle bin
takes you to a list of folders and
files that have been deleted from
OneDrive for Business.

14. Automatic Management of Indexes
List View Threshold was designed to mitigate lock escalation – I.e. lock escalation occurs when single
Transact-SQL statement acquires at least 5,000 locks on a single nonpartitioned table or index – a row lock
escalates to a table lock, blocking all subsequent requests – or otherwise converts many fine-grain locks into
fewer coarse-grain locks.

15. Demo
• Modern List Experiences in
OneDrive
• Blocked Characters & ~ .. {} or
longer than 128 characters
• Multiple files through drag and
drop or upload button
• Improved error handling
• Improved image and video
previews (with more to come)
• #% on the roadmap…
Don’t worry about /?|<>

16. “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”
3. Dev Experience: Developing for SharePoint 2016: SharePoint Framework

17. • Embracing Open Source
• Sharing UX on Github
• Shipping to On Premises

18. Share, Follow Sites, Folders, Documents

19. 4. Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

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

21. SharePoint App is much better…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tgKBXmmPg

22. Forms and Workflow Story…
 InfoPath 2013 and
SharePoint Designer 2013
will be the last versions of
those products.
 InfoPath Forms Services is
included in SharePoint 2016
 InfoPath Forms Services on
Office 365 still supported
 InfoPath 2013 & SharePoint
Designer 2013 lifecycle is
supported until 2026.

23. Workflow on the fly with Flow
(shipped to early release – coming soon)

24. Flow.Microsoft.com

25. Intelligent SharePoint with PowerApps

26. Filenames - support for special characters including &$@~..
Doesn’t support / ? |< > #%
- #% on the roadmap… Don’t worry about /?|<>
- 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
Large File Support – Up to 10GB. Controls are per web app.
5. Scalability and Improved File Handling

27. Faster upload, Faster download, Faster sync
BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service is built in
Streamlined flow and simplified faster site creation
SQL 2016 is 7x faster than it’s predecessor
Improved User Performance

28. Gotchas!
• The SharePoint Foundation is Now
SharePoint Server (NOT FREE)
• Excel Services Moved to Office Online
and some BI/Reporting features require
SQL 2016
• No more Single Server deployment
SQL ok on separate box
• STSADM deprecated/Use Powershell!
• MinRoles require planning
(8 Server min for HA)
• Project Server 2016 is available in SP2016
as an upgrade

29. Careful with Office Installations
 Click to Run vs. Windows
Installer Based Office
Programs
 Office 2016 deployment will
need to be handled with care
for any users of SharePoint
Designer 2013 or InfoPath
2013.

30. Plan for Profiles: What about FIM in 2016?
 In SharePoint 2016 FIM has been removed
 Uni-directional sync via AD sync in-product in addition to
support for new external MIM for bi-directional sync scenarios.
‒ Effectively we’ve removed the embedded version of FIM and done work
to more closely integrate with an external instance.

31. 7. Hybrid Experiences including External Site publishing, Search & Delve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACsSv6CNHY8

33. Hybrid Taxonomy is in FP1

34. Hybrid Sites and OneDrive

35. Hybrid Sites Powered by Delve and Office Graph

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

37. 9. Compliance: Preserve/Archive with Document Deletion Center
e-Discovery for compliance & data loss prevention
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

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

39. Auditing overhaul

40. Better viewing reports
Deletions
Expirations
Changes to audit settings
New Auditing Reports
Hybrid Insights for Auditing
Coming soon…

41. Coming soon…Cloud First… Simple Web Analytics

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

43. ‒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

44. How do you
migrate to
SharePoint
2016?
Inventory
Cleanup
Test content
New environment
(Search and Services
First?)
Database reattach method
Read-only mode site upgrade
Solutions and apps
Third-party tools and resources
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