Why upgrade to SharePoint 2016? Seems like it doesn't have that much in it... right? True, but that's not the whole story. In this session we help build the business case for why you should consider upgrading to SharePoint 2016 including preparing for the feature updates and building your platform for the future.

1. SharePoint 2016 Why Upgrade:
Plan for Upgrade &
Build your Business Case
Joel Oleson
Biz Dev Director
Konica Minolta
@joeloleson

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SharePoint Joel
@joeloleson
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5. Hopefully the event will bring us really news to the future of SharePoint,
not only the “news” in SharePoint 2016. Because in my opinion this
version is a bit disappointing!
4 years development and so little changes and no really trending features
and no solutions for years uncompleted functionality. Please tell us the
truth about responsive design for publishing and team site (and not the
SP 2016 “improvements”), form solutions (the successor of InfoPath),
workflows, improved document management functions, social features
without the lousy yammer integration, OneDrive for Business that works
and even is enterprise ready (governance!), a modern provisioning
solution that’s not a GitHub tinker solution, and so on…
Comment on SharePoint RTM blog post.
What is the Community Saying…

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

7. 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…

9. SharePoint Roadmap Announcements
Here’s what you can expect to see starting this quarter:
 SharePoint mobile app for iOS
 SharePoint home in Office 365
 Modern List experiences
 Site activity and insights on the Site Contents page
Calendar year 2016:
 SharePoint mobile app for Windows and Android
 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/

10. 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. On your terms.
Security - DLP/Compliance
Scalability – ½ billion files
Availability – Uptime 99.99%
Reliability – Tested by millions.

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

12. #1 Global Navigation - App launcher – Consistency
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/connect-your-app-to-o365-app-launcher

13. #2 Improved Libraries – Coming soon: List improvements
Ribbon only required for advanced!

14. Feature Pack Library Updates: Search, Rich Previews

15. More… Modern List Experiences: Pin, Group, Filter, and Preview

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

21. 3. OneDrive – UI Improvements, better sync, and consistency

22. Managed in OneDrive: Share, Follow Sites, Folders, Documents

23. 4. Touch Enabled Mobile View of Libraries

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

25. SharePoint in your pocket: On Premises
Mobile Experiences coming H2 2016…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tgKBXmmPg

26. Coming soon… SharePoint Home.

27. Responsive out of the box with SP Framework

28. 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.

29. Workflow on the fly with Flow

30. Flow.Microsoft.com

31. Intelligent SharePoint with PowerApps

32. 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
Large file support

33. Planning for Scale
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.

34. 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
6. Improved User Performance

35. 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

36. 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.

37. 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.

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

40. Hybrid Sites and OneDrive

41. Hybrid Sites Powered by Delve and Office Graph

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

43. 8. 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

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

45. 9. Auditing streamlined.

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

47. Coming soon… Hybrid Taxonomy

48. Coming soon…Cloud First… Simple Web Analytics

49. 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

50. ‒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

51. 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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