1. What to Expect With SharePoint 2016 Brian Caauwe
Portals & Collaboration Manager
January 21st, 2017

2. Session Agenda
Architectural Changes
New Features
Hybrid Scenarios

3. Who am I? Brian Caauwe Manager, Consultant, Speaker and new dad
Technical Editor
Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration
Certifications
MCM: SharePoint Server 2010
MCSM: SharePoint

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5. Architectural Changes
Time Check :: [START] 9:17 – [END] 9:50

7. Cloud and Enterprise Social
SharePoint History
Release History and Roadmap
2001
2003
2006
2009
2012
2016
Core Collaboration
Content Management
Cloud and Enterprise Social
Cloud Connected

8. Base Requirements

9. Base Requirements What are they? OS SQL User Profile Sync Versions
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
SQL
SQL 2014 SP1
SQL 2016
User Profile Sync
AD Import
External Identity Provider
Versions
SharePoint 2016 Standard
SharePoint 2016 Enterprise

10. Base Requirements Why should I care? Licensing / Hardware RefreshOS
SQL
User Profile Sync
FIM is dead
Analyze Import / Export Needs
Microsoft Identity Manager
Versions
No more SharePoint Foundation

12. Office Online Server What is it? A.K.A. Office Web Apps, WAC, WOPI
New Features
Durable Links
ONLY on “Supported” document types
Rename and Create new files
Excel Service

13. Office Online Server Why should I care? Durable Links
ONLY on “Supported” document types
ONLY comes with Office Online Server NOT SharePoint 2016
Can start integrate with SharePoint 2013

14. Office Online Server Why should I care? Excel Service
MANY more configurations on a shared resource
Claims to Windows Token Service for Kerberos
Secure Store Support
AllowHttpSecureStoreConnections
Server to Server Trust
ODC File Support
Power Pivot

15. MinRole

16. MinRole What is it? Single Server Front-end Application
Database Server
Search
Distributed Cache
Custom

17. MinRole
What is it?

18. Minimum High Availability Supported
MinRole
Why should I care?
Supported
Minimum High Availability Supported
Front-end
Application
Search
Distributed Cache

19. MinRole
Why should I care?
Configuration
Configuration Wizard

20. MinRole Why should I care? Configuration PowerShell
New-SPConfigurationDatabase -LocalServerRole
Connect-SPConfigurationDatabase -LocalServerRole
Set-SPServer -Identity <ServerName> -Role <SPServer Role>
LocalServerRole values
WebFrontEnd
Application
DistributedCache
Search
WebFrontEndWithDistributedCache (Requires FP1)
ApplicationWithSearch (Requires FP1)
Custom
SingleServerFarm

21. SMTP Configuration

22. SMTP Configuration What is it? SMTP Encryption SMTP Ports
Supports sending using STARTTLS connection encryption
Configured farm or web application levels
SMTP Ports
non-default SMTP ports

23. SMTP Configuration Why should I care? SMTP Encryption SMTP Ports
Additional traffic encrypted “in flight”
SMTP Requirements
STARTTLS enabled on SMTP
SMTP server must support TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2
SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 NOT SUPPORTED
No “fail back”
If encryption sending fails
SMTP Ports
Security hardening against “known ports”

24. SMTP Configuration Why should I care?
Configured BOTH in Central Administration and PowerShell
Disable Encryption using Set-SPWebApplication -DisableSMTPEncryption
Non-default port using Set-SPWebApplication -SMTPServerPort

25. Patching

26. Patching What is it? “Zero Downtime Patching”
Reduced number of installers
SharePoint 2013: Language Pack MSIs/MSPs
SharePoint 2016: 4 MSIs/MSPs + 1 Language Pack

27. Patching Why should I care? Zero Downtime Quicker patching overall
Requires High Available architecture
Quicker patching overall
Patching Script

28. Boundaries & Limits

29. Boundaries and Limits What is it?
Removed special character restrictions
Still cannot use “ ? < > # % / \

30. Boundaries and Limits What is it? Max File size increased to 10GB
Default is 2GB
Content database sizing to TB’s
100k site collections per content database
Increased default list threshold
Search scales to 500 million items

31. Boundaries and Limits Why do I care? End Users Administrators
Removes usability constraints
Special Characters
Increased default list threshold
Max File size
Administrators
Reanalyze Architecture “requirements”
Re-analyze large file support scenarios
Prepare for disk growth

32. Feature Packs

33. Feature Packs What are they? Don’t wait 2-3 years for new features
Based on customer feedback and trends
Content Management
Team Collaboration
User Experiences
Hybrid

34. Feature Packs Why do I care? Feature Pack 1 is already out
MinRole enhancements
Custom Tiles
Hybrid Taxonomy
Administrative Actions Logging
OneDrive API
SharePoint Hybrid Auditing
OneDrive for Business Modern Experience
More will continue to come

35. Feature Pack New Min Roles Supported Front-end Application Search
Distributed Cache

36. Minimum High Availability Supported
Feature Pack
New Min Roles
Supported
Minimum High Availability Supported
Front-end
Distributed Cache
Front-end with Distributed Cache
Search
Application
Application with Search

37. New Features
Time Check :: [START] 9:50 – [END] 10:05

39. Compliance & DLP Features
In Place Hold Center
Different than eDiscovery Center
Time based holds
Disable holds
Still based on search index
Only SharePoint content

40. Compliance & DLP Features
Compliance Policy Center
Define organization policies
Deletion
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

41. Compliance & DLP Features
Compliance Policy Center
Deletion Policies
Rule Based
Delete
Recycle
Apply Policies
Site Definition
Site Collections

42. Compliance & DLP Features
Compliance Policy Center
DLP Policies
Find and act on sensitive content
Based on Exchange 2016 Sensitive Types (over 50 types)
Pre-defined templates
Personal Identifiable Information
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
U.K. Financial Data
Geographic specific types
U.K. National Insurance Number
EU Debit Card Number
SWIFT Code
U.S. Bank Account Number
Credit Card Number
Much much more…
Applied to Site Collections

43. Compliance & DLP Features
Compliance Policy Center
DLP Policies
Blocking content
Restricts visibility to owner and admins
Policy Tips
Requirements
Search Crawls
Outgoing
Compliance Center per Web App
eDiscovery Center for validation

44. Compliance & DLP Features
Compliance Policy Center
DLP Policies
notifications
Content Owner
Policy Owner

45. Compliance & DLP Features
Data Loss Prevention
eDiscovery Center
DLP Queries
Utilize SensitiveType managed property
Exportable and SAVED Queries

46. Time Check ::: [START] 3:55 – [END] 4:00

47. OneDrive for Business
Merging experience with SharePoint Online

48. OneDrive for Business Sites
Pin / Unpin your most active sites to the top

49. Hybrid Scenarios
Time Check :: [START] 10:05 – [END] 10:15

50. Hybrid Picker Before you can do anything else
Registered 365 subscription
Registering domain
UPN domain suffixes
Synchronizing accounts
Assigning licenses

51. Hybrid Search

52. Hybrid Search Find information from On-Prem and Online
Requires CloudIndex property to be True
Can only set on creation of search service application
Only one cloud SSA per farm
New managed property IsExternalContent
Effects Delve
Available in SharePoint 2013 and 2016
Preview: SharePoint 2013 requires August 2015 Public Update (PU)
AWESOME Overview:

53. Hybrid OneDrive

54. Hybrid OneDrive OneDrive Redirection
Redirected to SharePoint Online for all OneDrive for Business storage
Requirements
On-Prem service applications
App Management Service Application
Managed Metadata Service Application
User Profile Service Application
Successful User Profile sync
Work needs to be populated from mail
User Principal Name mapped to userPrincipalName
Setup MySites
Dedicated Web Application or MySite host

55. Hybrid OneDrive
Configured in Central Administration

56. Hybrid Sites

57. Hybrid Sites Followed Site Consolidation
Allows central place for “followed” sites
Does NOT centralize
Followed Documents
Newsfeed
Requirements
Same as OneDrive for Business

58. Hybrid Sites Followed Site Consolidation NOTES:
Configuring doesn’t COPY existing “followed” content
End users need to unfollow / refollow existing to consolidate
As with Hybrid OneDrive, need to deal with multiple “profiles”

59. Hybrid Sites Extensible App Launcher SharePoint 2016 App Launcher
Office 365 App Launcher
Customizable with your own apps
Available as soon as you enable Hybrid Sites

60. SharePoint Insights

61. SharePoint Insights New Hybrid Service Pushes data to Office 365
Diagnostic logs
Usage logs
View reports in Office 365
Currently in Preview

62. Q & A
Time Check :: [END] 10:15

63. Give Me Feedback SPS Events

64. How to get ahold of me? Brian Caauwe

66. Resources SharePoint Updates MinRole Office Online Server
MinRole
Overview:
Office Online Server
TechNet:
SharePoint Server 2016
TechNet:
Sensitive Information Types
TechNet:
Bill Baer:
SharePoint Insights (Preview)
Hybrid Picker
Hybrid Search
Overview:
The Extensible App Laucnher
New Features in Feature Pack 1
SharePoint Patch Script