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Vlad Catrinescu

vNext Solutions

Email : [email protected]

Twitter : @vladcatrinescu

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http://spvlad.com/VladLnkd

• Montreal, Canada

• SharePoint-Community.net Co-Founder

• Pluralsight Author

• SharePoint MVP

• Office Servers and Services MVP

Contact Details:

CloudDown

MinRole

Excel Services

Durable Links

Search Q&A

Fast Site

CreationFIM

Surprise

What happened in the past 15 years?

2001

SharePointPortal Server 2001

2003

SharePointPortal Server 2003

2006

Office SharePointServer 2007

2009

SharePointServer 2010

2012


2016


Cloud-Inspired

Experiences

Cloud and Enterprise

Social

Content

Management

Core

Collaboration

Microsoft

Managed Solutions

Microsoft

Online ServicesOffice 365

SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview provides a first look at a select set of new infrastructure investments that will help define the scope, scale and reliability of SharePoint Server 2016. Since we’re building SharePoint Server 2016 on the same core platform for SharePoint Online, you won’t be surprised to see similarities between the two. SharePoint Server 2016 unlocks new user experiences that are intuitive, yet familiar. For IT professionals, it delivers improved performance and scale with simplified management. And for developers, it offers an opportunity to build for cloud or on-premises.

As we move forward with future preview releases, we’ll continue to add new capabilities that represent our investments in audience and workload capabilities. What we’re sharing today is just a fraction of what will be in SharePoint 2016!









InfrastructureChanges

What did they bring “From The Cloud Down”?

And They’re Not Out Of This World!

SharePoint 2013

SharePoint2016

RAM 12-16 GB 12-16 GB

CPU 4 Core 4 Core

DISK 80 GB 80 GB

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WFE1 WFE2

APP1 APP2

Topologies

WFE1 WFE2

APP1 APP2

WFE1 WFE2

APP1 APP2

• Foundation Web Application• Index/Query


• User Profile Sync• User Profile• Managed Metadata• Crawl• Content Processing• Secure Store• Etc.


WFE1 WFE2

APP1 APP2





MMS + User Profile

WFE

Batch Processing

Topologies

Distributed Cache

SpecializedWorkloads

WFE

Batch Processing

Distributed Cache


Distributed CacheRequest Management

Access ServicesBusiness Data Connectivity Central AdministrationManaged Metadata SharePoint Foundation Web ApplicationSecure Store ServiceStateSubscription SettingsUser CodeUser ProfileVisio Graphics

Crawl TargetMachine TranslationPowerPoint Conversion,User Profile SynchronizationWord AutomationWork ManagementWorkflow Timer Service

Excel CalculationPerformancePointProjectSearch (Dedicated Servers)

WFE

Batch Processing

Distributed Cache


Distributed CacheRequest Management


Crawl TargetMachine TranslationPowerPoint Conversion,User Profile SynchronizationWord AutomationWork ManagementWorkflow Timer Service

Excel CalculationPerformancePointProjectSearch (Dedicated Servers)

MMS + User Profile

WFE1

Batch Processing

Distributed Cache



MMS + User Profile


WFE2

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache

Special LoadCustom

Search

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache

Custom

Search

Service applications, services, and components that serve user requests belong on Front-end web servers.

Service applications, services, and components that serve backend requests (such as background jobs or search crawl requests) belong on Application servers.

Distributed Cache

Service applications, services, and components that are required for searching belong on Search servers.

Anything you want!

1. Hardcoded2. The Service Application Load

Balancer is now always prefer local instance

3. Less Scenarios for Microsoft to Test

4. Simplified Deployment

5. Simpler Farm scalability

1. Recommendation2. The Service Application Load Balancer

could have went to another server even if local instance was running

3. Infinite number of scenarios.

4. Which server should run x service already?

5. Need to manually start services every time

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache

Custom

Search

SQL

SharePoint 2016 Base Topology + Custom Server

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache Custom

Search

SQL

Highly Available SharePoint 2016 Base Topology + Custom Server

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache

Custom Search

SQL

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache Custom

Search

SQL

Highly Available SharePoint 2016 Base Topology + Custom Server + Office Online Server

Front-end

Application

Distributed Cache

Custom Search

SQL

OOSOOS

1. You need at least Four (4) Servers to have a MinRole Deployment

2. You need to have all the Roles in the Farm before starting to create service applications

3. If you don’t have 4 Servers, select Custom!

4. Office Web Apps > Office Online Server

Q: Why is Microsoft doing this?A: Microsoft is brining their SharePoint Online optimizations back on prem!

Q: Are they only doing this to get more Windows Server Licenses?A: No

Q: Do I have to go the MinRole way?A: You can still go all Custom and do as you wish

Q: Is Single Server Farm going away?A: The Option still exists, but you need to install SQL yourself!

Q: Why Can’t I just start a other services on my MinRole servers?A: SharePoint will shut them down

New Features

Yes, there's more than MinRole!

• Resource-based URLs now retain links when documents are renamed or moved in SharePoint.

• No more broken links when someone changes a document in another folder or renames the file!

**** Requires Office Online Server ***

No more bad links!

• Fast Site Collection Creation is a mechanism designed to improve provision performance of Site Collections through instrumenting a copy operation using SPSite.Copy at the Content Database level.

• Instead of creating a blank site, activating all the features to get the Site Collection you want, SharePoint will copy the template at the Database Level!

**** Only by PowerShell and Template needs to be enabled beforehand***

No more waiting for the Site Collection to create!

• You can send emails on other ports

• No one will be able to steal your alerts!

AND SMTP Connection encryption!

• Search for sensitive content in your existing eDiscovery Center, keeping content in place and enabling you to search in real time.

• Credit Card Numbers, SSN, Bank Account Numbers, Passports (51 total information types!)

• You can search across SharePoint 2016, One Drive for Business and SharePoint Online!

Find that information before it’s too late!

• Improved Mobile experience• Large File support• Open Document Format• Better Project Server Integration• More Supported Special characters• Better Recycle Bin• Improved Information Rights Management

DepreciatedFeatures

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it

happened.

*I don’t think this quote applies to SharePoint*

Oh wait…

• No more SharePoint Foundation 2016!

• Either stay on 2013 or go Online!

No more younger brother

• SharePoint Designer 2013 will work with SharePoint 2016

Excel Services and its associated business intelligence capabilities are no longer available in SharePoint Server. Excel Services functionality is now part of Excel Online in Office Online Server Preview, and SharePoint users can use the services from there.

• The following Excel Services functionality has been deprecated:

• Trusted data providers

• Trusted file locations

• Trusted data connection libraries

• Unattended service account

• Excel Services Windows PowerShell cmdlets

• Opening of Excel workbooks from SharePoint Central Administration site

** Viewing and Editing Can still be done with Office Online Server**

SharePoint Server 2016 requires updated versions that will ship later this year. The SQL Server 2014 Power Pivot and Power View add-ins for SharePoint 2013 cannot be deployed or used in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview. The following business intelligence features won't be available until then:

• Power Pivot Gallery

• Scheduled Data Refresh

• Using another workbook's Data Model as a data source

• Power View reports (standalone or embedded in Excel workbooks)

• Power View Subscriptions and Report Alerting

• Power Pivot Management Dashboard

• BISM Link support

Only for Preview!

• Currently only choice is to use AD Import

• However.. No Photos, No two-way Sync…

• But Never fear, MIM is here! (Microsoft Identity Manager)

• MIM will run on an external server, and SharePoint will only consume it.

Because no great story starts with someone trying to start the Sync Service

Hybrid

It’s a Server…It’s a Cloud….

It’s SharePoint Hybrid!

• UI Based configuration to easily configure your Hybrid SharePoint environment!

• Hybrid MySite/OneDrive for Business as well as Hybrid sites (Follow sites both On Premises and Online)

Hybrid is now easy!

• Hybrid search makes finding content easy, wherever the content lives.

• Reduced on-premises infrastructure cost by hosting most search components in the cloud

• The Office 365 team keeps search running and up-to-date for you, 24/7

• Integrates with Delve and the Office Graph

The star of the show

Before

Credit: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2014/02/office-365-sharepoint-hybrid-what-you-do-and-do-not-get.html

After

Hidden features

Is this stuff coming to On Prem, or they forgot to take it out from the

cloud merge?

Credit: http://www.mrscompany.com/2015/09/sharepoint-2016-hidden-gems-part-1/




What’s Next?

The road to the best version of SharePoint Server ever!

Q2 CY 2016Q1 CY 2016Q4 CY 2015

SharePoint

2016

Release

Timeline

• Zero Downtime Patching

• More End User Features

• More Developer Features

Q&A

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