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PittSharePointPro
Iron Contributor
Sep 25, 2017

Modern Page Experience availability in SharePoint 2016 On-Prem Server

What exactly is required to enable the modern page experience in SP 2016 on-prem server?  I think wbaer's Feature Pack 2 Post alludes to this functionality.  But I was hoping someone could clarify fo...
Modern Experience
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Mike Fairley
Brass Contributor
May 26, 2018

No Modern Pages but how about Modern Libraries and Lists?  They should be available?

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Martin Cox
Brass Contributor
May 30, 2018

No modern lists or libraries on SharePoint 2016 on-premises. The only 'modern' thing you get is that you can use SPFx to build custom web parts. You can add your custom SPFx web parts to classic pages in SharePoint 2016. I am actually doing exactly that right now for one of my clients. SharePoint 2016 on-premises does not have modern team sites, does not have modern communication sites, and does not have any of the modern web parts (modern web parts cannot be installed on classic pages anyway).  At the SharePoint Conference NA in Las Vegas last week (May 21) we learned that SharePoint 2019 on-premises will support modern team sites, modern communication sites and modern web parts (yay!) but not hub sites (doh!).