SharePoint Server 2016 Recap from Microsoft Ignite

Last week we concluded our second Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, GA and announced several new capabilities coming to on-premises customers who are using or considering SharePoint Server 2016 or hybrid implementations. This post is a brief recap of those announcements, as well links to additional sessions of interest related to SharePoint Server 2016, hybrid, and migration from Ignite.

What did we announce?

For SharePoint Server 2016 we announced the early arrival of our inaugural Feature Pack, Feature Pack 1, which includes several new capabilities driven by investments in the cloud and feedback from our customers to include:

 

• Logging of administrative actions performed in Central Administration and with Windows PowerShell
• Enhancements to MinRole to support small environments
• A new OneDrive for Business user experience
• Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher
• Unified auditing across site collections on-premises and in Office 365
• Unified taxonomy across on-premises and Office 365
• OneDrive API 2.0

To learn more about Feature Pack 1 and its capabilities see also the Feature Pack 1 announcement here https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/announcing-feature-pack-1-for-sharepoint-server-2016-cloud-born-and-future-proof/.

For customers who are looking for more seamless intergration between their on-premises SharePoint deployments and Office 365, we’re introducing two new hybrid capabilities in Feature Pack 1 as described above to provide unified, granular insights into audit reports across on-premises and Office 365 in addition to the ability to share a common Term Store with the Managed Metadata Service.  In addition, to help guide and support your journey to Office 365 we also announced new FastTrack offers and solutions designed to help facilitate your migration or hybrid implementation as well as enabling you to diagnose and remediate common issues that may impact your migration.  To learn more about these announcements refer to http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office.

Related Sessions

 

• Explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and Beyond [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1368]
• Dive into Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 Upgrade and Migration [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1370]
• Deployment and Provisioning Best Practices with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1372]
• Get Started with SharePoint Server 2016 in Microsoft Azure IaaS [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1377]
• Get Started with User Profile Service Provisioning in SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1379]
• Get Started with Data Security and Compliance with SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1373]
• Empower Discover in SharePoint 2016 with Hybrid Search, Delve, and the Office Graph [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1371]
• Dive into Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1376]
• Get Started with Hybrid SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with FastTrack [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/39774]
• Explore new SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios: Hybrid Auditing, Hybrid Taxonomy, and Hybrid App Launcher [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1378]
• Bridge the Cloud Divide with Hybrid Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/2722]

Keep an eye out for Feature Pack 1 coming in November.

 

Bill