SharePoint Server 2016 Features:
Hi All, I would like to publish few new features introduced in SharePoint 2016 here.
1. MinRole
6. Zero Downtime Patching
7. Project Server Integration
8. List View Threshold
9. Fast Site Collection Creation
10. Recently Shared Items
11. TLS 1.2 Encryption
12. Hybrid Features in SharePoint 2016
Hi All, I would like to publish few new features introduced in SharePoint 2016 here.
1. MinRole
In MinRole, instead
of starting services manually on servers, as we did before, Microsoft
hard-coded
which services run
on which server. Every server in the MinRole farm has a role out
of the six available
roles:
- Front-End
- Application
- Distributed Cache
- Search
- Custom
- Single-Server Farm
Once the SharePoint
Server 2016 farm is setup in MinRole mode, SharePoint
will automatically
start the services on the right server when they are needed, and
stop those services
if the Service Application no longer exists in the farm.
2. Data
Loss Prevention(DLP)
DLP is a system
which gives the capability for the administrators and the enterprise compliance
managers to find
sensitive information in documents, and make sure their use respects
the company’s
policies. Since DLP is an industry-wide term, there are three ways in
which a DLP system
functions: in-use, in-motion, and at-rest. When talking about
SharePoint, we are
talking about a DLP system that looks for sensitive data while it’s
at rest.
The DLP system in
SharePoint Server 2016 allows us to find over 51 information
types, including
credit cards, Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers,
passports, and so
on. The DLP system in SharePoint 2016 doesn’t only find and
report the sensitive
information in the whole SharePoint farm; it can also block it so
other users can’t
access it. Only
the Site Owner, User who created the document, and the last
person who modified
it are even able to see the documents.
3. Durable Links
3. Durable Links
The Durable links
feature allows users to rename a document, and even move it
throughout the same
site collection, and the links will still work. This feature works
with Office
documents (Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint) as well as PDF
files. Furthermore,
in order to have access to this feature, you need to install and
configure Office
Online Server 2016 (new name for Office Web Apps Server).
4. Large
File Support
Microsoft
has updated the recommended maximum file size to 10GB as a supported limit.
5. SMTP Encryption
In past versions of
SharePoint, the outgoing e-mail was always sent unencrypted and
on port 25. This
could have led to a security hole since sometimes e-mail alerts
contain full
information about a list item, or the properties of a document. the
new Outgoing E-Mail settings page allows us to use TLS connection
encryption as well as change the SMTP Server port, to a non-default port.
6. Zero Downtime Patching
7. Project Server Integration
8. List View Threshold
Let me start by
saying the 5000-item list view threshold was never a SharePoint limit. The 5000-item
threshold was a recommendation by the SharePoint team in order to make sure
that lists load fast. Since SharePoint stores its data in SQL, it is also subject to SQL
limitations. In SQL server, if you do a query that returns more than 5000 results,
SQL will lock that table until the query finishes executing. The table lock would
delay other operations, thereby having an impact on your SharePoint
performance. The two ways to go around this recommendation would be to create views that
would contain fewer than 5000 items, or to ask the SharePoint Administrator to put
that limit higher.
SharePoint 2016
includes several new improvements in order to improve performance in large
lists. First, SharePoint 2016 databases are no longer subject to lock escalation.
Furthermore, SharePoint 2016 now has a timer job that runs by default on all the
lists with views over 2,500 items.
This timer job evaluates every view and would calculate if a view would benefit from an indexed column. If it would, then SharePoint will automatically create that index. An important item to remember is that by default, the list threshold in SharePoint 2016 is still at 5000, so if you need views larger than 5000 items, the SharePoint Administrator must still change the list throttling settings in the Central Administration
This timer job evaluates every view and would calculate if a view would benefit from an indexed column. If it would, then SharePoint will automatically create that index. An important item to remember is that by default, the list threshold in SharePoint 2016 is still at 5000, so if you need views larger than 5000 items, the SharePoint Administrator must still change the list throttling settings in the Central Administration
9. Fast Site Collection Creation
10. Recently Shared Items
11. TLS 1.2 Encryption
12. Hybrid Features in SharePoint 2016
- Hybrid OneDrive for Business
- Hybrid Sites
- Hybrid Profiles
- Extensible App Launcher
- Hybrid Search
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