SharePoint 2016 New Improvements

SharePoint 2016 New Improvements

1)    Emphasis on Hybrid possibilities with On-Prem SP 2016 & O365

One Drive Re-Direction: You can redirect your My Sites to your Office 365 subscription’s OneDrive for Business host

Sites you follow in one place – On-Prem + O365 – Sown under Sites in App Launcher

Hybrid Cloud Search – Unified Search Experience-  the Office 365 Search will take your On-Premises SharePoint Search Index so that it can give you results from both for the same query.

** Delve helps you discover the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now - across Office 365

2)    App Launcher & UI Changes

SharePoint 2016 introduces the App Launcher, as well as changes to the UI, to help it match the Office 365 experience.

3)    Server Roles - You can now install just the role that you want on particular SharePoint 2016 servers. WFE/ App/ Distributed cache/Search/ Custom

4)    Zero Downtime Patching - They’ve also removed the downtime previously required to update SharePoint servers.

5)    Removed 5,000 View Threshold – sort of: Instead of removing this unpopular threshold, they automated the creation of Indexed Columns.

6)    Increased File Size for uploads – 2 GB to 10 GB

7)    Fast Site Creation - Site Collections in 1 second from 40 seconds previously

8)    New Compliance Center in SharePoint 2016 - In-Place Policy Hold Center and the Compliance Center – Help you to define your own compliance polices

9)    New Collaboration Experience – Touch friendly interface

10) Link Durability: Links that are shared to documents on SharePoint 2016 can still work even if the filename is changed or if it moves to a different site collection.