SharePoint 2016 New Features

What's New for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2016

-Worth to watch this video by Bill Baer,

Microsoft Ignite @ Chicago May 4-8 2015

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2188

Overviews of Upcoming New Features with SharePoint 2016. 

• SP 2016 supports SAML Auth.
• Cloud Based ID Auth
• Supports all old auth types like classic or windows, NTLM
• Supports TLS which is more secure and encrypted
• SMTP with non default Port
• You can not upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 directly but you can from sp 2013 to sp2016.
• No standalone installation (you have to install sql separately on same server or separate server).
• Patching will be online means no more download work.
• Minrole feature is more helpful to monitor health of SP environment
• fast site creation using SP Copy object
• Durable links allows you to change file name or location changed without breaking link.
• tenant insight portal for monitoring
• New Cloud search service apps

Capacity: 

•  1,00,000 site collections per DB
• List threshold is greater than 5000 list items
• max file upload size is upto 10 GB
• Index items more than 500 million items
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