SharePoint 2016 Overview
shows the following Hardware and Software Requirement:
SharePoint 2016 Minimal
Hardware Requirement
Processer: 4 cores 64 Bit
Processer
RAM: 12GB to 16GB
Hard Disk: 80GB
SharePoint 2016 Minimal
Software Requirement:
OS: Windows Server
2016/Windows Server 2016 R2
Framework: .net Framework
4.6/4.5.2
Database: SQL Server 2014/SQL
Server 2016
Here is the some of the high lights about new
features
Central Administration
is no longer provisioned on all servers by default
MinRole farm topology
Document Library
accessibility
Encrypted connections
Fast Site Collection
Creation
File names - expanded
support for special characters
Hybrid in SharePoint
Server 2016
Hybrid sites
Hybrid OneDrive for Business
Cloud hybrid search
Identify and search for
sensitive content in both SharePoint Server 2016 and OneDrive documents
Image and video previews
Large file support
Mobile experience
Project Server 2016
SharePoint Search
Service application
Simplified SSL
configuration for Central Administration site
Use SMTP ports other
than the default (25)
Central Administration is no longer provisioned on all servers
by default
SharePoint Server 2016 Central Administration is now provisioned
on the first server in a farm by default when using the SharePoint Products
Configuration Wizard. Central Administration is not provisioned on additional
servers in a farm by default.
You
can provision or unprovision Central Administration on individual servers in a
farm, no matter what the server role is by using the following methods:
·
The Services
on Server page on Central Administration > System Settings
·
Microsoft PowerShell
cmdlets:
·
The psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs operation
·
The SharePoint
Products Configuration Wizard
Note
The state of Central
Administration does not affect whether a server is considered compliant with
MinRole. The MinRole health rule will not attempt to provision or unprovision
Central Administration.
MinRole farm topology
The role of a server is specified when you
create a new farm or join a server to an existing farm. SharePoint
automatically configures the services on each server based on the server role,
optimizing the performance of the farm based on that topology. There are eight
predefined server roles that are available, as shown in the following table.
|
Server
|
Description
|
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Front End
|
Service applications, services,
and components that serve user requests belong on front-end web servers.
These servers are optimized for low latency.
|
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Application
|
Service applications, services,
and components that serve back-end requests, such as background jobs or
search crawl requests, belong on Application servers. These servers are
optimized for high throughput.
|
|
Distributed Cache
|
Service applications, services,
and components that are required for a distributed cache belong on Distributed
Cache servers.
|
|
Search
|
Service applications, services,
and components that are required for search belong on Search servers.
|
|
Custom
|
Custom service applications,
services, and components that do not integrate with MinRole belong on Custom
servers. The farm administrator has full control over which service instances
can run on servers assigned to the Custom role. MinRole does not control
which service instances are provisioned on this role.
|
|
Single-Server Farm
|
Service applications, services,
and components required for a single-machine farm belong on a Single-Server
Farm. A Single-Server Farm is meant for development, testing, and very
limited production use. A SharePoint farm with the Single-Server Farm role cannot
have more than one SharePoint server in the farm.
Important: The Standalone Install mode is no longer available in SharePoint Server 2016. The Single-Server Farm role replaces the Standalone Install mode available in previous SharePoint Server releases. Unlike Standalone Install, the SharePoint administrator must separately install and prepare Microsoft SQL Server for SharePoint. The SharePoint administrator must also configure the SharePoint farm services and web applications, either manually or by running the Farm Configuration Wizard. |
|
Front-end with Distributed Cache
|
Shared role that combines the
Front-end and Distributed Cache roles on the same server.
Note: This shared role was introduced in the November Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1). |
|
Application with Search
|
Shared role that combines the
Application and Search roles on the same server.
Note: This shared role was introduced in the November Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1). |
Document Library accessibility
·
Landmarks to a page
make it easier to navigate, and there are alt text improvements for all major
navigation links.
·
Keyboard shortcuts are
provided for the following document tasks:
o Alt + N - N ew
o Alt + E - E dit
o Alt + U - U pload
o Alt + M - M anage
o Alt + S - S hare
o Alt + Y - S y nchronization
·
Focus improvements,
such as keeping focus on prior elements and focus trapping.
·
Announcements for
upload progress.
·
Announcements for file
name and file types when browsing folder and file lists.
·
Improved callout
reading.
·
Fixed use of color
issues for views switcher.
·
Updates to the Help
documentation.
Encrypted connections
When you set up an SSL binding in Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager to host your web application, SharePoint
uses TLS 1.2 connection encryption if your client application supports it.
SharePoint also supports TLS 1.2 connection encryption when connecting to other
systems, for example when crawling websites.
Note
A security
vulnerability was identified in the SSL 3.0 protocol that can allow an attacker
to decrypt data. For enhanced security, some SharePoint features now disable
SSL 3.0 connection encryption by default, as well as certain encryption
algorithms (for example RC4) with known weaknesses. SharePoint disables SSL 3.0
connection encryption by default for some, but not all features. To ensure that
SSL 3.0 is disabled for all features, you should disable it in Windows by
editing the Windows Registry. For more information, see the "Disable SSL
3.0 in Windows For Server Software", and "For Client Software",
workarounds in Microsoft Security Advisory 3009008.
Fast Site Collection Creation
This new feature provides templates that work at same level as
SQL Server, which reduces the round trips required between the SharePoint and
SQL servers. Use the SPSiteMaster Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets
to create sites and site collections quickly.
File names - expanded support for special characters
SharePoint has historically blocked file names that included
the &, ~, {, and } characters,
file names that contained a GUID, file names with leading dots, and
file names longer than 128 characters. These restrictions are removed in
SharePoint Server 2016 and are now available to use.
Important
Restricted characters
such as % and # are still not allowed in file
names. Page file names, such as wiki pages, may not contain the following
characters: " # % * : < > ? \ / | nor can they begin with a leading
dot (period) character.
Hybrid in SharePoint Server 2016
Hybrid sites
Hybrid sites features allows your users to have an integrated experience while
using SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online sites:
·
Users can follow
SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online sites, and see them consolidated in a
single list.
·
Users have a single
profile in Office 365, where all of their profile information is stored.
For
more information, see SharePoint hybrid sites and search.
Hybrid OneDrive for Business
Hybrid
sites features are used in concert with Hybrid OneDrive for Business (introduced
in SharePoint Server 2013 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)):
·
Users can sync files
with Office 365 and share them with others.
·
Users can access their
files directly through Office 365 from any device.
Cloud hybrid search
Cloud
hybrid search is a new hybrid search solution alternative. With cloud hybrid
search:
·
You index all of your
crawled content, including on-premises content, to your search index in Office
365. You can set up the crawler in SharePoint Server 2016 to crawl the same
content sources and use the same search connectors in Office SharePoint Server
2007, SharePoint Server 2010, and SharePoint Server 2013.
·
When users query your
search index in Office 365, they get unified search results from both
on-premises and Office 365 content.
For
more information about cloud hybrid search, see the public Microsoft cloud
hybrid search program on Microsoft Office connection.
For
more information, see Plan for hybrid OneDrive for Business.
For
more information about the hybrid solutions available today, please visit
the SharePoint Hybrid Solutions Center.
Identify and search for sensitive content in both SharePoint
Server 2016 and OneDrive documents
·
Search
for sensitive content across
SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
·
Leverage
51 built-in sensitive information types (credit cards, passport numbers, Social Security numbers,
and more).
·
Use DLP
Queries from the eDiscovery site collection to discover sensitive
content relating to common industry regulations from the SharePoint eDiscovery
Center, identify offending documents, and export a report.
·
Turn on DLP
Policies from the Compliance Policy Center site collection to notify
end users and administrators when documents with sensitive information are
stored in SharePoint and automatically protect the documents from improper
sharing.
Information
on configuring and using this feature is documented in SharePoint Online and
Office 365. For more information, see:
Image and video previews
In SharePoint Server 2016 when you post images
and videos to a document library, you can see a preview by hovering the mouse
over the image or video, or by clicking on them.
Large file support
Previous versions of SharePoint did not
support uploading or downloading files larger than 2,047 MB. SharePoint Server
2016 now allows you to upload or download larger files. You can configure the
desired maximum file-size limit on a per-web application basis in your
SharePoint farm.
Mobile experience
When you use a mobile device to access the
home page for a SharePoint Server 2016 team site, you can tap tiles or links on
the screen to navigate the site. You can also switch from the mobile view to PC
view, which displays site pages as they are seen on a client computer. This
view is also touch enabled.
Project Server 2016
·
Resource
Engagements: Now project
managers can request needed resources from resource managers to complete their
projects. Also, resource managers can use the new heat map functionality to see
where resources are spending their time.
·
Multiple
Timelines: Project and
Portfolio managers can now create richer timelines that display multiple
timelines in a single view.
·
Simpler
administration: Project Server
now has multi-tenant storage capabilities and has combined data storage with
SharePoint. This greatly reduces IT overhead by eliminating the dedicated
Project Server database and improves backup and restore capabilities.
·
Cloud
grade performance and scale: Many performance and scalability improvements that have
been added to Project Online have also been added to Project Server 2016.
For more information, see What's new for IT pros in Project Server 2016 Preview.
SharePoint Search Service application
SharePoint Search supports indexing of up to
500 million items per Search Server application. For more information,
see Overview of search
architecture in SharePoint Server. For information
about SharePoint cloud hybrid search, see Learn about cloud hybrid
search for SharePoint.
Simplified SSL
configuration for Central Administration site
We've simplified the process for configuring
Central Administration to use SSL bindings. The following command parameters
are now available to use:
·
New-SPCentralAdministration -Port <number>
-SecureSocketsLayer
·
Set-SPCentralAdministration -Port <number>
-SecureSocketsLayer
·
Psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -port <number> -ssl
You must assign a server certificate to the
Central Administration IIS web site by using the IIS administration tools. The
Central Administration web application won't be accessible until you do this.
If you specify port 443, it will automatically
create an SSL binding instead of an HTTP binding even if you don't include
the SecureSocketsLayer or SSL parameters.
The Central Administration public AAM URL will
be automatically updated to use the appropriate protocol scheme, server name,
and port number.
Use SMTP ports other than the default (25)
To configure SharePoint to use a non-default
SMTP port open SharePoint Central Administration, browse to System
Settings > Configure outgoing email settings, and set
the SMTP server port to the port number of your SMTP server.
To configure SharePoint to use a non-default SMTP port in PowerShell, use
the Set-SPWebApplication cmdlet with the SMTPServerPort parameter.
For example:
SharePoint
2016 Upgrade Scenarios
- Direct Upgrade from
SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 not possible
- Support’s Database
attach upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016
- Support’s only Upgrade
from SharePoint 2013 Mode (15 hive) to SharePoint 2016
- Not support’s upgrade
from SharePoint 2010 Mode (14 hive) to SharePoint 2016
Reference : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new/new-and-improved-features-in-sharepoint-server-2016
