Find What’s New in SharePoint Server 2016 Preview

Today’s business organizations are often faced with the challenge of organizing and presenting information to all. With endless paper files, it becomes really difficult to manage information and access it at the right moment to take informed decisions. Microsoft Windows SharePoint is a great platform to start collaborating and sharing business data and information with your team members. The latest SharePoint Server 2016 has come up with numerous enhanced features and in this blog, I will pay close attention to the features that delivers improved performance and simplified management.

Mobile and touch: It is crucial for business organizations to gain access to information easily for making decisions faster. The latest version of SharePoint 2016 provides consistent cross screen experience and standards for mobile push and information synchronization. It offers IT developers and designers with capabilities that allows device specific targeting of content and strengthens the workforce using a browser on a mobile device, tablet or a desktop.

Improved management and provisioning capabilities: Another major challenge is to support the IT infrastructure and streamline administrative tasks. SharePoint Server 2016 has been specifically designed to reduce the emphasis on IT and focus more on the core competencies. Tasks that would take hours to do, have become simple and efficient through an improved role based installation architecture.

Natural sharing of sites and files: The sharing experience has become much improved and with a simple click of the Share button at the top right corner, you can now share email invitation, sites and etc. to accomplish everyday tasks.

Cloud hybrid search: The availability of the new cloud hybrid search preview helps the customers using the 2013 version and Office 365 to retrieve unified search results through a combined search index. This hybrid search solution is native to the 2016 IT preview. It allows the users to leverage the power of Office Graph in order to discover relevant information via Delve.

Compliance tools: Over exposure to information can be risky for your business, so SharePoint Server 2016 Preview offers a wide range of features and capabilities that are designed so that sensitive and critical business information is only accessed by people having the permission rights. Document Deletion Centers and New In-Place Hold Policy allows the users to manage time based policies to preserve items and even delete documents after a specified time period.

The App Launcher: This provides a better navigation experience where all the apps can be easily accessed from the top navigation bar. This allows the users to quickly launch any application, access any personal files and browse the sites.