SharePoint Server 2019 On-Premises - WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S OUT LEVEL 200 / END USER, IT PRO & DEV

SHAREPOINT SATURDAY OTTAWA     October 28, 2017

  SharePoint Server 2019
            On-Premises
      WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S OUT
    LEVEL 200 / END USER, IT PRO & DEV

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About Me
Cloud / SharePoint / .NET solution and technical architect
Over 20 years experience developing business solutions for private
industry & government
Recent clients include CRA, PSPC, DND, StatCan, HoC, Justice, NRC,
NSERC, DFAIT, CFPSA, MCC, OSFI
Specialize in Microsoft technologies
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Overview
What’s New for End User
 ◦ Navigation and Content
 ◦ Modern Everything
 ◦ Documents and Libraries

What’s New for IT Pro
What’s New for Dev

Navigation and Content
“SharePoint Home” site
 ◦ Site Creation demo

Suite Navigation and App Launcher
 ◦ Align with Office 365

Modern Team site
Communication site

Modern Everything
Lists and Libraries
Sharing Experience
Site pages, webparts and authoring
Search experience

Document Libraries
Increased storage file size 15 GB up from 10GB
Use of # and % characters in file and folder names
File path limit of 400 characters
Recycle bin
 ◦ Recover items delete by others that you had permissions to

What’s New for IT Pros
Software Requirements
 ◦ Windows Server 2016/2019
 ◦ SQL Server 2016/2017

Implementation / Migration
 ◦ New farm install, no in-place farm upgrade
 ◦ DB attach migration from SharePoint 2016 only, no earlier version
 ◦ 3rd Party content migration

No Feature Packs!!!
 ◦ Not for SP2019 and not for SP2016

Hardware Reqs
Installation         Deployment type   RAM      Processor         Hard disk space
scenario             and scale
Single server role   Development or    16 GB    64-bit, 4 cores   80 GB for system
that uses SQL        evaluation                                   drive; 100 GB for
Server                                                            second drive
Single server role   Pilot or user     24 GB    64-bit, 4 cores   80 GB for system
that uses SQL        acceptance test                              drive; 100 GB for
Server                                                            second drive and
                                                                  additional drives
Web server or        Development or     12 GB   64-bit, 4 cores   80 GB for system
application server evaluation with a                              drive; 80 GB for
in a three-tier farm minimum number                               second drive
                     of services.
Web server or        Pilot, user        16 GB   64-bit, 4 cores   80 GB for system
application server acceptance test, or                            drive; 80 GB for
in a three-tier farm production running                           second drive and
                     all available                                additional drives
                     services.

What’s New for IT Pros
What version exactly: SharePoint 2016/9 ???
 ◦ Installation path
 ◦ Update status version numbers

Self-serve site creation config
 ◦ Select target web app

SMTP
 ◦ Server authentication

What’s New for IT Pros
Favourite Admin Tools
 ◦ ULS Viewer
 ◦ SharePoint Manager 2013
 ◦ HNSC Creator solution

Health Analyzer rules
PowerShell cmdlets
No more IIS6 dependencies

What’s New for Devs
Updated SharePoint Framework (SPFX)
 ◦ SharePoint Framework v1.4.1
 ◦ Excluding Microsoft Graph APIs
 ◦ Release date February 15, 2018

PowerApps and Flow (cloud) connect via data gateway

What’s Out or Missing
Full parity with SharePoint Online / Office 365
 ◦ Microsoft Graph
 ◦ Microsoft Teams
 ◦ PowerApps and Flow (available with O365 Hybrid config)

Path-based site collections still the norm for user-created sites
 ◦ HNSC require PowerShell, code or 3rd party

Removed
Installation
 ◦ Automatic mode for incoming email
 ◦ SQL Reporting Services integrated mode

Code-Based Sandbox Solutions
 ◦ But still Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service???

Silverlight rendering in PerformancePoint and Visio services

Links
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-
Blog/Announcing-General-Availability-of-SharePoint-Server-2019/ba-
p/272546
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57462
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/hardware-and-
software-requirements-2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new/new-and-
improved-features-in-sharepoint-server-2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new/what-s-
deprecated-or-removed-from-sharepoint-server-2019

Contact Me
John Calvert, Chief Architect
Software Craft, Inc.
john@softwarecraft.ca
http://softwarecraft.ca
@softwarecraft99