MS IGNITE REPORTSAN ANTONIO SHAREPOINT USER GROUP, MAY 19, 2015

Some Numbers

• Five Days

• 1146 Sessions

–(674 available on-demand)

• ~27 Products

• 47 listed parties

• 23,000 attendees

This is early EARLY stuff

• Ignite showed some early bits.

• Not all functions are built

• Not all features have been determined

• All information is preliminary

2016 Requirements

Some Changes, Some Sames

• Hardware requirements the same as 2013

• OS and DB requires one of latest two versions

• No “stand-alone install” (SQL Server Express)

• Upgrade/migration same as to 2013

• OAuth and SAML for authentication

• SMTP Encryption, can use non-default ports

2016 Architecture

• Web front End (think End User Role, serves requests generated by users) – low latency

• Application (think Robot Role, does indexing, crawling, timer jobs, etc.) – high throughput

• Distributed Cache Role• Health Analyzer and Role Enforcement for these

roles• Special Load – allows you to customize services

for the way you do business, does not get Health Analyzer and Role Enforcement for roles

UI is similar to 2013

Expect updates, though, as MS is focusing on features first, look-and-feel second.

Patching

• Patches have smaller footprint

• CAN BE RUN WHILE SYSTEM IS ONLINE –

NO DOWNTIME• Yeah, that’s big.

Boundaries and Limits

Preliminary expectations:

• Content DBs in the TBs range

• 100k site collections per content DB

• List threshhold > 5000

• Max File size 10GB per file

• Index 500 million items

Project Server

• Project Server more closely integrated with SharePoint

– Project content now integrated into the SharePoint content databases, instead of their own separate DBs

– You still need to licence Project Server if you want to leverage the capabilities

New Telemetry Dashboard

Hybrid

• Compliance across hybrid scenarios

– Classification IDs out of the box for eDiscovery

• Unified compliance console

• Cloud Search Service

– Initially ships as update for SharePoint 2013

– Blended results set for hybrid search

– Delve!

Did you know?

• If you are using Office 365/SharePoint Online you are a Guinea Pig?

– Microsoft is using A/B testing on its users!

Not Just SharePoint

• MS Dynamics online

– Fantastic integration with SharePoint and Yammer

• OneNote

– API

– Usage scenarios

• Exchange

– Architecture

Why Ignite?

Why Ignite?

I know, right?

Seriously, was the Microsoft marketing department on something when they named a congerence in CHICAGO “Ignite”?

WTF?

No, I mean “Why go to Ignite?”

• The content is available on demand for free later

• Some of the sessions were available for free, live!

• Why spend $4000 to go to the conference?

PEOPLE!

NOT HoloLens

Yeah, parties.

But the walking!

The SharePoint Monkey

Quotable Me

Strategically Evolve Your Role as an IT Pro – Christian Buckley

References

• All sessions - http://s.ch9.ms/events/ignite/2015/• Additional videos -

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/MicrosoftIgnite• Download script - http://absolute-

sharepoint.com/2015/05/the-ultimate-script-to-download-microsoft-ignite-videos-and-slides.html

• Download script for MS Build! - http://absolute-sharepoint.com/2015/05/the-ultimate-script-to-download-build-session-videos-and-slides.html