Microsoft announces general availability of SharePoint Server 2016, which will provide SharePoint customers a foundation for modern, intelligent intranets and content collaboration. SharePoint Server 2016 delivers foundational improvements which enhances the quality of your on-premises SharePoint solution and will help you to take advantage of innovations which the company will introduce to its users to Office 365 and SharePoint Server moving forward.
All the users who would like to evaluate the capabilities of SharePoint Server 2016 can now easily download the trial versions which are available at the SharePoint Server 2016 website.
In addition to the general availability of SharePoint Server 2016, Microsoft has also announced a new version for SharePoint along with significant new innovations across SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
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SharePoint Server 2016
SharePoint Server 2016 delivers significant value in three areas:
Cloud-inspired infrastructure: SharePoint Server 2016 represents a new generation of SharePoint which accrues the experience of running SharePoint at scale in Office 365; it also brings investments in SharePoint Online to your datacenter in order to improve the performance, reliability manageability and scale.
The company states,
“SharePoint Server 2016 is derived from the same code used to deliver SharePoint Online—code that has been validated over years, by millions of users, making it the most comprehensively tested version of SharePoint to date. This unified code base also facilitates support and updates across both Office 365 and on-premises SharePoint Server, and enables a standardized set of APIs that span on-premises and the cloud, enabling customers and partners to innovate more easily than ever.”
Compliance and reporting: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is non-negotiable, and overexposure to information, which can have legal as well as compliance implications. SharePoint Server 2016 provides an array of features as well as capabilities which has been designed to make certain the sensitive information remains protected with investments in DLP, new scenarios in order to enable data encryption and compliance tools that span on-premises servers and Office 365 while providing a balance between enabling user self-service and ensuring content usage adheres to corporate policy.
