On 4th May 2016, Microsoft announced the readiness of SharePoint 2016 server having an ability for on-premise content and collaboration. With the new release, Microsoft has managed to provide great features with improved hybrid cloud services, cloud integration and collaboration. To know more about the newly introduced features of SharePoint 2016, refer what’s next for SharePoint 2016?
The new capabilities of SharePoint 2016 will enhance the enterprise business operations and enable enterprises to make most out of the cloud based collaboration, while using on-premise data storage and applications. Microsoft acclaims SharePoint 2016 as one of the reliable, scalable and high-performing SharePoint release till date. With these newly added features, enterprises are willing to migrate to SharePoint 2016 but are skeptical about the state of their existing environment and the risk associated with migration.
Enterprises wonder why migrate to SharePoint 2016, if their existing SharePoint environment is working well. Why invest on resources to migrate to SharePoint 2016? How SharePoint 2016 will add value to my business?
Below are 5 reasons that will prove why enterprises should migrate to SharePoint 2016.
- Cloud-ready (Hybrid): The entire IT ecosystem is moving to cloud. Hence looking at it, Microsoft also wanted to move their users on cloud by providing them combined benefits of on-premise and cloud. Though, SharePoint 2013 had few cloud capabilities, SharePoint 2016 is best option to leverage both.
- Mobile-ready: SharePoint 2016 allows you to access the SharePoint server site on your mobile device with an improved user-friendly interface and easy access to links and tiles. SharePoint 2016 enables on-premise environment to be more flexible, agile and allow access to your content on-the-go.
- MinRole management: MinRole management in SharePoint 2016 provides a seamless way for server management by enabling the farm managers to define specific server roles. This feature improves the performance of server by increasing the response time. This feature makes sure to install what is required in a better manner and the roles are compliant according to the server.
- Large file support: SharePoint 2016 has increased the file storage capacity from 2GB to 10 GB. This feature has been introduced because most enterprises usually work with large files, videos, presentations etc. Microsoft has also added double search capability and list view threshold, a better version than before, which allows 500 million per search server application.
- No support for 2007-2010: If you are still running SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 then Microsoft has stopped supporting these SharePoint version. Enterprises are looking for better collaboration tools to communicate effectively with their team and customers. Hence, the support for your SharePoint environment is vital. Microsoft is giving priority to newer version of SharePoint and therefore there will be no support provided for older versions. However, the support for SharePoint 2013 is still on, but it is better to move to the newer version.
SharePoint 2016 migration can be time consuming and critical. Hence, reaching out to a SharePoint consulting partner is recommended. So, are you ready to migrate to SharePoint 2016?