Today at the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft shared more information about the vision for SharePoint. With SharePoint 2016, it is now possible for organizations to obtain and enable new features within their on-premises environments through the use of “Feature Packs”. In the past, we pretty much had to wait for Service Packs to be released before seeing new features make their way into the product. With Feature Packs, organizations can now activate new features directly into the on-premises product.
The first Feature Pack, scheduled to be made generally available in November of 2016, will introduce the following new features:
For IT Pros
- Administrative logging: Allowing users to audit actions made in Central Administration;
- MinRole Changes: Addition of new workloads to support small environments;
- Unified Logging: Ability to combine logging from both on-premises and Office 365 environments;
For Users
- OneDrive API Update: One Drive API 2.0 now available on-premises (allows for interaction with Drives and Items);
For Users
- App Launcher Custom Tiles: Ability to add custom tiles to the App Launcher (waffle icon to left);
- New OneDrive for Business UX: New User Experience in OneDrive for Business, matching the one introduced in Office 365 last year;
- Hybrid Taxonomy: Allowing term stores to be unified between on-premises environments and Office 365;
