Feature Pack 2–SharePoint 2016

Coming this fall … Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint 2016

https://aka.ms/SharePointSummit

Modern vs Classic … pages sites hubs oh my

SharePoint Online is changing … so by Date I will include updates and tricks to the new SharePoint sites

Modern Team Site

JSON Column Formatting - Feb 2018
https://info.paitgroup.com/blog/json-column-formatting-part-1?utm_content=67593722&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Team Site = Office 365 Group

Modern Communication Site

ShareGate - SharePoint online communication sites explained
https://sharegate.com/blog/sharepoint-online-communication-sites-explained

Moving from Publishing sites to Communication sites
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/publishing-sites-classic-to-modern-experience

Communication Site ≠ Office 365 Group

Modern Team Site vs. Modern Communication Site

Modern Team Sites vs. Communication Sites--is there really a difference?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Modern-Team-Sites-vs-Communication-Sites-is-there-really-a/td-p/96602

ShareGate - What's the difference between classic and modern SharePoint team sites?
https://sharegate.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-classic-and-modern-sharepoint-team-sites

PAIT - What’s the difference between Classic Sites and Modern Sites?
https://www.paitgroup.com/blog/is-it-time-to-give-up-sharepoint-classic-sites

Modern Hub Site

The modern topology Hub > Site Collection  (Limit subsites)

Planning
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/planning-hub-sites

What is SharePoint Hub Site
https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/what-is-a-sharepoint-hub-site-fe26ae84-14b7-45b6-a6d1-948b3966427f

Navigation - hub site navigation bar
Search – search results but security trimmed
News – News Web Part (Automatically shown on hub site home page)
Sites – Sites Web Part – (Most Active Associated Sites or Top Sites)
Content - Highlighted Content Web Part
Events – Events Web Part

However Security is NOT inherited

Associated Sites - Display most active sites associated with the hub site on the home page by using the Sites web part
Highlighted content web part to dynamically display content from sites associated with the hub site on the home page
Events web part to dynamically display events from sites associated with the hub site on the home page

Team Site

SharePoint Online Modern Team Site
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/40067.sharepoint-online-modern-team-sites.aspx

Add a Page
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-a-page-to-a-site-b3d46deb-27a6-4b1e-87b8-df851e503dec?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#bkmk_addpage

Permissions

https://mydigitalworkplace.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/where-sharepoint-permissions-live/

News

Keep your team updated with News on your team site
https://support.office.com/client/495f8f1a-3bef-4045-b33a-55e5abe7aed7

SQL SharePoint PowerShell Saturdays

Community Sponsored Events Worth Your Time

PowerShell Saturdays

http://powershellsaturday.com/

Central Ohio – Random

Cincinnati PowerShell Saturday – Fall
2017 (Combined with SharePoint)
http://www.spsevents.org/city/cinci/cinci2017

SharePoint Saturdays

http://www.spsevents.org/

Cincinnati PowerShell Saturday – Fall
2017 (Combined with SharePoint)
http://www.spsevents.org/city/cinci/cinci2017

Columbus – Random

Indianapolis – Random

Louisville – Random

Nashville SharePoint Saturday – Spring

St Louis SharePoint Saturday - Winter

SQL Saturdays

http://sqlsaturday.com/

Columbus OH – Summer
2017
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/653/eventhome.aspx

Cleveland OH - Winter
2017
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/595/eventhome.aspx

Indianapolis – Summer
2017
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/629/eventhome.aspx

Louisville – Spring
2017
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/643/eventhome.aspx

Nashville - Winter
2017
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/581/eventhome.aspx

more from the cloud engineer

Azure Labs

Portal

https://portal.azure.com/

Signup

Office 365
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-enterprise-e3-business-software

Azure
https://www.microsoftazurepass.com/

Global Boot Camp 2017

https://functions.azure.com/try

https://cloudstuff.pro/stuff/cloud-computing-bootcamp-lab/

https://caug.slack.com/messages/C51R7RVQV/

https://cloudstuff.pro/stuff/

MCT

Create Azure Pass
https://vouchers.cloudapp.net/AzurePass/

Windows Third Party Vendor List

The following are a list of favorite or replacement tools both Microsoft and third party tools for the base tools in Windows. 
Make sure to test in your environment first!

WSUS

Shavlik
http://www.shavlik.com/company/trials/
comments: “ love it”

Install and Update All Your Programs at Once
https://ninite.com/

Backup and Restore

Robocopy
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.11).aspx
comments “ love it very fast”

References

http://randelhall.blogspot.com/2011/11/setup-windows-server-2008-r2-as.html

http://randelhall.blogspot.com/2010/06/great-file-unlock-tool.html

Moving a SharePoint Site

Moving a site in SharePoint can be tricky.  There are several methods to try out.

Content and Structure or Template Create/ Use Method

http://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-move-sites-in-sharepoint/

Export / Import Method

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428301(v=office.16).aspx

Backup / Restore Method

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748655(v=office.16).aspx

Template Method

If it is a simple site you might be able to create a template using content and then just create site with the new template with content. 

Moving a Site in Office 365

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/180402/move-or-copy-a-o365-sharepoint-subsite

Moving a Site in SharePoint 2016

PowerShell to Copy site with content to another site collection

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/145668/copy-site-with-content-to-another-site-collection

Moving SharePoint subsite to root of site collection using Deployment API

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38130966/moving-sharepoint-subsite-to-root-of-site-collection-using-deployment-api

Rename Site Collection

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34032.sharepoint-2016-rename-site-collection-url-best-practice.aspx

Rename a Site
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=372

Content Deployment

Source

Create 1 site collections named source

Add Feature

Using Powershell remove unwanted features

Features Removed

Target

Create 1 site collection named target.  NOTE: Site collection but must be without a template on a new content database

Using Central Administration Under General Application Settings

For Demo Only … Configure content deployment … Do not require encryptions and Disable Source Status Check

… Configure content deployment paths and jobs … Create a path and schedule job … wait

Success

References

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/2013/07/15/changes-to-content-deployment-in-sharepoint-server-2013/

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/116fc404-b06c-448b-969f-0f9d04927c47/create-content-deployment-path-error?forum=sharepointadmin

Setup Guide
http://docshare01.docshare.tips/files/24461/244619740.pdf