SharePoint Saturday, Silicon Valley, 5/30/2015

My Presentation

• SharePoint Notifications: Migration, testing and upgrades communication strategy
• Abstract
  Robert Freeman coordinated SharePoint upgrades and governance for 2 of the State of California's largest public agencies. This session will go over some of the tools that were developed to implement the communication strategy and make the process run smoother for all. Links will be provided for a free download of the tool and you will get the opportunity to discuss migration, architecture, and upgrade strategy.
• Link to Presentation

Conference Link

• SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley Homepage

My MS Ignite 2015

Day 1 - Monday

• Keynote (~23,000 attendees)
• SharePoint 2016 release not mentioned in the keynote!
• No mention of the SharePoint brand even though several new Office 365 SharePoint features were demoed
• Does this mean MS is splitting off the SharePoint brand into its cloud use-cases: Office 365, Sites, OneDrive, Search, Delve, etc.?
• Will SharePoint end up being rebranded as "Office 365 On-Prem"?
• Or possibly an indicator of a lack-luster SharePoint 2016 release?
• Best newly demoed SharePoint/Outlook feature is the new email integration with attach file links integrated into Azure groups and SharePoint security
• Best Windows 10 demos were the Cortana Power BI demo and the facial recognition login demo
• Other stuff:
• Skye for Business, Threat Analytics, Ops Management Suite, Azure Stack On-Premises, Windows Update changes, and the Surface Hub
• Evolution of SharePoint: Overview and Roadmap (over-capacity including overflow room)
• SharePoint 2016 = Office 365 On Premises
• Basically most of what is already on or is coming to Office 365 SharePoint will now be made available on premises
• Deployment wizard will allow deployment by Role
• WFE, App, Search, etc.
• Delve will be made available to SharePoint 2013 on-prem (soon?) 

Day 2 - Tuesday

• Power BI
• Live Dashboards
• Drill into data
• Ad-hoc BI
• Power BI Designer (client app)
• Preview release version
• On-Prem Data Sources
• Scheduled Refresh or Analysis Services Live Query
• API for data pushes / live monitoring
• Demoed mobile phone accelerometer data live reporting
• App used API to send data directly to dashboard
• Transforming your SharePoint Full Trust Code to the Office App Model
• Branding
• Why brand collab sites?
• Leverage Office 365 Themes
• SharePoint Themes
• CDM instead of Site Assets to avoid caching/blob cache issues
• Use alternate CSS and javascript instead of modifying master pages when possible
• Provisioning
• App/add-ins
• Scripting
• PnP Provisioning Engine
• Security
• Fields
• TermGroups
• Lists
• Pages
• Files
• ComposedLook
• Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate
• Will provision new items only, no updates
• Sandboxed Solutions
• Still deprecated, should continue to n bb  work in 2016
• Script parts
• Embedded javascript (node/jquery)
• Office 365 App Model
• Mail, contacts, lists, libraries, and other Office 365 features
• Standalone apps interface for ez app launch

Day 3 - Wednesday

• NanoServer
• Preview bits available
• No UI at all
• Remote Powershell and Managemen Console support
• Limited cmdlet support, no local workflows
• Clustering and HyperV supported
• Fast boot, minimal services running
• Graphical remote management web based tool demoed
• Works on all versions of Windows server
• Process Manager
• PowerShell window
• System Settings
• Device Manager
• Event Viewer
• ServerCore will be renamed to Server
• Full Server/Server with a GUI will be renamed to Client
• Not allowed in containers
• Visual studio server apps targeted to either Server or Nano, not Client
• Nano is simply a subset of Server, full compatibility for all features that are in both
• You select features and drivers at deployment
• Demo of Chef deployment to Nano with Ruby, Python, and C# components
• More videos on channel 9
• Reduces attack surface and maintenance requirements
• Fewer services, memory usage, patches, reboots
• .4GB footprint compared to 4.84GB
• No MSI support
• Nano Server installer in the works
• CRM Online and Office 365: What's New
• Integration Points
• Outlook/Exchange
• Email folder mapping of metadata
• Create entities from email
• Excel
• Power BI
• OneNote
• Office 365
• Groups integration
• OneDrive
• SharePoint
• Yammer
• Skype
• Skype for Business
• Office 365 Groups -Eric Zenz
• Office 365 Group = SharePoint Site Collection
• Outlook and Office App integrations
• Groups include
• Files
• Group Notebook
• Shared with us feed
• Recycle Bin
• Pages
• Delve provides insights into groups
• Future planned feature: Link groups to existing SharePoint sites
• Discovery works across group mail and group viles
• Coming in 2015
• Guests membership
• Dynamic membership
• Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)
• Quota management
• Soft-delete
• Graph REST endpoint
• Line of Business Dev on Dynamics CRM (small room)
• Dynamics CRM
• Line of business and Customer Engagement
• Solution development
• Relationship
• Process
• Interaction
• LOB
• Giving campaign demo
• Theme
• Personalized
• Navigation
• Office 365 Integration
• Configurable
• Social and Collaborative
• Mobile Ready
• Customizable Search
• Secured
• Analytical
• Build, Integrate, Manage

Day 4 - Thursday

• Best Practices for Design and Performance in SharePoint Online
• Branding Impact
• Low Impact
• High Impact
• Responsive Web Design
• Limited support for some common collaboration site features
• Ex: Gantt charts
• Composed Looks (Themes)
• Design Manager
• Converts HMTL to Masterpage automatically
• Custom Branding
• Use a starter masterpage
• Layout with html css and imagers
• Add SP Controls
• Performance considerations
• Image sizes
• SharePoint Online caching less reliable due to number of servers
• Demo of custom rollup nav delaying page load
• Custom Masterpages will continue to be supported
• Make sure to stay up to date with MS improvements
• Deploying Yammer
• Levi Strauss+
• Yammer Embed
• My Feed
• Group Feeds
• Liking
• Sharing
• Following

Day 5 - Friday

• BCS to SQL hybrid
• OData service on-prem exposes SQL data
• Search hybrid
• Search center on-prem or online
• Security
• AD sync
• DirSync server
• Claims from User Profile Sync Service
• Config steps
• Add on prem domain to tenant
• Activate DirSync in your tenant
• Update DNS records
• Run DirSync wizard and start sync
• Check users and groups in Tenant Admin
• Activate and License users
• Validate synchronization
• DirSync Troubleshooter App
• Azure AD Proxy on-prem manages ACS (Access Control Services) Trust
• ADFS + ADFS Proxy for single sign-on
• Configuring S2S
• Replace STS Cert on all farms
• Install S Sign in assistant and azure PowerShell
• Register on-prem STS as Service Principle in 0365
• Add SPN for on-prem domain
• Register 0365 app principal as trusted provider
• Set the auth realm on prem
• Validate User Profile Service App
• Search Validation
• Result Source
• ECB menu, click test source
• Query builder
• From Query Rules
• Investigation
• Partitioned search service or proxy not supported in hybrid
• Fix: IgnoreTenatization
• 400, 401, 403, 500 errors
• BCS Validation