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