July 2017 CU for SharePoint 2016

July 2017 CU for SharePoint 2016

 

The KB articles for July 2017 CU are available at the following location:

• KB 3213544 - July 2017 Update for SharePoint Server 2016

• KB 3213543 - July 2017 Update for SharePoint Server 2016

• KB 3213657 - July 2017 Update for Office Online Server 2016

 The download for July 2017 CU is available through the following link:

• Download July 2017 Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (language independent) – this is also a security update!

• Download July 2017 SharePoint Server 2016 (language dependent fixes)

• Download July 2017 Office Online Server 2016 – this is also a security update!

 

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July 2017 CU for SharePoint 2013

July 2017 CU for SharePoint 2013

This CU includes all SharePoint 2013 fixes (including all SharePoint 2013 security fixes) released since SP1. The CU does not include SP1. You need to install SP1 before installing this CU.

The KB articles for July 2017 CU should be available at the following locations in a couple of hours:

1. KB 3213563 - SharePoint Foundation 2013 July 2017 CU
2. KB 3213569 - SharePoint Server 2013 July 2017 CU
3. KB 3213566 - SharePoint Server 2013 with Project Server July 2017 CU

The Full Server Packages for July 2017 CU are available through the following links:

1. Download SharePoint Foundation 2013 July 2017 CU
2. Download SharePoint Server 2013 July 2017 CU
3. Download Project Server 2013 July 2017 CU

Note: Be aware that all Updates for SharePoint 2013 require SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 to be installed first.

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Service Applications in SharePoint 2013

Service Applications in SharePoint 2013:

The below are the service applications which are Exist in SharePoint server 2013 Version. Each service application will be used for different functions and the steps to Enable the service is different. Please find the below list of service Applications.

1. Access Service
2. Access Service 2010
3. App Management Service
4. Business Data Connectivity Service
5. Excel Services Application
6. Machine Translation Service
7. PerformancePoint Service
8. PowerPoint Automation Service
9. Managed Metadata Service
10. Search Service
11. Secure Store Service
12. State Service
13. User and Health Data Collection Service
14. User Profile Service
15. Visio Graphics Service
16. Word Automation Services
17. Work Management Service
18. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

The type of service applications in SharePoint is differ from version to version. In some versions its new application and in other it’s the existing service applications are deprecated.

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Difference between permission levels of Read and View

Difference between permission levels of Read and View:

Read: The one who has “Read” permissions can view pages, list items and can able to download the documents from the site.

View Only : The one who has “View Only” permissions can view pages, list items, documents but can’t able to download the documents from the site.

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How to Stop users to download a Content from Site:

How to Stop users to download a Content from Site:

Content on a SharePoint site is usually available for downloading so that users can work on it offline. In some cases, Administrators want to prevent users from downloading content as per the requirement. For Example, you have content that contains confidential client information on site, and you don’t want users to be able to download items and take files offline on their laptops or other devices. As a site owner, you can secure data.

Please find the steps below how to stop users to download the content from site.

1. Go to Site
2. Click Site Actions->Site Settings
3. Under Site Administration->Click Search and offline availability
4. Select the Check option as NO for “ Allow items from this site to be downloaded to offline clients”
5. Select OK.

 

You all set and users can’t able to download the content from the site.

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Deprecated Features in SharePoint 2016

Deprecated Features in SharePoint 2016:

The below Article which will Explain the features which are Exist in SharePoint 2013 and deprecated in SharePoint 2016.

SharePoint Foundation:

SharePoint Foundation has been included in all previous versions and stands as the free, slightly cut-down version of SharePoint. All of the core functionality for this is now built directly into the core SharePoint product, so this is now no longer available

Stand-Alone Installation

Due to this change and update, the idea of a "stand-alone" installation is not supported as it has been with other builds. If you want to create a self-contained development or test environment, then simply choose the “Single Server Farm” role during installation. You will, however, should ensure that everything else you need, such as SQL, is already installed and configured.

Forefront Identity Manager Client (FIM)

In previous versions of SharePoint, Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Client was used to synchronize between Active Directory and SharePoint. The new release of SharePoint does not use it at all. The standard way of importing users now is via Active Directory Import. You can still use third-party products, as well as the new Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 version.

Excel Services in SharePoint

In SharePoint 2016, Excel Services and its associated business intelligence capabilities have been removed. The Excel Services piece has moved into a new Office Web Apps product, Office Online Server, which is now in preview. Not only has functionality been moved, but certain features have been completely deprecated. These items include Excel Services PowerShell commands, Trusted Data Providers, File Locations and Data Connection Libraries. Feature such as Viewing and Editing Excel data in the browser now requires the new Office Online Server.

Tags and Notes

This feature is completely deprecated for SharePoint 2016. You will no longer be able to create new tags or notes, or even access existing ones. Microsoft has, however, documented how you can archive existing notes.

Stsadm.exe

Finally, we are seeing the demise of “stsadm.exe”, in all fairness we should have been using PowerShell instead for everything possible for the past couple of versions. Even though it is deprecated it is still there for those backwards compatibility moments that will of course appear as 

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 certification

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 certification:

This exam measures the ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The 70-339 exam will test you on the following topics:

• Design SharePoint infrastructure (15–20%)
• Plan authentication and security (15–20%)
• Plan workload optimization (15–20%)
• Plan productivity solutions (15–20%)
• Manage search capabilities (10–15%)
• Plan and configure cloud services (5–10%)
• Monitor and optimize a SharePoint environment (10–15%)
   

Please click on the Link below for more Updates:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-339.aspx

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Difference between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016

Difference between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016

As usual there are lot of features which are introduced in SharePoint 2016 that makes the different between the previous version of SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016.Please  find the table which explains more in details about the difference between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016.

Features	SharePoint 2013	SharePoint 2016
Project Server	Separate Component in different server	Integrated in Same as service Application
Patching Down time	Down Time required	No Down time required
MAX Upload file size	2 GB	10 GB
MINRole Farm Topology	Not available	Available
Search Service Application	100 Million Items indexed	500 Million items indexed
App Launcher	Not available	Available
Site collection/DB	5000	100000
Per Content DB size	200 GB	1 TB

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SharePoint server 2016 Site collection Upgrade.

SharePoint server 2016 Site collection Upgrade.


SharePoint Server 2016 introduces a new site collection upgrade experience. There are three ways to upgrade a site collection:

• In conjunction with content databases upgrade
• On-browse upgrade
• Manually triggered by using Windows PowerShell

Content databases upgrade:

To upgrade the databases run the Mount-SPContentDatabase cmdlet. After the databases, have been upgraded the site collections are automatically upgraded during database upgrade process by default.

On-browse upgrade:

You do not need to know whether the site collection has pending upgrade, SharePoint decides it for you during the upgrade process. Once the site is browsed, SharePoint checks if the site needs to be upgraded, if so, the site will be put in a queue and a timer job will pick it up for upgrade.

Farm administrators can use Windows PowerShell to upgrade a site collection.

Manually trigger site upgrade:

 You can use the Upgrade-SPSite cmdlet to manually upgrade the site collection

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Project Server 2016

Project Server 2016

Project Server 2016 for SharePoint Server 2016 has many new capabilities and features, including as below:

• Resource Engagements: Now project managers can request needed resources from resource managers to complete their projects. Also, resource managers can use the new heat map functionality to see where resources are spending their time.
• Multiple Timelines: Project and Portfolio managers can now create richer timelines that display multiple timelines in a single view.
• Simpler administration: Project Server now has multi-tenant storage capabilities and has combined data storage with SharePoint. This greatly reduces IT overhead by eliminating the dedicated Project Server database and improves backup and restore capabilities.
• Cloud grade performance and scale: Many performance and scalability improvements that have been added to Project Online have also been added to Project Server 2016

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NO down time Required to Patch SharePoint Server 2016

NO down time Required to Patch SharePoint Server 2016

Zero downtime patching is a method of patching and upgrade developed in SharePoint Online. It was made to let administrators patch the service at the same time as users kept using their subscriptions. In other words, this tested method is designed to allow patching while people actively work with their files, and search crawls and renders results, on the SharePoint Server farm. That’s what’s meant by ‘zero down time’.

A couple of things to note as we discuss ZDP (we’ll talk about these elements later in the article).

• Your ZDP experience could be enhanced by using MinRole in SharePoint Server 2016, but MinRole is not a requirement.
• Your farm must leverage high availability (HA) to reap the benefits of ZDP. A highly available SharePoint Server 2016 farm is a requirement for ZDP.

It’s important to remember that the goal of ZDP is uptime for your users, so, in this article, all the decisions involved in patching and rebooting your farm will be made with that bias in mind.

Please click on the Link from MS which will explain more in details of the procedures and the steps.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt743024(v=office.16).aspx

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SSL Certificate Installation for SharePoint

SSL Certificate Installation for SharePoint.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 does not include a GUI for installing the SSL Certificate. Because SharePoint 2010 is designed to run on Microsoft IIS 7, you can use IIS. If you have not yet created a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and ordered your certificate, see Microsoft SharePoint 2010: SSL Certificate CSR Creation Instructions.

Please find the link below to get more in detailed about the Installation of certification in SharePoint.

https://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.htm

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How to find the TLS configuration in SharePoint

How\where to find the configuration of TLS in SharePoint


SharePoint 2010 can support Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol versions 1.1 and 1.2.


However, TLS protocol version 1.1 and 1.2 support is not enabled by default in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. To enable support, you'll have to install updates and change configuration settings once in each of the following locations:

1. SharePoint servers in your SharePoint farm
2. Microsoft SQL Servers in your SharePoint farm
3. Client computers used to access your SharePoint sites

Please find the below Path where to know whether the TLS is configured or not.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2]

Please find the Link below from MS which will explain more in detailed.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt773992(v=office.14).aspx

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