SharePoint 2016 Release Candidate: Yes, You Should Be Planning to Upgrade!

On January 20, 2016, Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC). The milestone represents the last major step before SharePoint Server 2016 reaches general availability (GA) in the coming three-to-five months. Now it gets real, and it’s time to prepare your organization, your budget, and your technology portfolio, for SharePoint 2016.

There has been a fair amount of unfair noise about whether this release is “worth it” for organizations to deploy. I’d like to pitch in my opinion on this issue, and lay out the case for SharePoint 2016, so that you can begin the process of planning and budgeting for, and testing, this very important new release.

I’ll be the first to admit that, on the surface and for an on-premises only deployment, SharePoint Server 2016 has a slim number of high-profile new features that directly impact the business. But it’s what is under the hood that matters, and where it’s going to go, that really matters.

Imagine I borrowed your car and returned it to you with a fresh coat of paint and age-old dings and scratches removed. You might thank me kindly at first but not think too much of it. Then, imagine you got inside to drive it and you found that I’d replaced the engine with a rocket-fast Tesla special that required much less maintenance, ran on clean energy, went from “zero to sixty” in no time flat, could take you places you could never get to before and keep you safer and more secure than ever? THEN, you would thank me!

That’s what we’re getting with SharePoint 2016 at this RC milestone, and what we’ll get at GA. Let’s take a look at the major categories of improvements, and the major themes you need to incorporate into your planning.

Read the details at: https://www.itunity.com/article/sharepoint-2016-release-candidate-planning-upgrade-3044