As promised in the public preview, there are many new features that were expected from SharePoint 2019 user all over theworld like trends in team collaboration, blending of cloud and on-premise versions, better cross-device user experience and many more. It’s built on the same platform as SharePoint Server 2016; the new SharePoint Server 2019 fulfills the needs of performances and scalability expectations to the maximum.

Let’s have a closer look at what compelling features are there in this new release:

1. Trendy Sites:

Connecting Team and content together, sites have always played the role of core collaboration across organization. Modern design is effective and captivating, with a touch of flexibility and ease-of-use.

1. Excellent User Experience:

In today’s era, user experience is everything, when it comes to new technology. Not even the new SharePoint Server 2019 is catchy in ‘look and feel’, but is engaging, entertaining and rich with contextual content. It ensures reliability, security and minimum complexity.

1. Modern Pages:

SharePoint 2019 introduces a new way of sharing content using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, images, embedding video content, and many more. Modern pages shall be published efficiently and in a quicker manner that are good for each display.

1. Improved Lists:

The modern list experience in SharePoint Server 2019 is more responsive, more intuitive and provides the best combination of Microsoft SharePoint with OneDrive usability.

1. Communication Sites:

Next Gen mobile collaboration and better intelligent intranet makes working together a fruitful experience in the newest version of SharePoint server.

1. OneDrive for Business:

Providing improved mobile experience to SharePoint mobile users, it also makes collaboration and file storage people-centric and supports latest sync client generation with on derive for Business.

1. SharePoint Mobile:

Microsoft SharePoint 2019 provides all the necessary resources needed for a collaborative work flow within organization, and improved mobile experience for intranet is one of the core elements. It makes file sharing on-the-go which is more personalized and intelligent.

1. Growing File Support:

The offered file sizes have increased: up to 15GB, a few character restrictions are maintained with file names and path length restriction has been increased from 260 Unicode code units to 400.

MachPanel Automation Module for SharePoint Server 2019

Yes, you heard it right. MachPanel supports the services offered by SharePoint Server 2019 and hence can assist you in deployments smoothly and efficiently. Customers all over the world trust MachPanel with their SharePoint solutions and turnkey solution deployment services. Automation module for SharePoint Server supports other versions like SharePoint 2019, 2016 and 2013. It provides entire automation for on-premises SharePoint Server. It also offers selling of sell fully segregated multi-tenant hosted SharePoint environment.

It’s a great opportunity for CSPs to get their hands on MachPanel and deploy SharePoint Server 2019 in the most hassle-free manner.

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Companies still tend to keep their data inbound and hence prefer to go for SharePoint on-premises. Microsoft has known it for a long time and now it has finally announced many benefits for on-premises users in the upcoming SharePoint version which were initially available for SharePoint Online or Hybrid users only. Yet again, migration has been made easy in SharePoint Server 2019 and so users from SharePoint 2010, 2013 or 2016 will be looking forward to upgrade to get the new feel on the UI improvements, the modern sites, integrated support for libraries and most importantly they are eager to get their hands on the improved support for their business processes with Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Power Apps. With Microsoft SharePoint 2019, customers will be able to handle mission-critical workloads in a much reliable manner. With enhanced support collaboration the feature for better automation of business processes is also introduced, making SharePoint 2019 tentatively the most compelling and collaborative experience for users.

All these business incentives make Service Providers eager to begin offering the latest SharePoint Release and facilitate their customers from the features in a profitable manner. Not only SharePoint manages businesses in a modern and automated fashion but the chances of businesses to flourish by availing SharePoint on premises features are much high.

Let’s have a look at the features of SharePoint Server 2019 (on- premises) that make Service Providers consider offering SharePoint as a hosted service.

What’s New in SharePoint Server 2019

NextGen OneDrive Sync

With this feature available for on-premises users, much of the work flow of users will get easier. For Example: Documents from Emails will directly be saved to the relevant folder in OneDrive on the basis of user preference making workflow less tedious. In simple, SharePoint server 2019 will bring OneDrive features to the on-premises world and this will also include the Sync Client as is in Office 365.

PowerApps integration

With PowerApps being made available for on premises users, they will be able to change the way incidents are managed. With pre-built templates that reduce development time of business apps, which also doesn’t require much coding knowledge, business apps will be available for multiple mobile platforms.

Microsoft Flow

This feature allows for creating a flow of tasks or actions across different Microsoft applications. This makes workflows between Microsoft programs smoother and easier. Availability of Microsoft Flow automates commonplace recurring tasks and saves time.

A different User Experience

UX and UI improvements have been necessary for a better user experience. The UX improvements in document libraries and navigation methods that have been proved successful in Microsoft Office 365 have been introduced in SharePoint 2019 too.

Team News

Collaboration between teams is improved by announcing news to all team members. With Microsoft Teams integration with SharePoint, working in a team and collaboration has become much easier by the feature of Announcement for users of web and mobile.

Communication sites

This feature is much needed for communication and sharing of knowledge between teams in a more engaging and compelling format. With this feature available for on-perm users, anyone can make beautifully crafted content for example wiki pages that look visually appealing.

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MachPanel and SharePoint

MachPanel is a multi-cloud service Orchestration and Delivery Platform that provides automation to your SharePoint Deployments securely. It is a trusted hosted solution that simplifies scalability. Its business automation flow makes processes and end-to-end management easier.

MachPanel gives you the benefit of managing users; perform site management, self-service tools, multiple hosted and dedicated platforms. With MachPanel, you can gain a competitive edge in the market and stay ahead of the line. MachSol offers a full set of services that facilitate Service providers and make deployments an easy task with its post-deployment support.  Since it ensures maximum uptime, MachPanel is a promising automation control panel having all the features of a trendy Control Panel in 2018.

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Content management is the core of every business. There is a dire need to have a content management system through which the creation, sharing, collaboration and storage of content can be centralized. A full fledge content management system is required to manage the above mentioned functionalities. However, there is no point having a cloud service if it can’t be handled smartly. Most of the times Hybrid is a more feasible solution for business today because of the innumerable benefits like:

1. Apps can be kept on-premises and when they are needed, they can be accessed from app launcher
2. The sensitive data can reside on-premises and need not be sent up to the cloud for storage. It can later be searched through hybrid taxonomy and a unified search
3. Content security is ensure by authenticating users accessing form different locations through a multi-factor authentication system
4. Collaboration gets effective by using business to business sites through extranets.

SharePoint Online and SharePoint server (On Premises) fulfill the essence of going hybrid.

SharePoint Online vs SharePoint Server (On Premises)

With SharePoint Online, services are offered as a SaaS model. Disaster recovery is handled by Microsoft Data Centers. There are annual subscriptions and Pay as you go model. Customizations are limited. In case of SharePoint Server, the whole system resides within the corporate network. Going hybrid with SharePoint hybrid model gives you the best of both the worlds.

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The Hybrid Model

With the hybrid SharePoint option, you need not get concerned for the scalability and security of systems; Microsoft takes care of that. Going hybrid combats Shadow IT making the environment securer. This way, the data and other content specific to business remains with you and is not sent to O365 (SP online). This is more important for companies who don’t want to share their data with a third party cloud providers due to its sensitive nature, or other legal terms. In such cases, Hybrid model is the solution. With its intelligent intranet and cool features of OneDrive, the collaboration and storage is not a problem anymore.

Hybrid federated search is a convenient way to implement, if multiple users are working in the same environment. The results are fetched from the index from the SharePoint Server and from the search index in Microsoft Office 365. The search Center displays search items in two different result blocks resulting in two different ranks being displayed to the user.

The MachSol way

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft SharePoint is the most trusted hosted solution on the cloud. The setup of infrastructure on premises is simplified by experts. There is no need to be concerned about the growth of the system as the business continues to grow. With MachPanel, your services to customers can never be down as it ensures maximum uptime. MachPanel SharePoint makes the hassle of cloud computing smooth and easy.

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Logging is the key element of any application. A strong logging system helps administrators to troubleshoot the problems and fix them accordingly. Like other Microsoft Applications, SharePoint also has a strong logging system called ULS (Unified Logging system) logging. In SharePoint space, every event / outcome written into the Logs has an associated unique ID which is known as Correlation ID.  Normally this id is displayed in the error which makes administrator’s life easy to trace the error details in the logs.

These log files are known by a few names:

Diagnostic logs / Unified Logging System (ULS) logs / Trace Logs

ULS logs are text files where each line contains a unique event with time stamp, logged with the related farm component, its severity, description of the problem and other useful information relevant to the event. In order to open these files Notepad / text editor or SP log viewing tool can be used.

A handy system but ignored often !

ULS logging is a  very handy system in SharePoint but generally ignored even by experts. Microsoft is doing a great job improving the logging system with every new release of SharePoint., these logs exist on every server in the SharePoint farm and record all the activity related to SharePoint. After the SharePoint installation, Diagnostic logging is configured with default settings which include the logging level, logs location, and a number of days of storage etc. It is recommended to change the default settings of the ULS logs after the initial configuration. Specially, ULS logs location.

The default location of the ULS logs is “C:\program file\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\LOGS” (for SP 2016), which is system drive. In case verbose (detailed) logging level is enabled, then log files rapidly use the storage on the drive which might put the Operating  System on-risk and also impact the performance of SharePoint Server(s).

Server performance and monitoring is very important. specially,  when it come to Enterprise deployments. so ULS logging can help SP Admins fine tune system performance after the initial deployment.

Following steps can be used to alter the default logging settings.

Open SharePoint CA Site, Navigate to the “Monitoring” Section click on “Configure diagnostic logging” and check/update logging settings.

PowerShell can also be used to check and update logging status

In order to check the current status use “Get-SPDiagnosticConfig”

To update Log Location use  “Set-SPDiagnosticConfig  -LogLocation D:\SharePoint-ULS-Logs”

replace log location with desired path.

A first class troubleshooting tool for SharePoint Admins, ULS Viewer !

ULS Viewer is a utility that provides a simplified view of ULS log files in SharePoint, where log filtering, sorting, highlighting and many other options can be used to narrow down the desired log entry in a well user friendly manner.

It is basically the most important thing should be in hand to troubleshoot issues with SharePoint,  When a problem occurs, ULS logs can provide in-depth information about the problem which enable faster resolution. ULS viewer can be downloaded from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44020

Along with other options It allows real time monitoring…

Even-more?  check “Merge-SPLogFile ” command.

Merge-SPLogFile is another very important command used to grab the details into a single file even with specific correlation ID.

example:

Merge-SPLogFile -Path C:\sp-mergelogs\ulslog.txt -Correlation 2pb5c483-c48b-4ef2-b4b3-f5e29f635d91

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SharePoint 2016 Highlights

+  Hybrid Deployment

+  Next Generation Hybrid Cloud Search

+  Improved User Experience with App Launcher and UI Changes

+  Improved Mobile Touch Experiences

+  One Drive for Business Hybrid Experiences

+  Infrastructure and performance improvements

+  New Compliance Center

+  New Collaboration Experience

If you are planning to start hosted Microsoft SharePoint Service or looking to migrate from an older version to SharePoint 2016 then Contact us today to schedule a call with our SharePoint specialist or to schedule a demo of MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft SharePoint.

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MachPanel Exchange

Microsoft Approved Control Panel and completely supports Microsoft Exchange 2013 alongside older version i.e. Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2007.

MachPanel SharePoint

Allows you selling hosted SharePoint and completely supports Microsoft SharePoint 2013. It also supports Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007.

MachPanel Lync

Unifies your communication and fully supports Microsoft Lync 2013 alongside Microsoft Lync 2010 and its multi-tenant hosting pack release. MachPanel Lync has achieved Microsoft Qualified Lync Application status as well.

MachPanel CRM

Empowers you to sell Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 and support to legacy versions Dynamics CRM 2011 and 4.0

MachPanel Hyper-V

Helps you provision, manage and bill Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 (VPS) via self-serving control panel for providers, resellers and end-clients.

MachPanel Blackberry

Helps you starting off with BlackBerry Enterprise Server including Express edition and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0/5.0

MachPanel Web Hosting

The most secure, fast and reliable windows web hosting control panel with completely Cloud Hosting management capabilities.

The uniformity is built-in within MachPanel since all module are available under one roof and have interconnection with each other. One can have complete control over all of the services via single control panel alongside having full command to business operations like billing, management, helpdesk and monitoring etc. Precisely, MachPanel is an All-in-One cloud automation solution that can take your to new heights of cloud!

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There are many new features that have been introduced in SharePoint 2013. One of them is that an online server is available which syncs all the files on your device with a storage space online. In this manner, documents can easily be saved and shared since protection is simplified. Even if the documents are online, they are accessible if one cannot get access to the internet. A Windows App store is also available which enables individuals to get as much support and as many helpful applications as possible. Another new feature is that social exchange is added greater mobility and compatibility is anoter new feature as well since Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is compatible with different smart phones and tablets. Sharing has become much simpler and permission to share is easily accessible now. Individuals can also choose whatever theme they like for the interface which allows users to customize it and make it more personal. An improved user interface has also made SharePoint easier to use.

One of the benefits of SharePoint 2013 is that it is very easy to share documents. Documents, presentations, ideas and other works can be shared with ease. Documents can also be published and it is easy to keep in touch with partners. Organization is very easy since all documents sync automatically. Everyone is connected so documents can be tracked and shared quickly.

SharePoint 2013 also allows easy access to other people and so individuals can look for other people in their own organization and connect with them. Documents that they have, projects that they’ve worked on and interests that they have can easily be looked at. Data is also easier to sort and can be converted into proper reports on Microsoft SharePoint 2013. In this manner, data is easier to analyze and searching is also much convenient since results can easily be narrowed and recommendations from other people can lead to the right results.

Another benefit is that applications can be built and can be published to the App store. These can be available publicly or only for employees. Because of the amazing tools available on SharePoint, individuals can also make their own websites and use tools to create a customized website that can then be shared with colleagues.

Management is the greatest benefit. Since sharing is very easy so management costs go down. Not only does management become easy, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 also offers solutions for management problems. Because of its archiving and syncing capabilities, management worries are greatly reduced. Time is also saved since less time is spent on managing data and more time is spent on discovering more efficient means in which business can be conducted.

Because of the massive benefits that are available, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 should be the choice for those who rely on information sharing and have a large circle of people amongst which this information has to be shared. It is also ideal for those who have huge loads of data that needs to be neatly sorted for easy access. Microsoft SharePoint 2013, therefore, is the ideal solution for those who have data storage and management concerns.

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If you are planning to start hosted Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or looking to migrate from an older version then contact us today to schedule a call with our SharePoint specialist or to schedule a demo of MachPanel SharePoint – a premium SharePoint 2013 Control Panel.

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