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SharePoint Server Subscription Edition - First Review

What we can expect?

Written by Mathias Osterkamp on Friday, July 23, 2021

New SharePoint OnPremise Version

Four days ago a new SharePoint OnPremise version is released for preview. It is called SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and comes with some promising headlines:

Today we’re excited to open the window to our vision, strategy, and future for SharePoint and provide a first look at the most recent developments with SharePoint Server.

We designed SharePoint Server SE around the core principles of: Always up to date, Secure and reliable, Designed for you

Ok. It take this, open blog post here for more details!

Installation

I did a small installation on a virtual machine and created a single server farm. Not a big deal, everything straightforward.

Impressions

So after checking, we get the version 16.0.14131.20314, yes thats what we saw on installation files already.

Teamsite

Looks very the same like SP 2019, think there are some really small updates, nothing big:

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition includes numerous accessibility improvements across the modern UX to ensure that all users can be productive with SharePoint.

Search

Support for returning list content in modern results page.

Compared to the existing one in SharePoint 2019.

Document thumbnails

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition can render thumbnails of files in the Tiles view of document libraries and picture libraries. SharePoint will render thumbnails of popular image file formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and more. And if you’ve linked your SharePoint Server farm to an Office Online Server farm, SharePoint will also be able to render thumbnails of popular document formats such as PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint documents, and Rich Text Files.

Summary

First that explains why it is not called SharePoint 2022, because SharePoint Server Subscription Edition is basically SharePoint 2019. Some really small improvements but no big steps. Someone called it a managed version of SP 2019, that is for me a good description.

In general i still miss the following features:

• Latest SPFX Version
• HubSites
• Updates to Modern UI

So i think we have to wait for further communication from Microsoft!

Mathias Osterkamp

I've been working for about 12 years with a thematic focus on 'Collaboration' and 'Digital Transformation' especially in the product environment Microsoft on the topics Office 365, SharePoint, Azure and general web development.

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