Welcome to SharePoint Server 2019, a modern platform for choice and flexibility

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

• Benjamin Franklin

This morning at SharePoint Conference North America we broadly announced our vision, strategy, timeline, and investment areas for SharePoint Server 2019.

Welcome to SharePoint Server 2019. Reimagined to focus on you, SharePoint Server 2019 has a new, modern design that works perfectly across screens—whether you’re working with tablets and phones, laptops, or desktops – it’s beautiful and fast, familiar, and yet intuitive. SharePoint Server 2019 gives you instant access to the people, content, and apps you work with the most. You’ll spend less time searching for information and more time working with it.

SharePoint Server 2019 helps ensure that you have access to the information they need, regardless of the screen you choose to access it on.

User experience improvements

SharePoint Server 2019 delivers innovations in user experience from SharePoint Online, with improvements to document libraries and navigation constructs that are consistent with Office 365.

These updates have proven successful in driving adoption in Office 365, and will now benefit SharePoint Server.   Using the cloud as a baseline, we’re bringing the most compelling communications and collaborative experiences to customers of SharePoint 2019.  These investments include the introduction of Communications Sites, Team News, and modern Team Sites to include Lists and Libraries and in support of broader data mobility the Next Generation Sync Client (NGSC) support for reliable access to your documents – anywhere, anytime.

Caption: Screenshot of a SharePoint Server 2019 Team Site on a PC and mobile device side-by-side.

Platform enhancements

As with SharePoint Server 2016, for SharePoint Server 2019 we continue to derive our on-premises server from our platform investments in SharePoint Online with new native support for hybrid scenarios that can be configured during your deployment.

Business process improvements

We know that customers worldwide use SharePoint to support collaboration, search, business process automation, and custom business applications; and we know that many customers rely on SharePoint Server for mission-critical workloads. We know it’s not always easy to move your business, your workloads, to the cloud so we’re investing in supporting the use of process automation and forms technologies such as Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to connect with your on-premises data with 2019.

Key Features

• Modern Sites, Pages, Lists, and Libraries
• Team News
• SharePoint Home
• Communication Sites
• OneDrive Sync Client
• Improved hybrid support and scenarios
• New developer options
• Improved support for the business process with PowerApps and Flow

SharePoint Server 2019 has been optimized for the way you work, with a familiar, consistent view of information, collaboration, and process. At the same time, IT will benefit from a comprehensive, easily managed and integrated platform that meets the needs of the business today and tomorrow.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

– Bill Gates

SharePoint Server 2019 has been developed applying these principles – listening to our customers’ feedback and understanding their needs…  Later this Summer we’ll invite you to experience SharePoint Server 2019 as part of our Preview release – look for details soon!

Timeline

SharePoint Server 2019 will be generally available to customers in H2 CY18.  SharePoint Server 2019 Preview will be available to customers in Summer 2018.

What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2013

Learn about new features and functionality in SharePoint 2013, including the new Cloud App Model, development tools, platform enhancements, mobile apps, and more.

Cloud App Model

SharePoint 2013 introduces a Cloud App Model that enables you to create apps. Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. An app may include SharePoint components such as lists, workflows, and site pages, but it can also surface a remote web application and remote data in SharePoint. An app has few or no dependencies on any other software on the device or platform where it is installed, other than what is built into the platform. This characteristic enables apps to be installed simply and uninstalled cleanly. Apps have no custom code that runs on the SharePoint servers. Instead, all custom logic moves "up" to the cloud or "down" to client computers. Additionally, SharePoint 2013 introduces an innovative delivery model for apps for SharePoint that includes components like the Office Store and the App Catalog.
    

Familiar programming model using web standards

SharePoint 2013 makes it easy for any web developer, including those who work on non-Microsoft platform stacks, to create SharePoint solutions. What makes this possible is that SharePoint 2013 is based on common web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Furthermore, implementation relies on established protocols like the Open Data protocol (OData), and OAuth.
      

Development tools

The current release reflects enormous strides in optimizing the existing development tools like Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer, in addition to providing the release of newly developed web-based tool "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools for developing apps. The new unified project system in Visual Studio lets you develop apps for SharePoint, apps for Office, apps for SharePoint that include apps for Office, or apps for Office that are hosted by SharePoint. In addition to the SharePoint project templates that were provided in earlier versions, Visual Studio 2012 now includes a new app project template in the Apps folder named Apps for SharePoint 2013. Several new properties have been added to the Properties window and Properties pages to support app for SharePoint projects. Other improvements include full support for development against the Cloud App Model, including OData and OAuth support, and full support for development against the Workflow Manager Client 1.0 platform.
    

Core platform enhancements

On a broader scale, SharePoint 2013 has been improved and enhanced to support the new cloud-based architecture and app-driven development framework. From the SharePoint APIs at the lowest level to connectivity to social media integration, SharePoint 2013 is designed and executed to support a rich application development experience. In addition to the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoints for web services, there is a broad new API for both server and client development. Remote event receivers and now supported in addition to client-side rendering.
      

Mobility

With SharePoint 2013, you can combine Windows Phone 7 applications with on-premises SharePoint services and applications, or with remote SharePoint services and applications that run in the cloud (such as those that use SharePoint Online), to create powerful applications that extend functionality beyond the traditional desktop or laptop and into a truly portable and much more accessible environment. The new mobility features in SharePoint 2013 are built on existing Microsoft tools and technologies, such as SharePoint, Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Silverlight. You can create SharePoint-powered mobile applications for Windows Phone using the new SharePoint phone application wizard template in Visual Studio, which lets you create simple list-based mobile applications. You can integrate new features introduced in SharePoint 2013, such as the Geolocation field type and "push" notifications from SharePoint Server, into your mobile applications.
    

Social and collaboration

New and improved social and collaboration features make it easy for users to communicate and to stay engaged and informed. The improved My Site social feed helps users keep up to date with the people and content that they care about. The new Community Site feature provides a rich community experience that lets users easily find and share information and find people who have similar interests.
      

Search

Search functionality in SharePoint 2013 includes several enhancements, custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. Additionally, there have been significant enhancements made to the keyword query language (KQL).
    

Workflows

Workflow Manager Client 1.0 is a redesigned workflow infrastructure that is built on Windows Workflow Foundation 4 and brings new power and flexibility to workflow authoring in SharePoint 2013. A fully declarative authoring environment enables information workers to use SharePoint Designer 2013 to author powerful workflows, and a new set of Visual Studio 2012 workflow project templates let developers access more sophisticated features like custom actions. Perhaps most importantly, Workflow Manager Client 1.0 is fully integrated with the model for apps for SharePoint. In addition, workflows execute in the cloud, not in SharePoint, which provides enormous flexibility in designing workflow-based apps for SharePoint.
      

Enterprise Content Management

In SharePoint 2013, you can now use .NET client, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and JavaScript APIs, in addition to the newly expanded set of .NET server managed APIs, to customize Enterprise Content Management (ECM) experiences and behavior.
      

Business Connectivity Services

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables SharePoint to access data from external data systems such as SAP, ERP, and CRM, in addition to other data-driven applications that are exposed through WCF services or OData endpoints. BCS in SharePoint 2013 has been improved and enhanced in many ways, including OData connectivity, external events, external data in apps, filtering and sorting, support for REST, and others.
     

Application services

SharePoint Server 2013 includes several services for working with data in your SharePoint sites. New for SharePoint is the Machine Translation Service, which translates sites, documents, and streams for multilingual support. SharePoint Server 2013 also includes Access Services and a new data access model. For converting files and streams to other formats, SharePoint Server 2013 has Word Automation Services and PowerPoint Automation Services (a new feature for SharePoint). SharePoint also provides data analysis tools, like PerformancePoint Services and Visio Services, that enable business intelligence, and powerful new features in Excel Services.
      

Microsoft’s 6 technologies for future

Microsoft's annual TechFest is on. The in-house fair is closed to everyone except employees. However, Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie gave a small preview to media outlining broad trends in software and computing that researchers Microsoft's labs across the world are working on.

Microsoft OneAlbum

OneAlbum is a project under development by Microsoft Israel Innovation Labs that uses face-recognition technology to search for photos.

As for how it works, OneAlbum scans faces that regularly appear in a user's OneAlbum photo collection, then scours his social networks (Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live and others) for more photos of these people. It then automatically finds relevant photos in other albums on the Internet and brings them to the user's album, and shows them side-by-side with his photos.


Air guitar

Microsoft has been developing technology that operates games led by a user's wrist movements. The company has reportedly even developed several techniques for picking up gestures like finger twitches.

At TechFest, Microsoft showed wearable movement sensors with a researcher playing an air guitar. Another researcher demonstrated the use of skin as a computing interface using sensors that pick up tapping motions. He wore an arm-bandlike sensor that could process commands from his muscle movements. He could tap his thumb to his forefinger to start playing music on an MP3 device

Mobile Surface

Microsoft researchers have shrunk the company's Surface tabletop computer into a pocket-sized package which, with a few accessories, promises to compete with any touchscreen device. Called, Mobile Surface, it is primarily a mobile version of the company's Surface technology.

According to computerworld, hooked on to a small webcam and digital projector, the Mobile Surface computer can create touch interfaces on any nearby flat surface -- or even in thin air.

The prototype Mobile Surface device combines the features of Surface touchscreen computer along with the gesture-based interface of its coming Project Natal game control system for the Xbox 360.

Cloud Mouse

With Cloud Mouse, Microsoft gives a new twist to our age-old mouse. Cloud Mouse is designed to help people navigate displays of 3D data. This means instead of scrolling up and down on a Web page, a user can twist and turn through the pages. Think of a graphical representation of your Facebook network.

The Cloud Mouse looks much like any other mouse just that it lacks a flat bottom and has a six degrees of freedom and tactile feedback. Plus, Cloud Mouse would also serve as a key for personal cloud data on various online services.


Project Gustav

Here's software that turns a computer screen into a canvas. With the art-based programme, a user can paint on the screen with a stylus that copies a paint brush.

In other words, Project Gustav is an art-based programme that turns the experience of painting on computer real life. The software reinterprets the art of oil painting into a touch-sensitive application to give it a real-life experience.

For example, a user blend paints on a palette, wipe a brush across it and pick up the patterns of paint just as you would do in real life.



Translation Telephone

Microsoft also showcased a `Translating Telephone,' a software tool designed to let users have a real-time chat with someone in another language. The software translates from one language to another so that users on a phone call who do not speak the same language can successfully communicate.

Microsoft researchers demonstrated the software by showing a live phone call between two developers, one German speaking and the other English speaking.








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9 Things users should know about Windows Phone

In what can be called one of the most significant announcements that Microsoft made in recent times, the company unravelled its next generation Mobile OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company for the first time displayed what many analysts are terming to be an iPhone Killer. Here's looking into what the users need to know about Windows Phone 7 that is said to be Microsoft's "final chance to get it right" in the rapidly-growing mobile market.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Its Windows Phone 7 series
The phone's supporting the new software won't be called "Zune phones," as had been speculated. The software will be called "Windows Phone 7 series." For now, Microsoft is sticking to its model of making the software and selling it to phone manufacturers, rather than making its own phones .

Completely new

Windows Phone 7 series is a dramatic change from previous generations of the software that used to be called Windows Mobile. The new OS is a drastic overhaul of the aging Windows Mobile platform.











Divided into six hubs

The new OS uses a 'live tile' metaphor, showing dynamically updated information. Users can have tiles for e-mail, calendar, pictures and individual people, playlists and other applications and information types.


The OS arranges information in six sections: People, Pictures, Games, Music and Video, Marketplace and Office. The People section is actually contacts option. However, it is not your typical contacts list. The contact list is connected with the contact's social networking accounts and users can see their updates right within the contact screen.

The operating system is designed to have three hardware buttons: start, search -- with a direct link to Bing -- and back .

Hardware support


Hardware supporters include Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, Hewlett-Packard, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm.

Must-have features for Windows 7

Microsoft is imposing a set of required features for Windows phones. Manufacturers must include permanent buttons on the phone for "home," "search" and "back"; a high-resolution screen with the same touch-sensing technology as the iPhone; and a camera with at least 5 megapixels of resolution and a flash. Hardware QWERTY keyboards will be optional.









 
 
 
Clickable words format

The iPhone's success has spurred lots of look-alike phones with screenfuls of tiny square icons representing each programme. Just as it did with the Zune, Microsoft has tried to avoid an icon-intensive copy of that setup. Instead, it relies more on clickable words and images pulled from the content itself.
For example, if you put a weather program on the device's home page, it shows a constantly updated snapshot of conditions where you are, rather than a static icon that you have to click in order to see the weather.








Its no computer screen



Windows Phone 7 Series borrows the clean look of the Zune software, departing from the more "computer screen" look of earlier Microsoft efforts. These were also reliant on the user pulling out a stylus for more precise maneuvering, while the software is designed to be used with the fingers. It's not clear how older third-party applications designed for the stylus will work on the new phones


Gaming box



Most of the built-in applications complement or connect with existing Microsoft programmes or services, such as the Bing search engine. The games "hub" connects to an Xbox Live account and lets players pick up where they left off with multiplayer games.

They will even be able to play games against PC users. Microsoft also turns to the Zune programming for the phones' entertainment hub, much in the way the iPhone's music library is called iPod. And when users plug the phone into a PC, the Zune software pops up to manage music, movies and podcasts.

Will ship in Dec 2010



Microsoft said that manufacturing partners have started building devices based on the phones; the first devices based on Win Phone 7 should ship in late 2010. HTC said that the company has already started working on the new OS.