SharePoint 2016 RTM - Deprecated Features

Deprecated Features so far in SP 2016

Feature	Description
SharePoint Foundation	There will not be foundation edition of SharePoint 2016 available going forward. It’s a big change from all the previous versions of SharePoint.
Standalone Installation	No more standalone, instead we will have single server deployment. We need to have SQL Server installed before we go for SP installation.  Read through “MinRole” feature as well on this
Forefront Identity Manager Client	No more FIM, instead we probably need to use Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 or default AC import process. Need to hear more from Microsoft on this update
Excel Services	Excel Services and its related BI features are plugged out. It is now attached to Office 2016 Preview (Excel Online). It is important to understand when we anchor solutions related to BI for our customers
SharePoint BI – default features	Its halted for some reason, hopefully some clarity should be there before we get the final product from Microsoft
Tags & Notes	There feature is completely removed and even non-compatible to older versions as well when we upgrade or migrate. Think through about this when we anchor any migration related projects with customer
Stsadm.exe	Only PowerShell, now developers cannot excuse J

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Future of SharePoint

Wow... all excited to look after the new features available in SP 2016 and introduction made in Ignite sessions. Yup, eagerly waiting to watch what is there in the new version and how is it going to give value to the business as like you :).

Nevertheless the future of SharePoint is more dependent on cloud strategy the companies going to follow and the way service providers tie up with companies to bring SharePoint in cloud. The next growth of SharePoint and its market value is purely depends on how it will be used to solve the business problems with less cost and efficient way without disturbing the existing systems.

Some of the strategic paths that we can think and recommended by various trend setters(CMS, Gartner) are given here,

1. On Premise
Yup ! On-Premise solutions will still rule the SharePoint world. Because most of the customers still looking a complete control and flexible enough to do customization's. Future version of On-Premise SP will have all major features enabled as like cloud option. This is because many customers still reside on older versions of SharePoint On-Prem and not willing to move to cloud.

2. O365 - SP Online
As lot of new features available and the speed MS is rolling out the feature updates in O365 makes customers excited. Current business highly impressed with the cost implications made by O365, yes it is very less compared to On-Prem on either implementation of new solution or maintaining it. As a trend O365-SP Online will continue to be served as a SaaS model and verticals like healthcare, manufacturing will focus on SaaS model greatly. 


3. Hybrid
Current trend in SharePoint world is Hybrid Model - deployments that combine Office 365 with on-premises SharePoint. SharePoint Online will continue to make it easier to migrate workloads to the cloud — giving customers the best of both worlds. We have already seen seamless hybrid integration between the My Sites of on-premises SharePoint and OneDrive for Business on Office 365, and Microsoft is continually opening up new ways to move content to the cloud faster