Keep the organization informed and engaged with Communication Sites
Team News
Create News from SharePoint Home or Team/Communication Sites
Modern Libraries
Updated responsive UI
Modern sharing experience
Details View, Document Activities, Column Formatting etc.
Modern Pages
Modern Authoring Canvas for SharePoint Pages
Fast response times
Add Modern web parts or SPFX web parts
Comments on pages available
Ability to promote News/Pages
Parallax Views
New OD4B Sync Client
Next Generation Sync Client (NGSC)
Files on demand experience coming on SP 201
Polling via OD4B – will send push notifications to users when content is synced using OD4B sync client
Mobile App
Get SharePoint on the go with the SharePoint mobile App
All modern sites are responsive by design
Search
Modern search experience
Type ahead contextual search results in search box
Modern search page for SharePoint home and site search
SharePoint Home
SP Home available in SP 2019
Find all News and Sites related to you
Featured Links can be added to left navigation
Key Features
Site Themes
Site Script and Site Designs
Modern Sharing Experience
Column Formatting
Activity Feeds
Server OM, CSOM, JSlink, SPFX all supported
When SP 16 site is upgraded to SP 19 – everything will remain classic exception of lists/libraries which will be upgraded to modern. Option to switch to classic mode for lists/libraries available.
PowerApps and Flow integration via Connector – will require licenses.
SharePoint WF Manager to support existing 2013 workflows
SP 2010 workflows supported
InfoPath still supported
Upgrade path is from 2016 – 2019 (database attach – detach)
Support for extended characters in file names # and %
Long URL paths up to 400 characters
Recycle Bin Improvements – one can recover deleted content by others from your recycle bin
SP 2019 root site can be a Modern Site – Communication or Team Site (unlike SPO wherein it is a classic team site)
SharePoint framework to build modern client side web parts and extensions
Improved hybrid support and scenarios
Missing in Initial Release
Hub Sites – the development for Hub Sites and SP 2019 were in parallel and hence will not be shipped with the initial release. Hoping to have this capability shipped out in future updates to SP 2019
No file restore feature for One-drive
SharePoint Server 2019 Release Date
SharePoint Server 2019 will be generally available to customers in H2 CY18. SharePoint Server 2019 Preview will be available to customers in Summer 2018
