Fast Site Collection Creation in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview

Fast Site Collection Creation in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview

Fast Site Collection Creation is a new capability in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview that improves Site Collection creation performance by reducing Feature activation overhead. Similar to the approach associated with MinRole Site Collections that support Fast Site Collection Creation are Feature-optimized.

Fast Site Collection Creation is a mechanism designed to improve provision performance of Site Collections through instrumenting a copy operation using SPSite.Copy at the Content Database level.

The primary vehicle in addressing this scenario is the enablement of a Site Master or master copy of the Site Collection for an enabled Template that provides the source Site Collection when a request is made for creating a new Site Collection.


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Document Library accessibility improvement in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview

Document Library accessibility:

The following features are now available for working in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview document libraries:

• Landmarks to a page make it easier to navigate, and there are alt text improvements for all major navigation links.
• Keyboard shortcuts are provided for the following document tasks:
• Alt + N - New
• Alt + E - Edit
• Alt + U - Upload
• Alt + M - Manage
• Alt + S - Share
• Alt + Y - Synchronization
• Focus improvements, such as keeping focus on prior elements and focus trapping.
• Announcements for upload progress.
• Announcements for file name and file types when browsing folder and file lists.
• Improved callout reading.
• Fixed use of color issues for views switcher.
• Updates to the Help documentation.

Full list of New and improved features in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview