SharePoint Online : “2013 experience version will be used” when creating a Site Collection

Recently one of my customers asked whether we have SharePoint 2013 or 2016 in SharePoint Online. This was due to the label “2013 experience version will be used” which is visible when creating new site collections.

It’s true that the following notification is bit confusing

What is the meaning of this message?

Currently a fork of SharePoint 2016 is being used in SharePoint Online. However it uses SharePoint 2013 compatibility level to avoid any compatibility issues in site templates.

How to check the current compatibility level?

Get-SPOSite -Identity https://dinushaonline.sharepoint.com/sites/dev -detailed |fl

How to check the currently installed SharePoint version?

Navigate to a SharePoint Online site and inspect Response Headers. 16.0.0.7514 means a SharePoint 2016 implementation

Conclusion

Currently we have SharePoint 2016 in SharePoint Online with SharePoint 2013 compatibility mode to avoid compatibility issues. Microsoft will gradually upgrade to SharePoint 2016 experience near future.

Collab365 conference : “Rich single page applications with SharePoint”

It feels great to be selected yet another time to speak at Collab365 conference. This time I will be talking about how to build single page applications with SharePoint.

There are lots of ways to develop applications on top of SharePoint. You can build full trust farm solutions, SharePoint add-ins or SharePoint framework based apps. But can we do customizations without limiting to any of these frameworks?

In this session I will explain how to build and package Single Page Applications (SPA) on top of SharePoint and embrace client side technologies

Following are some links for the event

• Event website
• Speakers line up
• Tentative agenda

Presentation - Build real-time applications using SharePoint, Azure Service Bus and SignalR

I did a session on real-time applications with SignalR and Azure service bus for SharePoint Saturday Colombo 2017. I explained the concept and different technologies we can employ to build rich and real-time applications. Later I explained the approach to host such applications within SharePoint.

I will do a separate blog post explaining the steps required to a host real-time web application within SharePoint.

Following is the presentation I did

 

We had a room full of active participants . It was nice to see some familiar faces after a long time.

 

  

 

We had a productive panel discussion as well.

Presentation – Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint 2016

We had the September 2016 meetup of the SharePoint Sri Lanka forum in 14th of September. I did a session on Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint, which is a new feature of SharePoint 2016.

Following is the presentation I did

Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint 2016 from Dinusha Kumarasiri