Product Line Architecture (PLA) Team Blog

Welcome to the official blog of the Microsoft Product Line Architecture (PLA) team focused on key technical principles, release information and various other important tidbits.

Unlocking Business Value with SharePoint Server 2016 Hybrid

SharePoint Server 2016 is unlike any previous release of SharePoint and going forward, it will be a...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 03/14/2016

Why Office Online Server is Essential

With the release of SharePoint Server 2016 will come SharePoint’s long-time companion, Office...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 03/12/2016

Zero Downtime Patching in SharePoint Server 2016

This post was written by Philip Gwynn, Senior Consultant, Microsoft Services. One of the exciting...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 03/10/2016

Coming Soon – SharePoint 2016 PLA

EDIT (March 9, 2016): There may be some confusion regarding who develops the PLA. The PLA is a...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 03/08/2016

Stakeholder perception of the value of SharePoint 2013 PLA

Introduction SharePoint 2013 can be setup in many different ways. Microsoft Support has documented...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 03/05/2015

PLA's in FY15

As the Technical Lead and Manager of the PLA’s inside of Microsoft. I wanted to write a quick...

Author: Ramonin Date: 02/04/2015

Introducing the hybrid add-on

Like other Product Line Architectures (PLA), the SharePoint PLA is continually evolved to address...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 01/23/2015

SharePoint PLA in 2015

The road so far… The idea behind a Product Line Architecture is to enable our customers to...

Author: Wahid Saleemi Date: 12/01/2014

Benefits of using the Product Line Architecture

Previous blog posts described what the Product Line Architecture (PLA) is, and how it was created....

Author: Aaron Isom (MSFT) Date: 07/22/2013

Aligning to the PLA

In this posting, Jeffrey Rosen - the Exchange Team PLA lead architect - will share more information...

Author: Aaron Isom (MSFT) Date: 06/24/2013

Product Line Architectures – One Architecture to Rule Them All??

A common question the product line architecture (PLA) teams gets is "how is it possible to predefine...

Author: Aaron Isom (MSFT) Date: 05/07/2013

Introducing the Microsoft Product Line Architecture

Welcome to the Product Line Architecture Team (PLA) blog. The team is incredibly excited to release...

Author: Aaron Isom (MSFT) Date: 04/09/2013