I attended
the SharePoint Virtual Summit today which was dedicated to Office 365 with OneDrive and SharePoint. Some really great announcements were made today, the one about Communication sites was no doubt the big one for me!!!
Share with confidence
· OneDrive
lets you get to all your files on any device
·
Collaborate
with deep Office Integration
·
Share
with colleagues inside and outside your organization
·
Every
office 365 group gets a SharePoint team site
·
New
web and mobile experiences
·
Collaborate
on intranet and in Microsoft teams
New:
·
See
and sync all of your files with Files ON-Demand
·
Share
seamlessly from file explorer and finder
·
Connect
existing sites to office 365 groups
·
Add groups
resources to navigation & pages
·
Add
SharePoint pages to Microsoft Teams
OneDrive admin center
has options for Link expiration and who can have access (domain)
Once the admin sets the
policy, end user cannot extend the dates for sharing.
Transform Business
Process
·
Gather
and manage Data and files in SharePoint
·
Automate
Process and connect data with Microsoft Flow
·
Create
mobile apps with Microsoft PowerApps
New:
·
Simple
approval and feedback flows
·
Trigger
and share flows in lists & libraries
·
PowerApps
forms inside SharePoint lists & Libraries
Inform and engage
employees
·
Brings
award-winning intranets to the cloud
·
SharePoint
home surfaces news & Activity
·
Create
beautiful, natively mobile pages
New:
·
Communication
sites reach a broader audience mobile ready, faster sites with richer
layout
·
Easy
build pages with new layout options
·
New
web parts drive engagement & interactivity
Harness collective
knowledge
·
Find
what you need with powerful search
·
What
you need finds you with discovery experiences
·
Learn
about co-workers using intelligent people cards
New:
·
Personalized
search lets you find it fast
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Find
expertise by searching skills, interests and projects stored in o365 profiles
·
Build
communities with SharePoint & Yammer
Manage
·
Rest
easy with global scale, reliability and compliance
·
Protect
your content with security controls
·
Bring
office 365 to your data center with hybrid capabilities
New:
·
Modern
SharePoint admin experience
·
Service-level
encryption using customer keys
·
Conditional
access policies per site
Extend
·
Modern
client-side development with SharePoint Framework
·
Business
process across Office 365 with flow and web hooks
·
Single
end-point for sites, and beyond Microsoft Graph
New:
·
SharePoint
Framework extensions for sites and libraries
·
Graph
and Webhooks across sites and lists
·
SharePoint
Framework for SharePoint Server 2016 in FP2
SharePoint and OneDrive
support file sizes up to 10GB
Microsoft is announcing
intelligent indexing today, a series of engineering improvements to gradually
eliminate the throttles that kick in for large lists (max capacity 30MM)
Certificates
Microsoft Ignite
information
MS BUILD
Admin center
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Introducing-the-new-SharePoint-Admin-Center/ba-p/70294
Communication sites
https://blogs.office.com/2017/05/16/sharepoint-virtual-summit-showcases-growth-innovations-and-customer-success/
Some key features to look forward to:
- PowerApps eventually will have the ability to change Ownership of a PowerApps, or share them the way Flow now has "Team Flows"
- Integrate apps built using PowerApps with the SharePoint Libraries.
- You can build Microsoft Flows that will assist with many objectives you may have that involve SharePoint Libraries, and can run the Flow from the app or independently of it. Here is some helpful content: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/flow-in-spo-document-libraries/
- SPFX will be released in OnPrem SharePoint - Scheduled as part of Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint 2016 in the second half of this year.
- Plans to enable simple Renaming of O365 Groups (and their associated sites, alias etc.)
