SharePoint Virtual Summit : Office 365 with OneDrive and SharePoint

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

·        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)

More about PowerApps

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-and-sharepoint/

Certificates 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-list.aspx

Microsoft Ignite information 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ignite/default.aspx

MS BUILD

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017?wt.mc_id=build_hp

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.)