May the 4th – The Future of SharePoint summary

Big day in the SharePoint world today as Microsoft announces lots of updates coming to Office 365, SharePoint Online, and coming in SharePoint 2016.

First up – ‘SharePoint’ is back. It seems like small thing, but when you’re in Office365 and click on the ‘waffle’ menu in the upper right – instead of ‘SharePoint’, we’ve had ‘Sites’. Not a huge deal to some, but it diminished the brand a bit. With the latest updates we’re returning to ‘SharePoint’.

Next, lots of updates: big and small. Topics include:

• SharePoint mobile app – sorry, I just can’t say ‘your intranet in your pocket…’
• SharePoint home (web/O365)
• Team Sites + Office 365 Groups – better together…
• Modern library and lists experiences (more on what this means for CSR…)
• PowerApps integration
• Microsoft Flow integration
• Modern pages experience
• Improved site activity tracking
• SharePoint Server 2016
• OneDrive for Business and O365 file sharing updates
• The SharePoint Framework – open and connected
• Security updates
• Feature packs for on-prem

You can find links to the key announcements and sites here:

Microsoft blog posts:

• The Future of SharePoint – by Jeff Teper
• The mobile and intelligent intranet – by Mark Kashman
• SharePoint Server 2016 – your foundation for the future – by Bill Baer
• Announcing simple and powerful file sharing and collaboration for Office 365
• The SharePoint Framework – an open and connected platform – by Bill Baer

Event recap, recordings, and deep dives:

• Main event recording
• Summary of all 7 ‘deep dive’ sessions
  • Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365
  • Effortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePoint
  • Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016
  • Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework
  • Security, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business
  • The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerApps
  • Your Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile app

Other references and links:

• SharePoint mobile app
• PowerApps
  • PowerApps AND SharePoint
• Microsoft Flow
  • SharePoint AND Flow
• Wictor Wilen – Web Parts are back…

There will be more updates in the coming days. I’ll try to update here with relevant links, etc. as they develop.