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
- Microsoft 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.