Hello SharePoint
Fans -
I didn't attend the
SharePoint Conference in May 2019 in Vegas, but I did want to share my top
picks from the conference and other recent announcements:
NOTE: I left off the SharePoint on-premise, developer
stuff and Yammer announcements because they don't apply to my organization.
- Microsoft 365 learning pathways - A customizable online training portal for employees
- SharePoint home sites, a new landing site for your company’s intelligent intranet. I like the fact that your new home site will become the new "Home" button on the SharePoint app.
- The existing connector in Microsoft Flow to SharePoint will be getting "new actions to check-in/check-out documents, get version information, grant access, and create folders."
- IT Pros will FINALLY be able to change the URL of a site collection without the need to build a new site and migrate the content!
- OneDrive:
- Updates coming to the sync client will only send the changed parts of all file types instead of just Office files.
- Full-fidelity shared libraries in the OneDrive browser experience is definitely something my users will love.
- Request files allows you to request files from others
- Additional announcements for Microsoft Search. I've already been using it with Bing and now with the addition of the Search bar in the Office applications, it really is becoming a search-is-everywhere world (I also like the addition of the search bar in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business).
- AutoDesk DWG file previews! and other integrations! - Enough said
- Share a PowerPoint with a link that goes directly to a specific slide - nice!
- Files restore for SharePoint/Teams - Allows you to restore an entire SharePoint Document Library to a point in time in the last 30 days. This will help recover from mass deletions, corruptions or malware infections.
- There's a slew of performance enhancements too. My favorites include the Fluid Framework and quick document open.
There's a whole
bunch of other announcements too that I haven't highlighted - I definitely
encourage you to read about those as well.
FYI - Watch the
keynote here - https://aka.ms/spc/summit
