Month: February 2018

What is Modern SharePoint and Why Should I care?

Marcel

So here it is: Microsoft is on a mission to modernize SharePoint, to save it from fading into obscurity as a once innovative but now persnickety old war horse of a product. This article will explain how they’re doing it, and why you might want to take a fresh look on this stalwart collaboration product.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/What-is-Modern-SharePoint-and-Why-Should-I-care/ba-p/161941

 

 

Use SharePoint web parts to showcase data from inside and outside Office 365

Marcel

Full article  / Source : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Use-SharePoint-web-parts-to-showcase-data-from-inside-and/ba-p/161584#M1494

  • NEW
    • Planner – display tasks and progress from your team plans
    • Twitter – highlight individual tweets and full feeds
    • Office 365 Connectors – embed information from 3rd party services like Bitbucket, JIRA, and RSS
    • Kindle Instant Preview – reference an important Kindle book with one-click to preview or buy
  • UPDATED
    • Power BI – embed interactive Power BI reports directly into SharePoint
    • Image – offers automatic alt-text suggestions with the help of intelligent image analysis

The full, expanded SharePoint page authoring toolbox, showing all available web parts.

Craft a compelling resume with Resume Assistant, powered by LinkedIn—now available

Marcel

https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/02/07/craft-a-compelling-resume-with-resume-assistant-powered-by-linkedin-now-available/

With over 80 percent of resumes updated in Word, Resume Assistant helps job seekers showcase accomplishments, be more easily discovered by recruiters, and find their ideal job. Our goal is to empower job seekers with the tools to land their dream job. To learn more about Resume Assistant, head over to the official LinkedIn blog or visit Office Support for tips, tricks, and information on how to get started.

Availability:
Resume Assistant is now available to Office 365 subscribers on Windows whose Word 2016 desktop display language is set to English, who are located in and whose Windows region is set to one of the following region locations: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and United States. The Region location setting can be found in the Control Panel under Clock, Language, and Region. Resume Assistant can be found in the Review tab of Word.

Conquer time with new features in Microsoft Planner

Marcel

Source: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/02/05/conquer-time-with-new-features-in-microsoft-planner/

Four new features for Planner will give you greater visibility into project schedules, let you group and filter tasks, allow you to receive notifications of upcoming deadlines, and soon you will be able to publish tasks to your Outlook calendar.

Here is an overview of the four new features.

  • Schedule view—Meet deadlines, plan ahead, and understand project status with the ability to view your task schedule. In addition, weekly and monthly task views allow drag-and-drop scheduling. Read the support article for more details.

  • Group and Filter options—The Group and Filter options in Planner give you deeper insights into your tasks to help you meet key deadlines. For example, filter your tasks by due date to better understand approaching deadlines. Or use the Group feature to view tasks that have not been started, so you can prioritize your work.

  • Due date notifications—Receive an email notification summarizing tasks due in the coming week—and stay on top of your approaching deliverables.

  • iCalendar format feed (coming soon)—Make better scheduling and time-management decisions by publishing tasks to your calendar. By adding your tasks to your Outlook calendar, you’ll never lose track of current and upcoming tasks—helping you meet your deliverables.

These features have been among the top requests on the Planner UserVoice forum. Schedule view, Group and Filter, and Due date notifications are now available to all Office 365 subscribers. Outlook calendar integration via the iCalendar format feed is rolling out soon. We look forward to your comments and feedback. Feel free to submit feedback through the Planner UserVoiceforum. Visit Planner now!

New to Planner?

There’s never been a better time to start using Planner! With these new capabilities, Planner is a complete solution for task and work management. Planner is part of the Office 365 productivity suite and is fully integrated with the other Office 365 applications. And if you’re already using Microsoft Teams, you can host a Planner Plan inside your Teams workspace, so everybody can collaborate in one place. You can also link a Planner Plan to a task in Microsoft Project Online, so your team can track tasks and work details in Planner even when that work is part of a larger Project plan being tracked in Project Online. Visit Planner to learn more.

Source: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/02/05/conquer-time-with-new-features-in-microsoft-planner/