Organize your intranet with SharePoint hub sites

Read the complete blog @ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Organize-your-intranet-with-SharePoint-hub-sites/ba-p/174081

Microsoft first disclosed SharePoint hub sites during Ignite 2017. And today, we are pleased to announce that they are now rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Office 365. We are encouraged by early adopter feedback and can’t wait for every customer to use and adopt them.

How to get the URL link to a Delve profile?

Source : http://www.gilleran.net/sharepointireland/index.php/how-to-get-the-url-link-to-a-delve-profile/

I was ages searching for a solution to this. I wanted to have a link on an intranet to a user’s own Delve profile in SharePoint Online. Delve is Microsofts ‘personal search and discovery tool.

This is the URL you can use. https://[yourcompanyname]-my.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/me.aspx?v=profile

https://yourcompanyname-my.sharepoint.com/person.aspx is another option.

By the way here is a useful admin guide to Delve. Well worth reading.

What is Modern SharePoint and Why Should I care?

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

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.