Category: News

You asked for a central place to find Microsoft 365 adoption resources and it is now LIVE!  View our first step in streamlining our adoption resources for Microsoft 365 at our unified Microsoft Adoption Resources page located at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftAdoption.   This page pulls together existing and new resources to help you chart your path to productivity with our Microsoft services.  It includes:

• Updated: Microsoft 365 Adoption Guide & workbook
• NEW: Security and Compliance adoption toolkit
• NEW: Teams in Government & Teams Devices Flyers (via the Teamwork Adoption Toolkit)
• Updated:  SharePoint adoption guide and more…

The SharePoint PnP Provisioning Service lets you add samples, templates and solutions to your Office 365 tenant.

The service provisions content and configuration for site collections, sites, and tenants as documented in each sample, template and solution. We strongly recommend deploying to a test tenant so that you can carefully analyze the results before deploying to your production tenant.

This is an open source community hosted service, so there is no direct support from Microsoft from standard support channels for this service or for the contents of samples, templates, and solutions. You can however get support by reporting any issues using the process defined later in this document.

SharePoint Online Provisioning Service

We want to take a moment and share many of the leap-frog innovations across user experiences, AI-powered insights and intelligent security. They are fast, phenomenal and fluid.

Much of the below are proof-point technologies either in place or coming to Microsoft 365 per related announcements from Microsoft Build 2019 and SharePoint Conference 2019. Let’s dive into the details…

Turbocharging Microsoft 365 cloud user experiences

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-home-sites-a-landing-for-your-organization-on-the/ba-p/621933?fbclid=IwAR22RU8S051lPMXv-272YRO6kffkLF_cbUy9PfLAXobkdxu3mt2LUD8Sr20

SharePoint home sites, the latest innovation for the intelligent intranet, powered by Microsoft 365.

SharePoint home sites are the landing sites for your organization that bring together news, events, content, conversations and video to deliver an engaging experience that reflects your voice, your priorities, and your brand.  Home sites are built on top of familiar communication sites.

Want to know what happened to OneDrive in March of 2019? Well read on to learn how your experience is getting better each and every week!

We had some great improvements come to the product this month including:

• Per Machine Sync Client preview
• Live Captions & Subtitles in PowerPoint
• A new OneDrive personalized provisioning flow
• A script to check Known Folder Move status in your organization

Source: OneDrive Roadmap Round-up: March 2019 – Microsoft Tech Community – 392144

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/03/28/new-to-microsoft-365-in-march-tools-to-enable-teamwork-and-enhance-security-in-the-workplace/

This month’s topics:
– Microsoft Teams improvements [0:48]
– Outlook on the web and LinkedIn [2:48]
– Microsoft Forms and Stream [3:38]
– Microsoft Stream and PowerPoint [4:36]
– Yammer conversations web part [5:12]
– Privacy and compliance updates [6:22]
– OneDrive Files On-Demand [8:02]
– SharePoint Migration Tool [8:51]

We are excited to announce the following page enhancements (screenshots + links to learn more below):

• Customize title region | control what the title region of each page looks like (layout, alignment, title, date).
• Section backgrounds | display as distinct sections with visual variety throughout the page.
• Custom page thumbnails | Choose a preferred thumbnail from Page details.
• Custom page descriptions | Create a custom description from Page details.
• FYI: removal of the Feedback button | removing the product Feedback button from the site footer of all SharePoint home and modern site pages.

Source: SharePoint page enhancement in Office 365