Microsoft Office 365 Productivity eBooks Collection

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his Microsoft Office 365 Productivity eBooks collection comes with ten official Microsoft eBooks with Office 365 best practices, tips for collaboration and productivity, as well how to adopt new ways of working using Office 365.

Products covered include OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business and much more. See the included document for a complete index and explanation for each eBook.

These eBooks are publicly available direct from Microsoft and are brought together here as a collection purely for convenience and have not been altered in any way.

 

 

SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-hub-sites-new-in-Office-365/ba-p/109547

Today at Ignite 2017, we announced SharePoint hub sites, a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.

SharePoint hub sites bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.SharePoint hub sites bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.

You can use SharePoint hub sites to organize concepts, teams, divisions, or resources throughout your businesses. Let’s dive into the details.

Create a cohesive set of related sites with shared navigation, look and feel

A hub site brings consistency across sites from the top down. When a team site or communication site is associated to a hub site, it inherits common characteristics, including:

 

  • Navigation – Define top navigation in the hub site that is inherited by associated sites.
  • Theme – Define the look and feel of the hub site, and that theme remains consistent across associated sites.
  • Logo – A logo on a site is like the green sticker on a map that says, “You are here.” It’s an important identifier of the site you are visiting, and the information and people the site represents. A consistent logo defined by the hub site and used by associated sites says, “You are here, and you have not left.”

SharePoint hub sites bring together team sites and communication sites together into more centralized locations within your intranet.SharePoint hub sites bring together team sites and communication sites together into more centralized locations within your intranet.

Roll up and present a consolidated view of news and activities

Throughout the lifecycle of your projects, your launches, your internal campaigns, it is important to increase visibility, awareness and discoverability beyond the core day-to-day people, and not expect everyone to have to drill into the various related sites, but more represent a clear, broad picture of what’s happening across sites, aka, what’s happening across projects and initiatives. Team sites and communication sites push content and information up to the hub site level with:

  • News aggregation –After you create and publish a news article on an associated site, the news article surfaces on SharePoint home, in the SharePoint mobile apps, and now on the hub site’s home page.
  • Combined site activities – It’s important to know what is happening within sites, so you can prioritize your focus and your time. Site activities are visible on a team site’s home page, and on the site’s card on SharePoint home. Now, site activities will roll up from each associated sites so that they are visible on the hub site’s home page, so you can see what happening across related sites, instead of having to view activity site by site.
  • Scoped search – When you search for content from a hub site, results include content from all associated sites. Because associated sites are related, search from the hub site home page increases relevance, and enhances content discovery.

Create hub sites and associate team and communication sites

It is easy for admins to create one or more hub sites. After a hub site is created, site owners can associate existing team sites and communication sites with the hub site, or to associate a new site while creating a site from SharePoint home in Office 365Soon you will be able to create an associated site directly from within the hub site itself.

Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.

Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right of the site.
  2. Click Site information.
  3. In the Edit site information pane that appears, click the Hub site drop-down menu and choose the right hub site to join.

Note that team sites and communication sites can only be associated to one hub site. And as easy as it is to join a site to a hub site, you, too, can un-join from one. This is the power of a dynamic intranet, one that can change and adapt with the ebb and flow of your ever-changing business landscape.

Access hub sites and associated sites with the SharePoint mobile app

The SharePoint mobile app helps keep your work moving forward by providing quick access to all your sites, news and the team members you work with, and search to find content and people across your organization.

 

With the addition of SharePoint hub sites, the SharePoint mobile app will be updated to natively render hub sites, and their pages, news, and content, with smooth navigation between associated sites and the scoped search experience. Find what you need on the go, and get going!

SharePoint hub sites and their associated sites are easy to access and navigate via the SharePoint mobile app.SharePoint hub sites and their associated sites are easy to access and navigate via the SharePoint mobile app.

Moving forward and growing together

Team sites, communication sites and now hub sites – as well as classic publishing sites and sites for applications – are building blocks of your intranet. SharePoint connects the workplace so that you can share, manage, and find the content, knowledge, and apps you need, on any device.

 

As you modernize and extend your intranet to support collaboration and communication, SharePoint will support you and your teams now and into the future.

 

Let us know what you need next. We are always open to feedback via UserVoice and continued dialog in the SharePoint community in the Microsoft Tech Community —and we always have an eye on tweets to @SharePoint. Let us know.

 

—Mark Kashman, senior product manager for the SharePoint team

 

FAQs

Q: When can I expect to see SharePoint hub sites appear in my Office 365 tenant?

A: SharePoint hub sites with begin rolling out to Office 365 First Release customers in the first half of calendar year 2018.

 

Q: Can a hub site replace my current organizational portal?

A: Hub sites are designed to let you dynamically organize closely related sites, bringing together similar projects, and binding related assets, and presenting common activity. Customers with portals that include customization beyond the web parts and extensions that SharePoint Framework currently supports are likely to continue using the SharePoint publishing infrastructure, which continues to be fully supported both in SharePoint Server on-premises and SharePoint Online.

 

Q: When should I use a team site, and when should I use a communication site?

A: Your SharePoint team site lets you share content, knowledge, news and apps with your group as collaborate on a project. A communication site lets you tell your story, share your work, and showcase your product across the organization.

Adotionpack Office 365 PowerBI

Office 365 Adoption content pack

Overview of the Office 365 Adoption content pack

Use the Office 365 Adoption content pack within Power BI to gain insights on how your organization is adopting the various services within Office 365 to communicate and collaborate. You can visualize and analyze Office 365 usage data, create custom reports and share the insights within your organization and gain insights into how specific regions or departments are utilizing Office 365.

The content pack gives you access to a pre-built dashboard that provides a cross-product view of the last 12 months an  contains a number of sections. Each section provides you with specific usage insights. By clicking on the top level metrics you can access more detailed reports. User specific information is available for the last month.

See Enable the Power BI adoption content pack for Office 365 to start collecting data.

A screen shot of the list of reports included in the adoption content pack

Reade more:

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Office-365-Adoption-content-pack-77ff780d-ab19-4553-adea-09cb65ad0f1f?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB&fromAR=1&sp=6364168217082812508915

 

 

How to find Office 365 Tenant Id

Find your Office 365 Tenant ID via the Azure AD Portal

http://blog.velingeorgiev.pro/how-find-office-365-tenant-id-new-azure-ad-portal

Use Powershell

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Find-your-Office-365-tenant-ID-6891b561-a52d-4ade-9f39-b492285e2c9b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

You can use Windows PowerShell to find the tenant ID. You’ll need the Microsoft Azure PowerShell module.

Open a Microsoft Azure PowerShell command window and run the following script, entering your Office 365 credentials when prompted.

Login-AzureRmAccount Your tenant ID is listed in the output.

Or use your webbrowser

https://login.windows.net/YOUROFFICE365DOMAINNAME.onmicrosoft.com/.well-known/openid-configuration

Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Meet-the-new-Office-365-app-launcher-f7985f7b-c1f6-4cb7-b2ba-079a6375b379?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

The new Office 365 app launcher will be rolling out over the next couple months. Here’s an early look on how it’ll work so you can prepare the people in your organization for the change.The new app launcher is personalized and will help users open and switch between the apps they use most. The apps users see are still based on the licenses their admin has assigned. However, the redesigned main view now emphasizes the most used applications across Office 365. It also highlights additional apps relevant to your users. For example, teachers and students may see education-specific apps.

Video: Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

Check out the video of the new app launcher and see it in action.

Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

Frequently asked questions

Here’s a list of some frequently asked questions. Don’t see your question answered here? Leave us your question at the bottom of this page: Was this information helpful?

Can I pin admin custom tiles to the main view of the launcher for my organization?

  • Admins will continue to have the ability to add custom tiles to share line-of-business (LOB) apps, sites, and URLs with their organization. However, they will only show in the main view if pinned by an end-user.
  • The All view is optimized for search and there’s a new grouping at the top of this view called Admin selected apps for admin custom tiles so that users can easily discover them.
  • From the All view, users can easily pin any app to the main view of their launcher.

Will all my users see the same apps they do today?

With the new app launcher, any additional apps that aren’t already pinned by default, and a user has opened in the preview 45 days will be automatically added to their main view. This means that different users may see different apps based on the apps they actively use.

Will my users’ apps highighted in the main view keep changing based on their use?

After your users see the new launcher for the first time, apps in the main view will stay the same, unless a user chooses to customize their apps or an administrator adds or removes licenses. If you have difficulty finding an app, tap All your apps and search through the alphabetized list of apps available.

Do apps open the same as they do today?

The apps in the launcher will open in different tabs, so a user should not expect the browser Back button to always take them where they were.

How can I get an early look at the app launcher?

Join the First Release program