SharePoint Conference Vegas — What you need to know.
So I missed this years SharePoint Conference in Vegas due to a series of Lemony Snickets events. #SadPanda But it is what it is. And wowsers, Microsoft did not disappoint.
The plethora of announcements about Office 365 and SharePoint are nothing short of Amazeballs.
Let’s recap:
OneDrive
Definitely my favourite component of the list of OneDrive updates is the ability to add Team sites to a users sync profile (The OneDrive sync profile, not UPS) so that when a user joins an organisation, they can be provisioned with the necessary departmental information that they are part of. Its called “Team site automount”.
The rest of the updates can be found here.
Intranet Features
We all love a good Intranet and Microsoft dropped some great announcements about teamwork and integration. Mark Kashman listed all the goodies in his post over at TechCommunity. My favourite once again has to be the Page management updates, specifically around Audience Targeting. I’ve been fighting with the Content Search web part recently, specifically around using FQL instead of KQL queries for the “ENDS-WITH” parameter so being able to segment your content straight from a page is just plain awesome!
The year of the list
When Microsoft dropped the design view from SharePoint Designer, Power users across the planet went into a frenzy of “how could they do that!” and psychology bills rose exponentially. I’m happy to say that its the year of the Power user with Microsoft releasing a ton of new features. Once again, I have to choose a favourite. It has to be being able to create Flow’s in Visio. Now creating SharePoint workflows in Visio has been around for some time, but it never really got me excited as it was clunky. Let’s hope Flow features in Visio are better.
It does come at a cost though. You need Visio Online Plan 2 which is actually fine because you get to install Visio on up to 5 PC’s for just $15 a month.
Drumroll Please… Enter SharePoint 2019!
I don’t have a favourite here. Its the entire product. What I am excited about is that developers are now able to still build on-prem solutions but utilized the new modern experience. As much as we know SharePoint Online is where we want all customers to be, its just not that cut and dry. With SharePoint Server bringing all the user experience richness to on-prem, the transition to the cloud becomes much much easier.
Grab the list of other notable features from Bill Baer’s post on TechCommunity.
SharePoint spaces
Yes, did I just say Spaces, Like FaceBook Spaces but for SharePoint? Yip you read right. Now, people can 3D in SharePoint. How unbelievably cool is that!! Well believe it, its coming.
The only thing missing is the rendering of the human. Like Michael Douglas did in Disclosure.
More info about sharePoint spaces can be found here.
That’s all I can handle. Any more enhancements and I may have to take some calming pills. Oh and that was just the stuff from day one.
AND the SharePoint Conference North America will be back next year. This time, I will make sure an embassy does not have my passport with my American Visa in it.
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Be cool my ninjas.
