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Status of Microsoft Places
In a community call last year, there was a demo of Microsoft Places. Can anyone provide an update regarding the release date of this? We are interested in the hotel desk component of this tool. Also,...
Yes, really incredible. Microsoft discontinued floorplans, which we were about to roll-out, without having the successor ready!
Really incredible.... :-((((
Really incredible.... :-((((
I feel your pain. One of my clients was about to start using Floorplans and then Microsoft announced the retirement. We've been waiting ever since. I've checked weekly since June for new posts or discussions. Nothing...- We found that Floorplans still work in our environment. FYI
- Thanks for letting us know! I see the value in surviving there while we all wait but I also think that embedding into a dying solution may create a larger migration effort once Places is made available. Robin seems like what Places will be and I've considered steering clients toward that but then they'd be in a similar position, investing in an alternative instead of the one they really want.
- I actually didn't know that Microsoft had a floor plan feature until I read your post. I did find this but still no communication from Microsoft about Places. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-floorplans?source=docs
- If you have already played around with it in your tenant, you might be lucky. It still works for us (knock on wood). Updating floorplans, also adding new floors. Specifiying string breakdown and indexing speed are as good as ever 😉 Not sure about new locations, though.
So I figure they just don't onboard new tenants. But again, maybe we are just lucky.
