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Insider build information
I think this would help potential Insiders with joining and knowing what they are getting into. I found the 'Changes to Slow/Fast level names for Office Insider for Windows desktop' article useful as well - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Changes-to-Slow-Fast-level-names-for-Office-Insider-for-Windows-desktop-055ee4f9-9ce3-4fb8-8a9a-ca6745867d52
Full release notes would be welcome but I can understand that is going to take a lot more work.
Thanks a million for the feedback, Cian, and for promoting this article to your people, whomever they are. :-) Yes, release notes seem like a no-brainer, right? But they're surprisingly challenging to compile across teams, especially for these Fast updates. Moreover, Fast notes can be compiled into Slow notes and ultimately result in better production notes for Office 365 admins. So definitely worth the effort.
By the way, the Outlook for Mac team has done a great job at systematically delivering release notes for their weekly Fast updates. That pilot was so successful that the other apps have followed along. We recently published the following articles on support.office.com, and these should be fully localized each week within 48 hours. Some of the notes are a little sparse at this point, but we'll start fleshing them out soon.
Please feel free to share:
Release notes for Insider Fast builds of Office 2016 for Mac
No problem, I shared the link https://twitter.com/Office365Ninjas/status/896030711110660099, where it got a bit of attention and I have also added the resource to the https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37821.office-365-change-management-survival-guide.aspx, along with the Mac release notes.
I think any energy put into this endeavour is well spent, keeping customers informed of changes, also as you pointed out, these can go upstream as these updates make their way into the mainstream channels. Thanks again for your work on this.
BTW, Cian - My compliments on the survival guide. That is an amazing resource and I've bookmarked it for my own reference.
I also wanted to say, if you have any thoughts about what admins might need as far as content and training for these earliest update channels--namely, Monthly Channel (Targeted) and/or Insider, I'm all ears. I'm also curious about how/if these channels are commonly used by orgs who have most of their end users on Monthly Channel. I know a little about this subject, but I'm interested in knowing more.
Cheers!
I never got a chance to say thanks for your kind words about the Office 365 survival guide, thank you! I think the material about the Office channels and updates is very good, it's just a matter of taking it all in and understanding the lingo, for those getting up-to-speed! I helped (hopefully) someone today that was getting comfortable with how all of these work, as an example of the sorts of questions that arise.
Anyway, just wanted to mention the announcement that we are getting release notes for Windows desktop Insider builds, which I think is great and will be well received! The update history is very good but getting additional details is going to be useful as well.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_officeinsider-mso_win10-msoinsider_reg/release-notes-for-windows-desktop-insider-formerly/27bb40d1-1c6c-4953-a3c5-cd9e30226b42
You are more than welcome, Cian. Thank you!