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Oct 12, 2017

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SharePoint 2019 on the cards

Microsoft announced another successor in SharePoint world. Planned for release late 2018, this would be the next major release of Office. It is being discussed that Office 2019 will embrace new c...

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Cian Allner
Jan 12, 2018
Fanny wrote:

When will SharePoint online upgrade to 2019?

SharePoint Online is already running a more recent version than anything on-prem. I imagine SharePoint 2019 is just catching up with stuff we been using for a while in Office 365 as well as supporting additional scenarios like hybrid. A few more details https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ronalg/2017/10/03/long-live-sharepoint-server-sp2019-tap/.

Fanny

Brass Contributor

Jan 12, 2018

When will SharePoint online upgrade to 2019? Will the SharePoint site link be changed after the upgrade? This is my concern.

Cian Allner

Silver Contributor

Jan 12, 2018

Fanny wrote:

When will SharePoint online upgrade to 2019?

SharePoint Online is already running a more recent version than anything on-prem. I imagine SharePoint 2019 is just catching up with stuff we been using for a while in Office 365 as well as supporting additional scenarios like hybrid. A few more details https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ronalg/2017/10/03/long-live-sharepoint-server-sp2019-tap/.

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jan 13, 2018
Cian is totally correct...SPO is running always latest bits of the platform and we can say that each OnPrem version released by Microsoft since SP 2016 is just a branch of what is already running in SPO
- Radosław Szymczak
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 19, 2018
  I have missed something. Do we have Word Automation Services in SPO? There are couple of things which are not available in SPO but are available OnPrem. It is worth to remember about this.