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Updates pushed & being informed
Last week we ended up in an embarssing situation when several updates were deployed in our environment that had a huge impact on UX withough being informed upfront.
The following settings were activated in our live environemnt:
- OneDrive for Business Experience: impacting UX
- SharePoint Lists and Libraries experience: impacting custom UX in Tema-, Project- & Info Sites
- Office Graph: causing activation of Delve
- Custom Script: causing some of our action buttons to disappear
- Streaming Video Service
- Preview Features
Is there a possibility that we get informed upfront when changes take place?
Hi everyone, what you're seeing is a limited release of the functionality so that we can understand usage scenarios and capture feedback. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, we do intend to roll out a change digest and make this feature available broadly. An overview and design concept was shared at Ignite, and you can view the session on demand here (as well as other details of our change deployment and communication approach):
Ignite Session: Office 365 Release, Change, and Communication
The following are in one of my clients tenant message center. I found it helpful to sign up to receive a weekly digest email message.
2. [Aug 12] We are evolving Office 365 Video
We recently announced a new business video service called Microsoft Stream. This was in response to the success we’ve seen with Office 365 Video and our desire to also have a business video service available to non-Office 365 customers. As such, we are working to converge Office 365 Video and Stream into a single solution. While Stream is in preview, Office 365 Video and Stream will coexist as two separate services. We are working on plans to converge Stream and Office 365 Video together.... [MC74630]
1. [Sep 02] Updated Feature: SharePoint Modern Lists
As previously announced, we are now starting the rollout of the UI for Modern Lists to production this week. The initial rollout will include the UI enhancements previously described, such as inline creation of custom views and columns; improved mobile support; and the command bar. PowerApps and Flow are preview features, and integration will be available to tenants who have opted in to use preview features in SharePoint Online administration. Full user details, as well as administrative... [MC76407]Dean, where did you sign up for the weekly digest newsletter?
In an Ignite session someone mentioned a weekly mail for global admins which informs on all chances made to the tenant. I desperateley tried to find a sign up option in my admin center, but I couldn't find one.
Go to the O365 Admin Center, Under the Health heading, click Message Center, in the top right corner, click Edit Message Center Preferences. Enable the "Send a weekly email digest of my messages" enter the desired email addresses.
Thanks Dean for your reply. We do have the AUG12 message in our message center, but no trace for the SEP02 message even thoug all message center preferences are selected. Any idea why we didn't get the SEP02?
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You will get messages when they are relevant to your tenant, perhaps Dean is in a different region, different deployment path (e.g. First Release) to your tenant.
Back to your list, there are a number of items you mention that haven't made 'default'. Delve, Streaming Video, Custom Scripting and OneDrive UI are all company preferences and haven't ever been changed for us. They do all exist in the same settings screen in SharePoint Admin, perhaps someone at your end changed a load of switches by defauult.
This is the primary reason why we'll never have a custom UX for our tenant. Too many headaches when updates are pushed out without notice.
- Yes...you have at least three channels:
(1) Office 365 Message Center...almos al the new stuff coming to your tenant should appear there
(2) Office 365 Roadmap so you can know what is being released, what it's under development, etc.
(3) Office BlogsHi Juan Carlos, tx for your prompt reaction. We are aware of the 3 channels that you mention. The amount of changes/updates announced in these channels is pretty big and do not always provide many details. In our case for example the OneDrive & Sharepoint Library experience setting was switched/pushed from 'Classic' to 'New'.
Do you happen to know in which message of the 3 channels this level of detail was announced?
We're interested to find out upfront so we can anticipate or take immediate action when these kind of changes happen again.
- Microsoft usually publishes details and a support article for each change being introduced...this support article should include other references to support articles more oriented to how to enable/disable features from an IT Pro point of view...one question here: are you on first release? If so, you might consider to use selective first release so changes that happens in first release are seeing first by a group of individuals that can decide what to do with them just in case it's possible to enable or disable those changes
