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Silver Contributor

Jun 15, 2017

A month on from the SharePoint Virtual Conference

Right upfront, if it needs saying, I have the highest respect for the Microsoft folk who collaborate with us in this community. Their openness is refreshing and a step change for those of us who remem...

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Cian Allner

Silver Contributor

Jun 16, 2017

I just came across this presentation for anyone interested, it's full 24 slide https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=8CD57482B3561E37!234342&ithint=file%2cpptx&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!ADi_bYktcZ2D9n0 of SP Summit:

Getting back to your point John, perhaps if the Office 365 Roadmap supported tags (like the new Azure Roadmap does), then you could find all the items from events like this and their progress. Here are some of the items from the summit that were on the O365 Roadmap right after the summit.

John Wynne

Silver Contributor

Jun 16, 2017

Thanks Cian, like you I have picked up on the resources you shared today. The Office 365 roadmap needs a tidy up and noted that In Development has swollen to 202 items (with some duplicates in there). As always happens I noticed that Andy Haon mentioned on Twitter that the 'updated' News web part - the multiple column layout was released but this is still to show up for me. As it stands in my 'objective' stand back view, those of us who can micro-manage the roadmap through the Office Blog, Roadmap and this community whilst following the relevant Microsoft folk on Twitter etc can keep up with planned delivery but those customers who may only rely on 'headline' resources such as the Office Blog will see significant elapsed time from announcement to even preview delivery. To me, this implies that Marketing and Engineering need to sync their plans more! I'll get off my soapbox now 🙂

Benoit Fournier
Iron Contributor
Jun 16, 2017
What annoys me is that there is a lot of noise from officials Microsoft accounts that keep announcing these same things: the soon available new features. I know that it is the new way of communicating but when you are expecting an update you tend to jump on the links thinking that it is now really available.

But as you said, we like and want to be informed early and regularly but please use the "in case you missed it".

Please help us managing our monitoring time.