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Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
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Still not rolled out on our European tenant, targeted release.
Current https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap states are inconsistent.
- Viva Connections Desktop shows as rolled out - For us it's current ability is showing a SharePoint page in Teams - frankly speaking that's something that's been possible before.
- SharePoint: App Bar shows as "in development" and to be rolled out in May. And of course not on our tenant. https://ganeshsanapblogs.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/introducing-a-sharepoint-app-bar-that-features-global-navigation/ that it should have been rolled out by mid March for targeted release. - well it's not.
- The global navigation feature... - well if I'm an SP admin and don't see "Global Navigation" on the home site's settings - it guess, it hasn't been rolled out.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/viva-connections as well as numerous MS marketing articles all convey that it's all there - it has been like this for weeks and we are definitely not the only ones.
Dirk-Official They have postponed the rollout. You can see the current status here: https://ganeshsanapblogs.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/introducing-a-sharepoint-app-bar-that-features-global-navigation/
- That means Viva Connections currently is just a SharePoint page in Teams.
Obviously postponing the rollout doesn't mean postponing the marketing. 32.5k users have visited the article "Install Viva Connections today" - no word about a postponed rollout - just numerous frustrated comments. Not a good start...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/install-viva-connections-today/ba-p/2245410- I agree. It's a bit frustrating after I had to tell our staff what to expect (have to tell them before something happens so they don't have a melt down when they see it) and nothing is coming to fruition.
- Typical Msft....they love talking things up - things that rarely live up to the marketing hype - and then shoot themselves in the foot because they don't test adequately.
