I've created a new Office 365 Group and got the new modern SharePoint Team site with it. I then customized the home page, adding a News web part and the Activity web part, then made that new page the home page. I then added a few new News items (pages) and published them. I see them on the home page in my account, however on other members home page the News web part just doesn't show up. Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks for the details, Andrew. Can you please do another thing ? Let's see if the news you posted are actually marked as news in the system. Here are the steps: Go to the "pages" library by clicking on the "Pages" link on the left nav Click on "+" near the columns names and choose "Show/Hide columns" Choose the "Promoted State" column and click "Apply" at the top If your news were properly published as news they should have "2" in the PromotedState column.

Just to circle back on this for the sake of others on the thread. The issue that Andrew run into is specific for Firefox browser and the fix is already rolling out.

Be sure your pages are not in draft mode and you have effectively publish them to a mayor version

Yes If i put more text in the the page and publish it then that shows up just fine, just not the News. On another note when they edit the page or create a new page, they don't have the option for the news web part or any of the bottom half of the web parts. So that's probably the issue, just can't find anything on it.

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Andrew Gilleran
Steel Contributor
Dec 12, 2016
I've been testing the new sites and news web part today as part of testing O365 Groups and Teams and it doesn't work at all for me. I've created and published news pages from the home page, in site pages and more. And I still have the default news web part. I've added in the web part again. Nothing, still default content. I have 2 test sites and both news web parts don't work in each site.

Both of these sites were created from O365 Groups and Teams and not in SharePoint itself.
Maybe a connected issue?
- Alina Skarbovsky
  Former Employee
  Dec 12, 2016
  Hi Andrew,
  
  The fact that the News webpart is showing up on the homepage means that News is enabled for you. Let's try to figure this out. Can you please provide some details:
  When creating News where did you start? Did you click "+Add" on the News webpart or "add news" on the web part itself or did you click "+New" on the page header or create a site page through any other entry points?
  Did you click "Publish" on the news post?
  If you go to the Site Pages library (there is a link "Pages" on the left nav), do you see your news posts? Are they checked out (they'll have a small green icon) ?
  Thanks!
  - Andrew Gilleran
    Steel Contributor
    Dec 12, 2016
    Hi Alina
    I tried all the options! All pages are published, no check outs, I can see all the pages in the Site Pages library. But the news web briefly says 'updating news list' and then still shows the default web part content. I was using Firefox but check in Edge just in case there migth be caching or something but no, didn't show up there either.
    I have removed and added the news web part. It is the same in another site I created around the same time. The only connection between them is that they were created from Teams and Office 365 Groups and not in SharePoint itself.
    
    I am full admin on my tenant (I am the only user!).
    
    Thanks
    
    Site pagesHome page news
- Emma Dong
  Former Employee
  Dec 12, 2016
  Hi Andrew,
  
  What button(s) did you click to add news?
  
  cc: Alina Skarbovsky
- Jason Nicholson
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 12, 2016
  Did you publish the pages?
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 09, 2016
Be sure your pages are not in draft mode and you have effectively publish them to a mayor version
- Jason Nicholson
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 09, 2016
  Yes If i put more text in the the page and publish it then that shows up just fine, just not the News. On another note when they edit the page or create a new page, they don't have the option for the news web part or any of the bottom half of the web parts. So that's probably the issue, just can't find anything on it.
  - Emma Dong
    Former Employee
    Dec 09, 2016
    Hi Jason,
    
    Is your tenant opts in to First Release? The flight for news feature is only on for First Release tenants. If your tenant is in FR, everyone in your tenant should see the news web part; if not in FR, no one should see the news web part. I am trying to see why you but not others see it.
    
    FYI - Alina Skarbovsky

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