Organisation Asset Library - Picture Library

Hey Paul Griffiths 

Indeed the Org Asset libraries is a cool feature and one that I recommend to most organizations. It is nicely integrated into the image editing experience in SharePoint, whereby it is just a few clicks to get to your org assets. There are some things I'd change, such as the prominence and visibility of this feature. I have heard complaints (and agree) that the addition of the Microsoft Stock Images in this list of options is higher visibility and therefore can work against your desire to nudge users toward corporate approved imagery. But it is nevertheless a great step forward.


You are right there is no integration that I am aware of with Office Apps and it is one that makes sense. Again here we see priority given to Microsoft Stock Images, for example (as shown in your screenshot as well). I also find it odd that we have both (Microsoft) Stock Images as well as Bing Images. I don't think we need both and hopefully this gets streamlined - but such is life in an ever changing cloud environment. 🙂

I imagine the challenge is that Org Assets libraries can be anywhere in a client's tenant. Therefore the functionality within the office apps would have to be dynamic to the logged in user's attached tenant (as any machine can have accounts in multiple tenants). Not impossible but likely a bit more work.

Great suggestion!