Forum Discussion
Questions about new Communication Sites
I had the same questions posted over at the blog post. I'll repost them here for better visibility.
- for departmental intranet solutions - do you recommend one big "communications sites" container with subsites (is this still possible?) - or many separated communications sites containers per department?
- What is happening to the default root site collection? Will I be able to turn this into a Communications Site? If not, it's a pity that the sweetest (shortest) URL cannot be properly modernized.
- what is the Events web part based on? Is this a new kind of list, can it pull from any list that has "title, start and end date" columns?
- are the SharePoint News comments based on Yammer conversations or something new and different?
Microsoft's response is over on the blog now. Apparently the comments are something new:
News comments are not Yammer powered, but unique tech we have so we could have per item comments - so stored in the same site collection and mapped to the pages it's located on.
Yep.
Also it seems as Microsoft is building some kind of "content roll up Portal" (or something similiar) for Ignite 2017 - basically a site that is one level above team/comm sites.