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Gold Contributor

Aug 31, 2016

ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages

Today marks the beginning of bringing the full power of SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, with additional benefits to SharePoint Online all up! New and existing groups will get modern team sites, whic...

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Copper Contributor

Aug 31, 2016

Will this work side-by-side with the old publishing pages, or what about converting teh traditional pages to the new pages?

Iron Contributor

Sep 12, 2016

As a side note, all modern Web Parts are backwards compatible and work on older versions of SharePoint Web Part Pages.

Michael Perry
Iron Contributor
Sep 12, 2016
That leaves a big question mark over server side parts. As I understand it they don't work on modern pages but there's things that only server side parts can do.Hopefully this will come in the future as I'd hate to be restricted to the older style pages.
- Alyssa Danesh
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 12, 2016
  Hi Michael -
  
  There will not be server side web parts in modern Site Pages. However, we are bringing Add-ins into modern Site Pages in conjunction with client side web parts.
  
  jcgonzalezmartin
  - Michael Perry
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 12, 2016
    Ok, slightly confused now as I thought Add-Ins and server side parts were largley the same thing. Are you saying that sharepoint hosted Add-ins will be supported but not the Provider-Hosted ones?
    
    I will be using the new framwork for some types of work regardless but for integrating external data, what should I be looking at, going forward?
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Sep 12, 2016
  For server side we have the Add-ins model that for now is still an option...don't know in the future

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