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Mark-Kashman
Microsoft
MicrosoftROLLING 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...
John_SandersMicrosoft
Microsoft@Clint
We're currently rolling out to select users within first release (so tenants that selected individual people, not the entire tenant).
We'll move to the next ring of full first release tenants shortly, starting with 10%.
We're currently rolling out to select users within first release (so tenants that selected individual people, not the entire tenant).
We'll move to the next ring of full first release tenants shortly, starting with 10%.
It has been 1 month, how is the rollout progressing?
- Hi Dean,
I think the rollout ring expaned last week or this weekend, because today I've noticed the "Site" Link in the Groups UI, though without the Modern Pages I think the new Home Page looks a little out of place and empty :)
I've noticed the following things:
- Opening the Group Site for the first time (or following times - depending) from the Outlook on the web UI navigates you to the Groups Documents folder, instead of the home page. Not sure if this is because of the missing modern pages in my tenant.
- when you hover of the new "Home" navigation button you see the following link https://<tenantname>.sharepoint.com/sites/<groupname>/_layouts/15/groupstatus.aspx?target=home
I think the "target" variable changes the "homepage destination" for the above mentioned "Site" link in the Groups UI. After opening the new "Home.aspx" the target changes to this page instead of the document library.
- you get a new "News.aspx" in the Pages library, but it's as empty as my home.aspx, though interestingly the modified date of the home.aspx is unchanged (some date in May 2016)
Looks like I'll have to wait for the 2nd part of the "modern" rollout (=pages) to get the full experience.
cheers!- Just got the modern pages as well. Groups Homepage automatically gets Quick Links and Activity Webparts.
For existing SharePoint Teams Sties you'd have to create a new page add those 2 webparts manually.- I also see the sites link from within the groups page but it kicks me back to the documents page and there is no link to any other page. If I delete everything after the site path, it still sends me back to the documents page anyways. Is this normal for others as well?
Also, does anybody know if this will also include auto creation of a group when a new team site is created?
