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Mark-Kashman
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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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Brent Ellis
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Aug 31, 2016
We currently have modern doc libs and lists disabled (as they break customization and the top menus are too wonky for us right now), will that prevent this from rolling out to us (first release whole org)?
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    Eric_H
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 31, 2016

    We also have modern Doc Libraries disabled due to a major issue with non-require metadata and content types (see this post).  We've been looking forward to Modern Team site and group integration for a while, but I'm hoping it isn't plagued by significant issues.  

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    LincolnDeMaris
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    Aug 31, 2016
    Nope! If you have modern lists and libraries turned off, you'll still get this change. When you navigate to the team site associated with a group, you'll be able to create and use lists and libraries there, and they'll use the classic UI as you'd expect.
    • Morten Myrstad's avatar
      Morten Myrstad
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 01, 2016

      Then the question would be: Will the new Home page and the new Publishing pages "break" the branding of a team site, like the new document libraries have done?

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        LincolnDeMaris
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        Sep 01, 2016

        Yes - the limitations of the new homepage and new publishing pages are the same as the limitations in modern lists and libraries, at least as far as branding is concerned.

  • Mark-Kashman's avatar
    Mark-Kashman
    Former Employee
    Aug 31, 2016

    It shouldn't; not during this phase, as it applies only to new and existing groups - which only have had the Files portion enabled (aka, the modern document library) for the Group. If you are using Office 365 Groups, you'll soon see "Site" added to the groups apps list. This is a new site for the group; not an existing team site. And going forward, when you create a new group, here too you would get a new, modern team site for the group.

     

    In the future we do want to enable the choice for existing team sites to have the new home page applied as the default home page. And we are concious of configuration and extensibility requirements. We'll have more to share at the Ignite 2016 timeframe.

     

    Hope that helps for now,

    Mark

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