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Mark-Kashman
Former Employee
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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Knut Relbe-Moe
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?
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    Alyssa Danesh
    Former Employee
    Sep 12, 2016

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

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      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's avatar
        Alyssa Danesh
        Former Employee
        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

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    LincolnDeMaris
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    Aug 31, 2016
    There are no plans to convert classic pages to modern pages - we probably will never do it. You can create classic pages alongside modern pages inside the same Pages library.
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    Mark-Kashman
    Former Employee
    Aug 31, 2016

    Not yet. The team is working on a plan to enable modern page creation for sites leveraging the publishing infrastructure. It is one area we chose to hold rollout so we can make it seamless and not step over existing page publishing processes. More to come soon about our approach here. Your feedback is welcome if you have thoughts or concerns we can share with the team...

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