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Rollout of SharePoint Communication Sites to First Release?
- Jun 01, 2017It is June, and they are coming soon. We can't tell you exactly when, and the update to Filter Panes is a little different scale than introducing communication sites. We're on the final mile of QA and things are looking good. Mr. McNulty set a nice bar, and we'll be clear as to making noise before they come to FR; covers a lot of my to do's this coming month - to launch comm sites so they cannot be missed :-).
 
We're driving really hard to start the rollout to First Release this month, John Wynne
Will there be tools to assist in content migration from an existing team site?
- Mark-KashmanJun 08, 2017Former Employee
There will not be default tools to move content in this way. Can you share more about why you would like to move content from a team site to a communicaiton site? #interestedears
- Ülgen ÖztürkOct 05, 2018Copper Contributor
Hi Mark,
I realizedt hat I built our most important Company-Site as a communication site and not as a Team site. The Problem is, that a lot of functions from the team site are missing in the communication site. For instance we use Planner to manage tasks and integrate them into the teamsite, so you can manage them directy within sharepoint. Is there any way to do this at the communication site?
- Mark-KashmanOct 05, 2018Former Employee
The Planner plan instance is currently tied to the Office 365 Groups membership that has at it's root the connected SharePoint team site - and each app (Planner and team site are aware and driven by the same membership set of permissions; aka, the associated Office 365 group). That said, I'll loop in Kippi Lundgren to see if there are any methods for people to be able to maintain a Planner plan, and use the SharePoint Planner web part to showcase a plan on a Communication site; also looping in John_Sanders to take a look, too; he owns our webpart strategy all up - including working with internal partner teams like the Planner team.
 
 - Jun 11, 2017
Mark-KashmanI can see several scenarios where I would want to replace the Team site that is associated with a Yammer groups with a Communication site. Many of our larger business units use a Yammer group for conversations, and want a site for general news, tools, information etc.
- Benoit FournierJun 12, 2017Iron Contributor
I agree. The departments "external" sites would be best served by a public Yammer and a Communication site. The "internal" would be a private Yammer or a mailbox and a Team site.