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SharePoint Hub Sites due in February for Targeted Release?
- Nearing the home stretch for hub sites into Targeted Release. We'll have an announcement blog to inform when we start rollout, plus a webinar, AMA and a fast follow 'planning guide' beyond the main help articles that will publish in parallel with the start of rollout. Hang tight, the team is working thru the last mile of this significant feature. :-) Cheers, Mark.
Sorry, but there is no good way to estimate how long it takes for a deployment to finish. Sometimes it is a few weeks other times it has been many months. MS gathers data during the deployment process and adjusts things when necessary.
Dean_Gross wrote:
Sorry, but there is no good way to estimate how long it takes for a deployment to finish. Sometimes it is a few weeks other times it has been many months. MS gathers data during the deployment process and adjusts things when necessary.
That's what I was afraid of.
Just curious how many of you have your production tenants set to Targeted Release?
We've been reluctant to do this, because it feels like beta testing in production. Honestly, we're constantly seeing SharePoint updates with little or no warning in Standard Release, so I'm not sure there's much additional risk.
Benjamin Lillge wrote:
Just curious how many of you have your production tenants set to Targeted Release?
Not many I would hazard a guess, not the entire tenant anyway, as it's adding more unpredictability into the equation and would be counterintuitive for day to day productivity. Saying that it does really depend on the environment and the level of adaptability, as well as patience.
Having a dev or test tenant is a must that does allow you to preview features sooner but yeah it's not perfect.
From what I gathered from a demo yesterday, Hub sites are very close to being previewed, in the next week or two but that was me reading between the lines!
Even within Targeted Release things differ between whole org and selected users around specific functionality. For a large corporation going Targeted Release I’d see as pretty unworkable. Thinking about functionality such as Hub Sites even working with selected users might be difficult. I’d recommend having a separate ‘test’ tenant where possible. My impression is Microsoft is getting to grips with releasing ‘directly’ to Standard Release but of course this is subject to a tenant admin team following the Admin Centre, this Community and official social media such as Twitter quite closely (in my case obsessively)
