Forum Discussion
SharePoint Social Bar - Page Usage Information
- The SharePoint page usage information (what was initially communicated as the "social bar") is now rolling out to Targeted Release, and I believe it's complete for 100% of Targeted Release (TR) customers already, but if not - it's a matter of days. And then in ~ 1-2 weeks, we'll begin roll out for the rest of production - just keeping an eye on scale and any main stress points customers in TR provide.
Debjani Mitra who owns this feature now.
Hello! We are currently validating the switches to turn the social bar on/off. Will roll out after that. I'll update this discussion with an ETA - stay tuned!
- Hi Debjani, Can you let us know what is happening here please? The Message Center clearly indicated this was rolling out which Mark-Kashman referred to Alyssa and onto yourself. The notifications in the Message Center need to reflect the current situation or they are pointless. If this feature goes into production on April 1st there is little time for TR reviewWe are excited to receive new Office 365 and SharePoint features but accurate notification is key. Thanks!
hi all,
I want to let you know that we expect to roll this feature out to Targeted Release very shortly. We found an issue previously that we wanted to fix before starting to release this, and we have validated the fix and are now just waiting for the build to deploy in order to turn on the feature in TR. We will let you all know when that is done.
In addition the Message Center post wasn't totally clear on the April 1 2018 schedule statement, so let me clarify that. The April 1 date was meant to be communicated as the earliest date we would expand this feature beyond TR, so that we gave customers time to run the PowerShell commands to turn off the feature in advance of it rolling out to their tenants, if they wanted to do that. These commands can still be run to disable after the feature is deployed but we wanted to communicate that we would not exit TR before April 1 at the earliest. Once we roll out to TR, we will listen to and watch feedback, usage data and our quality metrics to determine we are ready to expand beyond that ring. Thx, Andy
- Thanks Andy, for your reply. This clarification really helps. I would certainly recommend updating the Message Center entry when delays occur. Everyone feels happy when they are informed. Nevertheless, really looking forward to this feature and appreciate your time in getting back on this one!
