Aug 31 2016 09:45 AM - edited Sep 01 2016 12:55 PM
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, which come with an updated Home page, the ability to pin items within the new Quick links web part, and to see what's going on in the site via the new Activity web part.
These team sites within Office 365 Groups, and existing team sites throughout SharePoint Online, will also have the ability to create publishing pages - fast, easy to author pages that support rich multimedia content, and look great on mobile browsers and via the SharePoint mobile app. Get ready to communicate and share your ideas within SharePoint like never before.
Additionally, Microsoft will increase the site collection limit in SharePoint Online to "up to 25TB" (previously "up to 1TB); this will be refelcted in an update to the official "SharePoint Online boundaries and limits" support article.
Please review the associated blog on blogs.office.com, "New capabilities in SharePoint Online team sites including integration with Office 365 Groups" with numerous links to new and updated support.office.com articles.
Let us know what you think,
Mark
Aug 31 2016 02:42 PM
Aug 31 2016 03:32 PM
Under the covers it's a full-powered SharePoint team site - so yes. And no news on branding beyond the new look & feel of the home page for Office 365 Groups team sites. We're thinking in this area with a few things to share at Ignite 2016 timeframe.
Aug 31 2016 03:39 PM
Appreciate the blog post/update, and the replies here @Mark Kashman
>SharePoint home, where you create a new subsite today
>still possible to create a default team site from the Sharepoint Online admin center
In both of the above what is created is a Site Collection. I know it's sort of a nit-pick if you're using high-level terminology, but it's also true that for many of us that's an important detail/difference. I hope that the language in the Ignite materials were be precise in this respect.
>SharePoint home, where you create a new subsite today
I'd be curious if you have any stats on how many companies have disabled that (we have). Though I suspect many of us will un-disable it since self-creation with Groups amounts to the same effect.
Aug 31 2016 03:42 PM
Aug 31 2016 03:45 PM
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.
Aug 31 2016 03:47 PM
FYI for "up to Today":
1. "create site" creates a subsite in an IT-chosen site collection; unless they developed a custom solution to do otherwise (there is a custom solution in GitHub that does this :-)).
2. New private site collection created from within SPO admin center = unique, new site collection.
And "tomorrow" when you "create site" from SharePoint home, it'll be a new site collection for the Group, primarily exposed via "Files" and "Site" from the group nav.
Aug 31 2016 04:40 PM
Aug 31 2016 04:45 PM
Aug 31 2016 05:57 PM
Makes sense.
For the time being, the easiest way to do what you want is to just create a new modern page, add the Quick Links and Activity web parts to it (or any other web parts!) and set that as the homepage of your site using the "Make Homepage" command in the Pages library. Give that a try when the new bits hit your environment and let us know how it goes.
Aug 31 2016 06:15 PM
Aug 31 2016 06:39 PM
Rollout will begin next week.
Aug 31 2016 09:10 PM
I've seen "next week" and Sept 2nd.... I suppose it really doesn't matter too much.......
Aug 31 2016 10:32 PM
Aug 31 2016 10:45 PM
Aug 31 2016 10:50 PM - edited Aug 31 2016 10:51 PM
@Mark Kashman If we have disabled user self-service site creation, then will it affect the groups-connected-site creation as well?
Sep 01 2016 01:07 AM
Hello,
it is not related to SharePoint tenant space and size. We still need to purchase the space for our SharePoint tenant if it reaches its limit. Is this correct?
Sep 01 2016 01:34 AM
Hi, This sounds great! But I'd love to get some steer from Microsoft about what they see the purposes of Team Sites vs Groups are. It seems like they are getting closer and closer together in functionality. Some examples of when you see each being used would be great.
Sep 01 2016 01:58 AM
Sep 01 2016 02:31 AM
Sep 01 2016 02:44 AM
@Mark Kashman, I am also a little confused by the path this has been taking.
See, earlier we had SharePoint Team Sites which would provision a shared notebook, team calendar, shared documents library, and a site mailbox automatically. Add in people with appropriate permissions and it became a group.
Now, the route is to create an O365 Group first, which would then provision a shared notebook, team calendar, shared documents library, group mailbox, and very soon a team site, automatically.
What really is the difference? I mean apart from an entry-point in Outlook.