The Microsoft 365 Community Docs is a valuable resource for "makers": site owners, citizen developers, power users, and more. Really, anyone who would like to understand the platform better to support their organization. Articles provide many different types of content, from simple definitions of terms, to explanation of common concepts using everyday examples, to scenario-based decision-making tools, to in-depth discussion of specific apps and services.
Community-generated content has tremendous value because it is written by people in the trenches – the people who work with the platform every day. Sometimes people in the community devise solutions Microsoft couldn't have imagined or ways to combine different services uniquely to solve business problems. As a community, we can talk about what works well and what doesn't.
If you are interested in becoming a contributor, you have several options:
We've got some interesting content ideas in the pipeline. One of them will be based on the excellent work Sadie Van Buren did back in the 2010-2012 timeframe around the SharePoint Maturity Model. (Old Web site at the Wayback Machine.) Sadie's framework was invaluable for SharePoint shops to gauge and evaluate their level of maturity in using the platform. We plan to expand and update the model to cover more of Microsoft 365 over the coming months. Sound interesting? Think you might like to be involved? Drop a comment on the issue Update and Modernize Sadie Van Buren's SharePoint Maturity Model.The repo continues to expand and evolve. Since the last post, we have new articles in the repo as well as new contributors
These articles have been added since we last posted.
New articles make the repo more useful, but updates to existing articles are equally important. These updates have expanded existing articles or improved them by adding clarifications or corrections.
We thank our contributors: without the community, this effort would not exist!
As always, thanks to the great Microsoft team helping with this effort. As they say, it takes a village:
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