Rollout of Modern Pages to First Release Full Org

[John Wynne]

@davecohen Any update on progress of rolling out Modern Pages to FR Full org please? I've managed to sample via Select Users just keen to know current status. Thanks!

[#2]

We're also still waiting for this.

Last known official report (or goal) that I'm aware of is 10% of full tentant FR for last week.

Guess we're not part of that 10%.

[#3]

Also still waiting. Can anyone confirm if FR EDU tenants will be included?

[#4 · Accepted solution]

We've rolled out to 10% of First Release tenants so far, and the plan is to go to 50% today. We're still doing some final analysis of the roll out data, and I'll update you all when we do expand the ring.

[#5]

Appreciate the update.

[#6]

Thanks for the update Dave

[#7]

Thanks for the update!

[#8]

looks like we're not part of that 50% either :(

was that 50% for selective FR, or 50% for full tenant FR ?

[#9]

I've accessed the functionality by switching to selective FR temporarily and then switched back and lost it again, but your pages are still accessible once created but no editing.

[#10]

This is what I did 2 weeks ago!

[#11]

Hey everyone,

We held off expanding the ring yesterday due to a late issue we needed to investigate. It turned out to be a false alarm, and we're in the process of expanding the release ring to 50% of First Release tenants now. Thanks for your feedback, as always.

[#12]

Thanks for the update Dave appreciate it.

[#13]

We got it in one of our tenants today.

Interesting to see how the Canvas-content is stored in the listitem:

PS C:\> $page = Get-SPOListItem -List (Get-SPOList -Identity "SitePages") -Id 3

PS C:\> $page.FieldValues.CanvasContent1
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C/li%3E%3Cli%3Esdf%3C/li%3E%3C/ol%3E%3Cp%3E%3Cstrong%3EBOLD%3Cspan%20class=%5C%22ql-cursor%5C%22%3E%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BF%3C/span%3E%3C/strong%3E%3C/p%3E%22,%22editorType%22&#58;%22Quill%22%7D"><p>Some content with bullets</p><ol><li>sdfsdf</li><li>sdf</li><li>sdf</li></ol><p><st
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Interesting "challange" to migrate content from another source into that...

[#14]

Good news. As you say new challenges!

[#15]

Alright Dave, so we didn't make the first 50%. What's the next expansion estimate? Thanks!

[#16]

I am also still waiting, just checked - did not work :(

[#17]

We don't have a concrete date to share for the next ring expansion, but I expect it will be either late next week or early the week after. For those that do have access, please send us your feedback. :)

[#18]

looks like we're in the lucky 50%, plus I've had some access by a selected FR dev tenant so feedback as requested:-

+ Very positive move overall

+ Good editing experience

+ Responsive

+ SharePoint framework

+ Nice UI

+ Document & content embed parts offer good flexibility (Forms needs to be embeddable)

+ Simple autosave and publish

+ Page and document previews in quick links

- Page banner far to big. Text starts halfway down the page!

- Needs ability to rearrange web parts like you can in Sway

- Branding options needed, especially with regards to the default, fixed header image

- quick links needs list view as well as tile view. A way of creating multiple lists is also needed as navigation options are limited. Ability to easily select pages when adding quick link

- Ability to have individual document libraries as a type in highlighted content

[#19]

Is there any way to test this before it gets rolled out to us? I'm an "individual" in FR (there are a few of us, but the whole company is not). I'd love to be able to see what's possible and how it works, but I feel like I just keep checking every day to see if I have it. Any help would be appreciated! I'd love to test it out *somewhere* or be notified when it hits for my FR account. Checking every day is kind of a pain, and I don't even know exactly where/how to check. I keep creating test subsites using the team site template, and it's still the old one. If anyone can provide some guidance for me, I'd appreciate it! I have to stay on top of this stuff so I can notify staff before it's rolled out to them...

[#20]

You could try signing up to a  free(for a year) dev tenant (http://dev.office.com/devprogram) and setting the user to selective FR. Via that I had earlier access than the main site but I doubt it will be long before you get it.

In terms of testing I think it gives a message when navigating to sharepoint, otherwise:

Try selcting the gear icon in any sharepoint site you have write access to and go to "new page". On the old system it will ask you for a filename wheras on the new it will immediatley create a blank page of the new "Site Pages" type.

Also if you look in any sites', "site pages" library the new page icon is a dropdown instead of the ""+".