My favorite Office 365 roadmap resources
I spent a bit of time refreshing my Office 365 Roadmap, Release, and Change Management resources and wanted to share the current list. Roadmaps · http://roadmap.office.com/ · https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/roadmap-public-preview · https://roadmap.dynamics.com/ · https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/release-notes/ · https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/release-notes/ Resources Office 365 Services · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGzcj1UToAk · https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/5005 · Blog: A new application release strategy (March 2017) · https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-release-options-3b3adfa4-1777-4ff0-b606-fb8732101f47?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US · https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn707386.aspx · Blog: Leveraging the Service Communication API (April 2017) · https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43708 Office Clients · https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt455210.aspx · https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/Office/mt465751 · https://support.office.com/en-US/article/What-s-New-and-Improved-in-Office-2016-for-Office-365-95c8d81d-08ba-42c1-914f-bca4603e1426 · https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt584223 · https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt592918Social Media Connections: Let's Network!
I love the Microsoft Tech Community and find it to be an incredible source of information, discussion, feedback, and comradery. I also use LinkedIn and Twitter to keep in touch with my professional network. Do you? Share your usernames in the comments and let's connect! I'll start 🙂 Twitter: Brian_Levenson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianlevensonBrand New Roadmap Capability
Available as of 5 minutes ago: The Office 365 Roadmap website (roadmap.office.com) now allows an export to Excel for download. Each item also includes "First Added" and "Last Modified" dates. With a simple download and filter, you can easily determine which features are new and which ones have been updated since the last time you reviewed. Also, as an Excel file, it can be easily imported into other systems for additional actions. Check it out, and let us know what you think!Stay on top of Office 365 changes
There are lots of great resources for Office 365 change management but finding them all in one place is more difficult. Inspired by Brian Levenson post - 'My favorite Office 365 roadmap resources' I have written a TechNet Wiki article called the https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37821.office-365-change-management-survival-guide.aspx. Its aim is to bring together as many resources related to Office 365 changes and updates as possible. Many of them will be well known but there are some hidden gems as well! Did you favourite resource make it on the list, are there any glaring omissions? I'd love for this to be a go-to resource for Office 365 change management. Hopefully, this is of interest, the article is only a day old, so there will be further improvements going forward. By the way, for those interested and that like this format, there is also the https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37465.microsoft-teams-survival-guide.aspx and the https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/36755.enterprise-mobility-security-survival-guide.aspx. All of these are on the TechNet Wiki and are open to the community.Modern Service Management for Office 365
We're kicking off a new blog series focused on service management in a cloud world with Office 365! Carroll Moon (twitter: @carroll_moon) is a Senior Architect for Modern Service Managment within Microsoft's ITSM practice, and his inaugural post can be found on the Tech Community blog. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Modern-Service-Management-for-Office-365/ba-p/52793 What do you think? What other topics interest you in the context of service management? (cc: Anne Michels)Interview: Yammer connected Office 365 Groups
I managed to snag espnguyen and Angus Florance to talk about Yammer connected Office 365 Groups rolling out this week. Loryan Strant and a live audience helped us put some pertinent questions to Steve and Angus. After 18 months of plumbing and "non-sexy" updates, it looks like Yammer is ready to start ramping up on feature releases. I expect many will be in-line with the Office 365 Groups fabric, bringing parity to teams that choose the Yammer experience for their conversations. We had some curly questions around compliance and the different waves of updates for Yammer connected Office 365 Groups. It's 30min interview via Soundcloud or YouTube. RE:Office 365 - Interview: Yammer connected Office 365 GroupsYammer integration with Office 365 Groups now rolling out
Really pleased to see this, bringing the best of Office 365 together. https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/02/yammer-integration-with-office-365-groups-now-rolling-out/ "Today, we are pleased to announce the integration of Yammer with Office 365 Groups. Now, when you create a new group in Yammer, it will automatically be part of the Office 365 Groups service, giving the group a OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management, a SharePoint Online team site and document library. With the integration, you and the members of your group can readily access these shared resources directly from Yammer." Check out the https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/02/yammer-integration-with-office-365-groups-now-rolling-out/for more details including a useful FAQ. There is also a Yammer AMA coming up, March 7 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. PST / 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. GMT, a great opportunity to ask product and engineering teams questions!
Infographic: how to stay up to date with changes in Office 365
I've got a https://www.avepoint.com/blog/office-365/staying-up-to-date-with-office-365-list-resources out with a listing of resources you should follow to stay up to date with the never-ending changes, updates, deprecations, etc. in Office 365. The full blog post also has a spreadsheet that lists out every official Microsoft blog, roadmap, community forum, feedback mechanism, and twitter account to follow, split out by Office 365 app [scroll all the way down]. Feedback welcome! Here's a preview below.New White Paper - Office 365 empowers Microsoft employees and enables Microsoft IT
As Microsoft has moved users, teams, and documents to the cloud with Office 365, the company's IT department has been transforming from server and systems management to organization empowerment. Formerly MSIT and now called Core Services Engineering (CSE), the teams are focused on delivering technology based services that enhance the company's ability to achieve our mission: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Software-as-a-service solutions like Office 365 delivered from the cloud are always up to date and constantly improving. Rather than spend time racking and stacking servers, deploying patches, and planning costly upgrade projects, CSE resources are freed to develop solutions to business problems and enable a productive and collaborative - yet secure and protected - workforce. To learn more about MSIT's transformation aided by Office 365, check out the new white paper: http://aka.ms/MSITservers2services
