Introducing the Community News Desk with essential content from Microsoft 365 Community Conference
With the public availability of our Microsoft 365 Community Conference content we are launching our new Microsoft Community News Desk to help you discover content and people that will enhance your experience of Microsoft services including Copilot, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva, Power Platform and more. Read on to discover more!The intelligent intranet powered by Microsoft 365 – Microsoft Ignite 2019 announcements
Let’s dive in the announcements we have made it Microsoft Ignite 2019 that you helped inspire. These enhancements will roll out at various times in the months ahead. You can follow the for more details on specific items.New innovations in SharePoint & Microsoft 365 deliver power and simplicity for content collaboration
Today,at Microsoft Igniteweshowednew innovationsforcontent collaboration in the modern workplace.We showedhowSharePoint and Microsoft 365combinepowerand simplicityto meet your evolving business needswhileensuring ease of use for all.Introducing "Request sign-off" - an approval flow that requires no set up
We are happy to announce a new feature in SharePoint called "Request sign-off". The goal is to provide you an easy way to send an item for approval to someone else. This feature enables an open approval process that allows you to easily record whether or not a document or list item was approved or not. There is no setup required. Request sign-off makes use of SharePoint's integration with Microsoft Flow. You can use it by selecting a file or list item (but not a folder), and then pulling down the Flow menu in the modern library or list UI, and selecting "Request sign-off". This flow will appear alongside any other custom flow that you or others may have added to the library. Once it is invoked, Request sign-off will create a new text column in your library called "Sign-off status". This column will record the state of your request. It works just like any other text column, you can sort, filter or group by it to organize your library. On invocation, this will tell you that it will send an approval request on your behalf, and ask your consent. Once this is provided, you can pick one or more approvers, and write a message to them for your approval request. If you add more than one approver, any one of them can approve your request: The person you sent the approval to will receive an approval request. This will be an actionable message on clients that support it (meaning you can approve it directly from within Outlook). The approver can also provide some comments along with their decision. There will also be a link included that lets the approver view the item in question: The sign-off status column is then updated with the decision, and the person who sent the approval request will receive an email with the comments: By saving you the trouble of setting up a flow and creating a new column to track status, we hope that this feature will make it easy to add a lightweight approval process to your libraries and lists. We expect this feature to start rolling out to our customers in targeted release (previously called first release) after April 9. Barring any issues we will continue to roll it out to the rest of our customers in two phases late April and early May.Announcing Office 365 Groups + Team Sites integration!
Today, we announced the integration of Office 365 Groups and Team Sites. When you create an Office 365 Group, you geta shared inbox, calendar, OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management—and now, a full-powered SharePoint team site. The integration of O365 Groupsand SharePoint team sites means that any time a new team site is created, a new group membership will be created as well. You can easily see the members of the site, if the site is listed as public or private within your organization and how it has been classified. In addition, all existing Office 365 Groups will be updated with their own team site. And once the rollout is complete for your tenant, all newly created groups will get a team site by default. Get the complete details in this post and learn more during the O365 Groups sessions at Ignite. Mark-KashmancfiessingerSharePoint Server Subscription Edition AMA
We are very excited to announce a SharePoint Server Subscription Edition AMA! An AMA is a live text-based online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Feel free to post your questions about SharePoint Server Subscription Edition anytime in the comments below beforehand, if it fits your schedule or time zone better, though questions will not be answered until the live hour.
