SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time! Bringing a wave of innovation that’s reshaping the industry for AI-driven content management, secure collaboration, and seamless digital experiences.Learn from the Best with our Last Chance Offer for Microsoft 365 Conference
There are so many new ways to make your SharePoint sites compelling and beautiful. Meet SharePoint experts from inside and outside of Microsoft this May. Join us via this special discount at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference is happening May 6-8 in Vegas. We’re excited to announce a special last chance offer that provides the best discount yet, ensuring an unbeatable experience for you and your team. Use the code LASTCHANCE and choose your savings: 1 attendee: $1,597 (save $402) 2 attendees: $1,547 per person (save $452 each) 3-4 attendees: $1,447 per person (save $552 each) 5+ attendees: $1,347 per person (save $652 each) 💡 Pro Tip: Connect with colleagues across departments who might be interested in attending. Larger groups mean bigger savings, and you’ll maximize learning by bringing cross-functional expertise! Why Attend M365Con 2025? Discover how Microsoft is redefining the future of work for the better—learn about how our latest innovations can power your success. Learn what’s possible with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and build tangible skills you can use immediately. Connect with and learn from a community of product engineers and experts, including insights into our AI product roadmap. Explore 100+ Microsoft-led sessions, keynotes, AMAs, and workshops. Choose from 200+ sessions in total, and hear from partners, community leaders, and customers. Experience expert-led demos of our latest products and features at the Microsoft booth. This year, the conference is offering an unparalleled chance to get hands-on experiences and delve deeper into Microsoft’s AI products such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and other AI agents. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness cutting-edge technology first-hand and network with the best global community in tech. Register Now Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Las Vegas. Register now to secure your spot and take advantage of the best offer available with the LASTCHANCE discount code. For more details on the event, check out our event guide.SharePoint at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference
The Microsoft 365 Community Conference is the ultimate Microsoft 365 community event—and the perfect place to expand your skills and knowledge in Microsoft 365 and AI. You’ll learn directly from over 160 Microsoft product leaders, and gain access to more than 200 sessions, including keynotes, workshops, breakouts, and hands-on demos. This year we’re bringing you all-new content and sessions to help you transform the way you work—and maximize your impact with the tools you use every day.SharePoint: Using agents, AI-powered authoring, and automation, for high impact content management
With over 2 billion files added and 2 million sites created per day, SharePoint is the world’s most powerful and flexible content management platform. SharePoint allows you to create stunning intranets, orchestrate powerful workflows and develop business-critical applications, while also powering a breadth of innovations across Microsoft 365 in Teams, OneDrive, and Copilot. The SharePoint event today showcased an exciting breadth of innovations across SharePoint. With these innovations, we believe SharePoint is the best platform for managing content for AI, and the best application for using AI to achieve high impact business outcomes. The innovations shown today span three key areas – SharePoint agents: create and manage AI experts for your SharePoint content with just a few clicks. AI-powered authoring for stunning intranets: use AI to easily create beautiful looking intranet sites using the best of what the web has to offer. Automation for streamlining business workflows: automate critical content-based business processes with AI. Visit the new event microsite on adoption.microsoft.com | Access all new videos, adoption resources, hackathon details, and more: https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent/Adoption https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent/Adoption. SharePoint agents: AI experts for every user At Microsoft Ignite 2024, we announced the general availability of SharePoint agents. These agents are tailored assistants scoped to specific SharePoint sites and content, becoming your subject matter experts working on behalf of a person, team, or organization to handle simple tasks or more complex business processes. Every SharePoint site now includes an agent grounded to that site’s data ready for immediate use. With just a few clicks users can easily create their own custom agents with specialized skills scoped to their specific SharePoint files and folders. And of course, agents adhere to existing SharePoint content permissions and governance polices, ensuring your data and content are used in a safe and secure manner. We see our customers using agents today for a range of scenarios such as onboarding, product support, planning and more. Amey is just one such customer who is using SharePoint Agents to get the most out of their content and knowledge real estate on SharePoint. AI-powered authoring: Create and communicate with AI. Today you saw a range of capabilities that allow you to build SharePoint sites that look better than ever. With improvements like flexible layouts, design ideas, co-authoring, and Copilot throughout the experience, this represents a huge step forward for SharePoint’s UX capabilities. Creating high quality, engaging content on SharePoint has never been easier. Creating with Copilot With the new "create with Copilot" feature you can either use a prompt or use a selection of templates to create an engaging page, grounded in the content of your choosing, in minutes. This allows you to spend less time on the mechanics of creating the page and instead focus on the core message and content to maximize engagement and impact. Using Microsoft 365 Copilot in SharePoint to help create and design the sites you want with ease, and assistance. Design ideas: Augment creativity with AI. Design Ideas leverages your content and provides several professionally designed suggestions, automatically taking your content-specific requirements into account. You can easily invoke Design Ideas with just the click of a single button and in seconds, transform your sections into user-ready content. You can even use Design Ideas starting with blank sections or plain blocks of text! Design Ideas in the right pane of a SharePoint page showcasing different suggestions. Flexible sections: Build unconstrained For the longest time ever, SharePoint restricted you to building within the three columns framework. We heard your feedback - with Flexible sections, you now have access to all 12 columns on the SharePoint canvas! Move images, text, and all your other favorite web parts around with fine control, and freely resize them in an easy, intuitive manner. And with AI-based authoring features like Design Ideas, it allows you to take full advantage of Flexible sections to provide the best possible layout recommendations for your content. 12 column canvas with Flexible Sections on a SharePoint page. These innovations and more have been rolling out to customers over the past several months. See how customers such as Avanade are using these capabilities to create engaging and beautiful content, and how Takeda sees a future with the latest innovations. AI and automation for streamlining your work Billions of pieces of content are added to SharePoint each day relevant to both, small team collaborations, and broad company-wide initiatives. This puts SharePoint in the middle of business processes both big and small. From out of the box simple approvals and automation, to site, doclib, and list templates and all the way to Power Platform integration – Automation in SharePoint spans the continuum of business processes to get work done faster and at higher quality. As just one example, over 3 billion Power Automate flows run against SharePoint every week. In this next phase of innovation, we are excited to share more about how automation and AI integrate together. Enhance business processes with AI Autofill is one feature that enriches content by extracting and generating structured metadata at scale – increasing the value of your content real estate. Using a natural language prompt you can describe the metadata you need, easily classifying, extracting, or generating new content as metadata. This will automate the process of new and modified files, saving you time and enhancing your business processes. Price change updates As part of our commitment to make advanced AI accessible to everyone, we are also excited to announce that SharePoint Autofill pricing has adjusted from $0.05 per page to $0.005 per page starting in March 2025! Learn more about SharePoint pay-as-you-go services. Next steps We are excited to announce the next SharePoint Hackathon - and invite you, our customers, partners, and MVPs, to craft experiences using AI and the latest SharePoint features. See more details and register here! SharePoint Hackathon - Share your designs and engage with likeminded makers: https://aka.ms/SharePointHackathon. And finally, I personally invite you all to attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (May 6-8, 2025) in Las Vegas. We’re showcasing the latest news and best practices for SharePoint and M365 with leaders, product makers, partners, and MVPs. We can’t wait to hear more about how you put Microsoft 365 to work in your organization. Thank you! Learn more and explore! To skill up your SharePoint IQ even further – review the full event + AMA, visit our new microsite, register for the hackathon, watch our new, in-depth SharePoint learning series videos from our incredible product team members: "SharePoint: From concept to creation to impact + Live AMA" New SharePoint Event microsite on adoption.microsoft.com SharePoint Hackathon + upcoming webinar series YouTube playlist of all 17 new video assets (Main event, learning series, customer voices, and upcoming hackathon webinars) 5-part SharePoint learning series SharePoint customer stories: Amey, Takeda, and Avanade The trust and feedback from you all, the SharePoint community, developers, customers and MVPs have helped us evolve SharePoint to be the best content cloud solution in the world. Thank you! Related resources Getting started with SharePoint is a breeze! Check out the latest tutorial on building a SharePoint site. NEW SharePoint agent adoption guide (adoption.microsoft.com) SharePoint agents (adoption.microsoft.com) Subscribe to the SharePoint community blog Add and upvote feature request: SharePoint Feedback PortalSSharePoint: From Concept, to Creation, to Impact + Live AMA
Join in the "SharePoint: From Concept to Creation to Impact + Live AMA" event to shine a light on the latest SharePoint capabilities and share glimpses of what some of our customers are doing with it. Get clarity on what's available, tips and tricks, and the boundaries you can now push with the latest. If you use SharePoint to create sites, publish news, manage workflows, collaborate with peers – or are simply curious about how agents can transform your intranet – this event is for you! Skill up your SharePoint IQ with the latest on: 1) Simpler authoring & more compelling content, 2) Greater engagement & reach, and 3) Powerful workflow, automations and agents. See you there.Just One Week Away from Our Digital SharePoint Event!
Join us next week Wed, Jan. 29, 2025, at 9 AM – 10 AM PST for our upcoming SharePoint event! 📝Register today-https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent And now, a word from Jeff_Teper about what to expect from the event: From Concept, to Creation, to Impact! Join Jeff Teper, CJ Tan, & Melissa Torres to explore the latest SharePoint capabilities and see how our customers are leveraging some of the latest tools. Discover new features, tips, and tricks to push boundaries. Whether you create sites, publish news, manage workflows, collaborate, or just want to learn more, this event is for you! Skill up your SharePoint IQ with the latest on: Simpler authoring & more compelling content – Lower barriers to create professional-looking content and ensure you can harness the best of what the web has to offer for your intranet Greater engagement & reach – Scale your message to meet people where they work. Copilot and agents, powerful workflows, and automation– Build automated subject matter experts and save your team time while managing and automating content workflows. We will also have dedicated time during the event for live Q&A where you will get to interact with multiple product makers – bring your questions and feedback. Summary of event information Event name | SharePoint: From Concept, to Creation, to Impact + Live AMA Date/time | Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST. Location | Online - Register today: https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent. Add to calendar | Save this event to your calendar. Engage with us on social You can engage with our current social posts or show us your excitment using #SharePoint or #SharePointevent M365 LinkedIn SharePoint X social handle Related resources Jeff Teper announcement blog-https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent/Blog "Ignite 2024: Agents in SharePoint now in general availability” by Adam Harmetz. Microsoft Ignite 2024 breakout session: Reimagine content management with agents in SharePoint. Subscribe to the SharePoint blog. Follow us on social. Learn more about SharePoint.A New Storage Option for Azure Developers: SharePoint Embedded
TL;DR: SharePoint Embedded is a new Azure service that lets you easily deliver Microsoft 365 Copilot, Collaboration, Compliance, and Core enterprise storage as part of any file and document centric Azure app you want to build. Azure developers have several great storage options to choose from depending on their use case, and today I’m excited to introduce a new one: SharePoint Embedded. SPE is an Azure service that brings the best of Azure and Microsoft 365 capabilities together so developers building file and document intensive apps, including AI focused apps, can more easily and completely meet the complex needs of their global enterprise customers. Learn more: Join the SharePoint Embedded December Super Session: New Collaborative, Copilot-Ready Storage for Azure Developers 8:00 AM PST Registration 6:30 PM PST Registration Enterprise customers around the world rely on Microsoft 365 to power the 4Cs – Copilot, Collaboration, Compliance, and Core enterprise storage – for their most mission-critical files and documents. SharePoint Embedded lets you, the Azure app developer, deliver these same 4Cs as part of your apps. This is true for both ISV apps and enterprise line of business apps. Learn more: Try SharePoint Embedded for Free with this tutorial. Let’s first explore how SharePoint Embedded delivers these capabilities as part of Microsoft 365, and then we’ll explore how SharePoint Embedded connects with Azure. SharePoint Embedded 101 The key innovation that allows Microsoft to deliver SharePoint Embedded is a novel use of partitioning within an M365 tenant. Already today, there are partitions in the M365 storage system dedicated to OneDrive and SharePoint Online. These partitions keep the information logically isolated and allow the owning apps to deliver a custom user experience. SharePoint Embedded gives you, the developer, the ability to create your own custom partition in the M365 storage layer. Just like the other partitions, your custom partition includes all of the Copilot, Collaboration, Compliance, and Core-storage capabilities your M365 tenant has configured. SharePoint Embedded is different than SharePoint Online in several important ways, all of which have been carefully designed to deliver a delightful and highly performant developer and user experience. First and foremost, SPE is a fully headless service. There is no user experience layer. You, the developer, create whatever user experience makes sense for your app. Second, SPE focuses on file and document management, and does not include features like lists or intranet creation and management. Third, and this is critical, SPE, as an isolated partition, also has an isolated resource usage allocation stack that is twice as large as the highest shared M365 resource allocation. When it comes to resource usage, it doesn’t share its entitlements with any other service. You of course still need to manage retry after responses, just as with any service, but SPE is specifically designed to have high limits that make it easy for developers of even the most demanding apps to succeed. SharePoint Embedded is a headless, developer focused, file and document management super service. Files stored are accessible by Copilot; are easy to Collaborate on with Microsoft Office apps, web and desktop, with just a single click; are fully integrated with M365’s Compliance offerings such as Purview with global audit, eDiscovery, data loss prevention, and a whole lot more; and are backed by Core enterprise storage with M365 business continuity promises, all right out of the box. You should know that Microsoft is building our newest apps on this exactly same stack. These include apps like Loop, Designers, Copilot Pages, and many more. Azure Developers Rejoice SharePoint Embedded is an Azure service and is managed through a combination of the Azure Portal and SharePoint PowerShell scripts. First, let’s talk about metering. SharePoint Embedded is a metered service, with meters tracking storage, transactions , and egress. All interaction is done via the Microsoft Graph API, and you are only charged for transactions you initiate. Transactions with the Office APIs for collaboration, for example, are not charged. Next, let’s talk about the Azure components that come together to create a SharePoint Embedded app. First and foremost is Entra. In Entra, you create the enterprise app definition and give it various API permissions. You connect that app definition, along with an Azure subscription, resource group, and data center, to a customer’s M365 environment with a new construct called a SharePoint Embedded container type, working with a PowerShell script. Finally, as you would expect, all detailed billing records surface via the Azure Portal, ensuring that it’s easy for admins to track specific expenses by customer, app, department or whatever other division is important. Of course, when it’s connected to these Azure capabilities, it’s also connected to Azure’s robust IAM framework Learn more: Join the SharePoint Embedded December Super Session: New Collaborative, Copilot-Ready Storage for Azure Developers 8:00 AM PST Registration 6:30 PM PST Registration Getting Started is Easy Getting started with SharePoint Embedded is easy and self-service. A typical Microsoft 365 Developer Program account, or a regular production account, both of which are connected to Azure by default, gives you everything you need. Additionally, the SharePoint Embedded VS Code Plugin lets you try the basics of SharePoint Embedded for free in just a few minutes.NOW ON DEMAND | Content and communication guide for Ignite 2024 | Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive
Summary view of topics and sessions during Microsoft Ignite 2024 focused on what’s next for Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive – An event guide for the apps and services at the core of content and communication in Microsoft 365.SharePoint Intranet Festival (May 22, 2024)
Microsoft is pleased to support the first-ever SharePoint Intranet Festival | Wednesday, May 22, 2024. The event is managed by our partner SWOOP Analytics and is packed with experts and content to help guide your broader employee engagement strategy and org-wide communications decision making. Intranets thrive when designed around real-world use cases, ones that work for all employees. That’s why this event is unique. Many of the sessions are delivered by customers like Cox Communications, AVP, TD Bank, Textron, Danfoss, Syngenta, Sage, Victoria Police, NSW DPHI, and Meridian Energy – all ready to share insights and outcomes. It's a terrific mix of private and public sector across a wide range of industries. And to help kick it off, members of the Microsoft SharePoint product team will kick off each time zone to provide additional product insights and engage in the live discussion.
