Binge watch all the new SharePoint deeper dive demos in our Microsoft Mechanics video playlist
If you want to binge watch all of what's new and coming to SharePoint, check out the Microsoft Mechanics SharePoint Virtual Summit 2017 demo playlist. We feature the engineers behind the technology updates across Communication Sites, OneDrive, mobile, Team Sites and more. First up: Communication Sites, but the rest will roll in automatically
Hidden gems at Ignite: A conference guide from the SharePoint product team
Hi everyone! My name is Adam Harmetz and I run the Program Management team for SharePoint team sites, portals, biz apps & dev platform. I’m thrilled to be spending time with the community next week in Atlanta – the fantastic SP community is one of the main reasons I’m still working on SharePoint after joining the team 11 years ago. I sat in on over 17 hours of Ignite content reviews this past week – there is a fantastic amount of great content and the team is working overtime to get everything ready for the show. Of course, as you’d expect there are the various overview sessions (like Jeff Teper’s SharePoint keynote) and here’s a handy graphic Mark Kashman and I are using in our talk that highlights the major overview sessions in each aspect of the modern Intranet: What I wanted to share here was how you can get beyond the overview sessions and into some of the deep dives that often don’t get as much attention. We are doing some unique new types of talks this year and new types of speakers (designers, developers, security experts, accessibility drivers). If you are looking for the hidden gems or interesting spin on a topic, these suggestions might help: Behind the scenes: How we engineer SharePoint. Last time I was on a cruise ship, I paid extra to take the tour of the engine room and the bridge. I’m the type of person who loves to peak behind the curtains, and I know there are many of the same type of people coming to Ignite. We have two sessions for you here: BRK3246 Looking behind the scenes at how we're making SharePoint's front end/UX modern, responsive, and open looks at the client-side, SharePoint Framework-powered front end UX architecture (where the speakers are a design developer and a director of engineering!) and BRK3031 Peak Behind the Scenes of running and building SharePoint Online talks about deployment and back end tech from Zach who manages all our COGs and hardware purchasing. MVP + Product Team == Awesome. There are a ton of MVP talks and of course a lot of talks from the product team, but in a few cases, we decided to team up and join forces! Tejas and Eric are describing the latest How To guidance in branding with BRK3025 – Learn Best Practices for customizing and branding team sites. And I’m teaming up with Laura Roger to talk about the new experiences through the lens of customer adoption with BRK2041 – Get the most out of the new SharePoint. AMAs! I visited the Exchange conference (MEC) a few years ago and was impressed by some of the talks they did where the engineering team just took questions from the audience for the entire time. We figured we’d try it so on Thursday a bunch of us leaders across product, design, and development will answer whatever you ask with BRK2295 – Unplug with the experts on SharePoint and OneDrive. The MVP community is doing something similar with BRK225: Learn from MVPS: panel discussion on all things SharePoint. Build it live on stage! SharePoint has a long tradition of having a bit of fun with a session where we get multiple people up there building cool sites live on stage. It’s a great way to let the product itself do the talking. This time, Jeremy and Emma will be building a team site from the very first “create site” click. Check out BRK2247 – Watch us bring together the best features a team needs to get the most out of the modern SharePoint. Go WAY deep with the new SharePoint Framework. In BRK4015 – Build Client Side Webparts for Microsoft SharePoint, Chaks is going to go as detailed as you can go with SPFx (frankly, I didn’t even know there WAS such a thing as a 4000-level session code!). We did a similar talk at our internal TechReady conference in July and it was ranked the very top Office session of the entire conference. Meet the Security Experts. Five minutes – let alone 75 minutes – with Matt Swann will change your worldview about the cloud. Honestly, if you ever work with him, you’ll see he’s one of those people you’ll remember working with when you look back on your career. Hear from the guy in charge of SharePoint security directly in BRK3032 – Learn how SharePoint safeguards your data in the cloud Talk to coders! Our director of engineering and the development manager of a large chunk of our UX investments will be laying down the knowledge in BRK3026 - Learn how to build a fast, responsive portal in SharePoint Online. Part of coming to Ignite is hearing directly from those who write code – and together Russ and John have decades and decades of experience. Change Management: We’ve heard you! Many of you (including on this very forum), have given us feedback about what you expect from us as we roll out new UX. We added a session on it to both share our strategy and continue the conversation and feedback. If you have opinions on how we roll out new functionality, join Zohar at BRK2297: Learn how we move fast without breaking things by managing change in SharePoint Online SharePoint Dev’s Secret Weapon: PNP. Vesa was recently sharing with me the usage and community engagement stats from the SharePoint Patterns and Practices site and github – they floored me. It’s such a great virtuous cycle and we are starting to bring some of the scenarios from PNP directly into the product based upon our learnings. If you are a SharePoint dev, you must go to Vesa’s BRK2115 – Learn about PNP and the new SharePoint Framework. Geek out on very specific parts of the product. What would a SharePoint conference be without some sessions that dive incredibly deep into one aspect of the product? Three stand out to me here: an entire session just on doclibs with BRK2043 Review SharePoint Document Libraries: what’s new, what’s coming, and when to use what, a session just on the various ways you can create site templates with BRK3027 Learn best practices for creating and managing Site Templates, and a session on our new mobile apps with BRK2037 Explore what’s coming with the SharePoint apps Accessibility and Inclusive Design. At Microsoft, we take designing for all needs and abilities seriously as a core part of our processes. This year at Ignite, we are starting to open up and talk about that work a bit more and provide guidance for you. Melissa, who has been running our accessibility efforts in SharePoint for many years now, has some great guidance in BRK2214 Ensure your intranet sites are inclusive for people with disabilities. There are a lot more talks at the conference, of course (188 tagged with SharePoint) – including some great talks from the community. I didn’t include the community talks here because I didn’t help prep for those, but they are some of my favorite personally to attend myself. If you have any questions about how to maximize your time at the conference next week, feel free to leave us comments!SharePoint Server 2016 Recap from Microsoft Ignite
Last week we concluded our second Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, GA and announced several new capabilities coming to on-premises customers who are using or considering SharePoint Server 2016 or hybrid implementations. This post is a brief recap of those announcements, as well links to additional sessions of interest related to SharePoint Server 2016, hybrid, and migration from Ignite. What did we announce? For SharePoint Server 2016 we announced the early arrival of our inaugural Feature Pack, Feature Pack 1, which includes several new capabilities driven by investments in the cloud and feedback from our customers to include: Logging of administrative actions performed in Central Administration and with Windows PowerShell Enhancements to MinRole to support small environments A new OneDrive for Business user experience Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher Unified auditing across site collections on-premises and in Office 365 Unified taxonomy across on-premises and Office 365 OneDrive API 2.0 To learn more about Feature Pack 1 and its capabilities see also the Feature Pack 1 announcement here https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/announcing-feature-pack-1-for-sharepoint-server-2016-cloud-born-and-future-proof/. For customers who are looking for more seamless intergration between their on-premises SharePoint deployments and Office 365, we’re introducing two new hybrid capabilities in Feature Pack 1 as described above to provide unified, granular insights into audit reports across on-premises and Office 365 in addition to the ability to share a common Term Store with the Managed Metadata Service. In addition, to help guide and support your journey to Office 365 we also announced new FastTrack offers and solutions designed to help facilitate your migration or hybrid implementation as well as enabling you to diagnose and remediate common issues that may impact your migration. To learn more about these announcements refer to http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office. Related Sessions Explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and Beyond [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1368] Dive into Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 Upgrade and Migration [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1370] Deployment and Provisioning Best Practices with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1372] Get Started with SharePoint Server 2016 in Microsoft Azure IaaS [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1377] Get Started with User Profile Service Provisioning in SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1379] Get Started with Data Security and Compliance with SharePoint Server 2016 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1373] Empower Discover in SharePoint 2016 with Hybrid Search, Delve, and the Office Graph [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1371] Dive into Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1376] Get Started with Hybrid SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with FastTrack [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/39774] Explore new SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios: Hybrid Auditing, Hybrid Taxonomy, and Hybrid App Launcher [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/1378] Bridge the Cloud Divide with Hybrid Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 [https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/2722] Keep an eye out for Feature Pack 1 coming in November. BillA new day for SharePoint Server
Posted at https://aka.ms/SharePoint/SPSE. Today we’re excited to open the window to our vision, strategy, and future for SharePoint and provide a first look at the most recent developments with SharePoint Server. SharePoint has been a key accelerator for collaboration and productivity for decades, from the business value for organizations looking to modernize their workplace and infrastructure to the technical value delivers to IT professionals and developers, and more recently with new hybrid investments for those customers looking to enrich their existing investments with cloud innovation. With the 20 th anniversary of SharePoint just behind us, it’s a great time to look back and provide a little historical SharePoint information. 20 years ago, “Exchange and SharePoint became best friends.” Exchange Server worked on a new information store (Web Store) to support document, web content, and e-mail management. Codename Tahoe (the genesis of SharePoint Products and Technologies) advanced Exchange Server introducing document management capabilities through WebDAV (Document Authoring and Versioning) in addition to an improved search and indexing engine. Exchange Server and Tahoe would represent a new, next generation messaging, collaboration, and document management platform. Now we’re delighted to share our progress towards the next generation of SharePoint, built on these same principles. SharePoint Server Subscription Edition represents the next step in the SharePoint Server journey emphasizing the specific needs of our on-premises customers. We designed SharePoint Server SE around the core principles of: Always up to date Secure and reliable Designed for you Always up to date Organizations require collaboration, communication, and productivity solutions to be both cost-effective and flexible. SharePoint Server Subscription Edition can help you achieve new levels of reliability and performance, delivering features and capabilities that simplify administration, protect communications and information, and empower people in your organization to achieve more. Continuous updates Pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure for ever-changing business conditions requires you to be agile, and that means investing in solutions that provide reliability and choice. SharePoint Server Subscription Edition provides the flexibility to tailor deployment based on your unique business needs. With SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, you'll end the cycle of long and costly major version upgrades to get new features and remain in support. Microsoft will deliver our latest innovations to customers through updates that can be installed on your SharePoint Server Subscription Edition farms. Upgrade from where you are SharePoint Server Subscription Edition makes it easy to get up and running with new upgrade options that allow you to upgrade directly from SharePoint Server 2016 without having to first upgrade to SharePoint Server 2019. Secure and reliable Complying with regulatory standards and preventing unauthorized access to business critical and personal data is a continual priority for organizations and corporate IT. Modern infrastructure support SharePoint Server Subscription Edition provides scalability, reliability, and security while allowing you to take advantage of the latest hardware innovations and computing technologies—making it capable of handling enormous amounts of data faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. Secure communication With the support for Windows Server 2022, you not only benefit from the latest in security, but also native support for features, such as TLS 1.3. TLS 1.3 is the latest version of the internet’s most deployed security protocol, which encrypts data to provide a secure communication channel between two endpoints. TLS 1.3 eliminates obsolete cryptographic algorithms, enhances security over older versions, and aims to encrypt as much of the handshake as possible. Designed for you SharePoint Server Subscription Edition has been designed around the unique needs of on-premises scenarios, delivering the security, reliability, and management improvements specific to those needs. New features include OpenID Connect support, People Picker improvements and more. OpenID Connect SharePoint Server Subscription Edition adds support for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) 1.0 authentication protocol. OIDC is a modern authentication protocol that makes it easy to integrate applications and devices with your organization's identity and authentication management solutions to better meet your evolving security and compliance needs. For example, you can enforce authentication policies such as multifactor authentication (MFA), conditional access policies based on device compliance, and more. Enhanced People Picker for modern authentication In SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, the People Picker has been enhanced to allow resolving users and groups from modern authentication (trusted identity providers), such as SAML 1.1 and OIDC 1.0. This allows the People Picker to only resolve valid users and groups without requiring a custom claims provider. To learn more about all of the improvements in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2168262. This is just the beginning of what you can expect for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. To download SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Public Preview visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2168051. Language Packs can be downloaded from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2168052. Share your feedback and questions in our community forum at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2167959.
How to search in SharePoint
Looking to get the most out of your everyday SharePoint searches? Look no further. This infographic covers all you would ever need to know to search as smartly as possible, garnering you the best results you can get. Share with your colleagues so they can get better search results... and maybe think before they complain about never getting the right hits. :) The full infographic is available http://icansharepoint.com/infographic-search-sharepoint/, and is much more detailed than the preview below: http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ficansharepoint%2Ecom%2Finfographic-search-sharepoint%2F&urlhash=rkm4&_t=tracking_anetGA: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow
Today, as we announced on the Office Blogs, we are proud to celebrate the general availability of Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. These solutions represent the present and future of our ambition to reinvent business processes, and should be a central element in your toolkit for building collaborative business apps for SharePoint and OneDrive. Today's announcement builds on our previous post about the tight integration of PowerApps and Flow with SharePoint, and lays out our plan for even deeper integration coming soon. (See below!) Most commercial Office 365 plans are automatically entitled to start using PowerApps and Flow. Further details on licensing and pricing are available at https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ Thanks. Frequently asked questions Q. What does Microsoft’s commitment to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow mean for historic business solutions on SharePoint, like InfoPath? A. As we announced at Ignite, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow are tools for business users to build business applications and automation in SharePoint today and tomorrow. They are the successors to InfoPath and SharePoint Designer for many common business scenarios, especially custom forms used on SharePoint lists. Q. Will Microsoft still support InfoPath and SharePoint Designer? A. As we announced earlier in 2016: SharePoint Server 2016 will include an ongoing capability to host InfoPath Forms Services. InfoPath Forms Services on SharePoint 2016 will be supported for the duration of SharePoint 2016’s support lifecycle. InfoPath Forms Services on Office 365 will continue to be supported. InfoPath 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013 will be the last versions of those products. SharePoint Designer is not being re-released with SharePoint Server 2016, although we will continue to support custom workflows built with SharePoint Designer and hosted on SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365. Support for InfoPath 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013 will match the support lifecycle for SharePoint Server 2016, running until 2026. Q. What can customers expect to see inside SharePoint Online? A. The release is principally a licensing event. If you have previously enabled preview features inside SharePoint Online, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow will continue to appear in the App Launcher and as elements of modern lists. If you had disabled access to preview features, users will see those integrations enabled in the next few weeks. Q. How can Office 365 customers connect to custom data sources? A. Every Office 365-licensed user of PowerApps and Microsoft Flow can create a custom API data connection, in addition to the intrinsic ability to connect to sources like SQL, Exchange, Yammer, Box and Twitter. Q. How is user access managed/licensed? A. Flow and PowerApps are managed separately. Here is documentation on how users are managed for Microsoft Flow. Here is documentation on how users are managed for Microsoft PowerApps. They are both quite similar in implementation, and provide options to help prevent existing users from joining an Office 365 tenant. Q. How can restrict my users' ability to move data out of corporate certified environments like SQL and SharePoint to insecure, legacy or consumer technologies? A. PowerApps and Flow allow you to create data zones for business and non-business data, as shown below. Once these DLP policies are implemented, users are prevented from designing or running PowerApps and Flows that combine business and non-business data. For more details, see https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-data-loss-prevention . Q. How can Office 365 customers connect to custom data sources? A. Every Office 365-licensed user of PowerApps and Microsoft Flow can create a custom API data connection, in addition to the intrinsic ability to connect to sources like SQL, Exchange, Yammer, Box and Twitter. Q. How can I prevent new users from starting to use PowerApps until the organization is ready? A. We have extensive documentation on this topic at https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/signup-question-and-answer The short answer is to use the PowerShell cmdlet: Set-MsolCompanySettings -AllowAdHocSubscriptions $false which prevents users from activating "ad-hoc" service like PowerApps, Power BI or Azure RMS. Q. How can I remove PowerApps and/or Flow from existing users? A. Again, see https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/signup-question-and-answer for a comprehensive overview. The quick answer is to use the Office 365 Admin center and remove the license for PowerApps and Flow. Also, the integrated list button to create PowerApps and Flow require design and edit permissions on the list, respectively. Users, even if licensed, will not see those buttons on any list or library where they don't already have appropriate rights. Also, inside the Office 365 SharePoint license (e.g. Office 365 E3) disable access to the PowerApps and Flow services as shown: This will remove the PowerApps, Flow, and Dynamics 365 icons from the AppLauncher “waffle”. Bulk removal of licenses is also possible through PowerShell. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn771774.aspx for a detailed example. Finally, further guidance about bulk removal of services within a license can be found at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn771769.aspxTurnkey intranet solutions for SharePoint and Office 365
I've just published an updated version of a directory of turnkey intranet solutions for SharePoint and Office 365. This updated edition of the directory includes 20 vendors from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, India, Netherlands, Romania, United Kingdom and the United States. All the vendors listed in this directory work specifically with SharePoint or Office 365. However, in this edition vendors have been flagged to identify if they are: Only available for Office 365 Installed as a SharePoint Add-in Delivered so that everyone receives updates automatically A development framework You can view and download the July 2016 edition of this directory from Docs.com: https://docs.com/james-dellow/6035/sharepoint-o365-turnkey-intranet-directory-july Hopefully some of you might find this useful.
Unable to Save Site as Site Template: Unable to convert the HeaderColorIndexInLightMode XML
Steps taken: Modified a few site pages to separate the text and the images and published. Navigated to site contents > site settings > changed the URL from ending in "settings.aspx" to "savetmpl.aspx" as I have done before from the same site to save it as a site template. Filled up the fields for the file name, etc. Made sure to tick the checkbox to include the content and clicked OK. Site loads and ends up displaying this: Unable to convert the HeaderColorIndexInLightMode XML attribute for the WebTemplate XML element for feature {insert GUID} to a positive integer value Context: Also tried to export another site as a site template but same error. Tried to import a pre-existing site template (first backup) into a new SharePoint site but same error. Double checked and made sure that the following is true before trying to save template again but same error occurred: Custom script has been allowed. SharePoint Server Publishing Feature remained deactivated. No corrupted files in site assets or in the site pages. Content Approval Settings: Require content approval for submitted items is still set to NO. Tried using another account with global admin role and site owner full control access to do above steps but did not work as well. Can somebody please help me on this? I'm not sure what else I could do to be able to save this as a template :(The Future of SharePoint - 7 videos - Demos and tours from the May 2016 announcement
Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016 Your Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile app The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint sites and PowerApps Effortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Security, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365 Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework
