MVPs Darrell Webster & Loryan Strant provide a recap of the Office 365 related announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando, Florida.

3. Office 365
SharePoint
&
OneDrive
Skype &
Teams
Yammer Reporting
Other
apps &
services

5. Office 365

9. Microsoft 365: Universal Toolkit for Teamwork
Hub for TeamworkCo-AuthorConnect Across
the Organization
Intranets &
Content Management
Email & Calendar
TeamsOffice AppsYammerSharePointOutlook
Office 365 Groups
Single team membership
across apps and services
Microsoft Graph
Suite-wide intelligence
connecting people and content
Security and Compliance
Centralised policy management

10. Office 365 groups - roadmap
Rolling out
Expiry policy
Naming policy
Guest allow/deny for individuals/domains, expiry
Default classification and classification description
In development
Expiry policy: in app renewal & custom email notification
Guest: specific terms & conditions
SharePoint: connect an existing site to a new group; manage
group sites via SharePoint admin center; select site designs
Yammer: SharePoint doclib as default file store; support naming
policy; leverage guest access
Multi-geo: enables the geo positioning of group created in EXO &
SPO based on the creator’s data at rest location
Teams: guest MSA; larger team size, & more
Go to FastTrack for status http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap

11. Multi-Geo
capabilities
• Meet data residency needs
• Control where user data is
stored
• Enable unified communication
& collaboration across your
company
• Availability:
• In Preview: Exchange Online,
OneDrive
• Coming end of 2017: SharePoint
Contoso.onmicrosoft.com
25K Office 365 Users
Home: NAM
Satellite: EUR & AUS
NAM: 15K users
EUR: 5K users
AUS: 5K users
Available geos: Australia, Asia-Pacific Canada, European Union, India, Japan, South Korea,
United Kingdom, United States
Launching soon: France

14. Co-authoring, activities and @mentions

15. Empower existing sites by connecting
to Office 365 groups

16. Engage your audience with the new,
mobile-ready Yammer web part
Customize the look and layout of your site

18. Display Microsoft Forms on pages

19. Locate relevant expertise with
LinkedIn integration

20. End-user, self-service recovery from
mass file corruption

21. Site usage
News, pages and files in Microsoft Teams
Custom themes and site designs
SharePoint app: Me tab, notifications
Column formatting
Groups integration: Planner, Microsoft Forms
Attention view
Additional insights on usage
Connect existing sites to new O365 groups
More branding options: fonts, variations
More site design actions
SharePoint hub sites
SharePoint app for Android on-prem support

22. New scenarios for finding & working with images
Page animations add polish and engagement
Mobile notifications for news
Comments, Likes, Views across web and mobile
New text formatting features
Start from an existing page or page template
New web parts, new features in current web parts
Initial set of Office 365 Connectors for pages
News reach: create from SharePoint Home and
Android, email news digest
Continued page performance enhancements
Hub site news with content roll-ups from sites
Approval and scheduling for pages and news
Microsoft Flow integration
Create and edit tables
Custom page designs
@mention support, more mobile notifications scenarios
Additional Office 365 Connectors for pages
Key modern web parts available on classic pages

23. Site usage page
Out-of-box site theming and branding
Custom site themes and site designs
News and pages in Microsoft Teams adds reach
Personalized search in SharePoint Home
Communication sites work with hub sites
Additional insights on site and content usage
Content categorization
More branding options and site design actions
New search experiences across web and mobile
REST API for remote provisioning (available now)
New SharePoint admin UX (preview)
Branding in modern web experiences
Custom site designs and site theming
SharePoint Android for SharePoint 2013 & 2016
SharePoint hub sites
New SharePoint admin UX (GA)
More branding options and site design actions

32. Deeper SharePoint integration: web part, file storage and more

36. Yammer vision and roadmap

38. • GA version of the “Adoption
Content Pack in PowerBI”
• More data
• New metrics on teamwork and
collaboration
• Usage data for all SharePoint site
types
• SharePoint active user definition
includes page views
• More functionality
• Pivot usage by rich AAD properties
• Customize extensively using
Microsoft Graph reporting APIs
Office 365
Usage Analytics

39. • Provides read access to
• Usage reports in admin center
• MS Graph reporting API
• Office 365 adoption
content pack
• Enables non-admin users
tasked with driving usage
• Assign in admin center
NEW
Reports
Reader Role

40. Service
Health Email
notifications
• Easily monitor the
service
• Find out about issues
right when they happen
• In preview, rolling out
broadly in 2018
Sign up for the preview: send an email with your tenant ID to:
shdpreviewsignup@service.microsoft.com

41. Message
Center
Updates
• Clear First Release
duration for major
updates
• Rollout notifications
• Weekly Digest reaching
GA

42. Scoped
Admin Roles
(preview)
• Admin Center now supports
“Azure Active Directory
Administrative Units” (preview)
• Delegate and restrict
administrative permissions
• Enable administration by
department, business unit, etc.

43. SharePoint
Admin
Center
• Simple, intuitive, and
powerful
• Granular controls &
insights at your fingertips
• Coming in early 2018
Sign up for the preview at:
http://aka.ms/joinAdminPreview

44. Microsoft Teams
& Skype Admin
Center
• Manage Skype for
Business & Microsoft
Teams in a single place
• More capabilities &
functionality
• Rich analytics and reports
• Coming end of 2017

46. |
ANNOUNCING

48. Darrell Webster Loryan Strant
darrell@adoptandembrace.com
@DarrellaaS
loryan@loryanstrant.com
@LoryanStrant
http://www.regarding365.com