SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2022

Below and in the related podcast, you'll find details about all the new offerings: Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go, search video transcript for Stream, SharePoint Apps: Add to teams when enabling an app, OneDrive: Sensitivity labels appear on the sharing dialog, OneDrive sync reports, SharePoint sites search in usage analytics, Microsoft Teams Premium, Microsoft Whiteboard mobile apps, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of December 2022. As a SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator in Microsoft 365, you can acquire solutions from the SharePoint Store or distribute custom apps that can be used across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Connections. From within your tenant's App Center, add SharePoint Framework solution apps more directly to Microsoft Teams. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. We are pleased to announce that SharePoint sites are now included within Usage Analytics in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center. Read more at https://bit.ly/3VB9h1g Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Notes from the ESPC22 Microsoft keynotes The Intrazone podcast

Catch up on the knowledge and insights from Microsoft leaders spanning Microsoft 365, Teams and Mesh, the development landscape, and the value of being a good mentor - as shared at the European SharePoint Conference 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark and few weeks ago. Sink your ears into highlight clips from each of the four Microsoft keynotes. You'll hear from Jeff Teper covering the approach Microsoft takes in making Microsoft 365 the best productivity offering, from Karuana Gatimu sharing insights about the metaverse in Teams, Scott Hanselman about how many keystrokes you have left, Vesa Juvonen on the continuum of opportunity for developers - no-to-low-to-pro code. Last, a fun selection of questions and answers from the Microsoft AMA. Tons of insights on Microsoft technology for all roles, plus an audible glimpse of the value of content and community. Collage of photos take from each Microsoft keynote + AMA, starting top left and going clockwise: 1) Karuana Gatimu speaks about the metaverse, 2) Jeff Teper, Cathy Dew, Chris McNulty, and Adam Harmetz sharing highlights and value of Microsoft 365, 3) the full Microsoft AMA panel, 4) Scott Hanselman on the importance of sponsorship, and 5) the developer keynote crew: Emily Mancini, Luise Frees, Derek Cash-Peterson, Vesa Juvonen, and Laura Kokkarinen. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3hLyDvp Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Simplify deployment of Microsoft 365 with new and updated guides

To help minimize time to deployment and free you up to do more, the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center along with setup. On the other hand, the Microsoft 365 admin center curates relevant guides specific to your tenant, offering you the most actionable information to help you get your Microsoft 365 apps and services deployed to your organization. Today we are announcing a series of improvements to the deployment guides to help you simplify deployment of Microsoft 365. To help you easily find guides for the services you're deploying, we've updated the search tools, recommendations, and layouts for the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and at setup. Microsoft.com is the home for advanced deployment guides outside the Microsoft 365 admin center. New advanced deployment guides available in both Microsoft 365 admin center and setup. We hope you will find these recent enhancements to make for a more user-friendly and navigable environment as you explore and use the Microsoft 365 advanced deployment guides. Read more at https://bit.ly/3FY8Iu1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Creation and visual collaboration tool in your pocket

As Microsoft Whiteboard continues to evolve, we remain focused on engineering the best experience for our users - delivering an app where collaboration meets creativity in a unified and accessible way. The Whiteboard mobile apps extend vital meeting and collaboration features to iOS and Android devices allowing you to participate in a session while on the go. Start a fresh whiteboard, pick up where you left off and stay connected to your team during collaboration and brainstorming sessions. An animated image depicting panning across a whiteboard from the Whiteboard mobile app, and adding reactions on top of sticky notes. An animated image of an illustration being drawn on a whiteboard and syncing in real time for different users collaborating on a whiteboard from mobile and tablet devices. An animated image demonstrating inserting images through the Create panel from your gallery or device camera on the Whiteboard mobile app. We have reimagined Microsoft Whiteboard, a visual collaboration workspace in Microsoft 365, to do just that. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Y6cJUc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Using AI and machine learning to deliver the help you need

The Microsoft 365 commercial support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. My job is to review trends within our support volume and determine ways with the help of our engineering team to improve experiences or utilizing our self-help platform to provide customers with the information they need to resolve their issue. The magic is powered by an intelligent self-help platform built on Azure that provides relevant and contextual self-help to you using machine learning and service telemetry. The key to all of this is taking historical support ticket data and query input from customers, clustering it, and then using it to train the machine learning models. Within the Microsoft 365 commercial commerce space, we have over 100 buckets that utilize machine learning models. Brian: Amazing, and a great example of how these digital capabilities help customers to quickly get the help they need so they can get back to being productive. The CSS Modern Work Supportability Team delivers innovative self-help solutions and diagnostics, in-service enhancements, and support programs to help customers get maximum value from their Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions and create an easy-to-use, connected support experience. Read more at https://bit.ly/3VLlTUe Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Improving interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps

We've been working diligently to address user feedback about desktop files not opening in the Visio web editor. Today, we're excited to announce that we've made a number of improvements towards a more seamless user experience between the Visio web and desktop apps. An image of a component architecture diagram demonstrating how shapes with gradients appear in Visio for the web. During this session, we show you how to create Visio files that can be accessed by all stakeholders regardless of which Visio version you use. We also discuss how to avoid or quickly address any web alerts that prevent in-browser edits, so you can jump right back into your workflow. We look forward to hearing your feedback and learning more about how we can ensure a more seamless user experience between Visio apps. Check out what features are in development and coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap homepage or learn more about roadmap item, Improved interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps. Read more at https://bit.ly/3un1MQd Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog