This year Office 365 turns 5. Has it really been that long? Never before in our technical language has one word "Modern" taken on so many different meanings!
Starting in 2013, Office 365 took on the basic form we know today. Through these 5 years Office 365 has seen many changes, with one of the latest being Modern pages, sites, framework etc. Yes, Modern is not only about look and feel but how Office 365 is being built and how it can simplify how your employees collaborate and communicate.
Adam Levithan, Microsoft MVP, and a guest speaker as they look at:
- Major differences between Classic vs. Modern experiences
- What modern means to an everyday employee
- Future roadmap of Office 365 features
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Office 365 Turns 5: Does "Modern" Equal Mature?
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Presented by:
Adam Levithan, MVP, Principal
SharePoint Saturday Baltimore:Office 365 Turns 5! Does Modern
Equal Mature?
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About Me
Adam Levithan
@collabadam
alevithan@withum.com
Principal
Product Manager, OneWindow Workplace
12+ years in Collaboration
Office 365 Expertise: User
Adoption, Information
Architecture, Content Migration,
Document Management, Security
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Agenda
Introduction
That’s “Classic”
Impact on Employees
Roadmap
Q&A
digital.withum.com
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Classic - 2003
Network
Operations
Site
Network
Operations
Subsite
Network
Operations
Library
Network
Operations
Folder
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Classic - 2007
Intranet
Web App
Our Intranet
Site Collection
Department
1
Subsite
Department
2
Subsite
Collaboration
Web App
We
Collaborate
Department
1
Subsite
Department
2
Subsite
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Classic - 2010
Intranet
Web App
Our Intranet
Site Collection
Department
1
Subsite
Department
2
Subsite
Collaboration
Web App
Department
1
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
Department
2
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
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Classic – 2013 / Office 365
Home
Web App
Our Intranet
Site Collection
Department
1
Subsite
Department
2
Subsite
Department
1
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
Department
2
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
http://Withum.sharepoint.com/sites/....
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Classic – Office 365 / SharePoint 2016
Home
Web App
Our Intranet
Site Collection
Department
1
Subsite
Department
2
Subsite
Department
1
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
Department
2
Site Collection
Team 1
Subsite
Department
3
Site Collection
Outlook
Group
App
Planner
App
Teams
App
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Classic - Intranet
https://www.nngroup.com
SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2016
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Modern – Office 365 / SharePoint 2019
Home
Web App
Our Intranet
Site Collection
Outlook
Group
Planner
Teams
Department
1
Site Collection
Outlook
Group
Planner
Teams
Department
2
Site Collection
Outlook
Group
Planner
Teams
Department
3
Site Collection
Outlook
Group
Planner
Teams
http://Withum.sharepoint.com/sites/....
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Microsoft 365: Universal Toolkit for
Teamwork
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Modern SharePoint Sites
Your Sites
Communication sitesTeam sites
Department
Team
Project
Extranet (Partner, Customer)
Committee (Planning, Executive)
Initiative, campaign or event
Share work with organization
Community of practice or interest
Training and policies
Updates and reports
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Modern SharePoint Sites
Communication sitesTeam sites
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Modern SharePoint Sites
Communication sitesTeam sites
Created by users or admins Created by users or adminsCreated by admins
Navigation
Theme and logo
Search scope
Hub sites
A communication site
or team site
News and activity rollup
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Pages (Like Bowties) Are Cool Again
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Small Reminders
It’s the future
• It’s Classic “Mode” versus Modern “Mode”. – Mark Rackley
• Little to no investments into Classic technologies
It’s (mostly) future proof – SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
Secure page coding
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Dynamic webparts
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List (data provider)
List properties (consumer)
File viewer (consumer)
Embed (consumer)
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Page Section Background Shading
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Microsoft 365 meets the diverse needs of teams with an integrated solution that is secure
We’ve designed Microsoft 365 to meet the unique needs of every group
For each of those categories of teamwork, Microsoft 365 includes a purpose-built application
Teams as a hub for teamwork where groups that actively engage and are working on core projects can connect and collaborate
Yammer for people to connect across their company, sharing ideas on common topics of interest
Outlook where teams can communicate in a familiar place, and can easily create modern distribution list with groups in Outlook
SharePoint for keeping content at the center of teamwork, making files, sites and all types of content easily shareable and accessible across teams
Office Apps – enabling co-authoring in familiar apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
With these tools coming together in Microsoft 365 – teams get a holistic solution
What’s unique about teamwork in Microsoft 365 is that all of these applications are built on an intelligent fabric - suite-wide membership service with O365 Groups; suite-wide discovery and intelligence with Microsoft Graph, and suite-wide security and compliance
Office 365 Groups - A membership service providing a single identity for teams across Office applications and services
Microsoft Graph - Suite-wide intelligence that maps the connection of people and content to surface insights
Security and Compliance - Proactive security that simplifies IT management with intelligence built-in
Content Owner
Views
List and Library improvements: There have been many list improvements, including easier filtering, conditional formatting, and attention views, which once and for all provide a sensible way to show items that are missing required information. Modern lists also (finally!) address the dreaded "5,000 item view limit" that has frustrated SharePoint users for years. It does this by automatically creating indexes as they're needed, based on user interaction. It's not perfect, but for most situations it removes this perennial pain point.In addition, the forms and workflow applied to lists and libraries is being modernized. PowerApps is slowly getting closer to parity with the legacy InfoPath forms designer, and Flow (and its big sibling Azure Logic Apps) are replacing SharePoint's built in workflow options. The biggest advantage of these new tools is that they're not locked into SharePoint; they can work with all sorts of cloud services, both within Office 365 and beyond.If you have an investment in InfoPath and SharePoint workflow, don't worry! InfoPath and the old workflow engines aren't going away any time soon. However you'll need to live with their limitations, as they're pretty much on life support at this point.
Easier to configure: Some classic web parts were easy enough to deal with, but others required arcane knowledge of XSL style sheets, display templates, and other outmoded web technology. The new web parts are much easier and more intuitive to set up, and don't require any special technical know-how.The modern team site page was a lot easier to set up than the classic one, mainly due to quirks in the old UI that often refuses to cooperate.
Following our recent release of the new Microsoft 365 admin center, we’re announcing new features to help you to monitor and manage applications, services, data, devices, and users across your Microsoft 365 subscriptions, including Office 365, Windows 10, and EMS. The Microsoft 365 admin center has several new capabilities to help you better manage your environment, including insight-based recommendations, a more consistent UI, and customized views for each of your admins. The public preview of these features is rolling out now to targeted release admins and soon to all admins. To get started, visit admin.microsoft.com.
SharePoint pages let you tell a compelling story. And web parts play the role of dynamic components on the page to pull in data, documents, images and such. Together, you shape the content and context of how you communicate throughout your organization. And now it’s time to provide you with greater flexibility and control for how your data reacts, interacts and displays.
Webpart-to-webpart connections – Let web parts talk to other web parts and your pages and experiences become more dynamic with data and interactive. You will be able to configure web parts to get their property values from other web parts, including updating those values based on what is selected.
Initially we will support dynamic data in a few of our 1st-party webparts, with the intent to grow these capabilities through the SharePoint Framework - more and more web parts (talking to other web parts).
Page section background shading - Create additional visual design and clarity as a user scrolls through your content. Now you can add different colors to the background of your page sections or leave them white as they are by default.
Save your creators time when they generate new SharePoint pages, and ensure that the consistency of experience for how you promote your content and information remains intact. You can control the design and layout of your pages by simply designing one that can then be used by many.
provide easy access to your organization’s approved images that can be leveraged by everyone. When a person needs an approved image, or one that was purchased for licensed use throughout the intranet, they can click on “Your organization” and navigate files and folders of assets that are centrally managed for use in title regions and the Image webpart.
Content organization (aka, page metadata & content filtering) – better organize your pages in libraries, and influence how they are viewed based on specific criteria (metadata) that you apply to the page itself. You choose what region or role, what page type or page status – and then present views that make it possible for people to see, or not see, the page based on how they meet that criteria.
Page approval – establish a new and custom Microsoft Flow flows for approval. Simply name your flow, add the person who will approve your page, save it as a draft, submit for approval. Once approved, the page status gets updated to “published” and is visible to your intended readers. Approvals for news posts work out of the box thanks to integration with Microsoft Flow. Of which, you, too, can further customize your workflow to meet the needs of your specific approval process.
SharePoint hub sites and communication sites evolve. Hub sites and communication sites offer rich experiences across your intranet. As business goals and team structures evolve, so too must your sites and the content that lives within them. We continue to add functionality to make it easier to create and configure any sites intent and outcome that you need throughout your intranet.
Add rich colors to the hub site header – you will now have choices beyond the color white. It’ll be easier and more flexible to adhere to your preferred company theme and brand colors across more aspects of the sites and pages.
Approvals for hub site association – a flexible approval process further empowers hub site owners and site owners to make requests and programmatically adapt to changes within their growing, dynamic intranet.
Site scripting during hub site association – once a site gets associated to a hub site, it not only inherits the theme of the hub site, it can now be further configured using powerful site scripting methods to enforce permissions, shared metadata, preferred content management, brand elements and policies.