Office 365 is now revisiting the way information circulates into an organization by offering a new and easy way to create great looking sites/pages. Communication sites are the latest addition the SharePoint family. How do they work? What are they good for? What's the difference between these sites and existing publishing sites?
In this session, we should answer those questions by going into a detailed analysis of their features and functionalities.
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And search oriented
Cross site publishing:
« Create content in an
Authoring environment
and use it in one of your
SharePoint publishing
environments »
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Helps broadcast
information to other
teams or to an entire
organization
to help you jumpstart getting your message out
fast, communication sites provide configurable
templates for the sites and pages within.
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Event web part
• Events are stored in a sharepoint
calendar
• Links to a full event page
• Includes bing location integration
• Events don’t show in search
results
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Comments on page • Appear only after you've
published a first version
• NOT linked to Yammer or
teams
• Stored in the site page item
(in a column)
• You can delete your
comments but not edit
them
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Flexible page layouts
Users now have the flexibility they need to present information
more efficiently, and the way THEY want to present it.
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NAVIGATION can have only 2 levels
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-the-navigation-on-your-SharePoint-site-3cd61ae7-a9ed-4e1e-bf6d-4655f0bf25ca?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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Behind the scenes
A communication site is a standalone SharePoint site
It goes under the / sites managed path
It’s not associated with an Office 365 group
The site template is « Sitepagepublishing#0 »
But cannot be created through powershell yet
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The limitations
Pnp provisionning not supported yet (But will be)
Not available on prem
No metadata on pages (announced at Ignite)
Custom page layouts/content types not supported
No multilingual features
No approval flow
It’s not possible to make it your root site collection yet
Can’t activate publishing features (and vice versa?)
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Most often, a Communication
Site has a small number people
who have permission to author
content
and many more people who
only have permission to read
content.
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Possible scenarios
• Governance and Training for your intranet
• Travel team publishing guidelines about corporate travel
• Policies and procedures
• Micro-site for a new corporate initiative
• Resources for the sales team for a product or service
• Organizational achievements—summary or report of key
business metrics to highlight for the rest of the
organization
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3212834/enterprise-applications/what-to-choose-a-communication-or-team-site-in-sharepoint.html
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Other references
Microsoft presenting Communication sites:
https://www.slideshare.net/markkashman/sharepoint-communications-sites-overview-presentation
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Communications-Sites-AMA/bd-p/CommunicationsSitesAMA
Microsoft vision on intranets:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-blocks-your-intranet-mark-kashman/
Customizing modern pages:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-pages
Roadmap presented at Ignite 2017:
https://en.share-gate.com/blog/microsoft-ignite-2017-takeaways-an-updated-sharepoint-roadmap