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Why does it take so long for Governement to get new features? For example Sway was announced in Oct 2014, and Planner in Dec 2015 and neither is in my tenant.
I agree on all of these frustrations for G-tenant releases.
While I completely understand the need to get to compliance before release, it is hard to have no sense at all of when we might get a product that is heavily promoted elsewhere.
For us we are in the process migrating/deploying into O365 and have no idea when some features will come to us - makes it hard to write requirements or sent timelines for roll out.
It would be ideal for there to be a release schedule for G tenants that is released at the same time as the other tenant types so we can get some sense of it. Currently we really have that "not YOU" feel when items are not released to us yet and then put in a black hole as to when.
It would also be SUPER helpful in Roadmap revisions to have tags/filters specifically for G releases, so we don't have to dig around to know if this relates to us or not.
To also align the notices in the Admin center similarly would help as well.
Really looking forward to some of these releases...so any help you can give is great.
Brian Levenson
Microsoft
MicrosoftBut, we also take this as good feedback: Microsoft needs to be
consistent and set appropriate expectations so that you know when the
new services will be available to you. We're working to improve this
experience in a few ways, and part of this is a major upgrade to our
roadmap system. Over the coming months, we'll have the infrastructure in
place to be much more transparent.
Brian, any updates on the Roadmap improvements for visibility into Gov tenant release times?
Hate sounding like a broken rercord but it is hard to have releases be so open ended for products that are available to others.
Thanks!
Although I hate to resurrect an old thread, this topic is still an ongoing issue. When will G-Tenant stuff be available? In this case I want to be specific, SharePoint Online modern Team sites/pages.
SP Online already has the option for the "new" lists and Libraries. OneDrive also has the modern look and feel. I find it difficult that the changes in "modernity" for the new Team sites require YEARS of approval.
Can ANYONE tell me/us anything about when and if this is even on a timeline anywhere? Otherwise you might as well just add "teleportation" or "terminators" to the Road Map as well because they'll be here....eventually.
Thanks. End Rant.
David.
David,
I know that in our G-tenant, we have modern sites/pages and have had them a while - but they are not default.
If I create a new site collection, it is typically a classic page default. I go in and build a new page and I get a Modern page that I then configure, save, publish, and set as the new Homepage.
For new sites from the "+ Create site" option in the SharePoint app tile, it gives me modern sites from the start. Same for O365 Group SP sites.
I need to look around my SP Admin settings to see if there is a setting there that is helping with making these available, but it is definitely avail in the G-tenants.
Hope this helps some. If I can find any settings in the admin config that might help further, will post.
-kathy
