SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: April 2021
April 2021 brought some great new offerings: Immersive Reader: SharePoint pages and news posts, Events Web Part: Audience Targeting, SharePoint site templates, Microsoft Lists for iOS: iPad support, Manage Microsoft Lists for iOS using InTune APP, Microsoft Lists: Visualize date with Power BI, OneDrive sync 64-bit for Windows, and more. We also hear from Nicole Woon, program manager on the SharePoint at Microsoft focused on all things site templates, their history from the SharePoint Look Book – moving into Microsoft 365, and insights into what you can expect next for templatizing your intranet.SharePoint roadmap pitstop: May 2023
May 2023 brought great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Customizable Viva Connections mobile dashboard, Syntex image tagger, Syntex prebuilt model for contracts, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Loop components in Outlook Mobile, and more. It also highlights public disclosures from two recent events, Microsoft 365 Conference and Microsoft Build.“Viva Topics is the on-hovercraft of knowledge” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast
It’s time to turn content into knowledge with the help of AI. In this episode, Chris McNulty and Mark Kashman talk with CJ Tan (principal PM manager | Microsoft) on The Intrazone podcast about her role on the Project Cortex team focused on Viva Topics. We dig into knowledge roles, deployment practices, common scenarios, and top of mind for 'what's next.’ We don't think that AI is the only substitute for IA. People, metadata, and AI interact better together. CJ walks us through how it all works from pilot to broad-scale use and adoption.SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2021
March 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Connections, SharePoint app bar, Focus mode for SharePoint pages and news, images in SharePoint Events web part, SharePoint page analytics, Integrate menu for Microsoft Lists, Graph-based people picker for Person columns, Box migration into Microsoft 365, guest access in Yammer, and more. We also hear from Melissa Torres, principal program manager about the new SharePoint app bar, what it is and its new role in Microsoft Viva Connections.SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: June 2021
June 2021 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint Auto News Digest updates, SharePoint admin center updates (dashboard and new site information columns), Microsoft Lists - @mentions in comments, Power Apps can now display images from Microsoft Lists, Delete from within page details, Headspace mindfulness content comes to Microsoft Viva Insights, and more. We also hear from Rk Menon, program manager on the SharePoint team focused on the SharePoint admin center experience and capabilities in Microsoft 365.SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2022
January 2022 kicked us off right in Microsoft 365 with a slew of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Microsoft Editor in SharePoint pages, Viva Topics topic card improvements, SharePoint navigation switcher, conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint, migration updates, Microsoft Lists: Board view, Power BI for libraries, new library drop-down menu, Lists in the SharePoint app bar, and more. Mark also chats with Yogesh Ratnaparkhi - Microsoft principal program manager focused on migration of files and folder into Microsoft 365. We chat about progress on Migration Manager in the SharePoint admin center, recent updates with the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) and highlight some of the key organizing and scheduling capabilities now available to admins. It's a packed half hour, and you'll find your more informed at the end.SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2023
Kicking off January 2023 with AI front and center. In this episode, you’ll hear about all the new features and updates: Microsoft Feed, Planner integration with Viva Goals, extracting PDFs in OneDrive for Android, Microsoft Lists: Calendar week layout, Microsoft Teams @Everyone, Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines, Stream (Classic) sets to retire: February 15, 2024, and more. Plus, we talk with Bill Bär from the 'content AI' team focused on Search, Syntex, and a whole lot of AI. Bill shares insights into the design and value of Microsoft Feed - a smart aggregate of all sorts of things happening around - content, people, videos, reminders, actionable tasks, and more -- coming to Outlook and the Office mobile apps.SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2022
March 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Top news in Viva Connections dashboard, Focus plans in Viva Insights, SharePoint Syntex: Content assembly, Microsoft Teams Connect "Shared channels", co-authoring MIP content on mobile, Managed metadata column in SharePoint document libraries, new Lists templates, Yammer dark mode, and more. We also hear from Arun Das, principal product manager helping to bring Microsoft Teams Connect "Shared Channels" to market (currently in public preview). Arun highlights several scenarios Teams Connect was designed to address - across internal and external users, with multiple content types, and the value of governance to manage and control it all from an IT perspective.SharePoint roadmap pitstop: June 2024
It's official - summer is here (in the Northern Hemisphere), happy Wintering Southern Hemi. No matter the latitude, the attitude and altitude of tech delivery continued with verve and zest. June 2024 brought some great new offerings: Viva Amplify supports SharePoint audience targeting, SharePoint Premium: Autofill columns, SharePoint: Apply shapes to images, updated CLI for Microsoft 365 v7.10, Teams: File previews in messages, SharePoint: Text web part updates, OneDrive: Shortened URLs, Microsoft Designer updates + new icon, planner.cloud.microsoft, and more. We, too, hear from Dave Cohen about how the SharePoint team plans, designs, and delivers ongoing value to your intranet of today (and tomorrow).SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023
Ho ho ho, Merry SharePoint! December 2023 brought a lot to review AND a lot to look forward. We'll focus on everything that landed this past month: SharePoint eSignature, Stream: Add a survey, poll, quiz, link or text, Viva Engage: Community creation API, OneDrive app for Teams, OneDrive: Open in app, Microsoft 365 Backup (Public Preview), Microsoft Loop moves to loop.cloud.microsoft, and indicating the retirement of Delve in Dec. 16, 2024. And then, we'll highlight the top 5 SharePoint tech items of 2023, peek ahead at 5 anticipated features slated for CY24-Q1, shine a light on a few related items, hit up the always fun teasers AND stick around: We've cooked up a bonus festive song for you titled, "It's beginning to look a lot like SharePoint" - it's queried at number one on the Power BI charts :).
