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Collab365 Global Conference – Modern Collaboration in Teams & Projects Powered by Office 365

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd?

Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very latest content around SharePoint, Office 365, Flow, PowerApps, Azure, OneDrive for Business and of course the increasingly popular Microsoft Teams. The event is produced by the Collab365 Community and is entirely free to attend.

Places are limited to 5000 so be quick and register now.

During the conference I’d love you to watch my session which is called : ‘Modern Collaboration in Teams & Projects Powered by Office 365’

Office 365 is the collaboration toolkit for businesses. We can choose between SharePoint, Office 365 Groups, Yammer and Microsoft Teams. Choice can be good but doesn’t necessarily make our lives easier. Jasper Oosterveld, Microsoft MVP & Cloud Consultant, is going to take you on a 60 minute journey through the Office 365 collaboration landscape. After this session, you have a clear understanding of the different tools and how these connect with each other. Making a choice has become a little bit easier.​

If you join me, you will learn:

  • Making a choice between the many collaboration services in Office 365
  • Working with Yammer
  • Working with Teams
  • Working with Outlook Groups

Topic(s):

  • Office 365
  • Microsoft Teams
  • SharePoint

Audience :

  • Business Analyst
  • IT Architect

Time (in UTC) :

  • Thursday, November 2 2017 6:00 PM

How to attend :

  • Register here.
  • At the time listed above go here to watch my session. (you can alo add me to your own personal planner from the agenda.
    Be ready to take notes!
Microsoft 365 SharePoint Updates

Office 365 Update: Column Formatting in SharePoint Online

Column formatting is a new Office 365 feature. We’ll begin rolling this feature out by the end of October.

This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 20506.

How does this affect me?
The column formatting pane allows users (inside modern lists and document libraries) to customize the look and feel of columns in list views by specifying a text format called JSON. This JSON text can either be written from scratch, or copied from our documentation and tweaked to fit the specific scenario. To access the column formatting pane, users can do it through the dropdown menu associated with a column in a list view, and click “Format this column.” Permission to add and edit columns in the associated list is required to use this feature.

We’ll be gradually rolling this out to First Release customers by the end of October, and the roll out will be completed by the end of November.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Updates

Office 365 update: Forms Panel in Modern lists and Custom Forms with PowerApps

Forms Panel for modern lists and Custom Forms with PowerApps are new Office 365 features. You’ll begin seeing these features in the next few weeks.

This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 16115.
How does this affect me?
This change makes for a much quicker experience for adding new items, as well as viewing and changing existing items in your list.

We’ll be gradually rolling this out to First Release customers in mid-October, and the roll out will be completed by the end of December.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Updates

Office 365 update: Flow Launch Panel

We are happy to announce that the Flow Launch Panel will be coming to our First Release users and tenants in SharePoint Online in the coming weeks. This capability was announced at Ignite 2017 and was mentioned in our earlier blog post around reinventing business processes, linked below.

We will also be updating the panel to create a new flow to make creating new types of flows easier.

How does this affect me?
Flow launch panel adds the ability to prompt SharePoint users for additional information when a Flow is being started. When you create a Flow that uses the “For a selected item” SharePoint trigger, you will be able to add some input parameters to your trigger and use the values provided by the user in the rest of your Flow.

These flows also allow actions in Flows to be taken by the people who are starting the flow run. You can define what user each step in the flow runs as: the creator of the flow or the person who started the flow using the Flow Launch Panel.

We will be rolling this out to our First Release tenants over the next two weeks. Roll out to the rest of the world should be completed by the end of the year.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
This change does not require you to take any action to take advantage of it. Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Microsoft 365 SharePoint Updates

Office 365 Update: Attention views

Attention views for SharePoint libraries that are missing required metadata are a new Office 365 feature. You’ll begin seeing this feature in the coming weeks.

How does this affect me?
Attention views, which were announced at Ignite 2017, aggregate files that require custom metadata into actionable screens that enable bulk management and updates.

We’ll be gradually rolling this out to First Release customers in early October, and the rollout will be completed by the end of November.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
You don’t need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional Information to learn more.