MS Ignite and tons of new stuff in a SharePoint world

This time I want to share with you my excitement about all news and new stuff in a correlation with SharePoint here in Orlando, Florida @ Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.

SharePoint team makes an incredible work in previous months and puts SharePoint in a new way – new dimensions.

Today, at day two, all starts with keynote named Accelerate your digital transformation with SharePoint and OneDrive from the father of SharePoint – Jeff Teper. A lots of new things are presented at this keynote and other sessions during the day concluded with session about SharePoint Development (what’s new, what’s coming).

I want to show you just some of it, for me the best:

• Securely share externally to user without an accounts (OneDrive, SharePoint)
• Share files seamlessly and consistently in Office, Windows, Mac, web and mobile
• New SharePoint UI (modern pages)
  
  • Personal files
  • Team sites
  • Communication sites
• New SharePoint Hub Sites (organize your intranet bringing associated sites together)
  
• New SharePoint Mobile experience
  
• Creating New Page from SharePoint Mobile
  
• Showing Lists & Libraries from SharePoint Mobile real fast (list with lots of items too)
  
• New Page layouts
  
• New document library view (with file previews)
  
• Creating dynamic content on SharePoint modern page (3d models, picture galeries, image repositioning & cropping etc.)
  
• Share your SharePoint news digest via email
  
• SharePoint with Flow and Power Apps
• Flow inside OneDrive
• No more item limits in SharePoint Lists and Libraries
• New file preview in SharePoint Search
  
• Scoping SharePoint Search results
  
• Automatic text and objects recognition in SharePoint search (Visual Content Intelligence)
  
• New SharePoint Admin Center
  
• Extend your tenant to different location policies
  
• Restore your OneDrive
  
• Office 2019 -> Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019
  
  
• New SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft
• SharePoint properties directly from Office products
  
• Microsoft Forms inside SharePoint
  
• New way of creating fields from SharePoint modern page
  
• New SharePoint Planner web part inside modern page
  
• New site usage reports
• View for files that need attention
  
• Column formatter in modern page (currently not so friendly)
  
• Connecting existing (old) SharePoint pages to Office 365 groups
• New site management
  
• SharePoint Framework Field Customizer examples
  
• Fast SharePoint Site Provisioning
  
• Copy/Paste from other editors to SharePoint WYSIWYG without style deviations
  

SharePoint Development:

• Tenant wide deployment
  
• Tenant properties
  
• Configure Web APIs and permission scopes access
  
• ALM APIs for SPFx solutions (programmatically manage and deploy SPFx solutions from tenant app catalog)
• Site collection app catalog for SPFx apps

Roadmaps:

• Global roadmap for SharePoint
  
• Roadmap for page authors and editors
  
• Roadmap for communication site owners & SharePoint admins
  
• Roadmap – SPFx
  

Cheers!
Gašper Rupnik

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