Microsoft Ignite SharePoint Summary

Microsoft Ignite is here bring us many announcements that will make SharePoint fans smile. In this post I’ll highlight the announcements and news that grabs my attention the most. I’ll also throw in a few things from other parts of Microsoft 365. I’ll update this blog frequently over the next three days, so check back later!

Modern SharePoint is maturing as a platform with many improvements to functionality that will make it easier to build rich, engaging content and publish to where the users are. Corporate Comms teams will love the new capabilities and the many improvements to exisiting features. To learn more read this blog:

Seven ways we’re empowering every person and every organization to thrive in a new world of work.

Microsoft are also starting to deliver the foundation pieces of Project Cortex, using Artifical Intelligence technology to automate the classification of content and soon the curation of knowledge. This is a step change in the capability of modern digital workplaces. Definitely something to keep an eye on!

Summary of SharePoint News from Microsoft Ignite

In a response to a forum post Dan Holme from Microsoft indicated that most of the SharePoint updates announced will be released before the end of 2020 including the navigation enhancements and Teams Home Site App.

Jeff Teper’s Keynote and other news:

SharePoint App Bar – global navigation across your entire digital workplace
SharePoint Home Site App for Teams – add your intranet to Teams easily! (Yay!)
SharePoint – News improvements including custom templates, boost news to employees and summary emails
SharePoint – New header options including adding an image in the header area
SharePoint – New footer options
SharePoint – Analytics
SharePoint – Branding improvements
SharePoint – Sharing permissions follow files when they move
SharePoint – Project Cortex foundation pieces starting to rollout
SharePoint Syntex – automated content processing to capture metadata from documents (rolling out next month)
SharePoint SPFx – support for Teams and AppSource for developers to build more
Project Nucleus – next generation performance for web apps to boost performance! (Think large Lists)
Microsoft Teams – Break out rooms allowing meetings to break out to smaller groups
Microsoft Teams – New layouts for Together Mode
Microsoft Teams – Template to automate the creation of Teams
Lists Offline Mode – work with Lists without being connected to the Internet
Lists iOS App – a App for iPhone users coming later this year
Lists in Teams – full feature parity with SharePoint including custom forms and workflow
Big Lists – Jeff demo’d working with a 200,000 Item list and he was Offline! (Project Nucleus)
Org Chart web-part – this looks awesome
Other web-parts – accordians and tabs
Stream – new capabilities to increase engagement
Stream – moving to the SharePoint storage platform for consistent sharing, permission and compliance
Yammer notifications into Microsoft Teams
But that’s not all…more news coming soon!