SharePoint Server 2019 Expected To Have InfoPath, PowerApps and Sync Client Support
As for SharePoint Designer, Catrinescu speculated that it might hang around like InfoPath and possibly be even more integrated in SharePoint Server 2019. That was his "gut feeling" rather than knowledge, but he suggested that more might be known around the time of the SharePoint Conference North America in May. SharePoint Designer 2013, the current version, is also a deprecated product, but Microsoft currently will support it till July 14, 2026.
While Microsoft had announced a new SharePoint Migration Tool at Ignite, Catrinescu described it as "really basic," adding that he has played with the preview. It's a great start, he said, but for now the SharePoint Migration Tool only supports SharePoint Server 2013 and file shares. It does not support moving SharePoint Lists, but only supports moving SharePoint Libraries. Moreover, the SharePoint Migration Tool will not automatically create the migration target for you, so users will have to create a SharePoint Online library. The tool is just for smaller companies with file shares that don't have any metadata and that want to move them to SharePoint Online. For now, it only supports documents (not folders). He added that "I don't think migration partners have anything to worry about now."
Microsoft recently published documentation here, explaining how the SharePoint Migration Tool works.
The new SharePoint Online Admin Center is a lot more modern, showing service health, a message center and active sites, Catrinescu said. He noted that the new portal shows Office 365 groups and Modern Team Sites as well. He explained that before, for Office 365, PowerShell had to be used to see SharePoint site collections.
Sharing Emphasis
Teper described Ignite SharePoint highlights in this recently published Microsoft Mechanics video. He emphasized improvements with the general Office 365 sharing experience, making it easier to share from SharePoint and OneDrive. He also highlighted the "Files on Demand" feature, which reduces bandwidth issues when accessing files in the OneDrive cloud storage service. The Files on Demand feature will be supported with the Oct. 17 fall creators update version of Windows 10, he noted.
Teper described Ignite SharePoint highlights in this recently published Microsoft Mechanics video. He emphasized improvements with the general Office 365 sharing experience, making it easier to share from SharePoint and OneDrive. He also highlighted the "Files on Demand" feature, which reduces bandwidth issues when accessing files in the OneDrive cloud storage service. The Files on Demand feature will be supported with the Oct. 17 fall creators update version of Windows 10, he noted.
The new Office 365 sharing capability lets organizations share content with external users, without making them open a Microsoft account beforehand.
"We introduced this week a secure external sharing capability so that you don't have to get an account as an outside user," Teper said in the video. "You get a one-time passcode you can use."
The new Office 365 sharing capability is the same experience across Windows, Mac and Web versions of OneDrive and SharePoint, Teper added.
Teper also explained a little more about how Microsoft thinks about its various collaboration products. He described Microsoft Teams as something for use in the "inner loop" of communications by organizations, while Yammer can be thought of as something for use in the "outer loop."
Another interesting idea mentioned by Teper in the video is that SharePoint Designer isn't really needed to do layouts anymore in SharePoint pages. It's possible to just customize them using WebParts.
No comments:
Post a Comment