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Ignite 2018 Announcements: SharePoint, Office 365, OneDrive, and Microsoft 365

Thursday, September 27, 2018
By : Mike Maadarani
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At this year’s Ignite, Microsoft has focused their enhancements on combining the power of SharePoint and Microsoft 365, delivering to employees across the organization targeted digital content that pertains to their needs. Displayed visually, targeted for teams, and easily accessible, files can be accessed for live team collaboration.

Engaging Employees

The purpose of SharePoint is to share digital content across the organization, promoting collaboration amongst team members. SharePoint is already effective for sharing information for collaboration, but with audience targeting, knowledge, news, services, and corporate visions can now be delivered to the appropriate teams and their members. External articles can now be shared as news with news links, another great new feature. Visually, there are new page designs and new, powerful web parts, both which will help create stunning pages. Visual tags can be used to accent and highlight Organizational News.

Video Streaming

What better way than to engage your employees with video? Everyone loves to watch video, and with video becoming the preferred method of creating compelling news that captivates the audience, not only is Microsoft Stream the intelligent video service in Microsoft 365, but it is the driving force for video experiences in SharePoint sites and for live and on-demand events for Yammer, Microsoft Teams, and Stream. The mobile app, Microsoft Stream, features offline viewing when in areas of limited or no internet connection. Videos that you can engage in can be found across the organization on Microsoft Stream mobile.

Modern Portals

The digital experience for your employee can be fast, dynamic, natively mobile sites and pages, personalized, beautiful, social, and most importantly, actionable. There will be over a dozen new features that will give you the tools to make your sites and pages look amazing. The new portal web part will help create these experiences, including the ability to personalize views of recent sites, recent documents, and personalized news. For SharePoint portals, the new mega-menu and site footer are game changers. The new Yammer conversations web part will engage and build a community site that brings conversation and content together, encouraging learning and open sharing amongst your audience.

Hub Sites, Your Intranet, and Modern SharePoint

Hub sites is a great way to organize your intranet. With the roll-up events feed and hub join approvals, not only can you deliver information targeted to each team but managing hub sites can be done effectively and simply through SharePoint Admin Centre. In preparation of transitioning and replacing classic publishing sites and portals, the number of hub sites in a tenant has now been increased to 100. By migrating to modern SharePoint, your teams can now experience the new digital content in SharePoint.

Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams will be experiencing a new makeover as it morphs to encompass full capabilities of SharePoint document libraries. Create custom views, gain insights into file activities add and format custom columns, and pin files to the top are all capabilities that will be available. With the familiar files command bar, syncing files from Microsoft Teams to your PC or Mac is another added new experience.
With diverse needs, Teams must be able to create solutions to solve their needs. Building composite apps that can also be surfaced in Teams with modern SharePoint pages part-to-part communications. Data and custom-built SharePoint Framework web parts solutions can be shared by adding a SharePoint list as a tab in Teams. Additionally, one will be able to add Teams apps to SharePoint sites, bringing many more apps to your intranet.
Collaborating in a SharePoint team site, a new visual indicator of channel folders will provide information regarding the folders that are associated with channels in Teams. The new link to Teams in the site navigation will navigate you quickly to Teams.
Connect any SharePoint team site to Teams. With your site connected to an Office 365 group, and from your site, create your team with one additional click.
As you can see Teams and SharePoint are coming closer together, providing a platform where your Microsoft Teams and groups can collaborate without compromise on the intranet.

Collaboration – Office 365

Only with Office 365 and with files in the cloud, collaborators can work together and co-author in real-time across mobile, web, and desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Add Comments – OneDrive
Coming soon will be the ability to add comments with @mentions to all file types, including photos, CAD drawings, PDFs and more, in OneDrive. If permission is required to the document, an email notification with a link to the file to join in will be automatically be sent.

OneDrive – Files On-Demand
OneDrive connects you to all your files (personal and shared) in Office 365 whether you are on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or web. OneDrive Files-On Demand in Windows 10 allows you to view and open files inside File Explorer, including files from Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. By opening up inside File Explorer, no storage space is used on your device. The files remain in the cloud and can be accessed, edited, and shared as if locally stored. If you choose to download and store locally, the file can be used. Once you connect back to the internet, your edits will be automatically uploaded to OneDrive. The power of OneDrive is enormous, and based on requests from UserVoice, OneDrive has now crossed platforms to Mac. OneDrive Files On-Demand for Mac is now available for consumer and commercial customers.

AI and Content Collaboration
Machine-learning and AI can aid in increasing productivity, making informed decisions, and keeping files more secure, and by combining AI with content stored in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, these goals are achieved. In addition, video and audio transcription services will be coming soon to SharePoint and OneDrive along with scan and metadata capture with the OneDrive mobile app.

Deployment
The new SharePoint Admin Centre will allow you to manage all sites, including group connected team sites, hub sites, and communication sites. Deploy with confidence.

Recovery
Personal files are protected from malicious attacks and file corruption with Files Restore for OneDrive which provides the capability to move a user’s Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders from their Windows device into OneDrive.
This same protection is now available for shared files in SharePoint. A self-service recovery solution, administrators can restore files from any point in time from the last 30 days with File Restore for SharePoint.

SharePoint On-Prem

For SharePoint On-Prem customers, SharePoint Server 2019 will be available in October this year and will offer modern user experiences, support for SharePoint Framework, OneDrive Files On-Demand, and improved hybrid integration with Office 365. The SharePoint Migration Tool is free and highly recommended for moving complete on-premises SharePoint sites, including data from libraries, lists, and file shares.

SharePoint Page Approval Flow

Thursday, August 02, 2018
By : Mike Maadarani
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With Microsoft Flow integrated with SharePoint, leveraging the power of Flow to manage page approvals become a snap. At the end of July 2018, Microsoft began rolling out the new SharePoint page approval flow for all modern SharePoint pages.

Simply described by Microsoft: “When a new page is submitted for approval everyone on the approvers list will receive an email. Anyone on the approvers list can approve the page. When approved, the page will be published for all readers and the approval status of the page will be Approved.”

How Does this Work?

The standard publishing process for a site can be configured by a site owner on the approval page. The site owner can configure Page Approval Flow from the menu of the pages library. By adding the Page Approval Flow, new and updated pages will not be published instantly. Instead, the publication will occur once the approval flow is completed.

Creating a Page Approval Flow

Navigating from the SharePoint Site Pages Library:

1. Located on the command bar menu is the Flow drop-down menu. Select an item and click the Flow drop-down menu;

2. There are four Configure page approval flow options available:

a. Request sign-off;

b. Create a flow;

c. See your flows; and

d. Configure page approval flow

Additional flows that you created for this library will also appear in the drop-down;

3. When choosing Configure Page Approval Flow, prompts will appear on the right-hand side of the library page. The Submit SharePoint Page for Approval has several sections to it.

The first section is to Create the Flow approval. The first portion requires the name of the Flow to be entered. The second portion requires the addition of one or more people to be added as Approvers.

The second section consists of the Details, which is where the above quote is taken from. The third section lists where this Flow will connect to, including Approvals, SharePoint, and Notifications. The fourth section visually shows the permissions that are assigned. If these are all satisfactory, then choose “Create” to create the Page Approval Flow;

4. Once the Flow is created, the Publish button that appears on pages will be replaced with a Submit for Approval button;

5. Click Submit for Approval. Upon clicking this button, a dialogue box will appear prompting the submitter to add a message. Click Submit to submit the Page Approval Flow;

6. An approval message is then sent to all the people that were configured as Approvers in the second section. Within the email is a link to the page.

Approvers have two options.

The first is to approve the page, which is then published and the status in the pages library changes to Approved.

The second option is to reject the page and the status in the pages library changes to either Rejected or Draft Status, so it can be reviewed and reworked.

Approvers can approve or reject the page from either the email (if action items are enabled for emails) or open a new page from the email to review and approve/reject in SharePoint.

By integrating Microsoft Flow with SharePoint, another layer of control is granted to site owners to ensure that pages are approved before being published. With this type of control, pages containing communication to teams are ensured to comply with corporate and project requirements while providing the necessary communication for collaborative teamwork.

Versioning Update for SharePoint Online and OneDrive

Thursday, May 17, 2018
By : Mike Maadarani
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The Importance of Version Control

Version control, or versioning, allows a file or item to be restored to an older state that is chosen from the version list. With versioning enabled, items and files in the SharePoint list or library are protected from unwanted, miscalculated and inadvertent errors.

Applications of Versioning

Track Version History: version history discloses information about when an item or file was changed, by whom, what was changed, and any comments that were made when files are checked into libraries

Restore Previous Version: file or items that are corrupt can be restored from a previous version. A previous version can also be restored if mistakes are made in the file or item, or if the previous version is more akin to what is wanted. The restored version becomes the current version

View Previous Version: Before reverting to a previous version, there is the capability to compare two versions within a Microsoft Office document, such as Word or Excel, to determine the differences between the two documents without overwriting the current version.

What is New with Versioning

Versioning is becoming more crucial as software and technology advances, as exemplified by the evolution of AutoSave and Restore Your OneDrive. Leveraging versions allows greater confidence for users and administrators alike while delivering better user experience.

In line with development, Microsoft recently announced they will be enabling versioning on all Document Libraries in team sites in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with a default of retaining a minimum of 100 major versions. If your library is set to retain 100 or more major revisions, then this update will not affect you. However, existing libraries that are set to retain less than 100 major versions will be updated to meet the minimum criteria of 100 events.

Roll out will begin in June for first release customers while remaining tenants worldwide will receive the update in July. The rollout is expected to be completed by the end of July.

Who is Impacted

As mentioned, all team sites for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online will be affected. Will you be impacted if your team sites are not connected to an Office 365 group? The answer is “yes”, the rollout will update to the 100 minimum major revisions if you are not set to be 100 or above.

What if we are On-Prem for SharePoint? Will this affect us? The answer is “no”, this will have no impact on your SharePoint document libraries.

What Else Changes

Once the update is rolled out to your tenant, site owners and administrators will not be able to set a versioning limit of less than 100. In addition to this, they will not be able to disable document library versioning as it will now be standard practice to have it enabled.

What About Storage Space?

Prior to the redevelopment of the flat collection sites with Office 365, versioning of document libraries required large storage sites. This, in turn, created issues for the allocation of storage for site collections. The result of limited storage was the stringent, low versioning limit. With the new approach of flat collection sites, storage is less of a concern than it was in the past; however, with audits, the speed of change in technology, and the increase in collaboration between teams and individual members, errors and corrupt files can be incurred, which places a priority on the ability to restore and recover these files and items. Hence, the rollout of the new higher, minimum versioning limit of 100.

SharePoint Hub Site Announced at Microsoft Ignite

Wednesday, October 04, 2017
By : Mike Maadarani
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A new SharePoint site, SharePoint Hub Site, was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando. The purpose of the SharePoint Hub Site is to provide a point of organization for content across SharePoint sites. Hub Sites allow you to associate SharePoint Team Sites and Communication Sites with a parent thereby streamlining and alleviating the issues of locating related content across the organization that appears in other sites. Associating multiple Team Sites and Communication Sites provides the flexibility to model and promote an intranet that reflects the way that your people in your organization organize. Across associated sites, Hub Sites provide a common navigational structure, look, and feel. Hub Sites also aggregate news and activities, displaying the roll-up on the Hub Site’s home page. SharePoint Hub Sites can be used to organize content, teams, divisions or resources throughout your business.

Hub Sites

How do SharePoint Hub Sites work?

Newly created SharePoint Hub Sites propagate the navigation to all the associated sites, creating parent/subsite relationships. Consistency across sites go from the top down so that all team sites or communication sites inherit common characteristics from the Hub Site. These characteristics include:

1. Navigation: Define top navigation in the hub site that is inherited by associated sites

2. Themes: Define the look and feel of the hub site. This theme remains consistent across all associated sites

3. Logo: The logo is the most important identifier of the site you are visiting. The logo remains consistent across all associated sites providing the message that says, “You are here, and you have not left”

SharePoint is a tool for collaboration and the sharing of information. Within an organization, there can be numerous project teams working on a variety of projects and it is important to increase awareness, visibility, and discoverability to encompass those who are not part of the core team. It would be unreasonable to expect your audience to search and drill down for the information, but having access to clear, concise communication that expresses in a broad sense of what is happening with the projects and initiatives would be valuable. Team sites and communication sites push information and content up to the hub site level with rollup web parts. These parts can surface content from all your associated sites into one place, allowing the flexibility for you to shift your content and associate it where it makes the most sense, unlike rigid hierarchy.

Content is pushed up to the hub site level with news aggregation, combined site activities, and scoped search.

News Aggregation: After creating and publishing a news article on an associated site, the news article will surface on SharePoint home, in the SharePoint mobile apps, and on the hub site’s home page.

Combined Site Activities: Site activities are visible on a team site’s home page as well as on the site’s card on SharePoint home. Site activities will roll up from each associated site, becoming visible on the hub site’s home page. This provides the ability to see what is happening across related sites in one view rather than going site by site. With this information, you can now prioritize and focus your time.

Scoped Search: Searching content from a hub site will result in content from all associated sites which in turn increases relevance and enhances content discovery.

Creating SharePoint Hub Sites

Hub sites can either be created by Administrators who then associate existing team and communication sites to the newly created Hub Site from SharePoint home in Office 365. You can also create an associated site directly from within the hub site itself.

The site owner can associate an existing team site or communication site within a hub site by following these steps:

1. Click the gear icon located on the upper right of the site

2. Click Site Information

3. In the Edit Site Information, click Hub Site from the drop-down menu. Choose the right hub site to join.

It is important to note that team sites and communication sites can only be associated with one Hub Site.

As intranets are dynamic, associations may change as projects come to completion and new projects added. It is easy to un-join a Hub Site as it is to join it, allowing you the flexibility to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of the intranet.

SharePoint Hub Sites and SharePoint Mobile App

Team collaboration and the sharing of information launched itself off the desktop onto mobile devices and SharePoint Mobile App is being updated to render hub sites, their pages, news, and content with smooth navigation between associated sites and scoped search. SharePoint Mobile App will continue to provide quick access to all your sites, news and team members you work with but now with added, enhanced search for content and people across your organization.

Hub Site Mobile

The building blocks for your intranet have now expanded from the classic publishing sites and sites for application to include team sites, communication sites, and hub sites. Sharing, managing, finding content, knowledge, and apps, on any device, is easily accomplished with SharePoint, the solution that connects your workplace with its people.

Big SharePoint, OneDrive and Office 365 Announcements

Monday, October 02, 2017
By : Mike Maadarani
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This year’s Microsoft Ignite unveiled exciting new products and innovations that span across its entire business software and cloud spectrum. Focusing on empowering the modern workspace, Microsoft has made advancements in management, security, and intelligence as well as recognizing new groups of users.

Office 365 targets two new groups of users through its two special packages. The first is for education, Microsoft 365 Education, and the second, Microsoft 365 F1, for first-line workers.

Microsoft 365 Education

Microsoft 365 Education provides the tools for students, faculty, and staff to create and work together securely in the classroom. Office 365 brings its productivity applications and combined with Enterprise Mobility + Security, Minecraft: Education Edition and Windows 10, students and teachers alike have a powerful system to create, learn and grow together in the classroom. Microsoft 365 Education is offered in three different plans as Microsoft 365 A1, Microsoft 365 A3, and Microsoft 365 A5. The fourth plan for non-profit organizations is in the works. There are price point differences between the plans, and the differences between each are compared below.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 F1

Who are first-line workers? Any staff who has direct contact with a customer while providing a service or care to the customer is a first-line worker. First-line workers account for nearly 2 billion workers worldwide. Microsoft 365 F1 promotes the growth and development of the community and culture amongst first-line staff. It also trains and upskills employees, digitizes business processes, delivers real-time expertise with minimized risk and cost. Many first-line workers work shift work and to help manage their schedules, Microsoft 365 F1 offers a new feature – StaffHub. Combined with Windows 10, front-line staff is now able to stay connected, automate device deployment and manage single-purpose devices. In response to the need for devices for first-line workers, Microsoft is offering through its OEM partners HP, Lenovo, and Acer, streamlined and secure devices loaded with Windows 10S. Through its OEM partners, the total cost of ownership is reduced, and these select entry-level devices (HP Stream 14 Pro, available in October, and the Lenovo v330, available in February) will provide cloud-based identity and management for the first-line environment.

Microsoft 365 F1

Office 365 continues to evolve, enhancing and supporting employee creativity. With the emphasis changing from routine tasks to creative problem solving, Office 365 is adapting, providing users the tools to express their ideas effectively and the ability to build upon the work and expertise of others, resulting in the creation of compelling content.

The Improved Excel

Harnessing the abilities of AI and combining it with Excel has resulted in a powerful, sleek, and fresh Excel that will understand new data types, beyond numbers and texts that are currently recognized, and augment these new data types based on public and enterprise information. For example, Excel will now recognize that “India” is a country and the acronym “MSFT” is a stock. Also, releasing in the spring of 2018, Insights, a service reserved for Office Insiders, will derive insights from complex data using AI to find and recommend patterns.

Searching with Results

Searching capabilities can now be initiated from SharePoint, Office.com, the Windows taskbar as well as Bing for Business. From so many sources to initiate your search, it becomes simplified to find your information from across your organization and beyond. Whether you are searching for a person, content or a site, Microsoft Graph powers the engine and provides consistent and personalized results.

Linking in with LinkedIn

From within Office 365, you can now view LinkedIn profiles in Microsoft apps and services. Currently rolling out to first release customers, this ability provides rich insights about the people who you work with, whether they are within your organization, or external to your organization.

Threats and Protection

With all the new and enhanced features of Office 365, security and protection have been addressed through advanced threat protection, including features that address phishing, impersonation and domain spoofing. Preventative measures including multi-factor authentication, including third-party access, expansion of conditional access capabilities, encryption of emails and documents when using consumer email services such as Outlook.com and Gmail, protection of information (detect, classify, protect and monitor your data wither it is stored or shared), and applying compliance measures as per regulations.

SharePoint and OneDrive

The biggest announcement at this year’s Ignite: SharePoint 2019 is coming! Productivity applications include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and new versions of Skype for Business, SharePoint and more!

OneDrive is a powerful feature which provides the ability to securely share files across Office 365 not only with people who are within your organization but also with those who do not have an account and are external to your organization. Not only can you share content, but you can now see who has viewed the shared files in OneDrive. Web versions of Office now open faster than ever. Supported in the desktop version of Excel for Office 2016 is co-authoring. Thumbnails and previews have been improved along with the ability to connect existing sites to Office 365 Groups. There is also deeper integration with Microsoft Team.

The Combined Power of SharePoint and OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive are now integrated with PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Power BI, and Microsoft Form, each of these provides the resources and capabilities to create and share custom forms, applications, and workflows that automate processes.

Within SharePoint, rich forms can be built from blended data, retrieved from lists with over 160 online and on-premises data sources. Custom forms with Power Apps provide solution‑creators the tools to build these forms within SharePoint. The Column Formatter allows power users to add rich formatting and interactivity to data in SharePoint lists and libraries. If your lists are becoming large and unwieldy, Predictive Indexing in SharePoint automatically sorts, queries and indexes your information into workable lists and libraries. Simple forms and interactive visualizations can be added to any SharePoint page with Power BI & Forms web parts. Finally, you can add PowerApps to any SharePoint page with PowerApps web parts.

Flow for OneDrive provides you the capability to build and launch Flows directly from within OneDrive to automate processes for your personal files. Triggering the Flow Launch Panel, an inline panel prompts the user to enter information that is used by the flow. Routing a document for review and feedback is built in Flow, ticketed as Document/Item Review. Finally, custom processes can be built with Flow with the Custom Approval Action, which requires formal approval check-in and approval before content for libraries can be published.

Microsoft Teams and Skype

As Microsoft Teams begins integrating voice and video capabilities, along with chat, to become the main workplace communications collaboration app, Skype continues to receive an enhanced infrastructure for improved video and voice communications. Microsoft Teams now has the added calling features of call transfer, calling to and from external phone numbers and voicemail as well as insights from Microsoft Graph. Teams will evolve as the primary client for communications in Office 365, and over time, will replace Skype for Business.

SharePoint and Yammer

The question of whether Yammer is a product that will stay or be replaced was partially answered at Ignite this year with the announcement of several new updates. These include new mobile-ready web part for integrating Yammer conversations into SharePoint Sites, SharePoint documents have an enriched preview and editing experience with Yammer, Yammer Groups connected to Office 365 will have default SharePoint file storage and OneNote services, launching video and voice calls directly from Yammer, and the ability to see Presence straight from Yammer.

In addition to all these great features, there is one last improvement that was announced at Ignite. This important piece of news is the new building block of the intranet – SharePoint Hub Sites, which we discuss in detail in this article.

SharePoint and Office 365: Patterns & Practices – Part 2 Contributing, Resources, and Sources

Monday, February 13, 2017
By : Mike Maadarani
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As the community and Microsoft work together to create sample code and guidance, they begin to form the libraries, or repositories, that store this information but before they can be stored, they must meet the PnP support guidelines and recommended techniques. These are then reviewed and approved by SharePoint Engineering. Once approved, and depending upon their functionality, they are then released through the following channels:

1. PnP Core Component: significant functionalities and add-ons to increase developer productivity

2. PnP PowerShell: maintain shipment deployment on-line or on-prem

3. PnP Partner Pack: starter kit for achieving certain functionalities on online shipment

4. PnP JavaScript Core: SharePoint library for JavaScript

5. UI Responsive Package: components and solutions for SharePoint online and on-prem

6. Other components and solutions

Even though PnP is owned and coordinated by SharePoint Engineering, it is completely driven by the community both internally and externally. The collaboration, sharing of knowledge and the opportunities provided for learning has and will continue to benefit those in the community. The program is facilitated by Microsoft, but being community driven, Microsoft has reached out to the community, resulting in the appointments of multiple community members into the PnP Core Team. Microsoft is currently looking to extend the Core Team with more community members.

Where do I start if I want to become more involved?

As they saying goes, “Sharing is caring”, and one can join the community and share one’s knowledge. The following are highly recommended if you want to become more closely involved:

a. Wiki: How to get started and contribute to Office 365 Dev PnP program

b. Webcast: Office Dev PnP Webcast – How to get started with Office Dev PnP

c. Video Blog: https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/OfficeDevPnP

Why and How to Contribute to PnP Initiative

The PnP initiative is an open source community which is comprised of internal and external members of the Microsoft community. Like all open source communities, the success of the community is driven by the members and their degree of contribution and active engagement. In PnP, this is no different as every member who contributes is recognized during a monthly public recap of all things being contributed and implanted into the latest version of PnP.

As a collaborator and member, you have opportunities to help others, whether they are just beginning to consider PnP to those who are advanced, whom you could recommend patterns to. Being an active member of the PnP initiative provides the opportunities for networking where you will not only find peers who work on similar topics, but you will engage with customers and partners.

Contributing and participating is made simple through the usage of three platforms. The first being Yammer, as it is not only a great place to participate in the discussion, but it is the place to help others or to ask your own questions. You can follow monthly releases and discussions on the latest topics from the second platform, Skype for Business. In Office Hours, discussions revolving on the topics of needed capabilities within Yammer or Office Hours take place. In addition to these, opportunities to discuss reporting and fixing issues, contributing new samples, guidance, and documentation feedback. When there are submissions, they will be reviewed, and if approved, will be meshed with the existing components.

I’m in! Now what?

The best way to contribute and participate is to become informed, committed and knowledgeable. As an open source community, there are many members who contribute, teach, review and mentor others within the community. The beauty of collaboration is that there is no one way of doing things as there are many avenues to reach that end goal, but with many minds on the task, that road becomes wider and more accessible, allowing the team to reach that goal more efficiently, quickly and with great focus.

Where do I find Key PnP Resources?

At the Microsoft development centre, you can find code samples and guidance documentation. At https://dev.office.com, you can access code samples and guidance through the drop down menu under the heading Resources by choosing Patterns and Practices.

How to find what is relevant to me in PnP?

As each contributors' needs are different and many times are dependent upon client needs, there are several ways to find what is relevant to your unique situation. These resources contain many articles for support and how to's for:

a. PnP Web Casts: https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPVideos (aka Chanel 9)

Key topics that are discussed in consideration of your customization of Office 365 to on-prem include the following:

– setting up on-prem add-in model infrastructure

– remote provisioning vs. feature framework usage

– JavaScript performance considerations with SharePoint

– provisioning engine and references solution with AngularJS

– SharePoint Nugent Packages and PnP Core Component

– throttling mechanisms in SharePoint Online

b. Blog post: https://dev.office.com/

c. Documents: https://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP

Presentations and graphics that you will find here:

– webcast presentations

– community call presentations

– seminar presentations

– reusable graphics

– PnP Graphics presentation contains over 100 slides and drawings for reuse

d. Add-in Model transformation training package: aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPTraining

i. Video, presentations, demos and hands-on demos

ii. 10 training modules on specific topics including the following:

1) Introduction to Transformation

2) Site Settings and JS embed

3) Branding with add-in model

4) Building UX components with add-in model

5) Remote event receivers and timer jobs

6) Site and site collection provisioning

7) User personalization and OneDrive for Business

8) ECM with add-in model

9) Search with add-in model

10) Transformation guidance from FTCs to add-ins

How do I keep up-to-date in PnP?

With the large community that participates in PnP, changes and additions occur at a fast and high rate. To contribute, participate and keep abreast of new additions, one must keep current. There are three sites that will help you to keep current and whether you are listening or asking questions, these three resources will prove to be invaluable:

a. Yammer: http://aka.ms.OfficeDevPnPYammer

A place where you can participate in the discussion while helping others with questions and answers.

b. Bi-weekly office hours: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPOfficeHours

Open mic theme for answering all questions with open discussion.

c. Monthly community calls: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevnPPCall

Held every second Tuesday on a monthly basis via Skype for Business, the community receives a recap of what has taken place the month before, thus bringing all its members up to date on the latest version.

Can I have a cheat sheet for all the information I will need?

There are four key sources for information, and they are as follows:

1. Key resources:

https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPVideos

https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPMSDN

https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPYammer