Microsoft 365’s video capability is powered by Microsoft Stream, a powerful engine that provides users the ability to securely record, upload, and share videos from the iOS or Android mobile apps. Video is becoming more popular, and is quite often the first choice, for learning, engaging, and communicating. Yammer messages and files attached to these will be stored at-rest in Microsoft EU datacentres. Recognizing the unique data residency requirements for European customers, in-geo data storage for Yammer in the EU is now available for new Yammer networks in the EU. For these groups, e-Discovery for Yammer will be available for them.
There are some major changes for customers using Yammer groups connected to Office 365 groups. Taking it one step further, a group can feature bot-like, intelligent answers to questions that are frequently asked. Every employee across an organization is empowered to express their opinions, ideas, and feedback and now, with the new Question and Answer feature, you or a group admin can mark the best answer, making this knowledge easy to find, share, and reuse. Yammer provides the platform for employees to engage in open conversations that can drive cultural transformations and cause organizational alignment. With Yammer and Microsoft Stream, engaging employees in communication and learning has never been easier.
Additionally, solutions built with SharePoint Framework by your developers or by SharePoint partners can be embedded.īoth Yammer and Microsoft Stream are featured out of the box for SharePoint Home Sites. SharePoint Home Sites are easily deployed – within minutes – straight out of the box with no coding! Customizations to reflect company branding and design are easily done through web parts, navigation, and site design – all straight out of the box.īeing the leader as the powerful platform for delivering applications on the intranet, many SharePoint partners are onboard with integrating their intranet offerings closely to the SharePoint intelligent intranet. This feature, enhanced saved for later view, will be an extremely useful and well-used feature. With SharePoint Home Sites, news and content can be flagged for review at a later time. With the improved navigation and activity insights across sites, and coupling these features with views of your documents to get back to work quickly, work processes are greatly streamlined, underscoring the valuable time-to-value gained.Īs we all experience, we may come across content that we would like to read, but at that moment, cannot. Relevant content and news are shared based on the role of the person as well as their role while Microsoft Search serves as the main connector of content within the organization.Ī key focus with all of SharePoint’s enhancements is the time-to-value for customers. It neatly organizes and curates the organization’s news, with official news being marked visually and is available for all users with access to the home site. SharePoint Home Sites, with personalized content, information, and navigation, not only engages through conversation but also through video that is powered by Yammer and Microsoft Stream.
As a leader, SharePoint continues to set the bar higher and higher, meeting the needs and goals of organizations and its people with intelligent solutions.Ī SharePoint communication site, but amped up, SharePoint Home Sites is the landing page for your organization and the new home view on the SharePoint mobile app. SharePoint has been the powerhouse behind intranets for more than a decade and can be found in every industry and geography.
A properly organized intranet will cause collaboration between people, whether in teams or in siloes, through the sharing of knowledge, the harnessing of this collective knowledge to create solutions and the provisioning of a platform for communication. But, an intranet does more than just connect people and content. The internet connects the world while an intranet connects the people and content in the workplace. SharePoint Conference 2019 (SPC2019): AnnouncementsĪt the SharePoint Conference (SPC2019) held in Las Vegas this spring, many new announcements were shared that will impact SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and several other applications within Office 365 and Microsoft 365.