Introduction

Site URL Rename has been one of the most popular requests via UserVoice and in SharePoint Conference 2019, in one my favorite announcements of the event, Microsoft finally announced the possibilty to rename a Site URL.

How It Works

Renaming a site can be done either using the SharePoint Admin Center or using a PowerShell script.

Important: This feature is currently on Preview (you can test it if your tenant is part of the Admin Center Preview) and should be available soon! You have to be a SharePoint Administrator to be able to rename a Site URL.

Using the SharePoint Admin Center

The easiest way to rename a site URL is using the SharePoint Admin Center. Select “Active Sites”, then the site you want to rename and click “Edit”.

A popup will appear and the only thing you have to do is to write the new URL and ensure that the new URL is not being used.7

Using PowerShell

The same thing can be achieved using a simple PowerShell script, using the Start-SPOSiteRename cmdlet.

The syntax of the Start-SPOSiteRename cmdlet is the following:

Start-SPOSiteRename [-Identity] [-NewSiteUrl] [[-NewSiteTitle] ] [[-SuppressMarketplaceAppCheck]] [[-SuppressWorkflow2013Check]] [[-Reserved] ] [-WhatIf][-Confirm] [CommonParameters]

The main parameters of the cmdlet are:

-Identity

Current Site URL.

-NewSiteUrl

The new site URL. This the URL you want to rename the site to.

Follow the steps below to do the magic:

1. Open a PowerShell console (as adminstrator) and type the SharePoint Online authentication command. In this command, you must use your tenant’s Admin URL
   
   Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com
   
   
2. Supply your tenant’s administrator credentials
3. Run the following command:
   
   Start-SPOSiteRename
   -Identity https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/oldURL
   -NewSiteUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/newURL

For more details in the Start-SPOSiteRename cmdlet, click here.

If all goes well, your site will be renamed. If the feature is not enabled in your tenant, you will get an error message like the one below.

The “This site address can’t be changed.” message means that the feature is not available in your tenant yet and you have to wait a little bit more.

Impact on Links

If you are worried if you are going to have broken links, stop worrying! The changes to the site URL will have no impact since access requests to the old URL will be redirected to the new URL, meaning that users will not need to update their links and bookmarks or reshare previously shared links.

Important: The redirection may take a few minutes after the site URL is changed and in that period is possible you can see a HTTP 500 error.

Limitations

The site cannot be a Hub Site – if the site is a hub site, unregister it as a hub site, rename the site URL and then register the site back as a hub site.

Related Articles

To learn why your business should migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365, click here and here.

If you want to modernize your SharePoint classic root site to a modern SharePoint site, click here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Office 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Office 365 or thinking to move to Office 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Office 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Office 365 announcements from Ignite and some more recent announcements, including Microsoft Search, What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365, Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint and the latest news on SharePoint development, click here.

If your organization is still not ready to go all in to SharePoint Online and Office 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

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Now, using the recently released Invoke-SPOSiteSwap PowerShell cmlet, you convert your classic tenant’s root site collection to a modern site collection (for example a modern Communication Site).

Introduction

In Microsoft Ignite 2018, announced that all new Office 365 tenants would start getting the modern Communication Site as the root site by default.

Microsoft will soon release the possibility for administrators to set a Communication Site as the experience for the root site of a tenant (should be rolled out in September, more details here) and until now, there wasn’t an easy way to convert a classic root site collection into a modern SharePoint site. Now, with this release, we will finally be able to get a modern SharePoint site as the root site collection even on an older Office 365 tenant!

The Solution

Dependencies

To be able to modernize your SharePoint homepage, you will first need to download and install SharePoint Online Management Shell version 16.0.8812.1200 or later. To get the latest version of the SharePoint Online Management Shell, click here or run the following PowerShell command:

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -force

NOTE: If the Invoke-SPOSiteSwap PowerShell cmlet is not available yet in your tenant, just wait a little bit more, since it is currently being rolled out!

How It Works

In the steps below we are assuming the following:

• You have a classic root site collection at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com
• You have a modern Communication Site already created in your tenant (for example at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/modernintranet)

Important Note: the Invoke-SPOSiteSwap cmdlet doesn’t transform your existing classic root site collection into a modern site collection. Instead, it replaces the current root site collection (a class site collection) by another existing site collection, in this example, a modern Communication Site.

The syntax of the Invoke-SPOSiteSwap cmdlet is the following:

Invoke-SPOSiteSwap -SourceUrl <string> -TargetUrl <string> -ArchiveUrl <string> [<CommonParameters>]

The main parameters of the cmdlet are:

-SourceUrl

URL of the source site. The site at this location must exist before performing the swap.

If the target is the root site at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com then the source site must be either a Team Site (STS#0), a Modern Team Site (STS#3), or a Communication Site (SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0).

In our example, this will be our modern Communication Site at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/modernintranet and it represents the site that will replace our old classic Team Site.

-TargetUrl

URL of the target site that the source site will be swapped to. The site at this location must exist before performing the swap.

The target site must be the either:

• The root site at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com; or
• The search center site at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/search

In our example, this will be our classic Team Site root site collection at https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com that will be replaced by our modern Communication Site.

-ArchiveUrl

URL to where the target site will be archived. There should be no existing site, including a deleted site in the Recycle Bin, at this location before performing the swap.

In our example, this will the URL where our classic Team Site root site collection will be archived to.

Pulling the Trigger

Follow the steps below to do the magic:

1. Open a PowerShell console (as adminstrator) and type the SharePoint Online authentication command. In this command, you must use your tenant’s Admin URL
   
   Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com
   
2. Supply your tenant’s administrator credentials
3. Run the following command:
   
   Invoke-SPOSiteSwap
   -SourceUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/modernintranet
   -TargetUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com
   -ArchiveUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/oldroot

Making the swap will take about one minute and it is pretty straightforward. After the swap, you should have a brand new Communication Site as your homepage.

Limitations

Making the swap will take about one minute and it is pretty straightforward, but you must take some restrictions into consideration. Neither the source or target site can be:

• Neither the source or target site can be connected to an Office 365 Group
• Neither the source or target site can be a Hub Site – if a site is a hub site, unregister it as a hub site, swap the root site, and then register the site back as a hub site
• Neither the source or target site can be associated with a Hub Site – if a site is associated with a hub, disassociate the site, swap the root site, and then reassociate the site
• Only sites within the same domain, for example, https://contoso.sharepoint.com can be swapped
• The source site must be a modern team site (STS#3), a communication site (SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0), or a classic team site (STS#0)
• All subsites contained with the source and target sites will be swapped
• Any sharing links or bookmarks will need to be recreated after the site swap

Conclusion

If you want a modern experience in your existing Office 365 tenant and convert your classic team site into a modern SharePoint Modern Experience, this is the easiest way to go.

Before doing the swap, there are a few things you need to consider:

• Assign permissions to the new Communication Site so that users can access the new site
• Plan navigation (ex: Mega Menu navigation) to ensure navigation to your existing content
• Configure your new Communication Site homepage to show the most relevant content you want to show to your users
• Migrate content from the old classic root site collection to the new Communication Site

Another great thing about this approach is that if you don’t like the result of the swap, you can always swap back using the same PowerShell command.

Related Articles

To learn why your business should migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365, click here and here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Office 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Office 365 or thinking to move to Office 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Office 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Office 365 announcements from Ignite and some more recent announcements, including Microsoft Search, What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365, Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint and the latest news on SharePoint development, click here.

If your organization is still not ready to go all in to SharePoint Online and Office 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

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Introduction

This two part blog post is the first part of a blog post series that will try to give you an idea of the advantages of moving to the Cloud and the benefits of adopting Microsoft 365 as a collaboration platform.

We live in a world that is rapidly moving towards Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in several areas from collaboration, E-Commerce and many other areas, are moving from a reality where systems and respective data are deployed within the companies infrastructure (On-Premises) to the Cloud.

The goal of this two part blog posts is to give you an overview of the main features included in Microsoft 365 and how your organization can take advantage of them if you migrate to Microsoft 365.

In the first part of this post, I already discussed the following topics:

• Microsoft 365
• Collaboration with SharePoint and OneDrive
• Mobility
• Use Microsoft Teams as your Work Hub
• Easy and Secure External Sharing

To read the first part of this post, click here.

These are the main topics I will discuss in the second part of this two part blog post:

• Security and Reliability
• Business Applications Development
• Insights
• Migration Options
• Hybrid Scenarios
• Other Benefits

Security and Reliability

In the first part of this blog post, I already talked a little bit about Microsoft 365 which includes Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security.

One of the main concerns of companies in choosing a Cloud collaboration platform, in which the Microsoft 365 is an example and leading platform, is the security of their information. One of the biggest challenges when organizations are deciding if they want migrate to Microsoft 365 is related to the demystification that having the information in the Cloud is less secure than if it resides on the premises of the organizations themselves.

To address these same concerns, Microsoft has made a very strong investment in security which provides users and system administrators with several features to address these needs and apply a set of best practices in four main areas:

• Security
• Privacy
• Compliance
• Transparency

In addition to security, Reliability is another major benefit of a Cloud solution (Microsoft 365 has a average 99,98% availability) and organizations don’t need to worry about maintaining their own infrastructure.

Below, are some of the main security features natively offered by the platform.

Security

Regarding Security, Microsoft 365 ensures the encryption of data in transit and at rest. At rest, Bitlocker technology is used to encrypt all information on the servers’ hard drives. In addition, all files are segmented (in small pieces called chunks) and each segment is individually encrypted and encryption keys are securely stored in a different physical location.
In transit, all files are encrypted with TLS using 2048-bit keys.

Privacy

Regarding Privacy, it is possible to define differentiated access policies based on 4 vectors: user, device, location and sensitivity of the information. Some examples include:

• Set a time bound window for external sharing or only allow sharing with certain domains
• Block access from insecure locations (example: open Wi-Fi networks)
• Enforce multi-factor authentication (ex: supply a PIN sent to a mobile device). You can enforce multi-factor authentication for all users, for a restricted set of users or based on conditions like the device being used or the access location (example: open Wi-Fi networks)

Compliance

In what regards to Compliance, the main concern is to define a set of rules that allow sensitive information to be protected and to prevent the leakage of sensitive information outside of the organization. These are some of the features Microsoft 365 includes to address this need:

• Data Loss Prevention: Allows organizations to create policies to protect their most sensitive information. Example: prevent documents with credit card information or citizen card numbers from being shared outside the organization. To read more about Data Loss Prevention, click here.
• Microsoft 365 Unified Labeling: Allows organizations to create policies that protect the content of documents stored in the Microsoft 365 platform (mainly SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange). Protection is based on the Azure Rights Management service and allows for administrators to configure sensitivity labels that can be applied to emails and documents to protect sensitive information. Labels can be applied automatically to all documents in a SharePoint document library, based on specific content types or based on the contents of the document (ex: documents containing credit card numbers). For protected documents, you can restrict access to a restricted set of users, enable encryption and apply a variety of document level protection such as:
  • Block copy and paste of email or document information
  • Block Print Screen of a document
  • Block document printing
  • Block email actions like Forward or Reply
  • etc

To learn about Microsoft 365 Unified Labeling and Information Protection, click here.

Transparency

Regarding Transparency, a very important note is that Microsoft does not have access to the organization’s data and the only occasions where this may be necessary is in resolving support incidents that require access to the data. In these cases, and using a feature called Customer Lockbox, the customer can approve or reject access requests, and access is only granted in case the request is approved. In addition, all accesses are audited to ensure the transparency of the process.

These are just a few of the examples of the vast set of features available to users and administrators to protect information residing on the Microsoft 365 platform. Security is such a huge topic that is impossible to summarize all features in this post. Stay tuned for my next posts where I will address security features in more detail!

Business Applications Development

Microsoft 365 has a very rich feature set and it addresses a very broad range of collaboration needs. The good thing is that is also highly extensible allowing for developers to build rich user experiences for pretty much any business requirement.

There are other powerful ways to extend SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 without the need of professional developers and the Rapid Application Development approaches are gaining more and more space in the development world, essentially to build business applications.

Microsoft’s vision for Rapid Application Development is composed by two main development platforms:

• PowerApps
• Microsoft Flow

PowerApps

PowerApps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a Rapid Application Development environment to build custom business applications. Using PowerApps, “citizen developers” can quickly build custom business applications that connect to your business data stored On-Premises (accessible through a On-OnPremises Data Gateway) or to Online data sources.

Currently there are dozens of connectors that allow PowerApps applications to connect to data sources like SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, etc.

One of the great things about PowerApps applications is they are developed in a mobile-first approach and you can easy use business applications in any mobile device from your tablet to your mobile phone.

PowerApps is great to quickly build business applications and below are a few examples of business applications that could be developed using PowerApps:

• Expense Report
• Travel Request
• Vacation Request

To take a look at an example of what PowerApps can do, take a look at the Microsoft Expense Report sample.

To learn more about PowerApps, click here.

Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow is a Cloud-based service that makes it easier for line-of-business users to create workflows that help automate time-consuming business processes and help connect applications and services.

As in PowerApps, Flow currently there are dozens of connectors that allow flows to connect to data sources like SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, etc.

There are numerous examples of where Flow can be used to automate processes and Flow is great to be used together with PowerApps. A good example would be a Expense Report built with PowerApps with the Approval process handled by Flow, allowing you also for example to automate the integration of approved expenses with your ERP or financial system.

To learn more about Microsoft Flow, click here.

Other Development Options

If the business requirement is too complex and PowerApps and Flow may not be the best approach, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 offer a huge development platform, mainly trough the development of solutions based on SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

Insights

Microsoft 365 as a collaboration platform generates a lot of information, specially if you are a large organization. To help you get insights from the information stored in Microsoft 365, you can use:

• Power BI: Provides a business intelligence platform that allows you to generate reports and dashboards to get critical business insights from a variety of data sources.
  
  
  To learn more about Power BI, click here.
  
• Delve: Allows you to browse and discover relevant content for you, including your recent documents, content based on who you work with and trends in the organization
  
  To learn more about Delve, click here.
  
• My Analytics: Allows you to measure Personal and Organizational Productivity Indicators, time spent in meetings and focused work or track your response and email read times
  
  To learn more My Analytics, click here.

Migration Options

If you have information On-Premises, either using an old file share or an On-Premises version of SharePoint Server, the path to SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 is achieved using a content migration approach to migrate content to SharePoint Online and typically a 3rd party solution is necessary to do the migration. A few 3rd party solutions that can do the job are ShareGate, AvePoint and Metalogix. Microsoft has also released sometime ago the SharePoint Migration Tool that also does the job but with less options than the 3rd party solutions.

The great thing when you migrate to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online (specially if you are using SharePoint Server) is that this should be the last migration you have to do! If you are using SharePoint Server and instead choose to do a SharePoint version upgrade, you will always have at least one more migration ahead of you (assuming you want to have Microsoft support, MS support for SharePoint Server will end after a few years, you can find more information here).

Migrating to SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 has another clear advantage: reduction of IT costs and probably reduction of overall licensing costs since you don’t have to be worried about paying SharePoint Server licenses (and also SQL Server licenses if SharePoint is the only reason why you use SQL Server). In Microsoft 365, licensing is paid in a subscription based model where you can choose the best subscription model that fits your organization’s needs.

Hybrid Scenarios

If your organization is still not ready to migrate to Microsoft 365 entirely (one of the strongest reasons is in the case of data residency requirements where highly sensitive may not leave the country and there is no Microsoft 365 data center in that country, like for example in Portugal). In this case, a hybrid scenario may be your best option.

There are several hybrid supported scenarios and a possible approach could be to keep the most sensitive information On-Premises (for example in SharePoint 2019 that has improved hybrid support) and take the less sensitive information into the cloud and start taking advantage of the cloud innovations from SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365.

Other Benefits

Microsoft 365 is a huge productivity suite and there are other applications in the suite that are relevant:

• Yammer: Corporate social network where you can promote discussions and ideas and promote employee engagement across your organization. To learn more about Yammer, click here.
• Microsoft Stream: Microsoft 365 streaming platform where you can store and tag relevant corporate videos, assign videos to channels and share videos across organizations allowing you to promote employee engagement. To learn more about Microsoft Stream, click here.
• Microsoft Forms: Allows you to quickly create surveys and get feedback from users in your organization. To learn more about Microsoft Forms, click here.
• Dynamics 365: CRM platform included in Microsoft 365 where you can manage customers, relationships and create dashboards to help you make better decisions and help your business grow. To learn more about Dynamics 365, click here.

Conclusion

Knowing where to take your business and choose the right collaboration platform is a critical business decision. Microsoft 365 is a very comprehensive collaboration and productivity suite that can help your organization to work smarter and take advantages of the constant innovations that Microsoft keeps adding to the suite.

If you still are in On-Premises scenario (either using file share, SharePoint Server or any other collaboration platform), you should carefully evaluate the options you have and evaluate the Pros and Cons of keeping your organization On-Premises or move to the Cloud (to SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365).

One thing I have no doubt: Microsoft is putting all the innovation and best collaboration features in SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 and the gap to SharePoint Server is getting bigger and bigger, leaving companies that are not taking advantage of Microsoft 365 in a clear disadvantage with the ones that do.

One last argument: if your are still On-Premises, most probably you already have Microsoft 365 licensed and probably not using it or not taking full advantage it. If you are already paying, why not start taking full advantage of the innovations in Microsoft 365?

To finish, and to get a broader vision of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 evolution over the years, don’t miss Jeff Teper “Hitting Refresh on SharePoint” articles:

• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 1
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 2
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 3
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 4

To read the first part of this post, click here.

Related Articles

If you want to convert your tenant’s root classic site into a modern SharePoint site, click here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Microsoft 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Microsoft 365 or thinking to migrate to Microsoft 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Microsoft 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Microsoft 365 announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019, click here and here.

If your organization is still not ready to migrate to Microsoft 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

The post Why You Should Migrate To Microsoft 365 (Part 2) appeared first on Blog IT.

Introduction

This two part blog post is the first part of a blog post series that will try to give you an idea of the advantages of moving to the Cloud and the benefits of adopting Microsoft 365 as a collaboration platform.

We live in a world that is rapidly moving towards Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in several areas from collaboration, E-Commerce and many other areas, are moving from a reality where systems and respective data are deployed within the companies infrastructure (On-Premises) to the Cloud.

The goal of this two part blog posts is to give you an overview of the main features included in Microsoft 365 and how your organization can take advantage of them if you migrate to Microsoft 365.

These are the topics I will discuss in the first part of this two part blog post:

• Microsoft 365
• Collaboration with SharePoint and OneDrive
• Mobility
• Use Microsoft Teams as your Work Hub
• Easy and Secure External Sharing

To read the second part of this post, click here.

Microsoft 365

First things first! What is Microsoft 365?

One of the main concerns of companies in choosing a Cloud collaboration platform, in which the Microsoft 365 is an example and leading platform, is the security of their information. One of the biggest challenges when organizations are deciding if they want migrate to Microsoft 365 is related to the demystification that having the information in the Cloud is less secure than if it resides on the premises of the organizations themselves.

Microsoft has launched a licensing model that includes an impressive security feature set called Microsoft 365. This is a bundle that includes:

• Windows 10
• Office 365
• Enterprise Mobility + Security

This bundle comes in three different flavors:

• Microsoft 365 Business
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise
• Microsoft 365 Education

The way I see it, Microsoft 365, in which Office 365 is a big part, has two main branches that are closely linked:

• Collaboration
• Security

The main purpose of Microsoft 365, is to empower business to collaborate in a secure way.

If you want to know more about all the security features included Microsoft 365, click here.

Below, is a summary of the top reasons why you should move to the Cloud and start using Microsoft 365. The summary is mainly focused on Microsoft 365 features.

Collaboration with SharePoint and OneDrive

Besides email, Microsoft 365 information will be stored either in SharePoint Online or OneDrive:

• SharePoint Online: the heart of collaboration in Microsoft 365 and where shared information in your organization should reside
• OneDrive: based on the same technology as SharePoint, it is a private space that allows each employee in the organization to store their personal documents. Each employee gets from 1 TB to 5 TB depending on your licensing model.

Office Web Apps (SharePoint and OneDrive)

With Microsoft 365, each Office application has a corresponding web app that allows you to collaborate on documents directly from the browser without the need of its corresponding Office client applications. These are the available Office Web Apps in Microsoft 365:

• Word Online
• Excel Online
• PowerPoint Online
• Visio Online
• OneNote Online

Each of this web apps allows you to open and edit documents directly from the browser. The experience is similar to the Office client application and there are just a few restrictions in edit experience (ex: you can open but not edit macro-enabled Excel files).

Real-Time Collaboration and Co-Authoring (SharePoint and OneDrive)

Are you tired of reviewing documents sending successive copies of the same document back and forth by email and not knowing what the latest version of the document is? Mee too and this is where co-authoring is a huge help!

When documents are stored in SharePoint or OneDrive, co-authoring allows you to share a document with users inside or outside your organization and have them collaborate on the document in real time without the need to save multiple versions of the same document and loose track of the changes that were made by each contributor. All contributions are merged into the same document and you can see who else is editing and what changes each contributor has made.

This allows you to have full real time collaboration over the same document instead of having multiple copies going back and forth by email, having the added advantage to significantly reduce the size of your mailbox and making you much more productive.

SharePoint and OneDrive take advantages of secure sharing, allowing you to choose who can access and edit the document.

To learn more about real time collaboration and co-authoring, click here.

Stop Sending Attachments by Email

Another advantage of using SharePoint and OneDrive for collaboration is that instead of attaching a copy of your document in the email, you can simply share a link to the document that is stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

For users, the attachment looks exactly the same as a normal attachment with the difference of a having a small “cloud” symbol near the document icon.

This way, we also significantly reduce the size of user’s mailboxes since what we are sharing is the link do the document in SharePoint or OneDrive and not a copy of the file. Sharing documents this way also enables users to use real time collaboration by allowing them to co-edit the “attached” document. The document can be edited either in the browser or using the appropriate Office client application.

To learn more on Cloud Attachments, click here.

Offline Access

Documents in SharePoint and OneDrive are stored in document libraries. You can sync any SharePoint or OneDrive files to a folder on your computer where you can work directly in the files using File Explorer and you can even access and work on the files when you’re offline.

Once you get back online, any changes that you or other users make will be synced automatically.

To learn more on how to sync a SharePoint or OneDrive document library, click here.

Microsoft 365 Groups

Microsoft 365 groups are the preferred method for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. When created, an Microsoft 365 group provides the following for its members:

• A Security Group (Azure AD)
• A Shared Group Mailbox (Exchange)
• A Shared Team Site (SharePoint)
• A Shared Notebook (OneNote)
• A Team in Microsoft Teams (if created through Teams or if later a Team in Microsoft Teams is associated to an existing Microsoft 365 group)
• A Teamwork Planning Space (Microsoft Planner)

Microsoft 365 Groups can be created from a variety of ways in Microsoft 365 (among others: SharePoint, Outlook and Microsoft Teams) and its main purpose is to facilitate teams inside the organizations to collaborate. For instance, the Shared Group Mailbox that is created is not a distribution list but a shared mailbox in Exchange Online and it allows for a new member in the group to have instant access to all emails sent to the shared mailbox prior to his addition to the group!

To learn more about Microsoft 365 Groups, click here.

Mobility

One of the strongest advantages when you migrate to Microsoft 365 is mobility. You will be able to access your documents, emails, business processes from any device and from any location.

Below, are a few examples of what you can do directly from your mobile phone or tablet:

• Access your email and contacts using Exchange Online and Outlook Mobile App
• Open and collaborate on shared documents in SharePoint Team Sites using Office mobile apps (there is a mobile version for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Share and access important news with your team using SharePoint Communication Sites
• Access your organizations dashboards using Power BI
• Access important business processes (example: approve your team’s expenses) using PowerApps
• Join a meeting directly from your phone using Microsoft Teams mobile app
• Access relevant corporate information using the mobile SharePoint app

All of this can be achieved in a secure way. I will talk a little bit more on security later in the second part of the blog post.

Use Microsoft Teams as your Work Hub

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that was launched on March 14, 2017 and it combines workplace chat, audio and video based conference call meetings, notes, attachments and all that relates to digital team work. This service integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 including Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online and can also integrate with non-Microsoft products.

Microsoft Teams is already the fastest growing business app in Microsoft’s history and is rapidly growing to be the work hub for collaboration in Microsoft 365. In summary, Microsoft Teams provides:

• 1-to-1 and Team Chats: You can chat with any internal users in your Microsoft 365 tenant and also guest users (for more details, about internal users and external users and Pros and Cons of Single Tenant vs Multiple Tenants in Microsoft 365, click here)
• Channels: By default, a single channel called “General” is created for every Team but new channels can be created. The most common approach is to create a few channels, one for each relevant topic within the Team. For now, all channels share same security settings as the team but in the near future it will be possible to have private channels (with specific permissions)
• Meetings: You can organize and attend online meetings (audio and video) and you can even start your meeting using your PC and continue attending it using your mobile device. All you need is a stable internet connection!
• Files: You can open your files directly in Teams without the need to go to SharePoint where the files are stored. Soon, Teams will have the full SharePoint files experience and the user experience to interact with files will be even better than it is today (if you want to know more about the recent announcements on Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365, click here and here)
• Tabs: Tabs is a great way to add content to your Team or channel. It allows you to add new tabs that show content from Microsoft 365 (ex: a shared calendar, the Team Planner, a PowerBI dashboard) or relevant external content (ex: an external web page)
  
  
• Connectors: Similar to tabs but it allows you to get content from a variety of content sources directly into a channel (ex: a relevant RSS feed, Twitter account activity, etc)
  
  
• Bots: Microsoft Teams also has the ability to communicate with Bots that are artificial intelligence applications which can complete simple or complex tasks using chat-based commands
• Mobile App: All the above can be done using the Teams Mobile app, which is a rich feature set app, available for IOS and Android

To learn more about Microsoft Teams, click here.

Easy and Secure External Sharing

For organizations to be able to share content from an On-Premises SharePoint installation, it involves some complex IT configurations to be set in place. If you migrate to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online, it gets much easier to share information with external users, allowing information to be easily shared in a secure way.

SharePoint Online makes it possible to easily share:

• Sites: Share a whole site with an external user
• Document Libraries: Share only the contents of a specific document library
• Folders: Share only the contents of a specific folder
• Documents: Share only the contents of a specific document

To be able to share with external users, external sharing must be enabled on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and from a security perspective it is possible to control for which domains external sharing is allowed (either by using black or white lists).

To learn more about external sharing on Microsoft 365, click here.

To read the second part of this post, click here.

Related Articles

If you want to convert your tenant’s root classic site into a modern SharePoint site, click here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Microsoft 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Microsoft 365 or thinking to migrate to Microsoft 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Microsoft 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Microsoft 365 announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019, click here and here.

If your organization is still not ready to migrate to Microsoft 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

The post Why You Should Migrate To Microsoft 365 (Part 1) appeared first on Blog IT.

Introduction

SharePoint and Office 365 have come a long way and it is nothing but amazing to see the constant innovation that Microsoft has been introducing to the platform over the years!

There are lot of new announcements being released at a very fast pace and it is challenging to stay up to date with everything that is being released!

This post will try to resume the latest announcements in the SharePoint and Office 365 world and what it means for end users, IT Pros and developers.

Hope you are ready for a ride, fasten your seat belt, because there are many new features coming (some of them may be already rolled out at the time of this writing). While it is impossible to talk about everything that has been announced, I will try to resume some of the biggest announcements in a two part series. These are the main topics I will discuss in the second part of this two part series:

• What’s New for Administrators
• What’s New for Security and Compliance
• What’s New for SharePoint Server (On-Premises)
• Fluid Framework
• Other Relevant Announcement

To read the first part of this post series, click here.

What’s New for Administrators

As in other areas, there are a lot of new announcements for administrators.

SharePoint Admin Center

In Preview for some time, the modern SharePoint admin center will become the default experience for administering SharePoint Online including the management of classic experiences through the new modern UI. Below, some of the most important announcements.

Consolidated Views (Available Soon)

With the new update, in the new SharePoint admin center experience you can manage both settings related to modern SharePoint experiences and classic features, meaning that there will be no need to to work across modern and classic admin centers to manage settings across modern and classic settings.

Bulk Actions (Available Soon)

Soon it will be possible to performing bulk actions against a collection of sites. These actions include updating the site’s sharing configuration, performing hub site association or deleting sites.

Site URL Rename (Available Soon)

One my favorite announcements of the whole event! Site URL Rename has been one of the most popular requests via UserVoice and soon it will be possible in the SharePoint Admin Center to change a site URL.

If you are worried if you are going to have broken links, stop worrying! The changes to the site URL will have no impact since access requests to the old URL will be redirected to the new URL, meaning that users will not need to update their links and bookmarks.

SharePoint Site Swap (Coming Soon)

A new Windows PowerShell cmdlet (Invoke-SPOSiteSwap) will be available soon that allows admins to replace the root site within a tenant, e.g. https://contoso.sharepoint.com with an existing site, such as https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/<modernsite>. This is extremely useful if you have a classic site as the root site of the tenant and you want to replace it with a modern site.

To learn more about all the announcements for administrators, click here.

What’s New for Security and Compliance

If it is nothing but impressive to see the way SharePoint and Office 365 introduces new collaboration features, it is not less impressive the investments made on security in the Office 365 platform. In 2017, Microsoft has launched a licensing model that includes an impressive security feature set called Microsoft 365. This is a bundle that includes:

• Windows 10
• Office 365
• Enterprise Mobility + Security

This bundle comes in three different flavors:

• Microsoft 365 Business
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise
• Microsoft 365 Education

If you want to know more about all the security features included Microsoft 365, click here.

Below, are the main announcements for Security and Compliance.

Sensitivity Labels for SharePoint Sites (Private Preview)

Collaborating in a secure and protecting the information in your tenant is critical, specially if you have sensitive information.

By using Sensitivity Labels, you can apply security and access policies to SharePoint sites based on the sensitivity of the site. You can create sensitivity labels (ex: Confidential Document) and associate them with policies in the Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Center to for example restrict users from download or print documents or even share them with external users. These labels can then be applied to files, emails, groups, sites and teams to enforce consistent policies across the information in your tenant.

One of the major security announcements of the event is that soon it will be possible to edit protected documents with Sensitivity Labels as long as you have edit permissions on the document. This is a major update since before this update, it was not possible to edit protected documents at all.

External Access Expiration (Preview Q3 CY19)

Another important update announced in the event is that it will be possible for a tenant administrator to specify how long external users can have access to sites and the content that is shared with them. Once the expiration date is reached, the external user will no longer have access to the site or content unless their access is extended by the site owner or a new sharing invitation is sent.

DLP Restricted Sharing (Private Preview Q3 CY19)

With this new update, it will be possible for organizations to block sharing as anonymous anonymous links of content flagged as sensitive by DLP (Data Loss Prevention).

OneDrive Restricted User Access (Private Preview)

It will be possible to prevent external users to create OneDrive sites and to access other users’s OneDrive sites.

To learn more about all the announcements for security and compliance, click here.

What’s New for SharePoint Server

There are two major announcements for SharePoint Server. support for SQL Managed Instances and support for Azure Stack.

SQL Managed Instances

It will now be possible to run SharePoint Server 2019 on SQL Managed Instances, allowing SharePoint to take advantage of the benefits of managed instances with SharePoint environments hosted in Azure. To learn more about SQL Managed Instances, click here.

Azure Stack

It will now be possible to install SharePoint on Azure Stack (Azure running On-Premises). To learn more about Azure Stack, click here.

To learn more about the announcements for SharePoint Server, click here.

Fluid Framework

Fluid Framework was first announced at Build and there isn’t yet a lot of information available. According to Microsoft, Fluid Framework is:

“A developer technology for building a new class of shared, interactive experiences on the web. It offers three key capabilities. First, experiences powered by the Fluid Framework will support multi-person coauthoring on web and document content at a speed and scale not yet achieved in the industry. Second, it provides a componentized document model that allows authors to deconstruct content into collaborative building blocks, use them across applications, and combine them in a new, more flexible kind of document. Third, the Fluid Framework makes room for intelligent agents to work alongside humans to translate text, fetch content, suggest edits, perform compliance checks, and more.”

One thing is for sure: it is a huge announcement and a possible game changer for multi-user collaboration scenarios with a lot of room for AI.

An impressive example shown at Build is a browser showing 9 browsers, each one with a text being translated to their own language!

Later this year, we will start to see new experiences taking advantage of Fluid Framework in Office applications and a SDK will also be made available for developers!

Other Relevant Announcements

Some other relevant announcements:

• New Capabilities for Microsoft Stream
• New Capabilities for Yammer
• Create Lists from Excel Files
• SharePoint File Storage Improvements

New Capabilities for Microsoft Stream

Now it is possible to securely record, upload and share videos using Microsoft Stream mobile app.

Additionally, it is possible to insert polls or surveys directly into videos with Microsoft Forms.

To learn more about Microsoft Stream announcements, click here.

New Capabilities for Yammer

Yammer will have a new feature that allows you to ask a question and then you or a group administrator can mark the best answer. It will be also possible to add intelligent, bot-like responses to frequently asked questions.

To learn more about Yammer announcements, click here.

Create SharePoint Lists from Excel Files

Several innovations were announced on the SharePoint side and specifically in SharePoint Lists but my favorite one is the possibility to create a SharePoint List from Excel. Users just have to choose the Excel file, the desired table and then confirm the columns and their data types in SharePoint. Easy and powerful!

SharePoint File Storage Improvements

This is not an announcement by itself but some interesting numbers on improvements that were made in the SharePoint File Storage over the last few years:

• Accessing data from Microsoft 365 is ten times faster than it was just two years ago
• User’s experience in Office 365 is three times faster than a year ago, with investments across architecture that accelerate your experience even when you are working far from your own data center
• Users can view more than 320 file types, without requiring dedicated applications, across Microsoft 365 web, mobile, and desktop applications and Windows 10
• Differential sync, coming to OneDrive, will synchronize large files significantly faster and considerably reduce network utilization by the sync process

Summary

If you want to know more about what recent updates in the SharePoint and Office 365 world, I invite you to read all about the latest announcements from the SharePoint Conference:

• SharePoint Conference 2019 web site (with video to the event keynote)
• Microsoft 365 innovations for the intelligent workplace post by Jeff Teper
• SharePoint home sites: a landing for your organization on the intelligent intranet
• New Yammer investments add engagement and compliance capabilities
• New Microsoft Stream mobile features, interactivity and more announced at SharePoint Conference 2019
• OneDrive announcements—SharePoint Conference 2019
• Turbocharging Microsoft 365 cloud user experiences
• Getting started with Microsoft Search
• Updates to SharePoint security, administration, and migration
• New Records Management solution and machine learning updates come to Microsoft 365 compliance
• What’s new for SharePoint Server
• Announcements for SharePoint developers
• Microsoft adoption resources center
• Optimizing business solutions with SharePoint and Office 365 at SPC19

To finish, I leave you the fantastic contribution from Luise Freese that summarizes the major announcements of the event!

To read the first part of this post series, click here.

Related Articles

If you want to convert your tenant’s root classic site into a modern SharePoint site, click here.

To learn why your business should migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365, click here and here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Office 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Office 365 or thinking to move to Office 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Office 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Office 365 announcements from Ignite and some more recent announcements, including Microsoft Search, What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365, Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint and the latest news on SharePoint development, click here.

If your organization is still not ready to go all in to SharePoint Online and Office 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

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From May 21st to 23rd, Microsoft has once again hosted SharePoint Conference, one of its biggest tech events, with many new announcements and revealing a lot of exciting new features in the Microsoft world, including SharePoint and Office 365.

Introduction

SharePoint and Office 365 have come a long way and it is nothing but amazing to see the constant innovation that Microsoft has been introducing to the platform over the years!

There are lot of new announcements being released at a very fast pace and it is challenging to stay up to date with everything that is being released!

This post will try to resume the latest announcements in the SharePoint and Office 365 world and what it means for end users, IT Pros and developers.

Hope you are ready for a ride, fasten your seat belt, because there are many new features coming (some of them may be already rolled out at the time of this writing). While it is impossible to talk about everything that has been announced, I will try to resume some of the biggest announcements in a two part series. These are the main topics I will discuss in the first part of this two part series:

• SharePoint Home Sites
• Microsoft Search
• What’s New In OneDrive
• What’s New for Developers

To read the second part of this post series, click here.

SharePoint Home Sites

One of the biggest announcements ot this year’s SharePoint Conference was without any doubt the new SharePoint Home Sites. This is a SharePoint Communication Site with steroids and it was designed to be the home site for your organization.

SharePoint Home Sites are basically a pre-built portal that is based on a Communication Site with many additional features. The Home Site has some new web parts (that are also available to any Communication Site) and is automatically configured as the news site for the entire organization.

The main goal is to promote employees engagement within the organization by bringing in a single place relevant news, events, content, conversations and video to deliver an engaging experience that reflects each organization’s most relevant information for the whole company.

This is how a SharePoint Home Site will look like:

SharePoint Home sites have the following benefits over traditional Communication Sites:

• A Great and Modern Design
• The SharePoint Home Site is configured as the default organization’s news site
• The information presented in the page is scoped to the entire tenant (using Microsoft Search)

The new SharePoint Home Site will be divided in two major types of information:

• Content that is relevant to the whole organization
• Intelligent web parts that show relevant personalized content (content targeted at the logged in user), making it a great experience for every user that can easily and rapidly access the most relevant information for them (once again powered by search based capabilities). Examples: My Frequent Sites, My News, My Recent Documents

From now on, creating new engaging SharePoint Portals will be a matter of minutes and not days or weeks since SharePoint Home Sites will be available out of the box with no need for any custom development.

In the near future, all new Office 365 tenants will be automatically created with a SharePoint Home Site as their homepage. For existing tenants, admins will be able to provision a Home Site using PowerShell (and eventually, using the Admin Center).

To learn more about SharePoint Home Sites, click here.

Microsoft Search

Microsoft Search was announced in last Microsoft Ignite edition (if you want to know everything about Microsoft Ignite 2018’s announcements, click here) and a lot has happened in this department since then.

Microsoft Search In Bing (Availble Now)

If you are using Bing and you are signed in with your Office 365 account, search results will bring together web results and organization results from withing your Office 365 tenant including People, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Yammer.

Microsoft Search in Office.com (Available Now)

It is already possible to search from the Office.com portal and quickly find the most relevant information to you, including the documents you most recently worked on (all of this delivered by the Graph API).

Microsoft Search in Office Desktop Applications (Available Now)

It is already possible to have a consistent search experience from within Office applications (includes Desktop, Web and Mobile applications). The search experience allows you for example to search for a PowerPoint presentation from within a Word document and insert a specific slide directly into the Word document without opening PowerPoint!

Search results are also contextual and suggestions will appear depending on the part of the document users are editing.

Microsoft Search in SharePoint (Available Now)

Recently the Microsoft Search was included in Modern SharePoint sites and will allow users to quickly find News, Files and People. As in other Office 365 applications, the search box is presented at the top of the page.

The first time you click the search box, the search results will present suggestions and the most recent documents you worked on or you recently opened.

Microsoft Search in OneDrive (Available Now)

Microsoft Search is also available in OneDrive and lets you quickly find the information you are looking for from inside your OneDrive files and rapidly filter the search results.

Microsoft Search in Windows (Coming Soon)

Not yet available but soon it will be possible to search for information (Documents, People) in your Office 365 tenant directly from Windows 10.

Microsoft Search Admin Center (Available Now)

The new Microsoft Search Admin Center is already available and lets administrators to take a look into valuable insights from the information inside your organization, such as top queries, impression distribution by result type, etc.

Other Microsoft Search Announcements (Later This Year)

For IT Pros and developers, there were also announced some major and exciting new features coming later this year:

• Custom Refiners
• Custom Search Verticals
• Custom Display Templates for Custom Result Types

To learn more about the most recent announcements on Microsoft Search, click here.

What’s New In OneDrive

There is a LOT of new announcements in the OneDrive world! Below, are some of the most important announcements.

AutoCAD DWG Files Preview

It will be possible, to preview AutoCAD DWG files directly in the browser, without the need to install the AutoCAD desktop application.

Request Files From Others

This is one my favorite announcements for OneDrive! If you want to receive documents from others in a simpler way (and avoid for example email to do it), you will be able to Request Files in a simple and safe way. You simply select a folder you want the recipient to place documents into and click Request Files. The email that is sent to the recipient automatically fills in the URL of your OneDrive folder and all you have to do is to type in the email of the person you want to request files from. The recipient clicks on the link, selects and uploads the files and the files will be automatically uploaded to the requestor OneDrive folder!

Get direct links to individual PowerPoint slides (Web Only)

It will be possible to get a link to a specific slide in a PowerPoint presentation with the new Link to this Slide option. This option will only be available for PowerPoint Online. Recipients that click on the link will be taken directly to that slide.

Simplified Sharing inside Office Applications

Did you ever tried to ask for the contribution of someone in a Word or PowerPoint document that doesn’t have permissions on the document? Mee too. Not a problem anymore! From now on, if you mention someone in a document to ask for their contribution, a permission check will be made and if the recipient doesn’t have permissions on the document, you will be able to share the document and notify the user on the spot! Very cool stuff!

OneDrive sync client differential sync

Personally, my favorite announcement for OneDrive. Differential sync brings the ability to sync only the parts of large files that have changed, not the entire files. This will make the file synchronization process much faster for these files. Currently, OneDrive already supports differential sync for Office files and later this year, OneDrive differential sync will be supported in all file types stored in OneDrive and SharePoint.

To learn more about all the announcements for OneDrive, click here.

What’s New for Developers

If you want to know all there is to know about SharePoint and Office 365 development, take a look at the SharePoint Developer Community (PnP).

SharePoint Framework is taking more and more a place at the heart of SharePoint and Office 365 development to create modern solutions all over the world!

Below, are some of the major developer announcements from the SharePoint Conference!

Application Pages and Microsoft Teams Tabs

SharePoint Framework web parts and extensions were the first building blocks to help developers create engaging team and communication sites experiences but many times we want to develop whole applications using SPFx technology!

Since SharePoint Framework 1.7 was released, developers were able to:

• Build Web Parts in SPFx for Microsoft Teams
• Host Microsoft Teams Tabs as Application Pages and Web Parts in SharePoint

Recently, SharePoint Framework 1.8 was announced with support for Application Pages that allow developers to create full page solutions based on SharePoint Framework!

Later, it will be possible to extend support for Teams and SharePoint applications built through SharePoint Framework to mobile devices including Teams Tabs! Very cool!!!

SharePoint Online Provisioning Service

SharePoint Online Provisioning Service was in Preview for some time and it now made generally available.

A while ago, Microsoft released the SharePoint look book with lots of great examples of different designs and components we could have in SharePoint pages. With the SharePoint Online Provisioning Service, it is now possible to provision those components (currently from 10 different templates) in just a few clicks to your existing SharePoint tenant!

According to the SharePoint Online Provisioning Service Description, soon templates will support other assets, including Teams, Channels, Tabs in Microsoft Teams and other Office 365 assets.

New Developer Experiences

Announced at Microsoft Build, Microsoft is going to enhance Microsoft Graph connected controls. Additionally, take a look at Windows Community Toolkit (which includes controls for working with Microsoft Graph and Files) and at the new Microsoft Graph Toolkit for web experiences. This toolkit includes several controls such as controls to manage Microsoft Graph login, display of relevant people, calendar, and task information and soon more controls will be available such as web-based file browser controls.

SharePoint Framework 1.9 (Available Soon)

With the upcoming SharePoint Framework 1.9 (currently in development), it will be possible to develop library components, that are basically common modules of code that can be shared across multiple SharePoint Framework projects. With the new release of SharePoint Framework (coming soon), library components will be generally available.

To learn more about the most recent developer announcements, click here.

To read the second part of this post series, click here.

Related Articles

If you want to convert your tenant’s root classic site into a modern SharePoint site, click here.

To learn why your business should migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365, click here and here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you prefer to use the traditional method to update your farm and want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated, click here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016, click here and here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Office 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Office 365 or thinking to move to Office 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Office 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Office 365 announcements from Ignite and some more recent announcements, including Microsoft Search, What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365, Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint and the latest news on SharePoint development, click here.

If your organization is still not ready to go all in to SharePoint Online and Office 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

Happy SharePointing!

The post What’s New for SharePoint and Office 365 from SharePoint Conference 2019 (Part 1) appeared first on Blog IT.

Tenant properties are used to store information, such as configuration settings, login information, or other information used by applications. These properties are stored in the application catalog site property named “storageentitiesindex”.

The tenant properties are managed by tenant administrators by using
SharePoint PnP PowerShell, SharePoint Online PowerShell, Office 365 Cli or REST API’s.

The Web Part

This web part allows tenant administrators to manage tenant properties through a graphical interface.

Only the tenant administrators are allowed to manage tenant properties, the web part verifies if current user has tenant administrator role.

User without tenant admin role:

Web part allows you to create, edit, and remove tenant properties.

List tenant properties

Add tenant Property

Edit tenant property

Delete tenant property

Thank you for reading,

Source code is here but soon will be available in sp-dev-fx-webparts.

Sharing is Caring!

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From September 24th to 28th, Microsoft has once again hosted Microsoft Ignite one of its biggest tech events, revealing many exciting new features in the Microsoft world, including SharePoint and Office 365.

Introduction

There are lot of new announcements being released at a very fast pace and it is challenging to stay up to date with everything that is being released!

This post will try to resume the latest announcements in the SharePoint and Office 365 world and what it means for end users, IT Pros and developers.

Hope you are ready for a ride, fasten your seat belt, because there are many new features coming (some of them may be already rolled out at the time of this writing). While it is impossible to talk about everything that has been announced, I will try to resume some of the biggest announcements. These are the main topics I will discuss in this post:

• Microsoft Search
• What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365
• Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
• Microsoft Content Services
• What’s New for Security and Compliance
• What’s New for Administrators
• SharePoint Framework 1.7 (Preview)

Microsoft Search

This is probably one of the biggest announcements from Ignite 2018: Microsoft Search! Some of the features are already rolled out or about to be and a few will be made available in 2019.

Microsoft Search will bring a consistent and intelligent search experience to the most common ways we can interact with information throughout the Microsoft ecosystem (inside and outside of Microsoft 365):

• Bing.com
• Office.com
• SharePoint Mobile App
• Windows (to be released in the first half of 2019)
• Office Applications (to be released in the first half of 2019)

With Microsoft Search, an intelligent search experience (using AI) will be delivered to users across all of the Office 365 applications as well as Windows and Bing.

Microsoft Search in Bing

The new experience in Bing will bring together web results and organization results (from SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, etc).

Microsoft Search in Office.com

It will be possible to search the same search scope from the Office.com portal and quickly find the most relevant documents to you, including the documents you most recently worked on (all of this delivered by the Graph API).

Microsoft Search in Office Apps (release in 2019)

To be released in first half of 2019, is a consistent search experience from within Office applications (includes Desktop, Web and Mobile applications).

For more details about Microsoft Search, click here.

What’s New to Build a Modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365

A LOT of new features have been announced in the Modern Intranet scope and some of them were lacking to complete the vision of building a modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365. Here is the list of the most important announcements:

• New Mega Menu Layout for Site and Hub Site Navigation
• New Web Parts
• Audience Targeting for News and Highlighted Content Web Parts
• Header Layouts and Footer Enhancements
• Central Asset Library
• Communication Site Experience at the root of a Office 365 Tenant
• Hub Site Improvements for End Users and Administrators
• New Page Capabilities

New Mega Menu Layout for Site and Hub Site Navigation

Probably the most important and exciting announcement to build a modern Intranet with SharePoint in Office 365! Now that a flat information architecture based on modern Team Sites and Communication sites is the new recommendation and despite the existence of Hub Sites, there was still missing a piece that glues all the sites and hub sites together to build the Intranet navigation for an organization as a whole. With the mega menu, it will be possible to go beyond menus with simple drop downs and build a menu that displays multiple hierarchies all at once. This is how a mega menu will look like:

New Web Parts

A series of new web parts were announced and it will now be easier (once again with the help of Microsoft Graph) to display personalized web parts that allow users to easily find relevant content. The following web parts will be available:

• Personalized View of Recent Sites (My Recent Sites)
• Personalized View of Recent Documents (My Recent Documents)
• Personalized View of News (My News)

Other web parts and web part features that were announced:

• Countdown timer web part: it will now be able to display a countdown timer to show important launch dates, key meetings, campaign dates, etc
• Web Part Connections: it will now be possible to connect modern web parts and now web parts will be able to interact with each other and change the displayed information  based on the content selection of other web parts

Audience Targeting for News and Highlighted Content Web Parts

Audience Targeting has been present in SharePoint for many years and now it will be possible to apply audiences to News and Highlighted Content Web Parts so that it will be possible to show different information in the same page, depending on who is visiting the page.

Header Layouts and Footer Configuration

Two important announcements that will improve the user navigation experience in a modern Intranet:

• Header Layouts: it will be possible to reclaim some of the vertical space at the top of the site. There will be three new choices for the header: Standard, Minimal and Compact
• Footer Configuration: it will be possible to change the footer contents to place for example standard links and information that organizations wants to highlight at the bottom of all pages without the need for custom Master Pages

Central Asset Library

Organizations and teams will now be able to provide users an easy access to the organization’s approved images. For example, the Marketing department can share all the Marketing approved images that can be used by everyone in a centralized location.

Communication Site Experience at the root of a Office 365 Tenant

A modern Intranet home page is a fundamental place to display the most relevant information for an organization. Currently, the root site of an Office 365 tenant is created as a classic site, not taking advantage of all that modern experience has to offer and making it difficult for organizations to communicate with their employees. With this update, it will be possible to extend the Communication Site experience to the root site of the Office 365 tenant and it will be possible to transform a classic root site into a Communication Site for existing tenants. To learn more, click here.

Hub Site Improvements for End Users and Administrators

Two major improvements were announced for hub sites:

• For Developers: it will be possible for all site collections joined to a Hub Site to inherit and use the content types published in the Hub Site
• For End Users: it will be possible to create a Team Site or Communication Site directly from a hub site. If a site is created from the hub site, the user will get new site experience and it will be automatically associated to the hub site

• For Administrators: it will be possible from the SharePoint Admin Center in Office 365 to create hub sites, associate existing Modern Team Sites or Communication Sites to a hub site and see the hub site associated sites

New Page Capabilities

News and other pages are also getting some great new capabilities:

• Page Designs: somehow similar to old page layouts, it will be possible to create page design layouts to make it easier for users to build pages using a consistent layout
• Page Metadata: it will be possible to add metadata in modern pages and expose metadata as Page properties
• Page background sections: it will be possible to add background colors to sections to better divide content in a page

For more details on the announcements to build modern Intranets with SharePoint in Office 365, click here.

Deeper Integration between Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing product in Office 365 and with a huge level of adoption. A lot of new existing features were announced for Teams and one of the most important announcements is without a doubt a deeper integration with SharePoint. These were the most important announcements related to Teams and SharePoint integration:

• New File Experience: finally Teams will have the same experience as in SharePoint. Users will be able to: create new custom views, modify existing views, pin files to the top, add and format custom columns and get file activities insights directly from Teams. Finally, the SharePoint command bar will also be available in Teams which allows users, for example, to sync files from Microsoft Teams to your Windows or Mac computer without having to go to SharePoint

• Web Parts as Tabs in Teams: it will be possible to show SharePoint web parts directly in Microsoft Teams tabs. With this release, it will be possible to run SharePoint Framework web parts directly in Teams
• Display Teams tabs in SharePoint pages: with the release of SharePoint Framework 1.7, it will be possible to expose Teams tabs as full page apps in SharePoint

For more details on these and other Microsoft Teams announcements, click here.

Microsoft Content Services

At Ignite, a series of new content management capabilities inside Microsoft Content Services have been announced:

• File card: intelligent contextual file cards with information about files in Office 365, which enables the user to view important information about files without the need to open them
• Mobile capture: ability to capture file and its metadata and deliver it to SharePoint using mobile devices
• Document templates: a simplified way to add document templates using the New menu in document libraries
• Predictive indexing: it will be possible to automatically generate indexes for lists and libraries with up to 30 million items
• Modern document sets: work with document sets using the new modern experience
• PowerApps integration with SharePoint libraries: in addition to Lists, it is now possible to build a PowerApp that uses SharePoint libraries as a data source
• Flow for document management: ability to use Microsoft Flow to move and copy files in Office 365 and generate shareable links
• Attention Views: new views that allow users to easily find information in a SharePoint List that is not compliant and needs user’s attention (ex: missing information in required fields). This feature will also be available for SharePoint Server 2019
• File plans: ability to import, manage, and classify multiple retention rules using Excel and then import and apply the rules to the organization

To know more details about recent announcements on Content Services, click here.

What’s New for Security and Compliance

If it is nothing but impressive to see the way SharePoint and Office 365 introduces new collaboration features, it is not less impressive the investments made on security in the Office 365 platform. Last year, Microsoft has launched a licensing model that includes an impressive security feature set called Microsoft 365. This is a bundle that includes:

• Windows 10
• Office 365
• Enterprise Mobility + Security

This bundle comes in three different flavors:

• Microsoft 365 Business
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise
• Microsoft 365 Education

If you want to know more about all the security features included Microsoft 365, click here.

The major announcements announcements in what regards to security and compliance in the Office 365 platform are:

• SharePoint Site Classification Labels
• Automatic Application of Retention Labels
• Label Analytics
• Unified Labeling Management in the Security & Compliance Center
• Microsoft Threat Protection

SharePoint Site Classification Labels

Across almost any organization, there are different types of content that require different security requirements to comply with industry regulations and internal policies to ensure information is properly secured.

Microsoft Information Protection labels allows organizations to apply consistent security and access policies to SharePoint Sites based on the sensitivity of the site. In addition to Retention Labels, it is now possible to create Sensitivity Labels and associate them with policies in the Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Center. Sensitivity Labels can then be applied to files, emails, groups, Sites and Teams to automatically enforce consistent policies across content in an organization.

Automatic Application of Retention Labels

Retention labels can now be created and automatically applied to content with rules based on content types and metadata. This way, it gets even easier to automate the application of retention policies across all content in SharePoint.

Label Analytics

As information grows in an organization, it is important to stay informed on how retention and sensitivity labels are being used to classify, retain, and protect an organization’s content.

Using Label Analytics, it is now possible to get insights into how content is being labeled, including which labels are used most, and what emails and files they’re being applied to. It is also possible to explore user activity to identify who applies labels and investigate unusual trends.

Unified Labeling Management in the Security & Compliance Center

Organizations have a need to manage the lifecycle of their information and to keep sensitive data secure, also ensuring that their data and records are governed in accordance with compliance requirements. Now that users can share and move their data across multiple devices, apps, and services, it is critical to protect important data.

From now on, a new unified labeling experience is available in the Security & Compliance Center that allows managing labels across Azure Information Protection and Office 365.  With this update, interoperability between Azure Information Protection and Office 365 labels is ensured, meaning, for example, organizations won’t need to reclassify or relabel their content if they already have labels in Azure Information Protection. With unified labels, it is possible to assign multiple labels to a single file, helping ensure sensitive data is protected and controlled according to the organization’s governance needs.

Microsoft Threat Protection

Organizations are increasingly concerned about the growing volume and sophistication of the threat attack surface, and how difficult it is to make intelligent decisions quickly and cost-effectively to keep their data safe.

Attacks can come from anywhere.  As such, it is not possible for a single service to secure the entire modern workplace. This way, it is important to have groups of services working together to secure the different attack vectors to help ensure an organization is protected across the entire attack surface.  Microsoft Threat Protection is composed by different groups of solutions that help secure each of the attack vectors:

• Identities: Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security
• Endpoints: Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Windows 10, Microsoft Intune
• User Data: Exchange Online Protection, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Office 365 Threat Intelligence, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security
• Cloud Apps: Exchange Online Protection, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security
• Infrastructure: Azure Security Center, SQL Server, Linux

To learn more about the latest security and compliance announcements, I invite you to read:

• What’s new in security, compliance & administration for SharePoint & OneDrive from Microsoft Ignite
• Announcing the availability of unified labeling management in the Security & Compliance Center
• Announcing Microsoft Threat Protection

What’s New for Administrators

The major updates for administrators are:

• Files Restore for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Updates to SharePoint Admin Center
• Multi-Geo Capabilities for SharePoint (Selective Preview)
• SharePoint Migration Tool Improvements

Files Restore for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

Files Restore is now available for SharePoint document libraries, protecting shared files in SharePoint, Teams, Outlook Groups, and Yammer Groups connected to Office 365 Groups in a similar way that is already possible for personal files in OneDrive for Business.

With this release, site administrators are able to restore document libraries from any point in time during the last 30 days and can use activity data to find the exact moment to restore to.

Updates to SharePoint Admin Center

SharePoint Admin Center has a new modern experience (although not all the features are still migrated to the new modern experience). The latest capabilities in the new SharePoint Admin center include:

• The ability to manage all sites, including group connected team sites, communication sites, and hub sites
• Controls such as Device Access and Sharing Policies through a richer menu to manage and control how information is accessed and shared
• A new command surface that provides an actionable command bar, hub site and classification management control
• Several enhancements to the site creation experience, allowing admins to have more control on site settings, storage and classification
• A new simple way to track and manage tenant level storage and site level storage limits

Multi-Geo Capabilities for SharePoint (Selective Preview)

Large organizations that are present around the globe can now take advantage of Multi-Geo capabilities for SharePoint. With this update, organizations, and in particular those with strict data residency policies, can have a single Office 365 tenant that can span across multiple geographies and enable a unified communication and collaboration experience across the whole organization.

SharePoint Migration Tool Improvements

With this update, SharePoint Migration Tool now supports migrating complete SharePoint 2013 sites.

To learn more about the latest announcements for administrators, click here.

SharePoint Framework 1.7 (Preview)

There were quite a few announcements after Ignite but the most important is without a doubt in the developer world with the release of SharePoint Framework 1.7 (still in Preview) that brings:

• Web Parts in Microsoft Teams
• Application Pages (finally!!!)
• Host Microsoft Teams Tabs as Application Pages and Web Parts in SharePoint
• List Subscriptions
• Web Part Connections, Dynamic Data and SharePoint 2019 Support

Web Parts in Microsoft Teams

With the release of SharePoint Framework 1.7, it will be possible to take the web parts built with SharePoint Framework and make them available as applications in Microsoft Teams. With just a few adjustments to the package metadata, it is even possible for every custom developed SPFx web part to become a Tab in Microsoft Teams.

Application Pages

The most long awaited announcement for all SharePoint developers! Finally, it is possible to develop full application pages using the SharePoint Framework technology stack. With SharePoint Framework version 1.7, developers can now choose to create these full application experiences with the SharePoint Framework in much the same way as they would create web parts or extensions.

Host Microsoft Teams Tabs as Application Pages and Web Parts in SharePoint

In addition to creating new application page experiences using SharePoint Framework, with SharePoint Framework 1.7, it will be possible to also take Teams Tab experiences and host them in SharePoint (both as full application pages and as web parts).

List Subscriptions

Users are now able to subscribe to list events from custom developed web parts or extensions. This means that every time there is a change on a list, the custom component is notified through an event and developers are able to build a custom experience based on the event (for example refresh the content to keep it updated).

Web Part Connections, Dynamic Data and SharePoint 2019 Support

Already generally available, Dynamic Data provides a calling pattern and infrastructure for web parts and extensions to bind and share data and consume live information from the page context. This way, web parts can, for example, become more efficient by making a single call to retrieve data from a web service, and then share that data with any other similar web parts on the page. Dynamic Data also provides the foundation for web part connections, allowing page authors to connect data and user experience state across web parts.

Last but not least, SharePoint Framework version 1.7 includes new developer tools, that are generally available, that let developers target SharePoint Server 2019 by creating projects designed for the level of compatibility that SharePoint Server 2019 supports (SharePoint Framework version 1.4.1). Although not taking advantage of the latest SPFx capabilities, these web parts and extensions will also work seamlessly with SharePoint Online in Office 365.

For more information on SharePoint Framework 1.7 in Preview, click here.

Conclusion

If you want to know more about what recent updates in the SharePoint and Office 365 world, I invite you to read all about the latest Ignite 2018 announcements:

• What’s new Microsoft Teams features
• Build your modern intranet with SharePoint in Office 365
• SharePoint powers teamwork in Office 365
• What’s new in security, compliance, & administration for SharePoint & OneDrive from Microsoft Ignite
• New innovations in SharePoint & Microsoft 365 deliver power and simplicity for content collaboration
• Do more with new upcoming SharePoint development capabilities announced at Ignite 2018
• The Microsoft Ignite YouTube Channel

To get a broader vision of SharePoint evolution over the years, don’t miss Jeff Teper “Hitting Refresh on SharePoint” articles:

• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 1
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 2
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 3
• Hitting Refresh on SharePoint and More – Part 4

Related Articles

To learn why your business should migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365, click here and here.

If you want to convert your tenant’s root classic site into a modern SharePoint site, click here.

If you are new to SharePoint and Office 365 and want to learn all about it, take a look at these learning resources.

If you want to know all about the latest SharePoint and Office 365 announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019, click here and here.

If you are work in a large organization who is using Office 365 or thinking to move to Office 365 and is considering between a single or multiple Office 365 tenants, I invite you to read this article.

If your organization is still not ready to go all in to SharePoint Online and Office 365, a hybrid scenario may be the best choice. SharePoint 2019 RTM was recently announced and if you to learn all about SharePoint 2019 and all its features, click here.

If you are a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint developer who wants to learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2019 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, I invite you to click here and here.

If you want to learn how to upgrade a SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint 2019, click here and here.

If you want to learn all the steps and precautions necessary to successfully keep your SharePoint farm updated and be ready to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If you learn how to greatly speed up your SharePoint farm update process to ensure your SharePoint farm keeps updated and you stay one step closer to start your move to the cloud, click here.

If SharePoint 2019 is still not an option, you can learn more about how to install a SharePoint 2016 farm in an automated way using PowerShell, click here and here.

If you are involved in a SharePoint upgrade and want to learn more about the upgrade process, click here and here.

Happy SharePointing!

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Today i will talk about Publishing Features!!! During this afternoon I was trying to activate Publishing Features but i wasn’t having success because Page Library not was created on activation! So there are more than two Publishing Feature that we need have in consideration, it’s not enough Activate Publishing Infrastructure Feature and Publishing Feature. If you want activate all Publishing Features you can do it pragmatically or using Powershell script:

SharePoint Server – Powershell:

 
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingSite' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingResources' -URL http://server/-force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'Publishing' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingLayouts' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingweb' -URL http://server/ -force

Enable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingSite' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingResources' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'Publishing' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingLayouts' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingweb' -URL http://server/ -force

SharePoint Online – Powershell:

 
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" -Scope Web
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "D3F51BE2-38A8-4e44-BA84-940D35BE1566" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "94C94CA6-B32F-4da9-A9E3-1F3D343D7ECB" -Scope Web

Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" -Scope Web
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "D3F51BE2-38A8-4e44-BA84-940D35BE1566" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "94C94CA6-B32F-4da9-A9E3-1F3D343D7ECB" -Scope Web

Also that you can activate Programmatically:

 

        private void ActivatePublishingFeatures(SPWeb web, SPSite site)
        {
            // Publishing Site
            string sharePointPublishingSite = "f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa";
            Guid sharePointPublishingSiteGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingSite);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingSiteGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingSiteGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Resources
            string sharePointPublishingResources = "aebc918d-b20f-4a11-a1db-9ed84d79c87e";
            Guid sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingResources);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing
            string sharePointPublishing = "22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416";
            Guid sharePointPublishingGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishing);

            if (web.Features[sharePointPublishingGuid] == null)
            {
                web.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Layouts
            string sharePointPublishingLayouts = "d3f51be2-38a8-4e44-ba84-940d35be1566";
            Guid sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingLayouts);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Web
            string sharePointServerPublishingWeb = "94c94ca6-b32f-4da9-a9e3-1f3d343d7ecb";
            Guid sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid = new Guid(sharePointServerPublishingWeb);

            if (web.Features[sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid] == null)
            {
                web.Features.Add(sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid, true);
            }
        }

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will share a fantastic Google Chrome Extension that you can use on your developments on SharePoint.

A Google Chrome Extension for creating and updating files (js, css), injecting files to sites, modifying web/list propertybag values (add, edit, remove, index) and creating webhook subscriptions, edit/add/remove webparts from publishing pages and run sp-pnp-js typescript snippets in SP2013, SP2016 and SharePoint Online from Chrome Developer Tools.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/speditor

Take a look at  the great introduction video by Jeff Jones!

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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