Welcome to our August Round Up. In this edition, we look at some small but powerful feature changes in SharePoint, as well as looping back on a tip of the week in Teams, and finally covering the command bar functionality we’re seeing populate into the Power Platform (model-driven)world!
Enjoy the read and let us know if you have any comments!
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Perhaps small on the scale in comparison to some features, but one we are continuously asked about. Microsoft are very evidently pavingthe way for the SharePoint platform to become the Intranet of choice. It’s completely out of the box with all the rich new features they’re giving us –collapsible sections, home sites and header images/title removals (and many more). However, one feature we have always found to be a pain relates to an extremely important aspect of an Intranet – the media you create. Our pages require rich, gripping media to ensure the user experience isn’t hindered and we can now FINALLY remove that annoying background gradient on our header images.
Add Microsoft Teams meetings when creating a Dynamics 365 Appointment
With Dynamics 365being an integral part of many organisations day-to-day running, being in aTeams meeting and having to switch to D365 to see key details about a record can be tiresome. Microsoft are now giving us the ability to create a Teams meeting when we create an Appointment, bringing that record into the meeting itself and allowing us to take notes which automatically save back to the timeline!
Microsoft Teams renaming a channel will now update the back-end SharePoint folder name too
Another small but extremely powerful update from Microsoft with this one. As we are all becoming accustomed to when creating a Microsoft Teams Channel, it also creates a folder inside the general Document Library of that SharePoint Site in the back (once you utilise the file’s function).
With the landscape of a business changing every day, we find the need to sometimes rename a channel – and currently (as well as historically), when we do this, the SharePoint folder didn’t update. Whilst keeping clean data architecture is only a minor nuance for some, this update from Microsoft will now automatically replicate that re-name for you.
Custom Pages inMicrosoft Dynamics – blurring the lines between model-driven and canvas apps
Personally, I live and breathe Canvas Apps. I think they’re fantastic. It may be because my background was InfoPath (#longliveInfoPath) but I genuinely find myself lost daily in the possibilities Microsoft have brought us with Canvas Apps (albeit I think the sooner we can start using them outside of Microsoft licensing the better – so many untapped possibilities Microsoft!).
With this new addition to the toolset, blurring the lines between Model-Driven (old-schoolD365) and Canvas Apps can only mean one thing – world domination.
To have the ability to free reign Power Fx on a custom page within a model-driven app provides, quite literally, an endless amount of functionality to your business-critical systems. We no longer need to worry about embedding or pressing save to bring a canvas app up, we can bring that directly into the app itself.
If you like what you see, there’s more out there! Check out our offerings or get in touch to find out what your company could achieve with Power 365 Solutions.
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