What’s new for SharePoint – August 2024

While many of us were taking some well-deserved time off to recharge our batteries, SharePoint and its related applications have been hard at work. As you return to your daily grind, you might be surprised by the new updates that are now available or coming soon.

This month, I want to highlight a set of new features that will elevate Microsoft Lists forms to the next level. These enhancements will make the forms much more usable and could potentially serve as a complete replacement for Microsoft Forms when it comes to collecting information internally.

Additionally, there are exciting updates for Viva Connections. The dashboard continues to evolve with the introduction of new ACE cards, enhancing its functionality and user experience. However, August also brings the bittersweet news of the deprecation of the Feed web part, one of the more distinctive features of Viva Connections.

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By João Ferreira Aug 27, 2024 Uncategorized, What's new 0 Comments

How to create the Viva Connections desktop application using PnP PowerShell

The Viva Connections desktop application for Microsoft Teams allows you to bring your intranet home site to Microsoft Teams creating this way a unified experience between the content in the web and the communication platform.

Despite being an app for Microsoft Teams you will not find it in the Teams store and it needs to be manually generated and installed; Microsoft has its own process as I already explained in this article but a simplified method is available using PnP PowerShell.

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By João Ferreira Apr 4, 2021 Uncategorized 0 Comments

How to create a SharePoint home site

A SharePoint home site is the principal site on your modern SharePoint intranet grouping together news, events, a global navigation, and global search.

A home site is created from a modern communication site and despite being exclusively modern you will not find any interface in SharePoint to create it, the process must be done using PowerShell as explained below.

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By João Ferreira Mar 17, 2021 Uncategorized 0 Comments