1. Sarah Haase January 9th, 2019 The “Disruption vs. Value” debate
Donald Donais
January 9th, 2019
The “Disruption vs. Value” debate
Defining the pace of your Office 365 implementation
Sarah Haase

3. User Group Goal / Objectives
Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint surrounding technologies
Educate user group members about SharePoint and surrounding technologies
Transfer knowledge within the community
Communicate best practices
Introduce new products / solutions

4. MNSPUG Sponsors Dedicated Sponsors SharePoint User Group Support
Sponsorships Levels:
Gold Sponsorship - $500
Silver Sponsorship - $250
Avtex (
Microsoft (
SharePoint User Group Support
Wrox Press ( O’Reilly (

5. MN SharePoint Users Group Website
SharePoint Resource Documents
SharePoint Resource links
RSS Feeds
Meeting Schedule
Past User Group Presentations
Past User Group Recordings
Sponsorship Information

6. Social Networking
Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings…
Post Job Posting on the Jobs Discussion page
Twitter tags and #MNSPUG
Yammer – Minnesota SharePoint Users Group

7. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting Ongoing Schedule
February 13th, 2019 – TBD
Microsoft Technology Center, Bloomington, MN
Check for updates!
Ongoing Schedule
2nd Wednesday of every month
9:00 to 11:30 am
Microsoft Technical Center – Edina

8. Local and Online Events
SharePoint Saturday St. Louis – January 19th, St. Louis, MO
Minnesota PowerApps and Flow User Group – January 24th, RBA 8 – 11:30
Minneapolis Nintex User Group – January 24th, Centennial Lakes, Suite 4:30pm
App in a Day – February 5th, MTC
The North American Collaboration Summit – March 14th – 15th, Branson, MO
SharePoint Fest D.C. – April 29th – May 3rd, Washington D.C.
SharePoint Conference – May 21st – 23rd, Las Vegas, NV
Anything Else?

9. News and Updates

10. Flow Conference links Posted 11/12/2018 4 parts
2 hours of content per part
More Information:

11. Updates to Microsoft Flow and PowerApps for Office 365
Updated 12/13/2018
Effective February 1, 2019 require additional licensing
Creation and publication of custom connectors
HTTP custom action integrations outside of SharePoint / OneDrive
Integration of on-premises data through data gateway
Extension to exempt licensing until January 31, 2020
Clarifications
Everyone needs new licensing (users and makers)
More Information:
Message Center:

12. Site Scripts & Site Designs – Fall 2018 Update
Posted 12/14/2018
Updates
Auto creation of site scripts
Get-SPOSiteScriptFromList
Large site script support
Add-SPOSiteDesignTask
New Site Design Information Panel
More Information:

13. Page management and approvals
Posted 12/14/2018
Rollout – Targeted Release mid-December 2018
Approvals based on Flow (OPTIONAL)
Demo Link:
More Information:

14. OneDrive retiring MAC OS X versions
Published 12/14/2018
Timeline - February 1st, 2019
Versions
10.10
10.11
Recommendation
Update to macOS Mojave 10.14
Message Center:

15. December updates for Microsoft Flow
Posted 12/17/2018
Updates
Button improvements
Failure notification improvements
Integrated help and support
Flow web APIs
New connectors
More Information:

16. SharePoint Framework release
Posted 12/18/2018
Release 1.7.1
Maintenance release
More Information:
Update title of user data property title in dynamic data.
Add workaround for resolution issue.
Don't show / provision beta components in the non-beta install. Update debugger launch.json config.
Add a dependency on typescript in order to meet the peer dependency requirements of tslint-microsoft-contrib.

17. SharePoint web part updates
Posted 12/18/2018
Rollout
Target Release – end of calendar year 2018
Web parts
Yammer Conversations
Personal web parts
Stream
YouTube
Countdown Timer
Quick chart
Code snippet
Markdown
More Information:

18. Organize news articles
Posted 12/21/2018
Updated documentation
Features
Pin news
News Ordering
More Information:

19. Customize title region of modern pages
Posted 12/21/2018
Updated Documentation
Features
Four layouts
Alignment
Category text
Display author
Published date
Alt-text
More Information:

20. Office 365 – Office Pro Plus Installation Changes
Posted 12/21/2018
Rollout – mid-January 2019
Features
New default 64-bit version
Message Center:
More Information:

21. SharePoint Updates – December 2018 Recap
Posted 12/31/2019
Rollout – Targeted Release Dec 18 / Jan 19
Features not already covered
Page Designs
Section background shading
News pinning
Social bar “docking”
Reminder Flow Template
Column Formatting
Location column
More Information:

22. December updates for PowerApps
Posted 12/31/2018
Updates
Business Process improvements
CDS improvements
Model-driven app improvements
Many different fixes
More Information:

23. OneDrive Files On-Demand
Posted 01/02/2019
Rollout – starting January
Requirements
macOS
OneDrive version
Message Center:

24. MyAnalytics Updates Posted 01/02/2019 Rollout - “Next couple months”
Additional Insights from Teams
Available in more SKUs
Business Essentials
Business Premium
E1, E3 and E5
More Information:

25. Microsoft Forms – Confirmation Receipt
Posted 01/06/2019
Feature
New Checkbox when set
confirmation
View my responses
Requirements
Internal recipients
“Record Name”
More Information:

26. Updated Yammer Adoption Resource Center
Posted 01/07/2019
Sections
Plan your strategy
Prepare for launch
Communicate the launch
Training members
Ongoing engagement
Measure success
Resource Center:
More Information:

27. GitHub Updates Posted 01/07/2019 Offerings
GitHub Free - Unlimited free private repos
GitHub Pro
GitHub Team
GitHub Enterprise
More Information:

28. Microsoft Planner - Government
Posted 01/08/2019
Levels
GCC – Available Now
GCC High – Available Now
DoD – Coming Soon
Features NOT available “yet”
Microsoft Teams integration
notifications
SharePoint web part
More Information:

29. Microsoft Stream – Mobile App
Posted 01/08/2019
Platforms
iOS
Android
Features
Smart search
Offline viewing
Live events
Deep-linking
More Information:

30. Break

31. Speaker

32. Sarah Haase Enterprise Librarian / Corporate Evangelist
Blog:

33. Thanks for coming! Last But Not Least Please Fill Out Evaluations
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