1. Don Donais April 10th, 2019 Become an Excel Power User
Donald Donais
April 10th, 2019
Become an Excel Power User
Connecting and Analyzing Your SharePoint Data
Don Donais

2. Agenda

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 May 8th, 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
Dashboard in a Day – April MTC
Minneapolis Nintex User Group – April Centennial Lakes 7650 Suite 4:30pm
SharePoint Fest D.C. – April 29th – May Washington D.C.
SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs – May DeVry University, Addison, IL
App in a Day – May MTC
Microsoft 365 Admin Workshop Day – May MTC
SharePoint Conference – May 21st – Las Vegas, NV
Anything Else?

9. Speaker

10. Don Donais Office 365 / Enterprise Collaboration Manager

11. Break

12. News and Updates

13. SharePoint Provisioning Service
Published 03/12/2019
Public Preview
Provision sites from the SharePoint Look Book
Sample pages and images
Sample news articles
Office documents as a sample content
Site designs and site scripts
Tenant themes
SharePoint Framework solutions with web parts and extensions
Microsoft Graph or 3rd party API permissions
Tenant taxonomy settings
Hub site configuration
Site collections
Requirements
Tenant Admin
Service:
More Information:

14. Rich Text Formatting in Yammer
Published 03/13/2019
Write posts with
Bold
Italics
Links
Bullet points
Numbered lists
Composing available via web
Mobile app will render correctly
Rollout
Start – over the next week
Completion – mid-May 2019
Message Center:

15. Upgrade CDS database to preserve Flow Approvals history
Published 03/13/2019
Approval data is stored in CDS
Deadlines
Start first step before March 15, 2019
If you haven’t done this database will be disconnected
Data stored for 30 days
If you want to reconnect, contact support before March 29, 2019
Complete upgrade by April 15, 2019
More Information:

16. SharePoint News Enhancements
Published 03/13/2019
Features
Organize News
Authoritative News
News Notifications
Page Templates
Rollout
Targeted Release – End of March 2019
More Information:

17. SharePoint Framework v1.8
Published 03/14/2019
New Features
App Pages
SPFx components as Teams tabs
Isolated web parts
Previews
SPFx Library Components
Teams Tabs in SharePoint
More Information:

18. Flow - Adaptive Cards for Teams and US Government
Posted 03/15/2019
Features
Adaptive Cards
Microsoft Flow for Government is GA
Spring 2019
Dynamics 365
Microsoft 365
Office 365
Supports compliance
FedRAMP High
Requirements for Criminal Justice
New connectors
Streamlined authoring for business process flows
More Information:

19. Updates to Microsoft Whiteboard
Posted 03/15/2019
Changes
Microsoft Whiteboard available product in Office 365
For Surface Hubs, the legacy application will be upgraded
Rollout – over the next 3-4 months
Message Center:

20. Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: Microsoft Graph API for Shifts
Posted 03/15/2019
Rollout
Start – mid-March
Completion – end of March 2019
GCC Excluded
Scenarios
Create, read, and update Schedules and Schedule Groups
Create, read, update, and delete Shifts and shift activities
Create, read, update and delete time offs, time off reasons, and time off requests
Track the last change date of any of these items from Shifts service
Message Center:

21. Retirement of protection.microsoft.com
Posted 03/15/2019
Beginning April 15th
End of March GA for
M365 Security Center
M365 Compliance Center
Use protection.office.com instead
Message Center:

22. Microsoft Forms Pro Preview
Published 03/18/2019
Dependencies
Built on top of Microsoft Forms
Leverages Common Data Service
Features
Send survey based on trigger
Inject CDS data into survey
EDU and GOV tenants excluded
Will be a paid service once GA
More Information:

23. Microsoft Teams News Published 03/19/2019 Chat and Conversations
Secure Private Channels – later this year
Information Barriers – coming soon
Meetings
Calendar App – April 2019
Live Captions – coming soon preview for English
Customized Backgrounds – coming soon
Content Cameras – coming soon
Microsoft Whiteboard – commercial preview
Live Events – now available
Meetings First – preview
Calling
Direct Routing – now available
Hybrid Voic
Office 365
App Setup Policies – rolling out
eDiscovery & DLP – generally available
More Information:

24. PowerApps – Document Library Support
Published 03/20/2019
Libraries as a data source in canvas apps
Media Controls
Image
Video
Audio
Limitations
Can’t upload files from PowerApps to a library
Can’t show PDF files from a library in PDF Viewer control
PowerApps Mobile doesn’t support Download function
More Information:

25. Autodesk integration for DWG files
Published 03/21/2019
Open DWG files in AutoCAD (web app)
Command bar
Pop-up menus
Services
OneDrive for Business
SharePoint Online
Administrators can disable through PowerShell
Rollout
Start – Targeted Release mid-March
Worldwide Completion – end of March
Message Center:

26. PowerApps – GCC General Availability
Posted 03/22/2019
PowerApps for Government is GA
Spring 2019
Dynamics 365
Microsoft 365
Office 365
Supports compliance
FedRAMP High
Requirements for Criminal Justice
More Information:

27. Multi-Geo in SharePoint and Office 365 Groups
Published 03/27/2019
General Availability
Add-on subscription
Minimum 2,500 Office 365 users
More Information:

28. Praise in Microsoft Teams
Published 03/27/2019
Send Praise badges to colleagues
On by default
Rollout
Start – today
Complete – late April 2019
GCC Excluded
Message Center:

29. Microsoft Forms – What’s New in March
Published 03/28/2019
Features
Confirmation Receipt
Deeper Forms Integrations with Office Apps
Teams bot
Admin can transfer form ownership
Bing image search admin control
Match Keyboard Support
External Sharing for Government Customers
More Information:

30. Increasing access to Microsoft Search
Published 03/28/2019
Brining Microsoft Search to:
SharePoint
Office.com
Bing.com
Unified search experience
People
Bookmarks
Groups
Locations
more
Moving search box to consistent top location
Rollout
Targeted Release – Late April
Worldwide – end of May 2019
Message Center:

31. New CSOM and SPO PowerShell versions
Posted 03/29/2019
PowerShell Cmdlets
Enable-SPOCommSite
Get/Set/Remove-SPOHomeSite
Set-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary
CSOM Methods and Properties
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.SearchScope
public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.EnableCommSite
public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.SetOrgAssets
public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantManagement.Office365Tenant.SetOrgAssetsLib
More Information:

32. OneDrive for Business (Groove.exe) Office document Collaboration
Published 03/29/2019
Beginning September
Co-authoring not available through old sync client
Rollout
September 2019 monthly update (Version XXXX)
Also next semi-annual channel release in January 2020 update
Message Center:

33. March 2019 updates for PowerApps
Published 04/01/2019
Canvas Apps
Create responsive expressions for Height and Width
International region updates for Mexico and UK
SharePoint document library support
Work with friendly display names using SharePoint
Model-Driven Apps
Autonumber fields supported by modern entity designer
Work with friendly display names using CDS
More Information:

34. Microsoft Flow Updates
Published 04/01/2019
Features
Flow embedded in Azure IoT Central
Gateway cluster management
Flow checker and designer improvements
More Information:

35. SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2019
Published 04/01/2019
SharePoint Updates
Organization News
Pin News
Share documents with LinkedIn connections
Page templates
Updated sharing page in admin center
Sticky headers for lists / libraries
Related Technologies
Yammer tab in Teams
Copy a Planner plan
Planning in Teams for GCC
Live Events goes GA
Windows Virtual Desktop public preview
New Microsoft 365 Admin Center
April Teasers
Connected web parts for SharePoint
News audience targeting
More Information:

36. OneDrive Roadmap Round-up: March 2019
Published 04/02/2019
OneDrive Updates
Per Machine Sync Client preview
Live Captions & Subtitles in PowerPoint
A new OneDrive personalized provisioning flow
A script to check Known Folder Move status in your organization
More Information:

37. New To-Do feature Published 04/02/2019
Integration with To-Do and Planner
“Assigned to me” list
See and edit tasks
Appear in To-Do search results
My Day suggestions
Planned smart list
User Opt-In via To-Do Settings menu
Rollout
Start – April 2019
Completion – end of May 2019
GCC Excluded
Message Center:

38. Microsoft Teams - Easily add new members to your team
Published 04/02/2019
Team members sends join request on behalf of another member
Team owner(s) get notification to accept or deny
Also adding support for in-app notifications for self-join requests
Rollout
Start – early April
Completed – mid-April 2019
Message Center:

39. PowerApps – Delegation enhancements
Posted 04/05/2019
Filter on lookup non-primary key fields
Delegate the StartsWith and EndsWith functions
Delegate with Today, Now and Date functions
Delegate with AddColumns function
More Information:

40. Audience targeting in SharePoint Online organizational news
Posted 04/09/2019
Allow page authors and site owners to tag
News pages
News posts
Target Azure AD Groups
Rollout
Targeted Release – mid-April
Completion – June 2019
Message Center:

41. Recent Innovations in Yammer
Posted 04/10/2019
Features
Live Events in Yammer
Yammer Tab in Teams
Microsoft Search includes Yammer
Rich Text Formatting
Yammer Conversations web part
More Information:

42. Closing

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