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LOUIS-PHILIPPE
VALLEE
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WE ARE STUCK IN A ROUTINE
SHAREPOINT 2007
SHAREPOINT 2010
SHAREPOINT 2013
… trying to do the same things in the newest version
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And search driven
Cross site publishing:
« Create content in an Authoring environment and use it in one of yourSharePoint publishingenvironments »
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SHAREPOINT BECAME THE
MOST COMMON LARGE ENTERPRISE INTRANET SOLUTION
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AUTHORING SITE COLLECTION
Contributors use product catalogs to create and edit content for your intranet or public facing site
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PUBLISHING SITE COLLECTION
Find and displays catalog items in a controlled UI using search technology.
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SEARCH RESULTS WEBPARTS W/ DISPLAY TEMPLATES
Items page Item detail page
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Search & navigation
Uses the termstore to tag item that are associated with site navigation
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Visitors don’t need access to auth site
Flexible architecture
Standardized visitor UX
Supports changing design
Bad experience for authors
Wait for crawler to see the result (no preview)
No flexibility on page layouts
Can be targeted to the user
Expensive to improve
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COMMUNICATION SITEperfect for internal cross-company campaigns, weekly and monthly
reports or status updates, product launches, events and more.
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Helps broadcast information to other teams or to an entire organization
to help you jumpstart getting your message out fast, communication sites provide configurable templatesfor the sites and pages within.
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TOPIC DESIGN
Hero web part
News web part
Events web part
Documents web part
Quick links
People web part
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FLEXIBLE PAGE LAYOUTS
Users now have the flexibility they need to present information more efficiently, and the way THEY want to present it.
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Hero webpart
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-the-Hero-web-part-d57f449b-19a0-4b0d-8ce3-be5866430645?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
• Not every tile needs an image
• Each tile is a link, not an item
• History is not preserved
• It’s possible to re-order the tiles
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NAVIGATION (MAX 2 LEVELS)
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-the-navigation-on-your-SharePoint-site-3cd61ae7-a9ed-4e1e-bf6d-4655f0bf25ca?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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Behind the scenesA communication site is a standalone SharePoint site
It goes under the / sites managed path
It’s not associated with an Office 365 group
The site template is « Sitepagepublishing#0 »But cannot be created through powershell yet
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THE LIMITATIONSPnp provisionning not supported yet (But will be)Not available on premNo global navigationCustom page layouts/content types not supportedNo multilingual featuresNo approuval flow It’s not possible to make it your root site collection yetCan’t activate publishing features (and vice versa?)
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POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
• Governance and Training for your intranet
• Travel team publishing guidelines about corporate travel
• Policies and procedures
• Micro-site for a new corporate initiative
• Resources for the sales team for a product or service
• Organizational achievements—summary or report of key
business metrics to highlight for the rest of the
organization
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3212834/enterprise-applications/what-to-choose-a-communication-or-team-site-in-sharepoint.html
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THINK ABOUT WHAT THE BUSINESS NEEDS IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION
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THE OLD WAY
https://www.metalogix.com/blog/introducing-sharepoint-hub-sites-office-365
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https://www.metalogix.com/blog/introducing-sharepoint-hub-sites-office-365
WAY WE PLAN & BUILD OUR SITES
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MAKE SURE THE INFORMATION REACHES PEOPLE INSTEAD OF FORCING IT IN FRONT OF THEM
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Other referencesOverview of Cross-SitePublishing:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635883.aspx
Microsoft presenting Communication sites:
https://www.slideshare.net/markkashman/sharepoint-communications-sites-overview-presentation
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Communications-Sites-AMA/bd-p/CommunicationsSitesAMA
Microsoft vision on intranets:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-blocks-your-intranet-mark-kashman/
Customizing modern pages:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-pages
Roadmap presented at Ignite 2017:
https://en.share-gate.com/blog/microsoft-ignite-2017-takeaways-an-updated-sharepoint-roadmap