Recently I had the requirement to embed an external website onto a modern page on a SharePoint Online site. Fine, that’s no problem at all. This is available out-of-the-box on a modern page, right?
Laurent Schoenaers
Information consultant and Office 365 enthousiast
While Microsoft has been promoting the usage of metadata and views above folders in SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Teams lacks these possibilities. It gives you a full list of documents in that document library, but with no metadata, no views and no filtering.
As technology is evolving into a more and more client-side experience, JavaScript is becoming a substantial part in SharePoint implementations. With JavaScript you can build rich, fast, interactive user experiences on the client with responsive interfaces that run in browsers as well as a hybrid, native HTML experience on phones.
SharePoint fully embraces this trend, and has released the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). A Page and Part model that enables fully supported client-side development, easy integration with the Microsoft Graph and support for open source tooling. The new experiences for the new mobile app, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, including the new document library and list experiences are built using the SharePoint Framework.
Recently I cam across an unsupported scenario with Microsoft Teams. I logged in with an Office 365-account on which Teams is not enabled, giving me the following screen:
Translated, that is: “You’re missing out! Ask your IT administrator for access to Microsoft Teams.”
Microsoft Teams brings together the full breadth and depth of Office 365 to provide a true hub for teamwork. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote, Planner, Power BI and Delve are all built into Microsoft Teams so people have all the information and tools they need at their fingertips. It is available for Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium, and the Enterprise E1, E3, and E5 plans.
It puts itself in a strong competitive position against Slack.
You’re looking to set up an international Office 365 environment, and cannot find anything about it? That’s correct, because there is nothing like that at all. Neither a guide with best practices.
Some people suggest to set up a tenant on each continent. Give this a thought for a minute, and you can come up with even more questions.
- You can only use your domainname on one tenant, how to handle the other tenants?
- What to do with multiple SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Yammer tenants, thinking in terms of replicating data?
From my point of view, setting up only one tenant is just fine. The only thing you might take in mind is setting one up on the continent on which the biggest part of your users reside.
We have all been there, we want to show some Promoted links on a SharePoint Online page. But we want it to show on multiple rows, which you cannot do out-of-the-box.
By default there is no visible way to embed the all company-feed on a page, for example in a SharePoint Online portal.
To accomplish this, you can go to a random Yammer group and get the code to embed the feed: “Embed this feed in your site”.
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