deep dive into communication sites
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DEEP DIVE INTO COMMUNICATION SITES
Louis-Philippe Vallée
November 7th 2017
Product manager at Sharegate
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SHAREGATE | PRODUCT MANAGER | SPEAKER
Louis-philippe
Vallee
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WE ARE HERE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED
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MICROSOFT DID IT AGAIN
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THEY RELEASED
A GAME CHANGINGFEATURE
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COMMUNICATION SITES
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WHAT’S THAT?
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DON’T WORRY
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WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE IT OUT TOGHETER
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WHAT IT IS
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HOW IT WORKS
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IS IT AN INTRANET OUT OF THE BOX?
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LIMITATIONS
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WHEN SHOULD I USE IT?
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Before we begin let’s go
BACK IN TIME
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So you understand
our history
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First, there was the publishing portal
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And they made it better …
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And better …
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And search oriented
Cross site publishing:
« Create content in an Authoring environmentand use it in one of yourSharePoint publishingenvironments »
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SharePoint became the
MOST COMMON LARGE ENTERPRISE INTRANET SOLUTION
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WHAT ABOUT TODAY?
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SHAREPOINT ONLINE PUBLISHING SITE
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NOTHING HAS CHANGED
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ANYTHING BETTER TO
OFFER?
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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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WHAT IS IT?
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It’s actually a
SHAREPOINT SITE
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That looks great on any device
. . . OUT OF THE BOX
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That is easy to create
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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 templates for the sites and pages within.
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LIKE A MICROSITE?
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YEAH, WHY NOT?
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WHAT YOU GET
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Pre built designs
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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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Showcase design
Hero web part
Image gallery web part
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Blank design
No web part
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ARE YOU READY TO DIVE IN?
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LIVE WALKTHROUGH
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IS IT AN INTRANET?
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You tell me!
DOES IT OFFER EVERYTHING YOU NEED?
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LET’S PUT THE QUESTION
ASIDE FOR A MOMENT
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GIVE ME MORE DETAILS ON THE NEW STUFF IN A COMMUNICATION SITE
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HOW DOES IT WORK
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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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Event web part
• Events are stored in a sharepointcalendar
• Links to a full event page
• Includes bing location integration
• Events don’t show in search results
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People profile web part
• List of people cards from delve
• No editable properties
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COMING soon TO PEOPLE CARD :
LINKED IN INTEGRATION
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Comments on page • Appear only after you've published a first version
• NOT linked to Yammer or teams
• Stored in the site page item (in a column)
• You can delete your comments but not edit them
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THAT’S ALL?
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THE BEST PART IS COMING
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MODERNEDITING
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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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COPY PASTE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
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Set focal point
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IT’S LIKE
IMAGE RENDITIONSBUT BETTER!
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Coming up for contributors
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OTHER THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW
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NAVIGATION can have only 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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Global navigation
Keep an eye out for hub sites!
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WHO CAN ACCESS YOUR COMM SITE?
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Anyone it is shared with
Even external users
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Behind the scenes
A communication site is a standalone SharePoint siteIt goes under the / sites managed pathIt’s not associated with an Office 365 groupThe 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 metadata on pages (announced at Ignite)Custom page layouts/content types not supportedNo multilingual featuresNo approval flow It’s not possible to make it your root site collection yetCan’t activate publishing features (and vice versa?)
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WILL I BE ABLE TO BRAND MY
COMMUNICATION SITE?
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- OOTB site theming and branding- Custom site themes and site designs
ANNOUNCED AT IGNITE 2017
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SO IS IT AN INTRANET ?
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COMING UP FOR OWNERS AND END USERS
AND MORE
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WHEN SHOULD WE USE A COMMUNICATION SITE?
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Most often, a Communication Site has a small number people who have permission to author
content
and many more people who only have permission to read
content.
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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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HOW DO YOU FEEL?
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THAT WAS EASY!
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Other references
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
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Thank you!
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