One of my favorite new Microsoft Teams features - |
ALSO: | There are a TON of great new features that the Work From Anywhere shift has illustrated, and the Microsoft Teams folks have worked to quickly implement. Chris O'Brien, a Microsoft MVP and prolific information sharer, has blogged about the Big 4 groups of announcements from the March 2021 Virtual Ignite, and you can read more about Viva, Compliance, Azure, and Teams here. |
Governance is just a downright un-sexy topic. It's about as exciting as an annual wellness exam. No one likes it, no one looks forward to it, but we all know it's good to do. So you can imagine my surprise when I had a great crowd in a first-morning presentation slot, AND they had wonderful questions and engagement! I was also pleased to see that there were FIVE other presenters touching on Governance topics through the day, so if this is a topic you're interested in, please be sure to check those out as well.
My approach - in Governance and other business solutions - is to define solutions with an eye toward utilizing the tools you already have in place. Most of my passion is with Office 365 and Microsoft 365, so these were the platform assumptions that I used generally - but I wanted to start off with some over-arching principles about what Governance is, what it can do, how to manage it, and make it as seamless and painless as possible. Fortunately there are more tools onboard the O365 experience that help with this, including AI-driven automation opportunities. There is still a lag in what Governance tools are natively offered and what third-party tools have been able to provide that allow IT departments and global admins to better manage their tenants, but it's getting better all the time.
I'm embedding my slide presentation, but there aren't speakers notes that accompany these. During the live presentation, I elicited input from the audience as to what platforms they're using, where they are and are not using Governance, and challenges they're seeing in their rapidly changing industries - and tailored discussion for recommendations that could be easily adopted. What that means for these slides is that they might look a little boring without that context. Or, without the context of the theme music accompanying the discussion. If you're curious about that, or anything else touched on here, please reach out and ask.
Be sure to check out the collection of speakers and slide decks on the SharePoint Saturday - Denver speakers page.
Making Room for Governance - the Presentation
The Before - During - and After fun

But I am wise enough to know that my way isn't the only way, and over time I have been repeatedly surprised by enterprise clients who really, really love these web parts.
Over the years I've had to build custom code web parts to display the time and date. With Office 365 and SharePoint Online, there have been a few solutions around for the last year or so available on Github or via third parties, but now there is a built-in weather and world clock web part option for modern page layouts.
There are lots of other neat features too - call to action buttons, hero web part updates, News and announcement rollups - but what I'm betting right here and now that the biggest "wins" out of this rollout will be the time and weather features.
#O365 Targeted Release users should see these great new #SharePoint webparts by end of year! User-docs and activities, embeds, code #Snippet, markdown, #Yammer, and quick charts. https://t.co/ec0hcoUjBT
— Paintrock Consulting (@KristiRobison) December 23, 2018
Yay! Next evolution for custom #formatting in #SharePointOnline -
— Paintrock Consulting (@KristiRobison) December 17, 2018
in preview/targeted release, general availability in January. Only for date, choice, and boolean column types right now...https://t.co/4LIYaOLNSJ
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