Random News Flash December 2016

Here is a summary of some news, Announcements and other interesting stuff, send out “randomly” Winking smile

December 2016 flash

Office 2007 End of Support remainder:
Starting October 10th 2017 “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” (aka MOSS 2007) will enter final end of support!
That means, after this date there is no more support for this product and all you have is only the www, the KB knowledgebase and some blogs out there.
See more on the support lifecycle policy pages!Great time to retire your Office 2007 applications and plan your upgrade projects!
See Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients

Products Reaching End of Support soon:

With the November 2016 CU we introduced several new features as part of the feature pack.
see here the brief overview of the new added features:
- MinRole enhancements to support small and medium-sized farms.
- OneDrive for Business modern experience
- Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher
- SharePoint hybrid auditing unified across site collections on-premises and in Office 365.
- Hybrid taxonomy unified across on-premises and Office 365.
- OneDrive API for SharePoint on-premise
Additional TechNet Forums have been created for the new SharePoint Server 2016 functionalities introduced with Feature Pack 1:
- Hybrid Auditing: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=hybridauditing
- Hybrid Taxonomy: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=hybridtaxonomy

Information about changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature
Starting on January 2015, Microsoft notified about changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature.
Customers who currently still use this feature will have to take action until March 2017!
Please see this KB 3027254 Article for more: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3027254Recently the PG have published an updated communication (9th December) to customers that still use SPO Public Sites.This has been published to the Tenant Message Centre as #MC88504. To read the full text of this message see here.To proactively remind our customers about the deprecation of Public Websites, we would like to encourage customers
to refer to the new communication in the Message Centre and take appropriate action.
There is updated guidance published that helps customers migrate to alternative Public site providers, see this link for details.

New capabilities in SharePoint Online team sites including integration with Office 365 Groups
Microsoft has announced several new capabilities for SharePoint online team sites!
- Team site publishing pages (named Modern team site pages)
- New web parts
- Office 365 Groups + team sites integration
- New site collection limit (25 TB rather than 1 TB)
- Manageability and extensibility
  Find more details on the office blog!

Introducing Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365
Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams—the new chat-based workspace in Office 365.
Microsoft Teams is an entirely new experience that brings together people, conversations and content—along with the tools that teams need…

With August 2016 CU for SharePoint 2016 we updated PSConfig with a couple of major improvements:
PSConfig improved error reporting
SharePoint Patching and Get-SPProduct -local
The good news is that the changes for PSConfig released with August 2016 CU for SharePoint 2016
have been back ported to SharePoint 2013 and were released with December 2016 CU for SharePoint 2013.

Workflow Manager Information
Workflow Manager Updates – New updates will be posted to the Workflow Team blog.
For example, Workflow Manager 1.0 Cumulative Update 3 was highlighted as a recent update to this page.
Updates for SharePoint 2013 Workflow (by Andrew Connell

That’s it so far!

wish you all the best and a Happy new year Winking smile

Cheers, Steve