Microsoft Ignite 2016
I recently attended the Microsoft 2016 Ignite conference and asked Dave Cohen, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, whether modern pages were coming to Publishing Sites and it was a categorical 'No, not yet, but it's a great idea'.
Justification
The justification given was that publishing sites are immensely more complicated than a standard team site and the decision was taken to bring new modern pages, and modern sites, to the team site template first.
Impact to a business
I'll have to be very clear with them that when this functionality hits our tenant later in 2016, that the content creation experiences between team templates and all other Office 365 SharePoint templates will be significantly different.
I've built an Enterprise Wiki with thousands of pages and my users would have loved this functionality.
Personal opinion
I can see why Microsoft have done this, and I'm sure they will get around to it, but for those using Publishing Sites it's a significant miss and one that will cause increased questioning and frustration from my business users.
I've also asked Dave Cohen, on Twitter, for more info.
Learn more about the new Intelligent Intranet and modern pages and sites over on the blogs.office.com site.
Modern sites and pages preview
A nice GIF showing off the new features from modern sites and pages (pinched from the Office blog).
I recently attended the Microsoft 2016 Ignite conference and asked Dave Cohen, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, whether modern pages were coming to Publishing Sites and it was a categorical 'No, not yet, but it's a great idea'.
Justification
The justification given was that publishing sites are immensely more complicated than a standard team site and the decision was taken to bring new modern pages, and modern sites, to the team site template first.
Impact to a business
I'll have to be very clear with them that when this functionality hits our tenant later in 2016, that the content creation experiences between team templates and all other Office 365 SharePoint templates will be significantly different.
I've built an Enterprise Wiki with thousands of pages and my users would have loved this functionality.
Personal opinion
I can see why Microsoft have done this, and I'm sure they will get around to it, but for those using Publishing Sites it's a significant miss and one that will cause increased questioning and frustration from my business users.
I've also asked Dave Cohen, on Twitter, for more info.
Learn more about the new Intelligent Intranet and modern pages and sites over on the blogs.office.com site.
Modern sites and pages preview
A nice GIF showing off the new features from modern sites and pages (pinched from the Office blog).
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