Monthly SharePoint News Digest - October 2024
New month, new features for the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Tools 🚀
🗓️ Events around Microsoft 365
💡 Trick & Tips
The SharePoint Managed Path is part of all of your SharePoint sites. Have you already noticed that all SharePoint sites URLs look like this:
- <yourdomain>.sharepoint.com/[managed path]/your-site
Previously, on SharePoint On-Premises, administrators could manage them by adding, removing, and customizing them. With SharePoint Online, it is not possible anymore. You can deal only with two managed paths:
- teams
- sites
By default, "sites" is the managed path for all SharePoint sites. The administrators can change this setting and define "teams" by default. This change does not affect existing sites, but only the new ones.
Being able to determine which SharePoint site is linked to a Microsoft 365 group/team, without having to check the properties but only based on the URL can be useful.
Imagine, all of your SharePoint sites with a Microsoft 365 group/teams have a URL with /teams/ and all others with /sites/.
That is something helpful for you?
- As a user, you can directly identify the "type" of SharePoint
- As an admin, you can create easily some rules (regex) based on the URL format
- As a communication department, you can instore that all /sites/ are "official" and you can deal with collaboration sites. Ex: /teams/finances and /sites/finances
📰 News
SharePoint
Site Branding per Site
This feature is really useful for final users and provides free up time for advanced users / SharePoint admin.
No need to be a SharePoint Admin to create and provide font and theme from the global Branding Center ❤️💪🏻
Now, as a user, you can create a new Theme and provide a custom font per SharePoint site collection.
Relative URL to access the site branding: /_layouts/15/brandcenter.aspx/sharepoint/themes
Stream
New video from Outlook
You can now, directly from Microsoft Outlook, record a new video (stored in your OneDrive My files > Recordings > Video Clips ) and share it via email.
Note that the video is contained in a Loop component in the email body.
No need to record and share the video via a preconfigured Loop component or through attachment now... that can be a real gain in productivity
Hoping this post will help you, see you next month... 😉
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