Following Microsoft 365 Roadmap could be challenging. Because of that, I will highlight the most valuable changes implemented to Office 365
In February there are two key announcements that you should be informed about: availability to setup customized Search Centers and retirement of Office 365 Video service.
Every 3 weeks Microsoft provides packages of updates for most of the services. In the meantime process of the changes to Office 365 for Apps in place.
I want to share with you periodically the most important in my opinion changes on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap that happening
Here you have the top changes on Office 365 roadmap in February 2020.
Key changes on Office 365 Roadmap in February 2020
Custom Search Center
In the next weeks you will be able to set up a customized Search result page for your SharePoint sites. Today’s search results are very simple and do not contain additional filters or the possibility to change the look and feel.
Key additional benefits from using modified Search Center:
- Fully customizable SharePoint search query
- Can either use a static query or be connected to a search box component using dynamic data
- Live templating system with Handlebar to meet your requirements in terms of user experience
- Search results including previews for Office documents and Office 365 videos
- Customizable refiners supporting multilingual values for taxonomy-based filters
- Sortable results
- Refiners Web Part (filters)
- Pagination Web Part
- SharePoint best bets support
- Search query enhancement with NLP tools
- Extensibility model allowing to write your own components
As you can see you can get a lot of additional great features ?
You will find more in the documentation.
Customized SharePoint Search results
Announcement: Microsoft Search Blog
Video: Ignite session
Roadmap: Customize search results for your organization
Global Availability: Q1 2020
Licensing: Included in all plans
The end of Office 365 Video service
If you are Office 365 early adopter you could start the work with Office 365 Video service. This application is deprecated and will not be continued. All video-related functionalities are moved to Stream. Many users who start to work with Video app uploads some data there. Now you will be able to migrate your data to Stream with the tools provided by Microsoft.
Migration from Video to Stream:
- Documentation of the move process from Video to Stream
- Migration of the data to Stream using Migration Tools
New Office 365 users do not have access to Video service. If you do not have data stored on Video App you should not be worried 🙂
Video to Stream Migration
Documentation: Migration of the Video to Stream
Roadmap: Selfservice migration from Video to Stram
Global Availability: Q1 2020
Licensing: Included in all plans
Microsoft Roadmap
Most valuable resources about Microsoft Roadmap that worth to follow:
- Roadmap: Microsft 365 Roadmap – detailed report off all updates in the Microsoft roadmap
- Intrazone: Microsoft Intrazone Podcast – Microsoft Product Team podcast dedicated to new features that will be published on Office 365
- UserVoice: Office 365 ; SharePoint ; Teams ; OneDrive ; more – space where you can share and vote for the suggestions for the Microsoft products
- MyIgnite: Ignite Video Service – repository of all sessions related with new announcements shared during Microsoft Ignite
- Message Center: Office 365 Admin Message Center – your local Office 365 message center that contains information about new features on your tenant
