Wow, what an event! On 4th May “Future of SharePoint” keynote delivered by Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President for OneDrive and SharePoint, unveiled new vision and roadmap for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, both on-premises and in the cloud with Office 365.

The event marked the general availability of SharePoint Server 2016 and with much anticipation from the community and organisations, tons of stuff was demonstrated and in my opinion SharePoint has now got a new lease of life and is more of a revolution in terms of its foundation release for future.

I was fortunate enough to attend this virtual event and live tweeting and so this summary blog post has screenshots in a nutshell on what was demonstrated outlining the future of SharePoint!

My main takeaway from this event is that there is more than ever greater opportunities on offer to provide modern and engaging solutions serving organisations requirements and problems in terms of what SharePoint can do with modern experiences and judging from the pulse of SharePoint community, it seems that the event was very much welcomed with all the developments, innovations and realistic roadmaps with Office 365 there is never a better time to be part of it and deliver on successes.

At the end of this post you’ll find useful links to the summary of the event, links to in-depth articles and demos with more information on the future of SharePoint – Enjoy!

Tweet engagements flooding!

Summary in Pictures!
Jeff Teper kicking off the SharePoint Roadmap and great to see Apple Macbook on the stage!

4 Pillars of SharePoint Roadmap

Simple and powerful file sharing on any device

New activity pane in office programs showing status and updated activities of a document.

Brand new SharePoint mobile app with literally Intranet in your pocket!

Navigating between sites easy in SharePoint Mobile App

Analytics for sites and useful info what and who is working on content.

Editing metadata in the information pane and document library gets a new look like OneDrive interface

Microsoft Flow and PowerApps natively integrated in SharePoint

Not complex anymore for developers – simple access and endpoint for Microsoft services and with Graph APIs

New SharePoint Framework with support client-side development tools and JavaScript web frameworks

Security, Privacy and Compliance Roadmap – more granularity on external sharing capabilities including controls to block further sharing if you share a document to colleague

Following keynote, more breakout sessions are online – see links below.

Useful Links

• The Future of SharePoint
• SharePoint Server 2016—your foundation for the future
• The SharePoint Framework—an open and connected platform
• SharePoint: the Future Starts Now
• Satya Nadella welcomes the future of SharePoint
• Effortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePoint
• SharePoint—the mobile and intelligent intranet
• The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint sites and PowerApps
• Your Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile app
• Security, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business

Thanks
Chirag

Published by Chirag Patel @techChirag

Chirag is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant at Patel Consulting, and Microsoft MVP (Office & Apps Services), based in UK with more than 20 years of industry experience. He is also a BCS (British Computer Society) Member & Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and TOGAF9 Certified Architect. He works with a wide variety of clients in many sectors, designing and implementing business collaboration, data and information management solutions and services based on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 technologies, Power Platform to create business value for both themselves and their customers, including UK Microsoft Gold Partners with deployment, upgrade and migration services delivery. Chirag is an active Microsoft 365 community participant, frequent speaker at local and international events including Microsoft 365 Saturdays, Power Saturdays, SharePoint Saturdays, Collab365, TeamsFest, Modern Workplace Summit and Scottish Summit. You can follow Chirag on twitter at @techChirag. View all posts by Chirag Patel @techChirag