Microsoft Just Keeps Rolling Out New Features!

The end of the year is approaching so fast, right?? It’s been a very busy year for SharePoint, and many announcements have spilled over into next year. We’ll see flexible layout sections rolling in in a few months, which will change everything about how we design SharePoint pages. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

SharePoint Premium and SharePoint Advanced Management have also seen a lot of features this year, and SAM (SharePoint Advanced Management) finally got the attention it deserves at Ignite when it was included in M365 Copilot licensing (coming in January). What a year 2024 has been!

As I think about how far everything has come since the beginning of the year, I think about how much I’ve grown professionally, the skills I’ve learned, and the hurdles I overcame. I hope you feel the same. I honestly do. Life is incredibly busy in the world of tech, and staying ahead of others seems to be the key to success. It’s certainly how I’ve achieved success, anyways. If you’re feeling stagnant in your career, skill up and push yourself to the next level (or even promotion!). Taking that leap, as scary as it seems, will often times show you that you’re capable of much more than you give yourself credit for. I know it showed me that many times this year alone, and I’m got no intention of stopping.

Be kind to one another this week. I appreciate you reading this, and for the deep level of trust that so many of you have in me. Make sure to forward this email to a friend who needs to stay up to date as well!

Steve

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Pages authoring accessibility checker

An option is coming to the page editing experience to check your page for accessibility concerns. This will be great for organizations that have things like ADA compliance requirements. This will begin rolling out in March 2025. Link to roadmap

SharePoint Premium – simple document processing model

The simple prebuilt model is rolling out now. This will use OCR and AI to detect the document language, as well as important details such as key-value pairs, tables, etc.. I’m definitely going to check it out and create some content based on it. Link to roadmap

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Hacking Old Lady GIF by Offline Granny!

Learn about this great feature of SAM that lets you prevent downloads on a SharePoint Site.

Mark Kashman’s latest roadmap article showcasing a few of the features that rolled out in November

Great article about the document translation feature update for SharePoint Premium.

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