SharePoint Online team news

Team news for SharePoint Online is a new features within Office 365 team sites. Rollout is planned for First Release customers through the month of October 2016 with worldwide rollout expected to complete by the end of November 2016.

What does this mean ?

Team news will allow you to quickly create beautiful posts that are showcased on your team site home page – status updates, trip reports, or even just a highlight of an important document with some additional context provided to the team. Team news will be appear in both the SharePoint Online web experience for team sites and also the native SharePoint mobile app for iOS, making it simple for your team members to stay up-to-date with what's important for the team and stakeholders anytime and anywhere. Additionally, team news will be added to additional platforms in the future.

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Microsoft Update: New capabilities in SharePoint Online team sites including integration with Office 365 Groups

Today Microsoft begin bringing SharePoint team sites to Office 365 Groups. Both existing and new groups will now get a SharePoint site. Within a group’s team site, this roll out brings a new home page, featuring the Quick links web part for showcasing links to important team resources, and the Activity web part for showing recently active content. It, too, brings modern pages. These are responsive and powerful page authoring and consumption experiences in Office 365. Modern pages will come as a part of the team site within Office 365 Groups and will be available to all existing team sites, even if they are not associated. Last, Microsoft will begin to increase the SharePoint Online site collection limit to 25TB – up from 1TB.

How does this affect me?

Modern SharePoint Online team sites will first come to existing Office 365 Groups. It will start rolling out to First Release customers early September 2016. This will include the new home page, publishing pages, quick links, activity—inclusive of modern lists and libraries. All classic SharePoint functionality is available, too – you can access it from the Site Contents page and within Site Settings. The new 25 TB site collection limit will begin rolling out next week and is expected to be rolled out to all Office 365 customers worldwide within one month.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

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Additional information

SharePoint Online MobileExcelWebAccess Feature - Unable to create site using custom template

I am sure you would have got this error suddenly while creating sites using custom template in SharePoint Online.
Error: MobileExcelWebAccess Feature e995e28b-9ba8-4668-9933-cf5c146d7a9f Not activated

Microsoft is unsure about the issue but there is a fix. 

Prerequisites:
- You should be an Administrator 

- Windows PowerShell

- SharePoint Online Management Shell

- SharePoint Online Client Components SDK (Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42038)

Steps: 

1. Open Windows PowerShell in Administrator mode and execute the script

         Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

2. Open SharePoint Online Management Shell in Administrator mode and execute the script

$clientDll = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client")
$runtimeDll = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime")


$url = "https://<your site collection url>"


$cred = get-credential

$clientContext = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($url) 
$credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($cred.username, $cred.password) 
$clientContext.Credentials = $credentials 

if (!$clientContext.ServerObjectIsNull.Value) 
{ 
    Write-Host "Connected to SharePoint site: '$Url'" -ForegroundColor Green 
}

$clientContext.Site.Features.Add('e995e28b-9ba8-4668-9933-cf5c146d7a9f',$true,[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope]::None)

$clientContext.ExecuteQuery()

Note: Do not forget to replace the $url with your site collection url

Alternatively, you shall save the above #2 script in .ps1 file and execute it.
To execute the .ps1 in SharePoint Online Management shell;
- Open SharePoint Online Management Shell in Administrator mode
- Go to the directory where you have .ps1 file
- Type .\<file name>
- A prompt will be displayed that asks your credential (Administrator)

That's it !!!!!

SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online Create multiple Pages library

My requirement was to have separate Pages library for categories. 

So, I took the Pages library template and tried to create a library using the template. SharePoint throws an error. 

I contacted Microsoft Support team and they confirmed that a site cannot have more than one Pages library. 

Today I accidentally found a way to accomplish that. This post lead me to this. 

We can select the Page template while creating Document library. 

SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online Create OneNote document library

SharePoint provides very easy way to accomplish many business requirements. But we, developers, always think advanced solution that takes lots of effort.
One of the example is Document library for OneNote.

I started thinking to have content type with template and etc.,

And found out the easy way.

1. Click Add an app

2. Choose Document Library 

3. Click Advanced Options

4. Select Document Template as "Microsoft OneNote 2010 Notebook"

5. Click Create.

That's it !!!!!