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Published onJune 27, 2017

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While talking SharePoint won’t endear you to your flagship phone-toting or smart watch bearing friends, it might get you a seat at the table of professionals who appreciate enterprise communications.

Last month the Office teamtalked about all things SharPoint during its SharePoint Virtual Summit. During the summit, details about SharePoint communication sites, dynamic sites, mobile apps, and cross-platform development for the Mac. Adding to the recent cacophony of SharePoint noise, the Office team announced communication sites will be available for Office 365 First Release customers.

Create a beautiful communication site in seconds

Communication sites are perfect for internal cross-company campaigns, weekly and monthly reports or status updates, product launches, events and more. To help you jumpstart getting your message out fast, communication sites provide configurable templates for the sites and pages within. When you clickCreate sitefrom the SharePoint home in Office 365, you have a choice of three initial site designs:

Users also get more customization options with Communication Sites to continue refining and enhancing news. The ability to create full-width layouts and enhanced title regions with custom header images should make office communication a bit more fun and personal.

Communication Sites also brings comments to pages where each new article and page can be loaded with comments for references during meetings or collaboration sessions. Finally, share options in Communication Sites include email as users can now see thumbnails, title, descriptions and additional messages from senders.

There are web improvements coming in today’s update such as:

There is a lot more to cover regarding SharePoint and the Office team is sharing its calendar of information and feature releases. Dates and times can be found via@SharePoint Twitter handleor theOffice blogs.

Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

Kareem is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. His passion for technology and content creation drives are unmatched, driving him to create well-researched articles and incredible YouTube videos.

He is always on the lookout for everything new about Microsoft, focusing on making easy-to-understand content and breaking down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security.

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

With KB5043178 to Release Preview Channel, Microsoft advises Windows 11 users to plug in when the battery is low#

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Microsoft will raise the price of its 365 Suite to include AI capabilities#

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SharePoint communication sites begin rollout for Office 365 First Release customers#

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