1 00:00:03,135 --> 00:00:05,206 Now that we have seen the theory, let's go 2 00:00:05,206 --> 00:00:07,761 to the lab and check out the Microsoft 3 00:00:07,761 --> 00:00:10,942 Tech Community. We are now in the lab 4 00:00:10,942 --> 00:00:13,492 environment; let me open up my browser, 5 00:00:13,492 --> 00:00:15,866 and I have already opened the 6 00:00:15,866 --> 00:00:20,159 techcommunity.microsoft .com site. Like I 7 00:00:20,159 --> 00:00:22,100 said, this has built a community in terms 8 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:25,326 of it has forums where users and even 9 00:00:25,326 --> 00:00:28,010 people from Microsoft interact, but also 10 00:00:28,010 --> 00:00:31,266 it's the official blog for many product 11 00:00:31,266 --> 00:00:33,496 teams. So let me go into the navigation 12 00:00:33,496 --> 00:00:36,497 and let me go on blogs, and here you'll 13 00:00:36,497 --> 00:00:40,540 see first of all, the latest blocks from 14 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:43,508 across the different product teams, and on 15 00:00:43,508 --> 00:00:47,302 the right you will have All Blogs. Let me 16 00:00:47,302 --> 00:00:49,888 navigate to the SharePoint one. There is a 17 00:00:49,888 --> 00:00:52,827 bunch of them so I will just go down to 18 00:00:52,827 --> 00:00:55,758 SharePoint; it's actually Microsoft 19 00:00:55,758 --> 00:00:56,857 SharePoint so I have the Microsoft 20 00:00:56,857 --> 00:00:59,936 SharePoint Blog over here, and I will 21 00:00:59,936 --> 00:01:02,738 click on it. So here this is the 22 00:01:02,738 --> 00:01:05,547 SharePoint blog, and I can see the latest, 23 00:01:05,547 --> 00:01:07,993 really news that the Microsoft product 24 00:01:07,993 --> 00:01:10,535 team publishes, along with a bunch of 25 00:01:10,535 --> 00:01:15,095 great podcasts and other resources. So you 26 00:01:15,095 --> 00:01:17,430 see here the last one is the Intrazone, a 27 00:01:17,430 --> 00:01:20,737 podcast done by Mark Kashman, one of the 28 00:01:20,737 --> 00:01:22,818 members of the product marketing group, 29 00:01:22,818 --> 00:01:25,250 but let's open up this one by Chris 30 00:01:25,250 --> 00:01:27,800 McNulty, New web parts coming to 31 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,841 SharePoint in August 2019. We'll wait for 32 00:01:31,841 --> 00:01:34,584 it to open, and here we really see okay, 33 00:01:34,584 --> 00:01:37,244 what's coming in August? Button and Call 34 00:01:37,244 --> 00:01:39,581 to Action, we have the World Clock and 35 00:01:39,581 --> 00:01:42,397 Weather updates so we're going to see that 36 00:01:42,397 --> 00:01:45,318 we have those web parts coming on, as well 37 00:01:45,318 --> 00:01:47,532 as updates to the hero web parts. We're 38 00:01:47,532 --> 00:01:50,322 going to be able to have two links so two 39 00:01:50,322 --> 00:01:53,147 called to actions for larger tiles, and 40 00:01:53,147 --> 00:01:56,067 other information about things that are 41 00:01:56,067 --> 00:01:59,675 coming in SharePoint Online. This is not 42 00:01:59,675 --> 00:02:03,539 always as detailed as broken down as the 43 00:02:03,539 --> 00:02:06,174 Microsoft 365 Roadmap, but it's definitely 44 00:02:06,174 --> 00:02:08,507 something that you need to go to and you 45 00:02:08,507 --> 00:02:10,894 need to have it as part of your RSS reader 46 00:02:10,894 --> 00:02:13,595 in order to stay up to date with the 47 00:02:13,595 --> 00:02:16,226 latest releases by the SharePoint team. 48 00:02:16,226 --> 00:02:18,707 There is also a SharePoint community so if 49 00:02:18,707 --> 00:02:21,282 I go here, I will go in Communities 50 00:02:21,282 --> 00:02:24,467 instead of Blogs, and let me just search 51 00:02:24,467 --> 00:02:28,170 for SharePoint over here. I will go into 52 00:02:28,170 --> 00:02:30,993 the SharePoint community, and you see it's 53 00:02:30,993 --> 00:02:34,622 quite big; it has 72, 000 members. Let me 54 00:02:34,622 --> 00:02:37,144 click inside. I can see the latest 55 00:02:37,144 --> 00:02:40,011 activity that is shown here, and I can 56 00:02:40,011 --> 00:02:42,249 also see different spaces so different 57 00:02:42,249 --> 00:02:45,284 sub-forums if you want to call them like 58 00:02:45,284 --> 00:02:47,517 that for developers, for SharePoint 59 00:02:47,517 --> 00:02:49,827 Business Intelligence, for PowerApps and 60 00:02:49,827 --> 00:02:52,673 Flow, and even some that were done for 61 00:02:52,673 --> 00:02:54,784 specific events such as the SharePoint 62 00:02:54,784 --> 00:02:58,934 AMA, Communicate Site AMA, and so on. If I 63 00:02:58,934 --> 00:03:00,750 go inside right now, I'm not signed in 64 00:03:00,750 --> 00:03:03,472 with my account, but I highly recommend 65 00:03:03,472 --> 00:03:06,049 that you register and then you can start a 66 00:03:06,049 --> 00:03:07,783 new conversation, ask questions, and as 67 00:03:07,783 --> 00:03:10,227 you can see, there's multiple people from 68 00:03:10,227 --> 00:03:13,386 the community asking questions, answering, 69 00:03:13,386 --> 00:03:15,716 and there's actually quite a few chances 70 00:03:15,716 --> 00:03:17,896 that somebody from the Microsoft Product 71 00:03:17,896 --> 00:03:22,000 Team will also your query. So this is it 72 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,206 for the Microsoft Tech Community. It's a 73 00:03:24,206 --> 00:03:26,581 great resource where you can go to see the 74 00:03:26,581 --> 00:03:28,394 latest news from the Microsoft Product 75 00:03:28,394 --> 00:03:30,825 Team on the SharePoint blog, as well as 76 00:03:30,825 --> 00:03:32,673 have a place where you can answer 77 00:03:32,673 --> 00:03:35,990 questions or ask your own questions to the 78 00:03:35,990 --> 00:03:37,532 SharePoint community and get help on 79 00:03:37,532 --> 00:03:40,898 different things that you may be stuck on. 80 00:03:40,898 --> 00:03:42,456 This is it for this demo. Now let's go 81 00:03:42,456 --> 00:03:48,000 back to the slides and talk about getting support for SharePoint Online.