Now that we have seen the theory, let's go
to the lab and check out the Microsoft
Tech Community. We are now in the lab
environment; let me open up my browser,
and I have already opened the
techcommunity.microsoft .com site. Like I
said, this has built a community in terms
of it has forums where users and even
people from Microsoft interact, but also
it's the official blog for many product
teams. So let me go into the navigation
and let me go on blogs, and here you'll
see first of all, the latest blocks from
across the different product teams, and on
the right you will have All Blogs. Let me
navigate to the SharePoint one. There is a
bunch of them so I will just go down to
SharePoint; it's actually Microsoft
SharePoint so I have the Microsoft
SharePoint Blog over here, and I will
click on it. So here this is the
SharePoint blog, and I can see the latest,
really news that the Microsoft product
team publishes, along with a bunch of
great podcasts and other resources. So you
see here the last one is the Intrazone, a
podcast done by Mark Kashman, one of the
members of the product marketing group,
but let's open up this one by Chris
McNulty, New web parts coming to
SharePoint in August 2019. We'll wait for
it to open, and here we really see okay,
what's coming in August? Button and Call
to Action, we have the World Clock and
Weather updates so we're going to see that
we have those web parts coming on, as well
as updates to the hero web parts. We're
going to be able to have two links so two
called to actions for larger tiles, and
other information about things that are
coming in SharePoint Online. This is not
always as detailed as broken down as the
Microsoft 365 Roadmap, but it's definitely
something that you need to go to and you
need to have it as part of your RSS reader
in order to stay up to date with the
latest releases by the SharePoint team.
There is also a SharePoint community so if
I go here, I will go in Communities
instead of Blogs, and let me just search
for SharePoint over here. I will go into
the SharePoint community, and you see it's
quite big; it has 72, 000 members. Let me
click inside. I can see the latest
activity that is shown here, and I can
also see different spaces so different
sub-forums if you want to call them like
that for developers, for SharePoint
Business Intelligence, for PowerApps and
Flow, and even some that were done for
specific events such as the SharePoint
AMA, Communicate Site AMA, and so on. If I
go inside right now, I'm not signed in
with my account, but I highly recommend
that you register and then you can start a
new conversation, ask questions, and as
you can see, there's multiple people from
the community asking questions, answering,
and there's actually quite a few chances
that somebody from the Microsoft Product
Team will also your query. So this is it
for the Microsoft Tech Community. It's a
great resource where you can go to see the
latest news from the Microsoft Product
Team on the SharePoint blog, as well as
have a place where you can answer
questions or ask your own questions to the
SharePoint community and get help on
different things that you may be stuck on.
This is it for this demo. Now let's go
back to the slides and talk about getting support for SharePoint Online.