Office 365 Updates: New webparts on SharePoint Online Pages

Announcement of new modern webparts for the SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online is going to get the new webparts for the modern pages. First Release Users will get the new or updated webparts before the end of December

Trageted Users First Release Customers
Starts on Early Nov’17
Completes on End of Dec’17
Announced on 1-Nov’17
Targetted Platform SharePoint Online

 

Updated feature: Web parts on modern SharePoint Online pages

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Published On : November 1, 2017
  
We’ll be releasing some of the new web parts for modern pages that we demoed at Ignite 2017.
You’ll begin seeing these features in the coming weeks.
  
This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID’s: 16051, 21050, 21052, 21054, 24082.
  
How does this affect me?
These features include:
– A new large toolbox with categorization and search
– A new Microsoft Forms web part
– Page formatting web parts in spacer and divider
– Document web part gets renamed to File viewer and will now support 270+ file types
– Highlighted content now supports the most commonly used tokens (ME/TODAY +/- days
– People now supports a second descriptive layout
  
We’ll be gradually rolling this out to First Release customers in early November, and the roll out will be completed by the end of December.
  
What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.
  
More Information: New and updated web parts rolling out to SharePoint in Office 365

  

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