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Hello and welcome to Microsoft Mechanics Live coming up we're gonna take a look
at SharePoint Communication Sites a brand new way for you to publish your
content and reach a broad audience and further power your organize
organizations Internet we're going to show you how you can in
under 10 minutes create a fast and beautiful internet communication site
that works across devices use our out of box site design tools to quickly get
started and incorporate your own look and feel you'll be able to author pages
that use SharePoint web parts to add rich capabilities and pull in data from
other services even third parties and interact with readers get usage
information and see how your sites and your content are doing and to do this
I'm joined by Dave Cohen from the SharePoint engineering team give him a
warm welcome thanks Jeremy great to be here
all right so communication sites they're a brand-new way to publish content to
broader audience but what problems are we solving for with communication sites
well we built communication sites to make it easy to build a fast and
beautiful mobile ready intranet site to share your finished content and messages
and to reach and interact with people across your organization we're seeing
many of you build these sites for events campaigns product launches for teams to
share their insights and expertise on topics and many other scenarios where
the key component is to communicate your message broadly and effectively all
right and you say it's fast but we're gonna put this to the test we're gonna
challenge you we're gonna give you precisely 10 minutes to be able to build
out a communication site now we're gonna let you do a couple of things so
redundant items you know I don't want to watch you load an image six times
individually or you know load in documents every time and have to see
that so we're gonna give you a couple leeway there I know you've got some
stuff kind of pre-prepared some documents so let's put ten minutes on
the clock are you ready to start with ready all
right your time starts right now all right well I'm gonna start from the
SharePoint home and I just click this create site button and I'm given two
options a team site or a communication site this site is going to be a resource
for my entire company and so I'm gonna choose communication site here I can see
different site designs that we've pre provision for
you and sorry so these are these are templates and you've got a couple of
different options that you can use but you run out of time Dave I am sorry the
topic site here is a great site design for information dense sites we have
other site designs like the Showcase design that's great for when you have
beautiful images lots of text but it's a fairly static design I'm short on time
today and so I absolutely want to start with one of our pre-canned designs so
I'm just gonna give my excited name contoso it's so easy he's not even like
urgently still cool up here he doesn't even care
that's that's true now course I run into a demo bug uh-oh demo bug yeah my my
taskbar oh how do I should hide the taskbar what are you trying to do
hide the taskbar oh don't worry about hiding the taskbar it's okay I need to
get to a button oh you need to get to a button behind the taskbar
all right let's uh let's uh let's try it out eleven enough try that
is it still being hit by the taskbar yes Wow we literally ran through this ten
minutes ago all right let's let's um let's not go fullscreen on that on that let's
see if we can see these are these are some interesting things to work all
right we're good right I'm still good now it's never gonna happen at eight
eight minutes it's 15 seconds can you still do it all right
so because I was a little rushed I picked the wrong site design but no
worries I can change that so I'm just gonna quickly go in here I really wanted
the showcase but like I said the site design I'm not locked into it I can
change it all right hurry oh no I'm gonna change it to layers I'm gonna add
three layers there we go worries I'm gonna leave news I'm gonna delete this
and I'm gonna delete this and I'm just gonna this is a real this is a real yeah
yeah this is this is like three seconds left and rehearsal so we just lost a
minute on on troubleshooting taskbar issues okay all right all right so the
first thing I want to do now I've got the site set up back to where I want is
I'm going to create a page to link my visitors to from the home page of the
site so all right so is written sub pages now underneath the communication
site given a couple different page templates to choose from and just like
the site designs I'm not locked in any I can start with whichever I want I'm
gonna pick single column okay okay so now I'm gonna name this page it's gonna
be program overview good name okay I want to update the title image we know
what people have some really great images that they they want to be on this
site I didn't get a chance to upload to upload the images that I wanted to I get
a little flustered so I'm just gonna go into my overview folder choose this go
luckily I'm on a pretty fast demo Network I hope excellent so it's great
about the title region is not only can I drag this this image run to where I want
it to be I can actually tell it where I want the browser to focus that image on
in smaller screen resolution so as it shrinks the size of the image it's
keeping what I tell it to in focus all right now minute 30
seconds so now I already have the text of this page ready to go I'm gonna copy
it I'm gonna paste it okay looks good the formatting held exact going okay I
want to add an image so now what I'm gonna do
no pressure no pressure whatsoever right now and this music is intense I am gonna
I'm just gonna drag this image I don't have time to play around with uploading
it Oh boom I just dragged an image into the rich text editing web part and it
made an image web part alright but I'm not happy with this I want the image in
text to be side by side at a time so yeah thanks Jeremy so I'm gonna go down
I'm going to open the toolbox I'm gonna add a to column section to my page go up
you forgot the L you gotta go back I did I forgot the L back to the checkpoint who
gets that I'm gonna cut that add a rich text part copy it in alright that's
great but now I want this image to be next to it that's as easy as drag and
drop boom there we go time check five eighteen alright so next thing I want to do
I'm gonna add a three column section because I have a bunch of documents that
I want my my site visitors to see so I add a file viewer part I'm gonna upload
from my demo folder nice so this is gonna take the PowerPoint it's gonna
drop in a nice thumbnail view of it in a sec but you got to keep going I do got
it you only got four minutes and 56 seconds okay time's running out I got
this don't you wish all the web devs that we're building these sites for you
on-site we're working like this with a 10 minute clock if you ever thought that we
weren't committed to performance and SharePoint let this convince you all
right so this is risky you're gonna add Yammer to the site I am gonna add
Yammer so Yammer is an important part of the kink the conversations that happen
across my company all right and I really want to bubble those up to my site so I
just drop a Yammer URL into this part there we go I'm gonna choose top
conversations because I want the most interesting conversation to come through
to this site okay you got 4 minutes and 18, no 16 seconds that looks good I'm gonna publish this page all
right so you got a page done. so now I could help
people find this page but I'm not ready to yet I'm still building my site so I'm
gonna go back to the home page and I'm gonna edit the hero web part
that was incorrect go back
you're gonna edit the page and point this hero web part to the page
that I just made now awesome it's right here in recent pages it's saving me a
ton of time the next thing that I need to do is copy and paste all the text
that I prepared because oh man am i running short on time you got 3
minutes and 37 seconds it's like when your manager says hey I need a site and
you didn't do it and then he asked you where the site is you can do it very
quickly we saw a really, we saw a really cool
trick yesterday where you can use the rand function from Excel and Word it
will just automatically generate paragraphs of content so we did say that
I'm gonna cheat a little bit I'm just gonna point I'm just gonna point the
other tiles in this hero web part to some images you saw how easy it is for
me to create pages that I could actually link to all right but for the sake of
this demo I'm just gonna point them at images so my home page looks good I
don't think my managers really gonna click through to those anyway
all right and the nice thing is like any engineering you can adjust scope based
on the time that you have and you can see I keep telling my keep telling me
they hear a webpart to automatically pull in the images from the pages that I
link to and that's really saving me a lot of time right now so last one all
right upload it okay how much time do I have at 2:33 all right I got this and
you might want ads it might not want to add the description oh but you're gonna
go for it anyway look at that he's brave I am brave or dumb
whichever okay right beautiful so now so I added an image gallery part I have a
bunch of images here that I just want to go and quickly upload my original
intention had been to preload them before you load them into the site
assets right after I created your right some parallel process but I I got
flustered in so I'm going work on some other stuff all those guys load up
alright so last thing I want to tell people who they can get in contact with
today I'm Andy he's actually sitting in the audience today okay I'm also gonna
add Alyssa in this demo program they're responsible for the cheaper of course
right no I'm not I didn't mean to chew up your time no because you know
honestly I don't want Jeff looking at this soon all right
Mike through all right uh my image gallery didn't load that's okay oh I got
this he's got this we've got another way there's always more than one way to do
it yes there we go one of the cool things that I can do is I can upload
these images just directly to the site assets library they should upload as
long as the demo network doesn't go down and as they upload I'm gonna tell this
to just go and look at a document library actually this I haven't why
we're at the last minute ago looking it open in alright save and close okay now
also I'm going for gold I want to create a news post news post in 48 seconds
alright alright so I already have my text actually I need need an image so
I'm gonna upload an image quickly and he's not even going for the default ones
they're already there in the folder no he's going for a I have an image that I
know I want no don't worry about refocusing that one you got 28 seconds
alright alright this is the last thing he's doing though 21 seconds I want you
guys to count out down on 10 and okay I'm back on my homepage all I need to do
publish the homepage share the site it's open to my whole org I'm gonna share it
with 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
shared with everyone you did it then the SharePoint socks congratulations thank you
alright but we're not done we want to show some stuff now that it's all built
because we've got some more things to show right because now that you've got
nothing if you've bait this time one second you've built your
Communication Site looks beautiful page underneath it a news post all those
things but hey you can you can do more now you've got a mobile site that's
ready to go as well right yeah that's right so my boss is waiting for my site
he's on the going I'm just gonna give it to him I'm gonna send him a link and he
can open it on his phone so can we switch over to the phone there we go
what do you guys think it's all mobile responsive everything's looking good and
in the portrait mode all right it's got my news post it's got the images and
it's got people web part now so my sites here it's ready I want to tell you about
two more things so something that we've added to communication sites and modern
pages is the ability to interact with your readers and kind of get an idea of
what they're doing on the site so the first thing I want to show you is on the
page that I created that overview page you can see at the bottom of the screen
a little section that says comment count so now my readers can actually go and
comment on my site I can reply to them and so it creates this interactivity
that we never really had before and then nope ah cancel thank you no and
then can we switch back to desktop that's the last thing you need was the
battery of the phone today yeah yeah thanks that would have been that would
have been fantastic yes huh I have a charger right here just in case so as a
site owner the other thing I want to show you I'm gonna go to a different
site because that's a brand new site there's no usage on it so I want to show
you some actual data on the site usage page I can actually see in the last
seven days how many unique viewers went to my site how many site visits I got
and I can actually see the pages and the documents that are trending the most so
we've really upped the level of interactivity between site owners and
there and given them better analytics and how
their their sites are being used but you said there was two things there's
another thing you wanted to show right yeah so lastly we announced Hub Sites
this week and Hub Sites are a huge new feature you can attach any site to a hub
and I'll actually show you what that looks like
I'm not going to demo attaching it to a hub today I just wanted to bring up a
hub that already existed but you can see that the hub has a global navigation it
has its own branding and that's basically how you can ensure that when
you attach a site to a hub that that site gets the look in the feel of
the hub its global navigation and then conversely the activity from the sites
that get attached to the hub flow back up in an aggregated way to the
Hub Site itself so lots of really great updates for communication sites and
SharePoint you built an awesome site media-rich in about ten minutes
everybody what do you think of that so if you're watching this if people are
watching this watching this at home where would I go to get started well
Communication Sites are in production today so the easiest thing is to just go
to the SharePoint home in your organization click create site and get
started the SharePoint community is awesome both online with events
everywhere and happening all the time so definitely check those out and check out
the resources that the link shown to get all the details what you can do with
SharePoint Communication Sites I'm awesome Dave thank you again and you
beat the challenge it must have been the argyle socks with SharePoint logos on
them of course you can keep watching Microsoft Mechanics for the latest
updates in SharePoint and beyond across all of Microsoft thanks for watching
we'll see you next time!
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