What's New in SharePoint Online

AI-Enhanced Activities

SharePoint's deeper integration of AI is one of its most significant advancements. These features streamline content workflows, making it easier for teams to create high-quality, engaging material.

Previously, building a compelling SharePoint page required significant manual effort. Now, AI simplifies this process, helping you go from a blank page to a near-complete draft in minutes. For users, new features also help them digest content more easily.

Accelerate Workflows: Speed up page creation by leveraging AI to layout a page, add sections and generate content from uploaded documents.  

Enhance Relevance: Use site search data to identify and address content gaps. Archive old, unviewed content to keep search and AI results current.

Digest Content More Efficiently: Even useful content can be hard to get through. New features like ‘summarise this page’ and ‘audio overviews’ make content easier to consume.

Branding & Page Design Updates: New tools for visually appealing, on-brand pages. Updates bring greater flexibility and consistency.

Flexible Sections: Arrange images, text, or custom web parts exactly where you want them for a polished look on any device.

Expanded Templates: More templates than ever, easy to customise and designed to fit a variety of needs, helping you maintain consistent branding and structure across your sites.

Accessibility Assistant: Highlights issues like poor text contrast or missing alt text, making your content readable, inclusive, and compliant without extra hassle.

These design features simplify creating professional, consistent SharePoint pages, supporting your brand and making information easy to find and digest.

Essential Governance Enhancements 

Governance is always key with SharePoint. Setting the right policies and controls unlocks creativity while maintaining control. Among several governance improvements, one stands out as a game-changer – Snapshot Reports.

Snapshot Reports: Organisations often struggle with over-sharing and incorrect permissions, leading to data loss. Snapshot Reports lets you quickly baseline permissions across your SharePoint environment, identify issues, and either lock down data instantly or start an owner review.

Want to Find Out More? 

All these new features sound great, but we’ve only briefly touched on them in this article. Find out more and see the capabilities in action in the indexed on-demand video. 

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