New changes to SharePoint Online sites announced at Ignite 2019

A comprehensive list of all changes\updates announced at MS Ignite 2019.

New in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Sites

In-build support of Project Cortex (AI knowledge discovery tool).
GA of SharePoint Home Sites (Mega-menu, Advanced Navigation, expanded customized footer).
Customizable Office.com home page with support of Themes, custom apps and custom templates for Word, Excel & powerpoint.
Audience Targeting for Navigation nodes with security groups and AAD groups (Max 10).
Create an MS Teams from the SharePoint site’s settings menu along with selected artifacts example folders etc.
Replace the SharePoint Root Site with a different one in a few clicks from SPO admin center.
Modern Term Store experience.
Analytics on Managed Metadata

New Search verticals that support external Connectors, for example, display results from Stream or ServiceNow in the same search results page.
Easy & customizable Search Results Page.

Multilingual support embedded in Modern SharePoint sites.
Change Tracking on the page to highlight a comparison of what’s changed between Versions.
Royalty-free photos to be used on SP pages.
Page Scheduling to set time of page publishing.
Display Personalized Content based on demographic, for example, Recommended Viewing WebPart (not in GA yet!).

Re-arrange columns in a view by dragging them in UI.
Expanding lists to fill the screen to see more rows and columns at once.
New column formatting (styling) in UI. Without JSON. Only for limited columns.
Drag-n-Drop document across the category. For example, highlight and drag-n-drop a document from Pending to Approved grouped by category. Metadata updates automatically.
New Card View.
Design Custom PoweApps Form in Document libraries as well.
Hide\Show Columns in SharePoint List.
Hover-over to in document’s card to view related properties & Conversations from outlook.
Supports 100GB File-uploads\Syncs but requires delta-sync. Applies to all file-types.

New Sensitivity Labels to Implement policies on associated containers example to MS Teams (and all channels & files in it), or, files in SharePoint.
Introducing Auto-labeling that suggests to label files according to policy declared on sensitivity labels.
Information Barrier Policy. Few users won’t be searchable if the information barrier is in place to not to share with them.

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