Another amazing year as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is over. One of the highlights was the MVP Summit at the Microsoft headquarters which I could attend for the second time. Beside this I organized several community events under the label of the SharePointCommunity.ch and was one of the co-organizers of the first SharePoint Saturday in Zurich. And last but not least I flooded the social media platforms with posts about SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure.

Under thousands of SharePoint blogs feedspot has selected the “Top 50 Sharepoint Blogs and Websites for SharePoint Administrators, Architects, Developers and Business users”. According to feedspot these blogs are ranked based on following criteria:

• Google reputation and Google search ranking
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Below you may find the build numbers, descriptions, KB article links and direct download links for all SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Foundation 2013, Project Server 2013 and Office Web Apps Server 2013 versions/updates.

Jump to SharePoint 2016 build numbers and CUs

Microsoft announced to prevent the creation of new Access-based apps in SharePoint Online starting in June 2017 and will shut down any remaining apps by April 2018. Therefore you should no longer use Access Services for new apps in Office 365. Microsoft added a new feature to export existing data to a SharePoint list. Recommended replacements for Access Services are PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.

What’s happening to Access Services in SharePoint Server on-premises?

Weeks before the European SharePoint conference (Nov 14-17, 2016) had started the European SharePoint community was asked to vote for their top European SharePoint influencers. During last Wednesdays ESPC award night, the 4th annual announcement of the top 25 European SharePoint influencers took place in the Vienna Hofburg Imperial Palace. The Hofburg Palace is the former imperial palace, of which a part is used by the President of Austria as residence and workplace today.

Here’s acollection of the ‘must see’ SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2016 (so far). Enjoy the videos!

UPDATED LIST

Explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and beyond
Troy Starr, Bill Baer

The second day of Microsoft Ignite is over, but not the flood of new announcements.  I summarized the most relevant announcements of Day 2 about SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure from an IT-Pro perspective. Read this post for a summary of Microsoft Ignite 2016 Day 1.

New Office 365 App Launcher
The new version of the Office 365 App Launcher gives you access to these new features:

• Additional customization options
• search across all the services and applications
• A tabbed layout
• You can resize, pin and organize tiles
• Support for Office 365 themes

And – coming soon – access to recent Office documents.

The Microsoft Ignite takes place September, 26-30 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta (GA) and floods us with tons of announcements about several IT-Pro topics. I summarized the most relevant announcements about SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. Read this post for a summary of Microsoft Ignite 2016 Day 2.

Microsoft Ignite Keynotes
The first keynote was all about the digital transformation, the second keynote focused on next generation innovations and investments.

Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016
The Feature Pack has been announced and will be available in November 2016 for customers with Software Assurance and includes the following features:

The Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016 has been announced during Microsoft Ignite and will be available in November 2016. Feature Packs have been introduced with SharePoint Server 2016 to accelerate the delivery of cloud-first features to Software Assurance customers outside the traditional major release cadence. The first Feature Pack brings several enhancements from Office 365 to your on-premises platform:

The Microsoft Ignite (September 26 – 30, 2016) conference starts today at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta (GA) and will be kicked-off by two keynotes.

The first one starts at 9 AM ET (15.00h CET) and is all about the digital transformation. The session will be hosted by Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group.