1. ASPUG November Meeting
Welcome to the APAN SharePoint User Group
Nov 4, 2015

2. Today’s Agenda Introduction of the Users Group Update on APAN 8
Presentation – Sprucing Up Your Site
Open Forum

3. Introduction of the Users Group
Goals
Make the most of your APAN experience
Provide information about APAN SP development
Provide a forum to share information about SP
Success depends on
Participation in ASPUG meetings
Contributions to Forums and Tips
Become a product stakeholder
Show off your site
Give/suggest a presentation

4. Our Website URL - https://wss.apan.org/s/aspug
Forum – let’s talk SharePoint
Questions are good…
Sharing solutions is better (Google links)
Not a substitute for the Help Desk
APAN SP News that affects the community
Tips – brief write-ups by the community
APAN Development

5. APAN Agile Software Development
Agile process –
Build a little, test, build, test, …, deploy
4 week cycles
User Stories turn into products
I want to …, so that I can …
Stakeholders participate in the product reviews
Replaced the Change Control Board
Monthly deployments

6. APAN 8
Introduced 31 Oct 2015
Minimal changes to SharePoint communities
APAN branding has been removed
Owners can brand via themes and CSS
SharePoint Designer is not available now
Site logo is not resize automatically.
Left navigation on web part pages is missing
OOTB Site Access issue
Improved Chat feature

7. Sprucing Up Your Site Resize your logo Change the theme
Add CSS – advanced users

8. Wrap Up Participate and Contribute to ASPUG APAN 8 has been released
Brand your sites with themes and CSS

9. Thanks for Attending

10. Introduction of the Users Group
We are
People using SharePoint in an APAN environment
Community of ideas and best practices
We are not
The Help Desk
Customer Engagement Specialists
SharePoint trainers
Goals
Make the most of your APAN experience
Provide information about APAN SP development
Provide a forum to share information about SP