Prepare Be Ready

A little more than a week ago now I was in my Quick Wins session at SPTechCon Austin showing the new SharePoint Admin Panel.  I stated to the attendees to start looking now before you come in and POOF your admin world has changed.  Change is not easy for all individuals so the more you have time to adjust at your own pace the easier the change will be.  So if you haven’t heard me say it enough in the last 6 months or so hear me now “GO CHECK IT OUT”.

How does this affect me?

The SharePoint admin center experience, for Office 365 organizations of 50 or fewer licenses, will default to the new admin center experience.  You can switch back to the classic experience as necessary. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Standard Release customers that have 50 or fewer licenses in late March, and we will expand to larger organizations in the coming months. We will provide further notifications when we make the change for additional organizations.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

You don’t need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. To switch to the classic experience temporarily, select “Classic SharePoint admin center” in the left pane of the new SharePoint admin center. To control the default experience for all global and SharePoint admins in your organization: In the new SharePoint admin center, select Settings in the left pane, and then select Default admin center experience. Turning the setting to Off will set the classic admin center as default and On will set the new admin center as default. This control is available now. This change will be skipped for customers that have modified the setting of their default admin center experience. Please click Additional information to learn more. Sign in to the Office 365 Admin center to use the links below: View this message in the Office 365 message center

Office 365 organizations of 50 or fewer licenses, will default to the new admin center experience.  You can switch back to the classic experience as necessary. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Standard Release customers that have 50 or fewer licenses in late March, and we will expand to larger organizations in the coming months. We will provide further notifications when we make the change for additional organizations.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

You don’t need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. To switch to the classic experience temporarily, select “Classic SharePoint admin center” in the left pane of the new SharePoint admin center. To control the default experience for all global and SharePoint admins in your organization: In the new SharePoint admin center, select Settings in the left pane, and then select Default admin center experience. Turning the setting to Off will set the classic admin center as default and On will set the new admin center as default. This control is available now. This change will be skipped for customers that have modified the setting of their default admin center experience.