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With page difference visualization, you can see the version history of a modern page or news post and compare versions in SharePoint, including comparing changes visually on the page. You can see when a page was changed and who changed it. You can also see when properties (information about the file) were changed. If you need to, you can restore a previous version or delete a previous version.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Outlook on the web – default-on online meetings
When you create a meeting and you use Teams or Skype for Business as your online meeting provider, Outlook will automatically create it as an online meeting. Users can disable the online meeting toggle per meeting or for all meetings in Calendar Settings under “Events and invitations.”
ID: 63383 Tags: Exchange – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Outlook on the web – end events early
Similar to Outlook for Windows, we are adding the option to have the meetings you create end 0-15 mins before the regular scheduled times. You can set this up in Settings/Calendar/Events and invitations/End_appointments_and_meetings_earlier.
ID: 63384 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Private Channels in Office 365 government tenants
Limit which team members can see the conversation and content within a particular channel. You can right-size channel participation and exposure without having to create discrete teams to limit visibility.
ID: 60719 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: Q1 CY2020
Intune role management coming to Microsoft 365 admin center
We are adding Intune role management experiences to the Microsoft 365 admin center, where you can assign roles, compare roles, and search for roles.
ID: 63551 Tags: O365, Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Updates to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts – Shared Mailboxes
With this change, end-user-spam notification will be integrated with shared mailboxes. End-Users with access to shared mailbox will be able to take actions such as release messages.
ID: 63553 Tags: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – All environments Release: May CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Block unmanaged data in emails and calendar events
Support for the Microsoft Intune app protection policy that blocks file attachments and switching from personal to work accounts in new emails or calendar events with attachments from unmanaged apps.
ID: 61130 Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Outlook for Android: Block unmanaged data in emails and calendar events
Support for the Microsoft Intune app protection policy that blocks file attachments and switching from personal to work accounts in new emails or calendar events with attachments from unmanaged apps.
ID: 61131 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q3 CY2020
Outlook for Android: Availability in Office 365 operated by 21Vianet
Outlook for Android will be available to customers in China through certain app stores and the services and support of Office 365 operated by 21Vianet.
ID: 63432 Tags: Outlook Release: May CY2020
Schedule SharePoint pages & news posts
You will be able to schedule a page or news post to be published at a specific date and time in the future.
ID: 62892 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: April CY2020
Improved SharePoint page/news publishing experience
A new pre-publish panel that gives authors an overview of key information about their pages or news posts – including the site name, thumbnail, and any missing required properties – before they confirm publish. Additional improvements related required properties for pages and pages library take effect.
ID: 63257 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: May CY2020
SharePoint: Updated Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint
We are updating the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint that contains the new Yammer experience. SharePoint Sites that use the Yammer Conversations web part will start displaying the new Yammer Conversations web part experience.
ID: 63385 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: May CY2020
SharePoint lists and libraries – Conditional show or hide columns in a form
This feature allows users in lists and libraries to show or hide columns in a list form based on another column’s value by specifying a formula; equations that perform conditional checks on values in a SharePoint list or library. Users can click “Edit conditional formula” in the “Edit columns” list form pane to configure.
ID: 63518 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020
SharePoint lists and libraries – configure header, footer and body of a form
This feature allows users in SharePoint lists and libraries to add a custom header and a footer to the associated form. In addition to this, users can also customize the body text area with sections. Users can click “Configure layout” in the property form or the details pane to begin configuring the form.
ID: 63519 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Yammer: Updated conversations webpart for SharePoint
We are updating the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint that contains the new Yammer experience. SharePoint Sites that use the Yammer Conversations web part will start displaying the new Yammer Conversations web part experience.
ID: 63530 Tags: Yammer – All environments Release: May CY2020
Add an image of your diagram to other documents
Copy your entire diagram—or a subset of it—and paste it as an image in your process documentation, presentation, or other documents you are working on.
ID: 53960 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Pinch and zoom to focus on elements in your diagram
Use the pinch and zoom functionality to focus on certain areas in your diagram. Zoom in and out of the diagram by using your fingers on your touch-enabled device.
ID: 62353 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Teams – update default Teams meeting policy to enforce lobby in meetings for external users
We are updating the default meeting policy to automatically enforce lobby for all external users who join a Teams meeting, including attendees joining via Audio Conferencing. This policy change will only impact those tenants who have not modified the default meetings policy.
ID: 63388 Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Teams – assign a policy package to a batch of Teams users
Batch policy package assignment will allow Teams admins to use cmdlets to assign policies to groups of users.
ID: 63390 Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)O365, Microsoft Teams Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Teams – new policy to prevent upload of profile picture
Teams desktop and web experiences will honor the Outlook on the Web mailbox policy setting that can control whether users are able change their profile pictures.
ID: 63389 Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: April CY2020
[Web] Live Presentations in PowerPoint
Live Presentations enables every audience member to view your presentation on their own device, like their laptop, tablet, or phone. Each audience member can turn on live captioning and choose subtitles from more than 60 languages. They can even navigate between slides, so they don’t miss a single, important detail from your presentation. The audience is engaged throughout your presentation by sending reactions in real-time. And after your presentation, the audience can provide specific feedback on the content and delivery of the presentation, which you can use to improve your presentation skills over time.
ID: 51121 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020
Updated SharePoint start page experience
The SharePoint start page, previously known as SharePoint home, is getting a UX refresh. We are also adding new experiences to the start page to help users discover and get back to their content.
ID: 54821 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: Q1 CY2020
SharePoint: Stock Images
Free to use stock images will be available in the SharePoint image file picker.
ID: 59834 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: April CY2020
Information barriers (private preview)
Not only in governance, we are also evolving our Compliance controls for highly regulated verticals like Finance, Healthcare, etc., FINRA like compliance regulations for finance vertical require controls in place to avoid insider trading between different department users in the organization. You can now achieve these advanced regulations with the Information Barriers scenario in SharePoint and OneDrive. Sign up if you are interested in joining any of the above security private previews: https://aka.ms/SecurityPreviews.
ID: 57313 Tags: SharePoint, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2020
SharePoint lists – rename “Flow” to “Automate”
As announced at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft Flow is being renamed to “Microsoft Power Automate” to better align with the Microsoft Power Platform. You will start to see Microsoft Flow be replaced by Microsoft Power Automate throughout the service. These changes will start to become visible in Microsoft documentation, Admin center, etc. in the near future. And for OneDrive and SharePoint, you’ll see this primarily in lists and libraries – listed as “Automate” in the top command bar.
ID: 62855 Tags: SharePoint, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
New Microsoft 365 admin center experience available for Office 365 operated by 21Vianet
The new Microsoft 365 admin center experience is rolling out soon to Office 365 operated by 21Vianet. The new Microsoft 365 admin center is built for IT teams as a simplified way to manage your Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services. The admin center provides a tailored experience based on the unique needs of your role or organization, improves efficiency for everyday tasks, and provides actionable insights that help you make data-driven decisions to deliver a better experience for your users.
ID: 63268 Tags: Admin Center, O365 Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Bookings – group bookings
Group bookings will allow a business to provide a service where multiple users can book an appointment with a single staff member.
ID: 53548 Tags: Bookings – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2020
Targeted communications in Microsoft Teams
Targeted communication allows team members to message everyone in a specific role at the same time by @mentioning the role name in a post. For example, you could send a message to all cashiers in a store or all nurses in a hospital.
ID: 57651 Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2020
New Tenant Admin Privacy Controls for Microsoft Whiteboard Clients
New privacy controls are available for Tenant Admins to manage organization privacy levels for Microsoft Whiteboard client applications.
ID: 58252 Tags: Microsoft Whiteboard Release: Q4 CY2019
Announce when PSTN participants join/leave the meeting
Any user who schedules a Teams meeting will now see a new setting in Meeting Options page of a meeting to control the announcement sound when a PSTN/dial-in participant joins or leaves the meeting.
ID: 59919 Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2019
Microsoft Teams – background effects in Teams meetings
We are building upon the heavily popular background blur feature in Teams meetings with background effects. This new feature in Teams allow meetings attendees to customize their background from a list of pre-selected images. We will continue to iterate and enhance this new feature to include the ability for users to upload their own custom images in May.
ID: 62890 Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
SharePoint lists & libraries – Automate flows can run on individual items
This SharePoint list and library update allow people to build Microsoft Power Automate flows that can run on individual items contained within a document library or list.
ID: 62856 Tags: O365, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Availability in Office 365 operated by 21Vianet
Outlook for iOS will be available to customers in China through the services and support of Office 365 operated by 21Vianet.
ID: 59920 Tags: Outlook Release: Q1 CY2020
SharePoint: Image Resize
With this update, page editors will also be able to resize images in the image web part.
ID: 57812 Tags: SharePoint – All environments) Release: Q1 CY2020
SharePoint: Page Difference Visualization
With page difference visualization, you can see the version history of a modern page or news post and compare versions in SharePoint, including comparing changes visually on the page. You can see when a page was changed and who changed it. You can also see when properties (information about the file) were changed. If you need to, you can restore a previous version or delete a previous version.
ID: 57813 Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: Q1 CY2020
New connection experience in Visio for the web
Visio Plan 1 and Plan 2 users can now create connectors from any point on a diagram shape to any desired point on the same shape or another shape—and create multiple parallel connectors from a shape’s edge. With an intuitive interface, users can move the connection point on a shape to allow better alignment of connectors and also create as many connection points on a shape as needed.
ID: 43873 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2020
File activity in list view
In the activity column, users can see the activities happening on their files from the files view, helping them hone in on the files that are most important to them.
ID: 27545 Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments Release: Q1 CY2020
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails