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In Development

Outlook for Android: Time to leave notifications

Receive time to leave notifications based on your current location and the location of your upcoming event on your calendar. This feature has been cancelled and will be removed from the roadmap.

ID: 56408    Tags: Outlook

SharePoint: Extended layout for site footer

The site footer in modern communication sites will now include a new layout option, extended, to show more content in the footer section. The footer control will also have a background color functionality.

ID: 61063    Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – in-line message translation in Office 365 Government GCC and GCC High

In-line message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat.

ID: 61637    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High   Release: April CY2020

Microsoft Teams – New experience for launching instant channel meetings

Meet Now buttons in Teams channels will have a new home. You will soon find them in the Channel header where you can easily find and launch the meeting.

ID: 62904    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Group chat with up to 250 people

Sometimes you need to kick off a big project chat with a large group, or organize an ad-hoc discussion with staff at an event, but it is unnecessary to start a new team; perhaps you don’t all work together on a regular basis, or maybe you need a communication channel with a large group of people at an event. Group chats will be able to accommodate up to 250 users.

ID: 63577    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: May CY2020

Outlook for iOS: default-on online meetings

When you create a New Event in Outlook and your organization uses Teams or Skype for Business as your online meeting provider, Outlook will automatically create the event it as an online meeting. You can disable the online meeting with the toggle in each event or customize it in Settings.

ID: 63625    Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q3 CY2020

Outlook for Android: default-on online meetings

When you create a New Event in Outlook and your organization uses Teams or Skype for Business as your online meeting provider, Outlook will automatically create the event it as an online meeting. You can disable the online meeting with the toggle in each event or customize it in Settings.

ID: 63628    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q3 CY2020

Yammer: Events updates

Events tab in mobile apps- Portrait mode on mobile and web- Calendar invite for presenter/producer roles.

ID: 63633    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Yammer: Restrict posts in connected All Company feed

Admins of All Company will be able to restrict/prevent new posts to the All Company feed. Users will still be able to comment on existing conversations. The All Company will need to be a Microsoft 365 connected community in order to have this setting.

ID:63634    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Outlook on the web – Send later

Outlook is adding the option to schedule when you want to send an email message.

ID: 63665    Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education

Microsoft Teams – upload custom images for background effects in Teams meetings

We are building upon the heavily popular background effects feature in Teams meetings with custom upload capabilities. This new feature in Teams allow meetings attendees to customize their background by uploading their own images.

ID: 63666    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – background effects policy for tenant administrators

We are enabling tenant administrators to assign a user-level policy to control how users engage with background effects in Teams meetings. Options include: offer no filters; background blur only; use background blur and default provided images; and all, which includes the ability for users to upload their own custom images.

ID: 63670    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Rolling Out

Outlook for Android: Suggested people and actionable search answers

Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as “John’s phone number”. Search for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar.

ID: 53122    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Time-zone support

You can schedule events and meetings with co-workers in a different time-zone.

ID: 54450    Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: May CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Report spam or phishing

Report a suspicious email as spam or phishing from within the app.

ID: 58133    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Outlook on the web – GA of new experience in mobile browsers for special instances

We are releasing the new Outlook on the web experience to mobile browsers. Similar to the new Outlook on the web on PC, users accessing Outlook in mobile browsers will see a new experience.

ID: 61092    Tags: Exchange – GCC High, DoD, GCC   Release: Q1 CY2020

Version history in desktop

You will now be able to view and restore previous versions of your files directly in your desktop via your File Browser or Mac Finder.

ID: 61527    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments  Release: May CY2020

Allow user to override locked file to delete

Users are unable to delete a document because if they had it opened in another tab on a different computer, or because someone else had it open and forgot about it, effectively locking the document. This feature allows you to override that lock and delete a WXP file when someone (or yourself) has it open, whether intentionally or not.

ID: 62665    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments   Release: April CY2020

Updates to recipient experience for “specific people” links

We are updating the recipient experience for “specific people” links to make it more streamlined for people in your organization. When users in your organization receive a “specific people” link to files or folders on OneDrive or SharePoint they will no longer see a page telling them to click “Next” to sign in

ID: 63220    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments   Release: April CY2020

New reviewer experience for Access Review (Public Preview)

The Access Panel (myapps.microsoft.com) is migrating to a new series of portals. We are introducing the public preview of this updated experience for reviewers who currently use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Access Review.

ID: 63573    Tags: Azure Active Directory   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Forms Pro (Standalone) for GCC

Microsoft Forms Pro in GCC (Standalone ) will be available in April 2020. Microsoft Forms Pro is an enterprise survey capability that helps businesses obtain the feedback they need to make smarter decisions. Powered by both Office 365 and Dynamics 365, Forms Pro supports businesses seeking to transform customer, product, and employee experiences. Forms Pro is built on Microsoft Forms, and it offers new capabilities that make capturing and analyzing customer and employee feedback simpler than ever. Your customers can respond to the surveys by using any web browser or mobile device. As the responses are submitted, analyze them with Power BI reports and make effective decisions accordingly.

ID: 63574    Tags: Microsoft Forms – GCC   Release: April CY2020

Information Protection: Manual classification with sensitivity labels for Office on the web

Before this release, you couldn’t apply your sensitivity labels in Office on the web. You didn’t see the Sensitivity option on the ribbon, or the applied label name on the status bar. In addition, if you used desktop apps to label your files and then save them on SharePoint or OneDrive, the service couldn’t process the content of these files if the label applied encryption. Coauthoring, eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention, Search, Delve, and other collaborative features didn’t work under these circumstances.<br>?This release enables all these capabilities. In addition to displaying sensitivity labels to users, for new and changed files that have a sensitivity label applied that includes encryption with a cloud-based key.

ID: 63575    Tags: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Yammer: The New Yammer (Public Preview)

Yammer is being rebuilt from the ground up and will become Microsoft’s first application to fully leverage the Fluent Design system – resulting in a fast, modern, interface for web and mobile. But it’s not just a new look – we’re adding dozens of new features to Yammer that deliver top customer requests to help leaders and communities share, communicate, and discover like never before. The new mobile experience is fully rolled out and now the web experience is available for public preview.

ID: 63584    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Launched

OneNote migration with KFM

Until now, the OneDrive sync client has not supported OneNote files. And it’s critical to migrate OneNote files as any other – thus we’re introducing the ability for the OneDrive sync client to help migrate desktop OneNote files when leveraging Know Folder Move (KFM) to move your primary desktop folders (Documents, Pictures and Desktop) to the cloud.

ID: 49421    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

eDiscovery for Yammer

Yammer will bring eDiscovery capabilities to Office 365 connected Yammer groups. We are excited to add Yammer content to the advanced security and compliance capabilities our customers expect. This helps your company search, discover, and hold content related to its legal policies and helps you to be proactive in the management of information and records, giving your organization more control over the handling of eDiscovery cases and requests.

ID: 50555    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Intune support for derived credentials on Android

Microsoft Intune support on fully-managed Android Enterprise devices for managing derived credential certificates that are used for seamless authentication to apps, Wi-Fi, VPN, as well as for S/MIME signing and encryption. Derived credentials are certificates derived from Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card or Common Access Card (CAC) that are delivered and stored on a device, following the NIST 800-157 guidelines. They are commonly used by governments and government contractors.

ID: 52962    Tags: Microsoft Intune – All environments Release: Q1 CY2020

Enforce all Yammer groups are Office 365 Connected Groups

Admins can enforce all Yammer groups are Office 365 Connected Groups

ID: 53550    Tags: Yammer – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

Enforce Yammer group creation rights

Allow Admins to permission who can/cannot create Yammer groups.

ID: 53629    Tags: Yammer – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Delegate permissions

Delegates can access and manage messages within an owner’s inbox folder.

ID: 53666    Tags: Outlook   Release: Q1 CY2020

Outlook for Android: Delegate permissions

Delegates can access and manage messages within an owner’s inbox folder.

ID: 53667    Tags: Outlook  Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Enable organizers to change lobby settings for PSTN meeting participants

Any user who schedules a Microsoft Teams meeting will now see a separate setting to control the lobby for PSTN participants in the Meeting Options page of a given meeting.

ID: 54418    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Work and personal contact separation

When creating a new email and new calendar event in either your work/school or personal account, contact suggestions will be separated through a new user experience to ensure the correct contact is selected based on user intent.

ID: 56758    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Visual cues for work or personal account

Clear indication with new account avatar when creating new emails and calendar events based on your work/school versus personal accounts.

ID: 57767    Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: May CY2020

Outlook on the web – view and edit Sticky Notes

From Outlook on the web, view and edit the notes you create in Outlook for Windows and Sticky Notes right in the “Notes” folder, now with a new look. If you sign in with the same account across apps, your notes will sync across them like Sticky Notes for Windows 10, OneNote for iPhone and Android Phone, and Microsoft Launcher for Android Phone.

ID: 59840    Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q1 CY2020

Smart upload management

OneDrive will now automatically adjust sync client upload rate based on bandwidth availability. This setting enables OneDrive sync client to upload data in the background by only consuming unused bandwidth and not interfere with other applications using the network

ID: 61528    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

OneDrive for Business and Exchange usage reporting for GCC High tenants

The OneDrive for Business user activity report helps you understand OneDrive activity by looking at user interaction with files on OneDrive. The Exchange mailbox usage report provides information about users with a user mailbox and the level of activity. Thiese reports will be added to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center for GCC High tenants.

ID: 62325    Tags: Admin Center, O365 – GCC High   Release: Q1 CY2020

Update to sharing links for “people with existing access”

We are updating the “people with existing access” links that users can obtain when sharing to redirect recipients to the OneDrive file previewers instead of directly downloading the file. This has been the existing behavior for Office file types and we are now extending support to all other file types..

ID: 62859    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments Release: April CY2020

Yammer App for Microsoft Teams

Stay connected to what’s happening across your organization with new the Yammer app for Teams, which brings the full experience of Yammer right into your hub for teamwork. You can participate in conversations, watch live and on-demand events, and browse your communities just as you would in Yammer, helping you stay up to date with your communities while still having access to your projects, chats, and meetings. The new Yammer App in Teams can be pinned directly into the Teams navigation rail for quick access.

ID: 63163    Tags: Yammer – All environments   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: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   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: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: April CY2020

Canceled

Automatic classification and labeling of documents in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business

Note: This is a duplicate of 57312 and will be pulled from the roadmap on 4/30.Automatic classification and labeling of documents (based on content inspection) stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

ID: 49446    Tags: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020