Play of the Week

Microsoft Teams set tenant-wide default selection for “Who Can Present” in Teams meetings. Microsoft is enabling tenant admins to update their Teams meeting policies to allow for a new default selection when choosing who can present in new Teams meetings (everyone, people in my organization, specific people, or only me). To start, organizations can set this policy via a PowerShell cmdlet, and soon after we will have this policy configurable in the Admin portal. This new functionality will begin to roll-out the first week of May.

In Development

SharePoint Spaces

SharePoint spaces is a web-based, immersive platform, which allows you to create and share, secure and extensible mixed reality experiences. Add a new dimension to your intranet by using 2- and 3D web parts to create your mixed reality vision.

ID: 62752    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: March CY2020

Proof of disposal for records

We’re adding a new feature which will retain a list of all records (declared using retention labels) disposed for a longer period.

ID: 59217    Tags: O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 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

SharePoint lists & libraries – new rich-text editor (RTE) for text fields

We are bringing a newer, richer experience when a person creates a multi-line text field for a SharePoint list or library. They now will have the option to enable the rich-text editor (RTE). When people edit their items in a form, they see pencil icon to edit text and adjust font, size, color, highlight, bold, italics, underline, bulleted lists, numbering, etc.).

ID: 63176    Tags: SharePoint, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020

Microsoft 365 Apps usage report and updates to other reports

To better support remote work scenarios we are adding a new report that shows the use of Microsoft 365 apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams), updating the email activity report with calendar event activities, and a new pivot to the Office 365 active users graph to show total activity.

ID: 63209    Tags: O365, Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   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

Microsoft Teams – screen share from chat policy governance

Screen share from chat allows you to immediately start sharing your screen in a 1-1 chat or group chat. This entry point was previously governed by the AllowPrivateCalling policy. If this policy was disabled, users weren’t able to screen share from chat. The option to start a screen share from chat will now be governed by the ScreenSharingMode policy.

ID: 63193    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – set tenant-wide default selection for “Who Can Present” in Teams meetings

We are enabling tenant admins to update their Teams meeting policies to allow for a new default selection when choosing who can present in new Teams meetings (everyone, people in my organization, specific people, or only me). Today, the default selection is “everyone” unless the meeting organizer selects otherwise through the “meetings option” configuration. To start, organizations can set this policy via a PowerShell cmdlet, and soon after we will have this policy configurable in the Admin portal. This new functionality will begin to roll-out the first week of May.

ID: 63206    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Information Governance: New retention engine for SPO

New retention engine for SharePoint Online, which addresses the challenges with large tenants or tenant that must process large volume of data. Will also enhance reliability and SLAs for retention.

ID: 63061    Tags: Admin Center, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Information Governance: Retention policies for Yammer

Expand support for Yammer messages.

ID: 63064    Tags: O365, Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Records Management: Proof of disposal

Customers will be able to access the list of records disposed in their tenant after they have been deleted.

ID: 59217    Tags: O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

SharePoint Spaces Preview

SharePoint spaces is a web-based, immersive platform, which allows you to create and share, secure and extensible mixed reality experiences. Add a new dimension to your intranet by using 2- and 3D web parts to create your mixed reality vision.

ID: 62752    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

Email notification updates in Yammer

We’ll be updating email notifications in Yammer to ensure you see important messages. We believe announcements from your communities and mentions of you on Yammer are important for you to see and get work done, and now we’ll make sure you never miss them in Outlook.

ID: 63034    Tags: Yammer – All environments   Release: Q3 CY2020

Advanced eDiscovery Graph APIs

Script common eDiscovery actions using the Microsoft Graph REST APIs. APIs include, but are not limited to: Case, Custodian, Search, Review Set and Export management. The graph APIs will first be released to the Microsoft Graph beta endpoints (https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/api/overview?toc=./ref/toc.json&view=graph-rest-beta) and then ultimately to production (https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/api/overview?toc=./ref/toc.json&view=graph-rest-1.0). APIs will show up in preview as they are completed and available in production after most common scenarios are completed.

ID: 63068    Tags: O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Hybrid Agent for GCC High/DoD Clouds

The Exchange Hybrid Agent enables Exchange Online to access the free/busy of on-premises mailboxes and to move mailboxes from on-premises servers to Office 365 without requiring any inbound ports or rules to be opened at the on-premises firewall.

ID: 63211    Tags: Exchange – DoD   Release: Q4 CY2020

Adding Outbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online

Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding outbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers inbound mail.

ID: 63212    Tags: Exchange – All environments   Release: Q4 CY2020

Adding Inbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online

Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding inbound support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers outbound mail.

ID: 63213    Tags: Exchange – All environments

Rolling Out

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

Launched

No launch updates to announce in this weekly edition.

Canceled

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Access to crucial events in Advanced Audit

Duplicate of 53122

ID: 56790    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: April CY2020