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Outlook for iOS: Drag and Drop files into Outlook
Drag and drop files from apps such as OneDrive, Photos and Safari into Outlook on your iPad.
ID:61176 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC, Education Release: September CY2020
Word: New Feature – Designer in Word for Word for the web
Designer in Word for the web helps you make your document look and feel consistent by understanding different document constructs and intents. In addition, by providing a variety of document styles you can quickly change the look and feel of your document.
ID:63455 Tags: Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Double Key Encryption
Currently available in preview to Commercial tenants, Double Key Encryption from Microsoft allows you to protect your highly sensitive data while maintaining full control of your key. You can protect your data with two keys – your Azure key and your key in the Double Key Encryption service.
ID:64646 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Customizable Praise Badges
Ability to create custom Praise badges (title, colors, images, language) that expresses company culture.
ID:64978 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Feedback Loop for Trainable Classifiers
Customers can report whether classification hits are accurate or not to further improve classification performance.
ID:65763 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Advanced eDiscovery: Supporting modern attachments from SharePoint Online
Collect, review, analyze, and export linked content from SharePoint Online in the new user experience.
ID:66185 Tags: Compliance Score, SharePoint, Exchange, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
OneNote: OneNote Feed in Outlook and Outlook on the web
The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in Outlook.com and Outlook on the web. The OneNote feed includes your Sticky Notes and recent OneNote pages so you can quickly reference them in Outlook. Use the search to find the note you are looking for. Have a quick thought while replying to emails? You can create a new Sticky Note in your feed right in Outlook.
ID:66203 Tags: OneNote, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
OneNote: OneNote Feed in OneNote Online, OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows 10
The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in OneNote and Outlook including your Sticky Notes, recent OneNote pages, and Samsung Notes for Samsung users who are syncing to OneNote. You can easily share your notes by dragging and dropping notes into OneNote pages or your emails. Have a thought you want to capture? You can create a new Sticky Note right in your OneNote feed. The OneNote feed is available in Outlook.com, Outlook on the web, OneNote, OneNote for the web, and OneNote for Windows 10.
ID:66204 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Teams: VDI support for VMWare Horizon
We are delivering an optimized audio, video, and screen sharing media experience for Microsoft Teams for VMWare Horizon for on-premises, cloud, and Azure-hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
ID:66206 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Windows native notifications in Teams
Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via Windows 10 native notifications.
ID:66742 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams
Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via macOS native notifications.
ID:66743 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Turn off text previews for chat notifications
Users can get more privacy by changing their settings to turn off message previews in chat notifications.
ID:66744 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2020
PowerPoint: Live Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint for GCC and GCC-High
Live Captions and Subtitles enables presenters to turn captions or subtitles on in 60+ languages, while presenting in 10+ spoken languages with PowerPoint for Windows 10, macOS, and Web. Note this release is for our GCC and GCC-High tenants, and does not yet include DoD environments.
ID:66745 Tags: PowerPoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Whiteboard: Additional content types
Participants in Teams and on Web can now insert additional content types such as shapes and diagrams.
ID:66757 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020
Whiteboard: Presenter mode
The meeting organizer can put Whiteboard in “Present” or “Collab” mode. Present Mode makes all participants read-only and allows meeting organizer to enable collaboration later if needed.
ID:66758 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Whiteboard: External access in Teams meetings
Any guests, external or anonymous users in a Teams meeting can view and collaborate on the whiteboard during the meeting. They will not have continued access to the whiteboard after the meeting ends.
ID:66759 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020
Whiteboard: Tab app in Teams
Whiteboard will be available as a tab app inside Teams, making it even easy to pin a whiteboard to a channel.
ID:66760 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Whiteboard: Per user licensing
Tenant admins will be able to use licenses to enable or disable access to Whiteboard at an individual user level, instead of only at the global tenant level. These licenses currently exist in tenants today, but are not used for enablement.
ID:66761 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020
Whiteboard: Australia GoLocal
New whiteboards created by tenants in Australia will now be stored in local datacenters. Previously created boards will be migrated in future.
ID:66762 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Whiteboard: Migrating previously created boards
Tenants in locations that are currently storing new whiteboards in European datacenters will have previously created whiteboards migrated to European datacenters.
ID:66763 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020
Whiteboard: Locking content
Participants in Teams and on Web can lock content types on the board to prevent accidental movement or deletion.
ID:66764 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2021
Whiteboard: Attribution
Participants in Teams and on Web can see who added content to the board.
ID:66765 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2021
Whiteboard: Additional facilitation features
Participants in Teams and on Web will have additional facilitation features.
ID:66766 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2021
Whiteboard: Storage in SharePoint Online
Whiteboard content will be stored in SharePoint Online.
ID:66767 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Device tagging functionality
As part of enhanced manageability, we are releasing Device Tagging functionality. It will enable IT admins to group specific set of devices with user generated Tags and perform actions on the same.
ID:66922 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: new Teams meeting pre-join experience
We are improving upon the pre-join meeting experience for Teams meetings. The new pre-join screen includes easier discovery for audio, video, and device selection configurations before joining a Teams meeting.
ID:67089 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting
We are delivering the ability for presenters to lock on an individual video feed for all attendees to see during a Teams meeting. Once selected, the individual identified as the spotlight will be the main video shown to all participants. This applies to PC, Mac, mobile, and Microsoft Teams room systems.?
ID:67090 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Enable tenant administrators to configure masking of PSTN participant phone numbers
For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we are providing the ability for tenant administrators to define how Audio Conferencing participants’ phone numbers appear in the roster view for meetings scheduled within their organization: masked to external users, masked for everyone, or off (visible to everyone).?
ID:67091 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Compliance Center: Expanded support to search and export items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Recycle Bin in Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery
Traditionally, when a site is on hold, the files in the Recycle Bin would be stored in the Preservation Hold library. In cases when a site is not on hold, there is no way to search or export items in the Recycle Bin. The eDiscovery and SharePoint Online teams are making architectural changes that will make the Recycle Bin (both first-stage and second-stage Recycle Bins) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business searchable and exportable by eDiscovery Managers. That means organizations can search and export items in the Recycle Bin regardless of whether a site is on hold or not.?
ID:67092 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Compliance center, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Education Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Teams DLP for Adaptive Cards
Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Teams now extends to adaptive cards generated for Teams by apps and bots. Teams DLP will support scanning and detecting sensitive information in data embedded in Teams messages. Administrators will now be able to apply DLP policies to the adaptive cards generated by apps, as well as the user actions from users on the adaptive cards.
ID:67093 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Exchange: Block sending to a Distribution Group when it’s on the Bcc line?
The high message traffic on some groups can lead to Inbox clutter and noise, especially when many members use Reply All to respond on the thread. To reduce the noise many people will create an Inbox Rule to move incoming group messages to a specific folder. Some well-intended senders will put the group on the Bcc line so recipients can’t Reply All to the whole group. But Inbox Rules doesn’t evaluate any recipient on the Bcc line, so doing so effectively breaks the rule so the message ends up in the Inbox, thus contributing to the inbox clutter the user was trying to avoid. When this feature ships we’ll enable the ability for group and distribution list owners and admins to block sending to a group if the group is put on the Bcc line. If a user puts such a group on the Bcc line and sends the message, it’ll be rejected with a non-delivery report (NDR) saying Bcc’ing this group isn’t allowed.
ID:67096 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – GCC High, DoD, Education, Germany, GCC Release: November CY2020
Outlook on the web – Reply with a file
We are adding a new option to suggested replies in Outlook. Now when someone asks you for a file, Outlook will show a suggested reply to attach a file and recommend potential files from OneDrive and SharePoint.
ID: 27132 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, GCC Release: Q2 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience
Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation.
ID: 51230 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
SharePoint: Cumulative analytics for Hubs in SharePoint
Hub owners can now analyze aggregate usage analytics for their SharePoint hub sites, including all associated sites. Going to the site usage page for a hub site will automatically display usage data (including total visits, unique viewers, top sites, popular content) for all associated sites in the hub.
ID: 57160 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Cortana Briefing email
Cortana Briefing email helps users be better prepared for their meetings, stay on top of their tasks and protect time for independent work.
ID: 57204 Tags: Cortana – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Preset security policies for EOP and Office 365 ATP Security
Although we empower security administrators to customize their security settings, we are introducing two recommended security levels in Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: standard and strict. Each customer’s environment and needs are different, but we believe that these levels of mail filtering configurations will help prevent unwanted mail from reaching employee inboxes in most situations. We will be automatically updating profiles for our smaller customers who want us to manage these settings for them, but for others, we want to enable the admins to easily configure these for their users. Preset security policies will allow admins to take these settings and apply them to a defined set of users on one place. To get more information on the recommended settings, visit our documentation today!
ID: 59220 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Word: Transcription in Word for the Web
Whether you are a researcher, reporter, lawyer, teacher or anyone else who records and transcribes audio, you know how much time and effort it takes. Transcription in Word for the web enables you to easily record audio and transcribe directly in Word for the web. Transcription allows you to playback timestamped audio and you can quickly pull the whole transcript or specific quotes into your Word document.
ID: 59747 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Excel: Office Scripts for task and workflow automation in Excel
In January, we released Office Scripts, a feature that enables users to automate their repetitive tasks in Excel Online, for public preview. The feature will now be available by default to all M365 Enterprise, Business, and EDU SKUs that have access to the O365 desktop apps.
ID: 61687 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Office 365 ATP Request Release workflow
We’ve added a way for end users to triage quarantined phish messages. We understand that managing false positives is important to ensuring email is delivered appropriately, and in the past, end users weren’t granted access to the quarantine to view messages. We’ve introduced an option to grant end users read-only access to the quarantine to view quarantined messages and request that an admin release messages to the inbox.
ID: 62449 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: Q3 CY2020
Quarantine – Custom Policy and Folder
Previously, quarantine behavior was configured through each individual filtering policy. To reduce complexity, we’ve moved new and existing quarantine parameters into a standalone Quarantine policy.
ID: 62450 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Outlook for Windows: Store settings in the cloud
A new option found under General Cloud storage options that allows users to choose if they would like to store their Outlook settings in the cloud. This will enable a number of capabilities such as Privacy Settings and Focus Inbox to be consistent if they use Outlook on multiple computers and eventually Outlook on the web and mobile.
ID: 63037 Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Android On-Demand Chat Translation
Inline 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. This feature will now be available on Android.
ID: 63226 Tags: Microsoft Teams – All environments, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for the Web
Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying “delete that” or “start list”. You can even dictate a “smiley face”.
ID: 63644 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for iOS
Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying “delete that” or “start list”. You can even dictate a “smiley face”.
ID: 63645 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for Android
Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying “delete that” or “start list”. You can even dictate a “smiley face”.
ID: 63646 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
[Teams Mobile Clients] Organization allowed accounts configuration for Teams
Teams for iOS and Android now provides Teams administrators with the ability to push allowed account configurations to Teams. These configurations will work with any mobile device management provider that uses managed app configuration channels (for iOS) and the Android enterprise channel (for Android). The devices must be managed for this allowed account configuration to work.
ID: 64143 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020
Microsoft Translation is coming to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in GCC-High
M365 Intelligent Translation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will soon be enabled for GCC-High customers. This will allow users to translate text in their documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint slides into any of the languages supported by Microsoft Translator on Win32 Desktop versions.
ID: 64616 Tags: PowerPoint, Word, Excel – GCC High Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search
Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors that enable Microsoft 365 customers to connect Microsoft Search to disparate data sources outside of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search include the following connectors available within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Windows File Share, ServiceNow, Microsoft SQL Server, intranet websites, MediaWiki, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure DevOps, and Azure SQL.
ID: 65331 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: New channel files tab for GCC, GCC-High and DoD
We are rolling out the new channel files tab experience to the government clouds (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD). This upgrade brings in more than 10 new features, including different SharePoint view, ability to view metadata, sync, row/column formatting etc.
ID: 65350 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Exchange online: Client Access rules support for OAuth POP and IMAP
We are adding Client Access Rules Support to OAuth POP and IMAP in Exchange Online.
ID: 65417 Tags: Exchange – Germany, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Word: Transcription in Word for the web with automatically individualized speakers
Transcription now separates out speakers as “Speaker 1”, “Speaker 2”, etc.! Whether you are a researcher, reporter, lawyer, teacher or anyone else who records and transcribes audio, you know how much time and effort it takes. Transcription in Word for the web enables you to easily record audio and transcribe directly in Word for the web. Transcription allows you to playback timestamped audio and you can quickly pull the whole transcript or specific quotes into your Word document.
ID: 65588 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
SharePoint: Caching SharePoint Online Videos on Azure Content Delivery Network to improve video playback and reliability
Introducing Content Delivery Network (CDN) support for videos stored in SharePoint and OneDrive videos to improve video streaming performance and the overall user experience. Videos will be streamed from the CDN closest to the user to optimize the user experience.
ID: 66065 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Edge v. 85: Support for Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Added native DLP controls to support Microsoft Endpoint DLP policies to prevent cloud egress, print, save to network or USB for sensitive files.
ID: 66325 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Azure Active Directory: [Preview] AAD Application Proxy now supports the Remote Desktop Services web client
Azure AD Application Proxy now supports Remote Desktop Web Client. The Remote Desktop web client allows users to access Remote Desktop infrastructure through any HTLM5-capable browser such as Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. Users can interact with remote apps or desktops like they would with a local device from anywhere. By using Azure AD Application Proxy you can increase the security of your RDS deployment by enforcing pre-authentication and Conditional Access policies for all types of rich client apps.
ID: 66461 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Using Teams background images in non-optimized Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environments
Support for background images will be releasing for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
ID: 66707 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: August CY2020
FastTrack | Dropbox to OneDrive for Business Migration
FastTrack Center will offer file migration services from Dropbox to OneDrive for Business as a new benefit provided by the FastTrack Center. This migration service will be available to customers with 150+ seats of eligible Office 365 plans. Once available, please refer to the FastTrack benefit for Office 365to review eligibility details.
ID: 14781 Tags: FastTrack – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020
Outlook for Mac: New user experience across email, search and calendar
Delivers the option to preview updates coming to Outlook for Mac that enhance performance and user experiences across email, search and calendar. Includes capabilities that are based on intelligent technology such as suggested replies and Meeting Insights. Architected using the Microsoft sync technology.
ID: 27287 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: Q1 CY2021
Azure AD sign-in process behavior and error messaging updates
Azure Active Directory sign-in uses a process to determine where to send a user to authenticate after they enter their username on the sign-in screen. This process will be updated with an upgraded user look up behavior. The new behavior will pave the path towards a passwordless future by enabling alternative credentials like FIDO2. Additionally, this behavior will introduce new and improved error messaging on the sign-in pages if the username the user entered does not match an account in the respective domain.
ID: 33845 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, All environments, DoD, GCC Release: Q2 CY2019
Azure AD sign-in process behavior and error messaging updates
Azure Active Directory sign-in uses a process to determine where to send a user to authenticate after they enter their username on the sign-in screen. This process will be updated with an upgraded user look up behavior. The new behavior will pave the path towards a passwordless future by enabling alternative credentials like FIDO2. Additionally, this behavior will introduce new and improved error messaging on the sign-in pages if the username the user entered does not match an account in the respective domain.
ID: 44286 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, All environments, DoD, GCC Release: Q2 CY2019
Microsoft Authentication Library for Android
Android developers can use MSAL.Android to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers have built. All functionality in ADAL.Android (Azure AD Authentication Libraries) is now supported in MSAL.Android. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will continue to work.
ID: 44287 Tags: Azure Active Directory – All environments, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q4 CY2019
Intelligent classification for Information Governance
Advanced Compliance customers will now be able to utilize out of the box machine learned classifiers or train their own custom machine learned models to help classify, protect and govern sensitive or business relevant content across relevant compliance solutions such as Information Governance, Records Management, Supervision and Advanced eDiscovery.
ID: 48505 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 Y2019
The Office mobile apps will be available for Office 365 F1/G1 for US government customers
Office 365 administrators for customers with Office 365 F1/G1 in GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds are being notified that the Office mobile apps was launched for all eligible customers.
ID: 50731 Tags: Office 365 – GCC Release: Q3 CY2019
Microsoft Planner: Export to Excel
Export the tasks in a Planner plan to an Excel file.
ID: 52585 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2019
SharePoint Recommendations available on SharePoint Pages and SharePoint News Posts
SharePoint Recommendations help you discover new SharePoint Pages and News post in your company. At the bottom of SharePoint News Posts and Pages, you will see the SharePoint Recommendations which are most applicable to you powered by machine learning.
ID: 52604 Tags: SharePoint Release: Q4 CY2019
Improved user experience for the Admin Center Message Center
We are updating the Message Center page to have an improved user experience. The new experience will offer a new clean UI as well as performance improvements.
ID: 52833 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2019
Site owners can now associate their sites with a SharePoint hub
Previously, associating with a hub site required site collection admin privileges. We are updating this permission so now site owners can associate their sites to a hub. This provides a more consistent experience across SharePoint.
ID: 53903 Tags: SharePoint – Release: Q4 CY2019
Outlook for Android: Meeting Insights
Emails and documents that are relevant to your meeting or appointment are included in the Calendar event description.
ID: 54545 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release:Q4 CY2019
Global reader in Azure AD roles
Global reader is the read-only counterpart to Global admin. Users in this role can read all settings and administrative information across Microsoft 365 services, but cannot edit anything. Please note that Global Reader is not supported in SharePoint Admin Center, Privileged Access Management (PAM), customer lockbox requests in Microsoft 365 Admin Center and sensitivity labels in Security & Compliance Center.
ID: 55096 Tags: Azure Active Directory – DoD, All environments, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q4 CY2019
The ability to contact support through the Admin Center for GCC High / DoD
GCC High / DoD environments will have the ability to contact support and manage service requests using the “Need Help” service in the Admin portal
ID: 55476 Tags: DoD Release: Q3 CY2019
Azure AD: security defaults
Security defaults provide secure default settings managed on behalf of organizations to keep customers safe until they are ready to manage their own identity security story. Security defaults include requiring all users and admins to register for MFA, challenging users with MFA, and disabling authentication from legacy authentication clients.
ID: 55688 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High, All environments Release: Q4 CY2019
SharePoint site URL rename
As business changes, so, too, can you sites – especially site URLs. In the SharePoint admin center you will be able to change site URLs by renaming them. So for example, if you have a site https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Develpment, using the SharePoint admin center you can rename the site URL to correct the incorrect spelling of “Development.” These changes are opaque, meaning that access requests to the old URL are redirected – users will not need to have to update their links.
ID: 56205 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q4 CY2019
Teams for Linux client
The Teams client for Linux will facilitate collaboration by extending capabilities like chats, meetings, and calling to people who are operating in a Linux environment. It will also facilitate collaboration by allowing users to open and edit Office files in the Teams app.
ID: 56219 Tags: Microsoft Teams – All environments Release: Q4 CY2019
Microsoft Teams: Graph Resource Specific Consent [BETA]
Your Teams app can now call Teams Graph APIs from the BETA endpoint without needing admin consent. These APIs include creating, renaming, and deleting channels, reading channel messages, creating tabs, and adding/removing members from Teams
ID: 56605 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
The Office mobile apps will be available for Office 365 F1/G1 for US government customers
Office 365 administrators for customers with Office 365 F1/G1 in GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds are being notified that the Office mobile apps was launched for all eligible customers.
ID: 50731 Tags: Office 365 – GCC Release: Q3 CY2019
The ability to contact support through the Admin Center for GCC High / DoD
GCC High / DoD environments will have the ability to contact support and manage service requests using the “Need Help” service in the Admin portal
ID: 55476 Tags: DoD Release: Q3 CY2019
Microsoft 365 Admin center: Exchange Online Basic Authentication Settings
We are adding Exchange Online Basic Authentication settings to Microsoft Admin center. This will enable an administrator to easily disable Basic Authentication within their tenant.
ID: 65007 Tags: Exchange – GCC High, DoD, Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams – improvements in meetings experience for Safari browser users
We are bringing improvements to the browser-based meetings experience for those who join Teams meetings with Safari browsers. Users will no longer be required to use Audio Conferencing to dial into the meeting for audio needs, but rather, can use their device to speak and listen. As was prior, participants can continue to view meeting content being shared in their browser.
ID: 65090 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Group Calling for Safari Browser
Group call functionality for the Safari browser.
ID: 65330 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Forms: Specific User Sharing for Collaboration for GCC, GCC-High and DoD
Microsoft Forms: Specific User Sharing for Collaboration is a new Office 365 feature that allows Form Owners to collaborate with specific users or security groups. This allows for the creation of specified Co-authors that can help design the form and view/analyze response data and allows a Form Owner to keep the collaboration locked down much further than using the existing collaboration styles “Users with an office 365 work or school account can view and edit” or “Only users in my organization can view and edit” We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Worldwide O365 customers in Late April 2020. The roll-out will be completed by Early May 2020 . Previously, Co-authors created by the feature Share-Share to Collaborate- “Users with an office 365 work or school account can view and edit” or “Only users in my organization can view and edit” were able to modify the permissions level of collaboration, eg changing it from “Only users in my organization” – “Users with an office 365 account”. This ability will now be removed from all existing co-authors as well as any newly created co-authors. Only Form owners will be able to change this setting.
ID: 65379 Tags: Forms – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Outlook on the web – Suggested locations
When you click on the location bar to search for a room or location, Outlook will suggest available rooms that you have used before so you can quickly find the most convenient room.
ID: 56795 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: Q4 CY2019
Microsoft Teams – Messaging extensions
We have a new set of messaging extensions coming to Teams. Two new types of messaging extensions – Checklists and Polls- will help you and your team to digitize and streamline daily business processes and get instant feedback to shared items or questions. You will be able to easily access these by clicking on ‘…’ at the bottom of the compose box in a chat or channel.
ID: 57022 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020
Acronym search in Microsoft Search
Acronym search in Microsoft Search enables Microsoft Search users to discover Acronyms via Microsoft Search. Acronym search will initially be available to Bing prior to becoming available to additional Microsoft Search entry points such as SharePoint, Office.com, etc.
ID: 57064 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Power BI results in Microsoft Search
With Power BI results in Bing using Microsoft Search people at work can simply search for a report using a keyword and immediately view Power BI reports or dashboard results inline. For frequently used Power BI reports, users can submit a request to create a bookmark for a specific security group, title, and URL, and sample keywords to their admin. Once created, the bookmark will contain the tile/report embedded directly into the bookmark answer card for easy viewing.
ID: 57072 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Floorplan search in Microsoft Search
Floorplan search in Bing with Microsoft Search allows people to pinpoint a colleague’s office visually on a floorplan based on engineering diagram data indexed by Microsoft Search.
ID: 57073 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Account manager ‘View account’ link change
The ‘View account’ link in the account manager found in the header of Office 365 will now link to a new account management site called My Account. The site will include password reset, security information, privacy, and more.
ID: 57078 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2020
Spelling suggestions in Microsoft Search
Spelling suggestions in Microsoft Search suggests plausible replacements for words that are likely to have been misspelled. If a user enters a word in a search query that appears to be misspelled, the search results page displays query spelling corrections. For example, if someone enters a query that contains the word “ampitheater”, the query spelling correction would be “amphitheater”.
ID: 57127 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Record, edit and personalize videos with Stream mobile app
Easily create personalized videos including annotations, text and emojis directly from your Stream mobile app
ID: 57297 Tags: Microsoft Stream – All environments Release: Q4 CY20219
SharePoint – lists and libraries web parts consume dynamic data
Let web parts talk to other web parts and your pages and experiences become more dynamic with data and interactive. You will be able to configure list web part to send its property values to the List Properties web part, including updating those values based on what is selected. Item has been updated to align with release plans.
ID: 57307 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Education, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Sensitivity labels for Teams, Office 365 Groups, and SharePoint Sites (public preview)
With a sensitivity label you can now associate privacy, external user access, and unmanaged device policies for Sites and Groups. Users can simply select a sensitivity label when creating or updating a Team, Office 365 Group, or SharePoint Site, and the right security policies will be automatically applied. Simple, seamless, and consistent labels experience across Microsoft 365 experiences. To learn more, check out https://aka.ms/SPOLabels. Public preview starts on Nov. 20th, 2019.
ID: 57310 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Information Protection, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Support for sensitivity labels with protection in SharePoint and OneDrive (public preview)
SharePoint and OneDrive now support sensitivity labels with protection i.e. Microsoft Information Protection-based encryption setting can be associated with a sensitivity label. The encrypted files are treated much like regular files and users can open and edit them in Office on the Web and get modern productivity experiences like co-authoring. You can govern these encrypted files with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and eDiscovery too. To learn more, check out https://aka.ms/SPOLabels. Public preview starts on Nov. 20th, 2019.
ID: 57311 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019
Dark Mode for OneNote 2016
We are rolling out Dark Mode for OneNote 2016. This will be available for Office 365 subscribers and non-volume licensing Office 2019 customers. Dark Mode changes the app’s interface elements from light to dark. Using OneNote in this mode can improve readability in low light environments, increase legibility of the user interface as well as your notes, provide better contrast, and reduce eye strain. You might also use OneNote in Dark Mode simply as a personal preference. The choice is yours!
ID: 57417 Tags: OneNote – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: Q4 CY2019
Microsoft Teams – improvements in meetings experience for Safari browser users
We are bringing improvements to the browser-based meetings experience for those who join Teams meetings with Safari browsers. Users will no longer be required to use Audio Conferencing to dial into the meeting for audio needs, but rather, can use their device to speak and listen. As was prior, participants can continue to view meeting content being shared in their browser.
ID: 57417 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Support for Exact Data Match (EDM) for the government clouds
Organizations will be able to use EDM (Exact Data Match) to better protect content. With EDM-based classification, you can create a custom sensitive information type that is designed to: be dynamic and refreshable, be more scalable, result in fewer false-positives, work with structured sensitive data, handle sensitive information more securely and be used with several Microsoft cloud services.
ID: 65150 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: Q3 CY2020
Microsoft Teams: New turn-in celebrations
After each successfully turned-in assignment, students can view a small congratulatory animation for their efforts.
ID: 66558 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Manage discovery of private teams
Customer feedback has indicated that discoverability of Private Teams was not desirable.As a result this feature is cancelled: Teams is making it easy to discover and join private teams. Admins and team owners can control whether they want to allow private teams to be discovered by Teams users. When a private team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for people to search for and find the private teams that they want to join. People can request to join a private team which a team owner can then approve or deny.
ID: 44370 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q4 CY2020
Tenant specific mailbox for sharing comms
This feature is cancelled. Today all tenants share a common no-reply@sharepointonline.com domain for various email communication scenarios. With this update , we will segregate tenant emails by domain removing the risk of emails being sorted into junk folders and segregating spam scores. Now, these emails will come from tenant-specific mailboxes like no-reply@contoso.onmicrosoft.com This will not impact emails that are sent on behalf of a user’s mailbox like file sharing, page promotion via email or comment @mentions. It will also not immediately impact legacy SharePoint alerts on document libraries or lists which will continue to use the sharepointonline.com domain for the foreseeable future. edge:// compat/sitelistmanager
ID: 56361 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, DoD, All environments, GCC HighRelease: Q4 CY2020
OneDrive: Sync reports
(NOTE: This item is a duplicate of 65909 and will be removed.) Ability to monitor the heath of OneDrive sync app across your organization.
ID: 64289 Tags: OneDrive – All environments Release: Q1 CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
