Play of the Week

The new Microsoft 365 admin center experience is rolling out soon to GCC High and GCC DoD clouds. 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. If you would like to schedule a feature review, let us know!

In Development

Outlook for Android: Company Add-in for 3rd party online meetings

Companies will be able to apply a 3rd party add-in from Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeetings and Blue Jeans and choose that provider as their preferred online meeting provider.

ID: 52558    Tags: Outlook: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: March CY2020

Outlook for Android: inking on photos

With the integrated Office Lens technology in Outlook, simply take a photo when composing an email and use the inking palette to add your personal touch.

ID: 54808    Tags: Outlook : Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Report spam or phishing

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

ID: 58133    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q3 CY2020

Outlook for Android: Play My Emails

Play My Emails on the go to get time back in your day with a voice forward, intelligent experience for reading new email in your focused inbox when you’re on the move or when your hands are busy doing other things. The optional touch interface is designed to allow you to easily take action on important new emails and offers the option to respond with your voice. Available to eligible accounts in the United States.

ID: 58736    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q3 CY2020

Add Roadmap reports to the Power BI template

You can enable Roadmap reports in the Power BI Template (https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Power-BI-Templates) for Project reporting and dashboards.

ID: 60566    Tags: Project : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

Updated Feature: Microsoft 365 usage reports will add access for more administrator roles

Microsoft 365 usage reports will add access for the following administrator roles: – Teams Service Administrator – Teams Communications Administrator After it, the following user roles can have the access to Microsoft 365 usage report via Microsoft 365 admin center, Power BI Microsoft 365 usage analytics, and Microsoft Graph API: – Global Administrator – Exchange Administrator – SharePoint Administrator – Skype for Business Administrator – Teams Service Administrator – Teams Communications Administrator – Global Reader – Reports Reader.

ID: 60861    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: March CY2020

Outlook on the web – new experience availability in Gallatin

We recently launched the new Outlook on the web experience for world-wide customers. This release is for customers Gallatin.

ID: 60937    Tags: Exchange   Release: March CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Channel Cross Posting (Editing)

Channel cross posting now supports editing a message after it has been posted. Additionally, you can add or remove channels to reach a wider audience or have a focused conversation.

ID: 60946    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2020

New Microsoft 365 admin center experience available in ITAR cloud

The new Microsoft 365 admin center experience is rolling out soon to GCC High and GCC DoD clouds. 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: 61004    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : GCC High, DoD   Release: February CY2020

SharePoint: lists from Excel

Easily bring in data for your SharePoint list starting by importing an Excel spreadsheet. You choose the columns and structure, and then click import. SharePoint then creates a new list with all the data and structure from Excel.

ID: 61013    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: March CY2020

New Capabilities in Shifts app

Schedule filtering – End users will see new filtering capabilities in the Shifts app on web and desktop, enabling them to filter by team members or schedule groups to efficiently manage their schedule. ‘Your shifts’ view – ‘Your shifts’ is a new view that will enable end users to quickly access their shift information without the need to scroll through their entire schedule. Schedule withdraw – Team owners will have the ability to withdraw a shared schedule to make any necessary changes.

ID: 61026    Tags: Microsoft Teams : All environments   Release: March CY2020

SharePoint – edit metadata from within the Document Library and List View web parts

Now you will be able to edit the metadata properties on items displayed in a library or a list from within the corresponding web parts: the Document Library and List View web parts. This means you don’t need to go to the list or library itself, rather you can work right there from the web part(s) in the context of the SharePoint page where the web part was added.

ID: 61030    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: February CY2020

Enhanced Power BI tab for Teams

With the new Power BI tab, users can add reports from the new workspace experience, apps. The tab also now supports paginated reports.

ID: 61047    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

Rolling Out

SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: new Files experience

Manage files in Microsoft Teams with the full power of SharePoint. With the new Files experience, you will be able to add and manage custom columns, sort and filter files with custom views, trigger workflows, and sync files to your PC or Mac. Available this summer.

ID: 30548    Tags: SharePoint, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

SharePoint team sites – Next steps panel

We’ll expand on in-service help that appears at the top of a team site – where the actions that are suggested are driven more and more by the use of the site itself – giving relevant suggestions for next steps and actions based on what team members are doing.

ID: 46832    Tags: O365, SharePoint : All environments   Release: February CY2020

Update to email notifications for shared content

Standardizing the email template to reflect consistency across products along with adding file previewer thumbnails and activity details.

ID: 53036    Tags: OneDrive for Business : All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019

SharePoint admin – Modern term store and terms analytics dashboard

Use the updated term store to create and manage terms and term sets in SharePoint to enter data consistently. The new experience, within the SharePoint admin center, offers an enhanced set of analytics and make it easier to manage your company’s taxonomy and content types. And within the term store update, you’ll now find analytics to view insights related to the Term Store, to see the breakdown of regular and managed terms, general use of terms across your sites and apps, and any additional management suggestions to ensure healthy, useful managed metadata.

ID: 57315    Tags: O365, SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Privacy controls

Outlook for iOS will follow the same privacy controls for the level of diagnostic and related data that Office sends to Microsoft established in other Office 365 apps.

ID: 58135    Tags: Outlook : Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2020

Outlook for Android: Privacy controls

Outlook for Android will follow the same privacy controls for the level of diagnostic and related data that Office sends to Microsoft established in other Office 365 apps.

ID: 60109    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: March CY2020

Per site sharing links can now default to People with Existing Access Links

Prior to this change, SharePoint and OneDrive Administrators had the ability to set the default sharing link on a per-site basis and they could choose either “Anyone”, “People in my organization” or “Specific People”. We are now introducing support to set the default sharing link to “People with Existing Access”. Once set, users who click on the Share button or Copy Link will, by default, get an Existing Access link that does not change the permissions on the item. Additional link types are still available in Link Settings if needed.

ID: 60335    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

New organization switcher in the Microsoft 365 admin center

Today, we are announcing a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center called the Organization Switcher, the first of many changes coming for admins who manage multiple organizations. The Organization Switcher allows you to seamlessly switch between organizations that you manage. Today’s release supports admins that are the partner of record (Associated Partner) for a Microsoft 365 organization.

ID: 60975    Tags: O365, Admin Center : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2020

Launched

Use Flow to approve hub-site joins

Require an approval from a hub administrator before allowing other sites to be connected.

ID: 30552    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

SharePoint: lists from lists

Build new lists from other lists to accelerate the creation of a net-new list based on the same structure and formatting.

ID: 33603    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q3 CY2019

SharePoint Admin Center Experience Updates

The SharePoint Admin Center experience will default to the modern experience. Tenants will continue to have the ability to switch back to the classic admin center experience as needed.

ID: 46375    Tags: SharePoint    Release: Q1 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Improved Channel File Tab Experience

We continue to bring the power of SharePoint into Teams. The new experience in the file tab of a channel includes the ability to sync files to your computer, more view options, and lifecycle signals. Additionally, you can pin and check out files.

ID: 51234    Tags: Microsoft Teams : All environments   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Teams Voice Platform

Enable Contact Center partner integration development, Remote Advisor integration: Graph API for Presence (beta), Graph API for Calling

ID: 53939    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Zoom out further in Roadmap

See an even bigger picture when you view your roadmaps at 4 additional levels: 18 months, 2 years, 3 years, and 6 years.

ID: 54984    Tags: Project : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Form customization in SharePoint lists and libraries

This feature allows users in lists and libraries to customize the order and visibility of fields on forms. Users can click “Show/Hide Fields” in the property form or the details pane to perform this customization.

ID: 56425    Tags: SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

SharePoint lists – Expanded view

It’s subtle and powerful, a feature that gives you more visual space to see and dig into data. We’re introducing the ability to expand lists to fill the screen – to allow you to focus on what you’re doing and see more rows and columns at once. Click the expand button and see more, do more. One click clears the chrome of left-hand navigation and site header.

ID: 57302    Tags: SharePoint, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q4 CY2019

SharePoint – PowerApps integration with SharePoint libraries

Now, citizen developers configure and customize default document library forms with built-in PowerApps. You’ll be able to use PowerApps to build custom forms for document libraries, extending metadata-enriched experiences throughout SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

ID: 57303    Tags: O365, SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

SharePoint lists – Alternate row formatting

Provide a cleaner, more visual view of your documents and data with column formatting that alternates every other row. Click into Format view, select your color preference for Odd and Even rows and watch it take effect in real time. Once you’re satisfied with how it looks – dare I say how it pops – click the Close button and know your data comes across intact with clarity and style.

ID: 57306    Tags: O365, SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Visio Viewer app available in iOS App Store

The latest version of the Visio Viewer app (v1.17) is now available in the iOS App Store. The following features were included as a part of this release: 1. Brand and app icon refresh with the new Visio icons 2. Introduction of Dark Mode support 3. FRE updates in sync with WXP iOS apps experience 4. Diagnostic Data and Connected Services experience

ID: 59776    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Canceled

Personalized onboarding

When users use OneDrive for the first time they would be asked questions on various scenarios and based on their answers , they will get a tailored onboarding experience

ID: 27547    Tags: OneDrive for Business : All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019