Play of the Week

Starting January 24, 2020 Microsoft Teams will be periodically asking users how they are liking the Teams experience through Surveys that will pop up in both the web and desktop client. This change will apply to all tenants including, Enterprise, Education, GCC. Users can also send comments and suggestions about Teams to Microsoft by going to Help > Give feedback in Teams. Microsoft has released a collection of PowerShell commands that will allow you customize this experience for your users and to control who can participate in surveys. By default, everyone in the organization is enabled to give feedback.

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Outlook for iOS: Delegate permissions

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

ID: 53666    Tags: Outlook : NA     Release: March CY2020

Outlook for Android: 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: 56759    Tags: Outlook : GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, Education, GCC    Release: Q3 CY2020

Active time spent reports on SharePoint Site Usage

We are bringing the admin sharing settings from the classic sharing page to the modern sharing page. This will make it easier to set up and configure external sharing for OneDrive and SharePoint. Key settings include the ability to configure who is allowed to share externally as well as the default link permissions for your organization.

ID: 57159    Tags: SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Top tasks from To Do in Search landing page

A new list in Search shows your outstanding tasks from the To Do app

ID: 58137    Tags: Outlook : Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Outlook for Android: Deleted folders in Search results

Items in Deleted folders are included in keyword Search results

ID: 58990    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, GCC, GCC High, DoD  Release: March CY2020

Improved SharePoint Tab and new SharePoint Pages Tabs allow users to paste link to tab pages & lists in Teams Channels

We are making improvements to the SharePoint tab in Teams to help users easily find the pages & lists that you want to tab. Now, you can also paste a link to a page or list from any team-site to tab it in your channels. We are also introducing a new “SharePoint Pages” tab in Teams specifically focused on allowing users to find pages and news posts or paste a link to them from any team-site in order to tab them in Teams. This feature has no impact on page or list permissions. Users who did not have access to that page/list before it was added as a tab will continue to be unable to access it in Teams.

ID: 60614    Tags: Microsoft Teams : NA    Release: February CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Optional attendees

Add people to your events as optional attendees.

ID: 61099    Tags: Outlook : Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Batch policy assignment and group policy assignment

Streamline the process of assigning policies to multiple users. The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module now supports the ability to assign a policy to a batch of users or to a group, such as a security group or an organizational unit.

ID: 61185    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: March CY2020

Mover migration – worldwide availability

We’re pleased to announce Mover is now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide. Since Microsoft announced the acquisition of Mover, our migration specialists have been working hard to bring the migration service, including admin-led and self-service offerings, to more customers as demand to move content to the cloud continues to grow. Mover supports migration from over a dozen cloud service providers – including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Google Drive – into OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling seamless file collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps and services, including the Office apps and Microsoft Teams. Mover helps make it easier than ever for customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365 – for free.

ID: 61190    Tags: SharePoint, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

Forms Quick Poll Pre-install to Outlook

For Outlook for Mac and OWA and Win32 – users will start to see the new entry point of quick poll

ID: 61203    Tags: Microsoft Forms : All environments Release: March CY2020

Insider Risk Management: Policy template customization

Ability to fine tune policies to meet organizational risk management needs

ID: 61222    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Insider Risk Management: Microsoft Teams integration

We are bringing the admin sharing settings from the classic sharing page to the modern sharing page. This will make it easier to set up and configure external sharing for OneDrive and SharePoint. Key settings include the ability to configure who is allowed to share externally as well as the default link permissions for your organization.

ID: 61223    Tags: O365, Admin Center : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Insider Risk Management: Enhanced policy templates

Identify additional risk areas such as security violations

ID: 61224    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Insider Risk Management: Integration with Communication Compliance

Ability to leverage Communication Compliance capabilities to identify additional risk areas

ID: 61225    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Rolling Out

Outlook for Android: Delegate permissions

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

ID: 53667    Tags: Outlook : NA   Release: March CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Rich text options

Access text formatting options when creating or replying to an email on your iPhone and iPad such as fonts, font sizes, bold/italics/underline, links and bullet lists.

ID: 54805    Tags: Outlook : NA 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 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: March CY2020

Tenant Customizable Recipient Limits

In Exchange Online a mailbox user is allowed to send to a maximum of 500 recipients per message. This default value currently can’t be changed by the tenant admin. Yet, many admins would like to raise this limit on at least a few mailboxes (for monthly newsletters for example). Others want to significantly lower it (to, say, 50 or some such) for most or all mailboxes in their organization, as part of a perceived defense-in-depth strategy to reduce the potential impact should a hacker compromise a user account and start blasting out spam, or a disgruntled employee tries to air their grievances company-wide. With the upcoming customizable recipient limits, you’ll now be able to customize this setting between 1 and 1000, for a single mailbox, multiple mailboxes, and for the default setting for new mailboxes that you create in the future. Single and bulk edit will be available in the Exchange Admin Center UI, while customizing the default setting for new mailboxes can be done via Remote PowerShell.

ID: 55025    Tags: Exchange : All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019

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: O365, 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, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Outlook for Android: Discover relevant files in Search

In Search, find a feed of Office 365 files that are connected to you based on ongoing collaboration activity within your company.

ID: 58733    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: March CY2020

Faster & More Reliable Exchange PowerShell Cmdlets

The New Exchange Online Management cmdlets are significantly more reliable and much faster than those previously available. These new cmdlets are available in preview today from the PowerShell Gallery website. https://aka.ms/exops-v2

ID: 60528    Tags: Exchange : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: Q4 CY2019

Announcing the general availability of Insider Risk Management

Announcing the general availability of Insider Risk Management

ID: 61115    Tags: O365, Admin Center : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

SharePoint: Easy page and news publishing experience from sitepages library

We are adding the ability to easily publish and republish a page or news post from the sitepages library in a site via the command bar or the file card experience.

ID: 61191    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: February CY2020

OAuth Support for POP3/IMAP4

We are adding OAuth support to POP3 and IMAP4 to improve security of these legacy protocols.

ID: 61303    Tags: Exchange : All environments   Release: March CY2020

Launched

OneDrive for Business: File Requests

OneDrive users can request files from others by sending an upload-only link.

ID: 27020    Tags: OneDrive for Business : All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019

SharePoint admin center updates

We’re updating capabilities in the SharePoint admin center. We’ll begin rolling out these feature out soon. Updates to the SharePoint admin center include: Setting the new SharePoint admin center as the default SharePoint admin experience in Office 365 with the option to return to the classic SharePoint admin center The ability to perform bulk site actions to include site sharing settings, hub site association, and site deletion Classic SharePoint admin center settings such as Business Connectivity Services (BCS), Term Store, User Profiles, and more will be available to configure in the new SharePoint admin center experience New richer left menu with more controls for Sharing Policies for one or more sites

ID: 32864    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q2 CY2019

SharePoint web part: code snippet

The Code Snippet web part allows authors to share code snippets, with correct syntax, for many commonly supported development languages, on their modern pages.

ID: 43780    Tags: O365, SharePoint : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2018

SharePoint sites: updated “Change the look” panel

This ‘Change the look’ panel update includes a new tab interface for the various site settings: theme, header, navigation and footer – all accessible inline as a site owner in a right fly-out edit pane.

ID: 43781    Tags: SharePoint, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2019

SharePoint sites: view and apply site designs from within site

We are providing a new site setting to view any applied site designs and apply additional ones – from within the sites themselves. The new site setting option is for site owners to display a new site design information panel. If any site designs have been published to the tenant, they will be displayed in the picker. Only site owners and site collection administrators have access to invoke this panel – and it respects any additional scopes on the published site designs, so only those available to the viewer will be displayed. If any sites designs have been applied to the site, they will also be displayed and can be selected to view what changes were applied.

ID: 44327    Tags: SharePoint, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2018

SharePoint and Planner – Planner activity in Site Activity web part

Beyond important site and group activities, like file modifications, published news, group inbox activity, you will see additional important team task activity happening in the connected Planner plan.

ID: 46992    Tags: O365, SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q2 CY2019

SharePoint Migration Tool Site Migration Support for SharePoint Server 2013

The SharePoint Migration Tool lets you migrate content from SharePoint Server 2013 or from on-premises file shares and easily move them to either Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive in Office 365. This update to the SharePoint Migration Tool provides support for complete site migrations with SharePoint Server 2013 in addition to support for migrations from SharePoint Server 2010 (preview).

ID: 51262    Tags: SharePoint : All environments   Release: Q2 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Shorter Retention

Enable Compliance Administrators to set a Teams chats retention policy as low as 1 day. Note: complete deletion of the content may take additional few days, on-par with Office 365 Retention standards.

ID: 53936    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Feedback surveys

Let us know how we are doing. From time-to-time, users will receive a survey asking them to rate their experience in Teams. Admins can control the feedback experience for users by creating and assigning policies via PowerShell.

ID: 54165    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, GCC   Release: Q3 CY2019

Outlook for iOS: iPad enhancements for iPadOS

With a larger screen, use the new split screen available with the iPadOS – open multiple messages or view your message list and calendar at the same time.

ID: 54547    Tags: Outlook : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, DoD, GCC, GCC High   Release: March CY2020

Microsoft Teams – teams auto-renewal

Ensure collaboration moves forward with automatic renewal of teams. A team with an expiration policy will renew automatically when any member visits a channel reducing the need for team owners to manually do this periodically.

ID: 56784    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Silent Login

Experience a smoother first login experience in Microsoft Teams. After a user installs Teams for the first time and logs into any Office application with a Microsoft work account, he/she will automatically be signed in to Teams.

ID: 56788    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Support for Google as an Identity Provider

Collaborate seamlessly with Gmail users. New guest users invited to a team with a Gmail address will be able to redeem the invitation by signing in with their Gmail account, without the need to create a personal Microsoft account.

ID: 57037    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Sensitivity Labels

Regulate who can access teams in your organization. Sensitivity labels created in the security and compliance admin center can now be used to control the privacy and guest access settings of the team. Users can select the appropriate label when creating a new team.

ID: 57275    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – “Colleague joined Teams” notifications

Connect with new team members faster. Users will receive a notification in their activity feed when a new colleague joins Teams for the first time.

ID: 57455    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – New location for New Chat button, Recent, and Contacts tabs in Chat app

We’re changing the location of New Chat button, and moving the Contacts and Recent view options to a drop down in the Chat list header, as opposed to standalone tabs. The New Chat button will now be located at the top of the chats list.

ID: 58033    Tags: Microsoft Teams : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019

Advanced eDiscovery dashboard

In some cases, you may have a large volume of documents and emails that need to be reviewed. Before you start your review process, you can use the Advanced eDiscovery dashboard may want to quickly analyze your corpus to identify trends or key statistics that will help you develop your review strategy. To do this, you can use the Search Profile View to quickly analyze your corpus.

ID: 60438    Tags: O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2020

Outlook for iOS: In app icons with coherent, Fluent design

Outlook rolls out new icons within the application that adhere to the new Office 365 Fluent design approach.

ID: 60638    Tags: Outlook : DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education  Release: February CY2020

Outlook for Android: In app icons with Fluent, coherent design

Outlook rolls out new icons within the application that adhere to the new Office 365 Fluent design approach.

ID: 60641    Tags: Outlook : Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD   Release: February CY2020

Announcing the general availability of Communication Compliance

Communication Compliance helps organizations address code-of-conduct policy violations in company communications, while also helping organizations in regulated industries meet specific supervisory compliance requirements.

ID: 61065    Tags: Admin Center, O365 : Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2020

Canceled

No cancelations to announce in this week’s update.