Play of the Week

Microsoft has recently announced that all SharePoint 2010 workflows will be retired in SharePoint Online. This applies to all environments, including Government Community Cloud (GCC) High and Department of Defense. Microsoft recommends that if you’re using SharePoint 2010 workflows, migrating to Power Automate or other supported solutions.

In Development

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: Excel, PowerPoint, Word / GCC High Release: Q3 CY2020

SharePoint: New ways to add SharePoint images

Page authors can now copy and paste images on the canvas to automatically create a new image webpart. Authors can also drag and drop or paste images on top of an existing image webpart or title region to replace the image previously in the webpart.

ID:65599    Tags: SharePoint / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Multi-Window Chat

Users will be able to pop out individual Teams chat conversations into a separate window, to help them streamline their workflow and more easily move between ongoing conversations.

ID:65602    Tags: Microsoft Teams / DoD, GCC, GCC High   Release: July CY2020

Outlook on the web: Suggested replies for German, Spanish and French in Europe and French in North America

Suggested replies is adding adding support for conversations in German and Spanish for customers in Europe, and for conversations in French for customers in North America and Europe.

ID:65635     Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Simplified Global Notification Settings

Users can now configure and customize their notification settings through a newly designed notification settings section.

ID:65636    Tags: Microsoft Teams / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Simplified Global Notification Settings for GCC, GCC-H and DoD

Government users can now configure and customize their notification settings through a newly designed notification settings section.

ID:65638    Tags: Microsoft Teams / GCC, GCC High, DoD    Release: Q3 CY2020

SharePoint: Centralized management for hub permissions

Hub permissions enable you to centralize the management of visitor access to associated sites. This is an optional feature for both hubs and associated sites.<br>

ID:65641    Tags: SharePoint / Education, DoD, GCC High, All environments, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany  Release: July CY2020

Outlook for Windows – book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to conference room booking.

ID:65642    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020

Outlook for Windows – book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to conference room booking.

ID:65643    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Outlook for Mac – book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to conference room booking.

ID:65644    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020

Outlook for Mac – book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to conference room booking.

ID:65645    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Outlook on the web – book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to conference room booking.

ID:65646    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams meeting attendee limit increases to 300 participants for GCC, GCC-H, and DoD

To help customers meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, we are increasing the maximum number of participants allowed in a Teams meeting to 300. We expect to enable this new increase in June.

ID:65668    Tags: Microsoft Teams / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Rolling Out

Updates to Campaign Views

Updates to Campaign Views

ID: 62495    Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection / All environments   Release: July CY2020

Outlook for iOS: New location for New Message and Event

Similar to Outlook for Android, the location of the New Message or New Event button will move from a fixed location in the header to a location closer to the bottom right on of the screen, closer to your thumbs.

ID: 65440    Tags: Outlook / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Education   Release: July CY2020

Outlook for Android: Rich text options

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

ID: 65442    Tags: Outlook / Education, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Launched

Custom results page template in PnP

Custom results page template in PnP, allows developers to develop and deploy custom results pages that can be presented from the Microsoft Search box.

ID: 57133  Tags: SharePoint / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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: Q1 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 / Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – change in meeting join experience (education tenants only)

We currently allow anyone within an organization to start a Teams meeting. Moving forward, we will restrict the ability to start a meeting to only those users who have been assigned a policy to create a meeting. Meeting attendees without the ability to create a meeting will see a pre-join screen indicating that the meeting hasn’t started. These individuals will be automatically admitted into the meeting once a user with permissions joins and starts the meeting. This change will only apply to education tenants.

ID: 63355    Tags: Microsoft Teams / Education Release: June CY2020

Auto-update for Teams Phones

Teams Admin Center enables management of Teams devices including Teams phones. When Microsoft releases a certified update for these devices, through the Teams Admin Center, a global admin or Teams service admin can manually push the updates to the devices deployed in their tenants. In order to remove this friction, we are providing the capability for these devices to automatically receive and apply the latest update, without the need to manually push it form the Teams Admin center. IT Admins can change auto-update settings on Teams admin center to define the auto-update behavior for each device individually

ID: 63775   Tags: Microsoft Teams / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Disallow synchronous XmlHttpRequest in page dismissal

Sending of synchronous XmlHttpRequests during unload of a webpage will be blocked. This change improves browser performance and reliability, but may impact web applications that have not yet been updated to use more modern web APIs, including sendBeacon and fetch. The Group Policy to disable this change and permit synchronous XHR during page dismissal will be available until Microsoft Edge 88.

ID: 64217    Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, All environments, GCC High, GCC   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Updates will now roll out gradually

Going forward, updates for Microsoft Edge will be rolled out to our users gradually over a period of a few days. This allows us to protect more of you from accidental buggy updates, thereby improving your experience. As a user you will continue to get seamless auto-updates. If you are an enterprise that isn’t enrolled for auto-updates you will not be impacted by this change.

ID: 64224    Tags: Microsoft Edge / GCC, GCC High, All environments, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Update to sharing links that block download

We are expanding the list of supported file types that users can create block download links for. This update includes support for PDF files, Images, Audio, and other non-text and non-video file types.

ID: 64278    Tags: OneDrive / All environments   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge now supports Native File System API

Microsoft Edge now supports giving sites permissions to edit files or folders via the Native File System API.

ID: 64302    Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Attach notes to items in your collections

This feature adds a new “Note” capability to Collections. Now you can add a note or comment to a particular item. It will visually group them and stay attached even if you reorder items with a collection. Try it out by right-clicking on an item in your collection and selecting “Add note”.

ID: 64303   Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge DevTools now supports Surface Duo emulation

The Microsoft Edge DevTools can now emulate the Surface Duo so you can test how your web content will look on dual-screen devices. Turn on this experiment in DevTools, enter Device Mode by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M on Windows or Command+Shift+M on macOS, and select Surface Duo from the device drop-down.

ID: 64305   Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Change the color of notes in Collections

Users will be able to change the background colors on individual note cards within Collections. This will help with organization within your collection, allowing you to more easily scan and find your notes (vs other cards). You can even use it to categorize different types of notes so you can quickly find your to-dos vs. your notes-to-self. Users will be able to change the background colors on individual note cards within collections.

ID: 64306    Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge DevTools: Match keyboard shortcuts to VS Code

The Microsoft Edge DevTools now support customizing keyboard shortcuts in the DevTools to match with your editor/IDE. In Microsoft Edge 84, we are adding the ability to match DevTools keyboard shortcuts to VS Code! We hope this change helps you develop faster and more productively across VS Code and the DevTools.Developers love customizing their tools and making them their own. Virtually every developer has a custom configured IDE to match their preferences and styles.

ID: 64308    Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Improved site list download times for Internet Explorer mode

We have reduced download delay for the Internet Explorer mode site list to 0 seconds (down from a 60 second wait) in the absence of a cached site list. In addition, we are adding group policy support for cases when Internet Explorer mode home page navigations need to be delayed until the site list is downloaded.

ID: 64309   Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Performance improvements with Collections Send to Excel

Exporting your collections in Microsoft Edge to Excel is now faster. You should see a noticeable improvement in the time it takes to send your collections to Excel starting in Microsoft Edge 84.

ID: 64310   Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Add custom nicknames to saved credit cards

Microsoft Edge now helps you distinguish and differentiate your credit cards when making online purchases. Nicknaming your debit or credit cards allows you to choose the correct card when using autofill to select a payment method.

ID: 64311    Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Edge: Saving PDF files in-place in Microsoft Edge

Save edits made to PDFs back to the file instead of saving a copy each time.

ID: 64312   Tags: Microsoft Edge / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams – live captions in Teams meetings for GCC tenants

This feature enables meeting participants to view live captions during a Teams meeting. Supported spoken languages in 1st release: English. Note this release is for our GCC tenants, and does not yet include GCC High and DoD environments.

ID: 64368    Tags: Microsoft Teams / GCC   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage Report in DoD tenants

A set of usage reports will be available for DoD tenants. The reports that will be available are: Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint user activity, Email activity, Email app usage, Office activation report, Mailbox usage report, OneDrive for Business user activity report, Microsoft Teams user activity report, Microsoft Teams device usage report, Microsoft 365 active users report.

ID: 64906    Tags: Microsoft Edge / DoD   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft 365 admin center: Business Continuity Report added to Microsoft Productivity Score

A new business continuity report will be made available in Microsoft Productivity Score. This report will provide visibility and insights into how collaboration norms have changed due to the recent global shift to working remotely. Organizations that are part of the Productivity Score preview and have at least 100 users will get this report.

ID: 65035    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Analytics Public Preview

Endpoint analytics aims to improve user productivity and reduce IT support costs by providing insights into the user experience. The insights enable IT to optimize the end-user experience with proactive support and to detect regressions to the user experience by assessing user impact of configuration changes. Features available for the preview include Startup Score, Recommended Software, and Proactive Remediations. ConfigMgr-managed devices are now supported in addition to Intune-managed devices.

ID: 65419    Tags: Microsoft Intune / Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Canceled

No new cancellations to announce in this week’s update.