Play of the Week

Microsoft is enabling tenant administrators to assign a user-level policy to control how users engage with background effects in Teams meetings. Options include: offer no filters; background blur only; use background blur and default provided images; and all, which includes the ability for users to upload their own custom images.

In Development

Automated transcription services for video and audio files stored in SharePoint & OneDrive- Public Preview

Automated transcription services will be natively available for video and audio files in OneDrive and SharePoint using the same AI technology available in Microsoft Stream. While viewing a video or listening to an audio file, a full transcript (improving both accessibility and search) will show directly in our industry-leading viewer, which supports over 320 different file types. This will help you utilize your personal video and audio assets, as well as collaborate with others to produce your best work.

ID:33497    Tags: OneDrive for Business-All environments   Release: June CY2020

Recommended View on web

Leveraging Office’s new intelligent services, we’re pleased to introduce the new Recommended View. This view will help you get you to your files faster by recommending files to you based on how you work and how you collaborate with others. It also brings attention to important files relevant to you, that you may not want to miss

ID:49094    Tags: OneDrive for Business-All environments   Release: May CY2020

Updates to “Recent View” on web

We are updating the Recent View in on OneDrive Web to include the Activity and Sharing columns

ID:60511    Tags: OneDrive for Business-All environments Release: Q1 CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Create task from an email message

Use the option to create a task from an email message and have it sync with tasks in Microsoft 365.

ID:60722    Tags: Outlook-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Filters in Planner iOS

Use the keyword filter to quickly find tasks on the board.

ID:63464    Tags: Planner-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Shifts API v1.0 (GA)

Frontline worker shift and shift scheduling resources moving to GA.

ID:63722    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [DevEx] Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.0 Preview

Preview of new features coming for v2.0 of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit. Will include: * Re-brand to the Microsoft Graph UI Toolkit, * Separation of components into beta and core packages, * Support for extensible components, , * Support for theming, * Enhanced Person Card component with Profile API data and messaging functionality, * Caching, and Improved documentation and getting started guides

ID:63723    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Resource-specific consent API (Preview)

Permissions to give an app access to a single team. And team owners can do it, without admin consent.

ID:63724    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Post to Activity Feed API (Preview)

Send an activity feed notification.

ID:63725    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Granular permissions v1.0 (GA)

Rather than use Group.Read/ReadWrite.All for everything, we now support more fine-grained permissions like ChannelMessage.Send and Team.ReadBasic.All. See also Feature 4270: Resource-specific consent.

ID:63726    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Install app for user API v1.0 (GA)

Install a Teams app for a particular user

ID:63727    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Send Channel Message API v1.0 (GA)

Send a message to a team channel

ID:63728    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] filesFolder for a channel API v1.0 (GA)

Get the filesFolder for a channel

ID:63729    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TEAMWORK] Read channel messages API v1.0 (GA)

Get messages in a channel

ID:63730    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [CALENDAR] Event Sync Delta Query Update (BETA)

Currently Calendar supports delta on GetCalendarView.Since GetCalendarView (me/calendarView/delta) does a server side expansion. We are making better performant sync on events (me/events/delta) to be available on MS-Graph end-point. GetCalendarView expands recurring series in the service (server-sideexpansion), while SyncEvents returns only the recurringmaster event, the recurrence information, the list of exceptionalinstances, and the list of deleted instances (client-sideexpansion). This helps save bits-on-wire. However it does meanthat client would now be responsible for expanding therecurrences itself.

ID:63731    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [IDENTITY AND ACCESS] Publisher Verification (Preview)

App developers will be able to prove their authenticity byassociating their verified organizational identity with their app registration. After this is complete, admins and end users will be able to see a “verified” badge on the consent screen andother UX surfaces. Publisher Verification status will also be used by tenantadmins to set policies that control what apps users can consent to, and it willbe factored into Microsoft’s risk evaluation of an app. All new multi-tenantapps created after Build will be required to be Publisher Verified in order tobe user consentable in any tenant.

ID:63733    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [TO-DO TASKS] Tasks API (Preview)

API Details: To Do on MS Graph – MVP Summit .pptx. * Basic Properties, * Linked Entity, User Voice link: https://microsoftgraph.uservoice.com/forums/920506-microsoft-graph-feature-requests?category_id=373861

ID:63734    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [DevEx] New Graph Explorer v1.0 (GA)

This is a new version of Graph Explorer with new features to help developers learn and test their applications on MS Graph better. This new version is built using React/Redux and has the following new features: * Modify Permissions tab, * Adaptive Cards tab, * Graph toolkit tab * , Code Snippets tab * , Copy Access Token * Resize the Response Header * Try it Experience.

ID:63735    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [DevEx] PowerShell SDK (Preview 0.7)

Updated preview release of Microsoft Graph PowerShell modules. PowerShell GA has been delayed to the end of this quarter.

ID:63740    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [DevEx] Python Core SDK (Preview)

Python Core SDK to support Microsoft Graph CLI

ID:63741    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [MAIL] UserPurpose API v1.0 (GA)

User property to differentiate thepurpose of user in Exchange. For example, User, Shared, Room, Equipment etc.,Distilled from RecipientType, RecipientTypeDetails.

ID:63745    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [MAIL] Large attachments v1.0 (GA)

Graph v1 release of Large attachments support for Message, Event entities

ID:63746    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [SITES] Lists WebHooks v1.0 (GA)

Ability to subscribe for change notifications on List elements in SharePoint.

ID:63749    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – increase in the number of simultaneous videos in Teams meetings for GCC High and DoD customers

Ability to manage the list of /followedSites for a user

ID:63751    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [FILES] Drive Item Following API v1.0 (GA)

Ability to follow and unfollow individual files (drive items)

ID:63752   Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [SHAREPOINT] Site Collection Enumeration v1.0 (GA)

/sites will now return a collection representing all the site collections in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. This feature will only work in App Only scenarios and is not intended for App + User due to lack of security trimming of the results.

ID:63753    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [CALENDAR] Places API v1.0 (GA)

We are moving our places api out of beta to V1

ID:63754    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [CALENDAR] Share or delegate Outlook calendar v1.0 (GA)

Share or delegate calendars programmatically.

ID:63755    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [CALENDAR] Organize Outlook event as online meeting v1.0 (GA)

Create or update an event as an online meeting

ID:63756    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Muli-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Notifications added to the Yammer Communities App in Teams.

Yammer notifications will be available from with the Yammer Communities app in Teams.

ID:64015    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q4 CY2020

Yammer Communities now available in Teams Mobile apps

Access all your Yammer communities from within the Teams mobiles app.

ID:64016    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

New Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 for Gov clouds

The Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 builds on the existing eDiscovery and analytics capabilities in Office 365. This new solution, called Advanced eDiscovery, provides a workflow to identify, preserve, collect, review, analyze, and export content that’s responsive to your organization’s internal and external investigations. It also lets legal teams manage the entire legal hold notification workflow to communicate with custodians involved in a case.

ID:64288    Tags: O365-GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Bookings web app available to GCC customers

Microsoft Bookings will be released as a Microsoft 365 app to all GCC customers. This release will only include the Bookings web app. The Microsoft Bookings API in Microsoft Graph will not roll out at this time.

ID:64386    Tags: Bookings-GCC   Release: Q4 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in United Kingdom (UK)

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64539    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in France

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64540    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in Germany

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64541    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in Norway

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64542    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in Korea

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64543    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in South Africa

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64544    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in United Arab Emirates

ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.

ID:64545    Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Support for native device camera and location capabilities for Personal apps and tabs

App developers will be able to use mobile native capabilities like capturing an image through camera and providing location coordinates through GPS.

ID:64615    Tags: Microsoft Teams-DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), All environments, GCC   Release: July CY2020

Safe Documents is available worldwide

With Safe Documents, we’re bringing the power of the Intelligent Security Graph down to the desktop to verify that documents are safe at the endpoint itself. Although Protected View helps secure documents originating outside the organization, too often users would exit this sandbox without great consideration and leave their networks vulnerable. Bringing a minimal trust approach to the Office 365 ProPlus clients, Safe Documents automatically checks the document against known risks and threat profiles before allowing to open. Users are not asked to decide on their own whether a document can be trusted; they can simply focus on the work to be done. This seamless connection between the desktop and the cloud both simplifies the user workflow and helps to keep the network more secure. And with every malicious attack contained, the entire Intelligent Security Graph becomes stronger, benefiting everyone.

ID:64678    Tags: O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

SharePoint: Auto-News Digest

SharePoint Auto-News Digest sends automated email to employees in you company about the latest News posts that they have not yet read. Using Microsoft intelligence, a curated selection of News posts are shared with employees through an email that comes from SharePoint. This is a great way for employees to catch up on News that they may have otherwise missed. Only published news posts are sent in the digest, and employees will have access to all the news posts that they are sent so rest assumed that employees won’t see news that they don’t have permission to see. If employees want to opt-out of receiving the Auto-News Digest, they can click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email.

ID:64685    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Queue sent messages when offline

When attempting to send messages while offline, Teams will queue messages and send once a network connection is re-established. If the message is in an unsent state for more than 24 hours, the message will fail and the user will be prompted to resend or delete the message.

ID:64687    Tags: Microsoft Teams-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), All environments, GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Priority Notifications in Gov Clouds

Share urgent messages and time-sensitive information more effectively with Teams. Priority notifications alert a recipient of an urgent message on their mobile and desktop devices until a response is received, every two minutes for up to 20 minutes. #cations according to the terms of their subscription. IT Admins will be given reporting on priority notification usage to support appropriate user licensing. IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in Teams.

ID:64689    Tags: Microsoft Teams-DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2020

Search Yammer from the Communities app in Teams

Search Yammer communities and content from within the Communities app in Teams.

ID:64691    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: JuneCY2020

Office 365 ATP: Customization for Quarantine Notification and Alerts

With this update, tenant administrators will be able to add various customized components to quarantine notifications and alerts, such as an organization logo, a custom display name, and custom disclaimer.

ID:64781    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Time clock in Shifts for web & desktop

Time clock, the ability to clock in and out of your shifts, in Shifts in Teams will be available on web and desktop.

ID:64782    Tags: Microsoft Teams- Release: July CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Sticky column in Quick Edit

As users scroll horizontally across a list in Quick Edit mode, the far-left column remains in place – improving context while viewing and editing.

ID:64866    Tags: SharePoint- Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Fixed row height in Quick Edit

When in Quick Edit, you will see a new layout option “Fixed Height” within the view drop-down menu. This layout will adjust the height of all rows in the list or library to the same height to optimize the vertical spacing.

ID:64867    Tags: SharePoint-   Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – updated Quick Edit row selection

When in Quick Edit, people will see an updated way for selecting single or multiple items in a list or files in a library. This selection update supports existing copy/paste and drag-to-fill, applicable to multiple rows when using shift+selection. This, too, improves navigating and interacting with a list or library via keyboard key strokes.

ID:64868    Tags: SharePoint-   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – new ‘Integrate’ drop-down menu – powered by SharePoint

As part of updating the command bar at the top of Microsoft Lists, we are introducing a new top-level menu item: ‘Integrate.’ This is the home for features that help extend list experiences. To start, existing command buttons for Power Apps and Power Automate will move into Integrate – as they are integrated technologies and experiences.

ID:64869    Tags: SharePoint-   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Lists – visual updates for Quick Edit

When in Quick Edit, we are introducing a number of new and refined user interface updates. You’ll see new grid lines, an improved on-hover experience when using your mouse around the grid, themed color bars on the side of list items – including error messaging, a “Create New Item” button at the bottom of quick edit for creating new items inline, and updated column header drop-downs.

ID:64871    Tags: SharePoint-   Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Improved Image columns

Upload a new image – including mobile camera support. You can add a new Image column to lists and libraries. When creating or editing items in that list or library, you can upload an image for that list item of file.

ID:64872    Tags: SharePoint- Release: Q4 CY2020

Rolling Out

Outlook for Windows: Default permissions for sharing links

When you share a document in Outlook for Windows by inserting a link, the permission to access that link will be provided by how your administrator sets sharing permissions for documents at the organization level. Your email message will include a clear, clickable link with the document name. If recipients do not have permission to access the link, you will be the link will turn red with an indicator to update permission. A new option allows you to update the permissions directly in the message body.

ID: 44590    Tags: Outlook-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Planner: Copy a plan within an existing Group or Teams

You will be able to select an existing group or team that you’d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan.

ID: 49429    Tags: Planner-All environments, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2019

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-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

SharePoint: Saved for later web part

New web part to display a user’s saved for later items. Can be added to any page or news post in SharePoint

ID: 57810    Tags: SharePoint-All environments   Release: Q2 CY2020

Office 365 user view to Project and Roadmap

The Office 365 user view to Project and Roadmap feature gives users the ability to view only projects and roadmaps in Microsoft Project that have been shared with them. The roll out of the feature will be preceded by the release of a supporting new service plan, Common Data Service.

ID: 60646    Tags: Project-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Schedule SharePoint pages & news posts

You will be able to schedule a page or news post to be published at a specific date and time in the future.

ID: 62892    Tags: SharePoint-All environments   Release: June CY2020

Connect All Company feeds to enable live events

Enable company-wide live events using the All Company feed in Yammer by enforcing connected communities in Yammer.

ID: 62962    Tags: Yammer-All environments   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: O365, Microsoft Teams-Education   Release: Q2 CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Conditional show or hide columns in a form

This feature allows users in lists and libraries to show or hide columns in a list form based on another column’s value by specifying a formula; equations that perform conditional checks on values in a SharePoint list or library. Users can click “Edit conditional formula” in the “Edit columns” list form pane to configure.

ID: 63518    Tags: SharePoint-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Outlook for iOS: default-on online meetings

When you create a New Event in Outlook and your organization uses Teams or Skype for Business as your online meeting provider, Outlook will automatically create the event as an online meeting. You can disable the online meeting with the toggle in each event or customize it in Settings.

ID: 63625    Tags: Outlook-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Outlook for Android: default-on online meetings

When you create a New Event in Outlook and your organization uses Teams or Skype for Business as your online meeting provider, Outlook will automatically create the event it as an online meeting. You can disable the online meeting with the toggle in each event or customize it in Settings.

ID: 63628    Tags: Outlook-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: June CY2020

Outlook on the web: Suggested replies

We are expanding suggested replies in Outlook on the web to customers in Europe with support for French and Italian.

ID: 63974    Tags: Exchange-Education, 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 for Business-All environments Release: Q2 CY2020

We’re improving Bookmarks administration in Microsoft Search

In Microsoft Search, when adding or editing a Bookmark, a new the category field will be displayed as a dynamic dropdown. When entering information in the category field, the dropdown data will keep filtering to match what is being typed. Microsoft Search Administrators or Editors will be able to select from one of the dropdown options or enter new text as category. Once a Bookmark has been added, the category (if it is new) will get added to list of unique categories and become available for future Bookmark additions or edits. The categories will be visible in the list view for Bookmarks and can be filtered based on the categories through the Filter Pane.

ID: 64686    Tags: O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Acronyms answers with Microsoft Search are coming to SharePoint and Office.com

Users often run into unfamiliar acronyms and abbreviations used by their organization or team. Terms that are specific to organizations or teams might be new to people who move from one team to another, those who work with internal partner teams, or are new to the organization. Organizations don’t always have a single reference for their standard terminology. Lack of a single reference makes it hard to find definitions or expansions for these acronyms. Microsoft Search solves that problem with Acronyms.

ID: 64865    Tags: SharePoint-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Launched

Service Health Dashboard Update: Email Notifications

Stay informed through your preferred channel- service health dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center will enable you to sign up for notifications via email so that you can monitor the service and track issues through the channel you prefer.

ID: 24231    Tags: Admin Center, O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Azure AD: Microsoft Identity Manager Graph connector to manage guest access

This feature enables IT administrators to manage identities for B2B guest access via Azure AD App Proxy to on-prem apps which requires an on-premises account. IT teams can now easily manage the lifecycle of those accounts across their on-premises forests.

ID: 33730    Tags: O365, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q3 CY2018

Outlook on the web – New Tasks experience

The new Tasks experience has a redesigned look and feel to go with the new Outlook on the web and integration with Microsoft To-Do so you can manage your tasks on-the-go.

ID: 34338    Tags: Exchange-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2019

MyAnalytics add-in coming to more Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites

The MyAnalytics add-in for Outlook will be made available to everyone using Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Business suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Business, Office 365 E5, E3, E1, Business Premium and Business Essentials.

ID: 45625    Tags: O365-   Release: Q1 CY2019

Open file links directly in Office desktop apps

Users now have the option to open Office cloud file links in the Office desktop apps. When you open a file link from the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook desktop app, you can choose to have the file open directly in the appropriate Office app instead of in the browser. For Office file links opened from the browser, the file will still open in the Office web apps.

ID: 46330    Tags: O365-All environments   Release: Q2 CY2019

Mobile admin app update, including device management

The Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app allows you to receive notifications, add users, reset passwords, manage devices, create support requests, and more- all while you’re on the go. A new version will be released with the following updates: Rename the app from Office 365 Admin to Microsoft 365 Admin Restore corporate devices to factory state Remove corporate date from personal devices You do not need to do anything to prepare for this change. There is no requirement to use the mobile app. The app mobile app will be available in the iTunes App Store and Google Play store in late first quarter of calendar year 2019.

ID: 47918    Tags: O365, Admin Center- Release: Q1 CY2019

Azure AD: company branding available on Microsoft 365 sign-out and error pages

Sign-in page company branding currently only shows on the username and password collection screens. We are extending this feature so that company branding will show on the sign-out and error screens as well.

ID: 50476    Tags: Azure Active Directory-GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), All environments, GCC High, DoD Release: Q2 CY2019

Yammer Updated Suite Navigation

We’re updating the Office App Launcher and Header in Yammer. This is being done to provide consistency with Yammer and other Office apps and also show any customizations you have within Yammer.

ID: 51381    Tags: Yammer-All environments Release: Q3 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Self-Service Sign-up for hybrid environment customers

Want to enable all users in your hybrid environment to try Microsoft Teams? Users in hybrid tenants who are not in AAD will soon be able to sign-up for Teams using their organizational email address, which in turn will create an AAD identity and enable them to use the Teams Commercial Cloud Trial.

ID: 52416    Tags: Yammer-All environments Release: Q3 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

Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect

We’re updating and Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect. We are aiming to improve page loading performance for our office.com and portal.office.com users by removing any special redirection from portal.office.com and simply land users on the new and improved office.com experience. We’ll begin rolling this feature out soon.

ID: 52644    Tags: O365- 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

Microsoft Teams – Skype Interoperability

Enable Teams and Skype for Consumers users to chat and make VoIP calls to each other

ID: 53935    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Skype Interoperability

Enable Teams and Skype for Consumers users to chat and make VoIP calls to each other

ID: 53935    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: Q2 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: June 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: O365, Microsoft Teams-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q2 CY2020

Outlook on the web – support for rich text for tasks

We are adding support for rich text formatting in the tasks module powered by To Do in Outlook on the web. With this, you will be able to format the text when you add a note for a specific task. This update also applies to the web version of To Do.

ID: 63230    Tags: Exchange-Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Outlook on the web – ability to view and assign categories to tasks

From the tasks module in Outlook on the web or in the web version of To Do, users will be able to organize their tasks leveraging the categories they have created in Outlook. Users will be able to view the categories applied to their tasks in the list view for tasks and also assign categories to the tasks using the detailed view. At the initial release, categories can only be created in the mail module of Outlook.

ID: 63231    Tags: Exchange-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – PSTN participant phone numbers are masked from external users

For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we will mask the PSTN participant’s phone number to users who have joined from outside of your organization. We expect this feature to begin to roll out beginning in May for PC, Mac, web, and mobile clients.

ID: 63309    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Outlook for Android: Availability in Office 365 operated by 21Vianet

Outlook for Android will be available to customers in China through certain app stores and the services and support of Office 365 operated by 21Vianet.

ID: 63432    Tags: Outlook-   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – upload custom images for background effects in Teams meetings

We are building upon the heavily popular background effects feature in Teams meetings with custom upload capabilities. This new feature in Teams allow meetings attendees to customize their background by uploading their own images.

ID: 63666    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – background effects policy for tenant administrators

We are enabling tenant administrators to assign a user-level policy to control how users engage with background effects in Teams meetings. Options include: offer no filters; background blur only; use background blur and default provided images; and all, which includes the ability for users to upload their own custom images.

ID: 63670    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: New Tenants will default to the “Current Channel”.

Current channel is designed for broad deployment of feature updates as soon as it is production ready. Current channel is fully compliant, supported, and updates every month (with addition security and quality updates). Existing tenants will remain in the channel that they have already selected.

ID: 63757    Tags: O365-All environments, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Education   Release: June CY2020

Canceled

Service Health Dashboard Update: Language Translations

We’re adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin center: Customers will be able to view Service Health Dashboard posts in different languages.

ID: 24232    Tags: Admin Center, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2019

Teams Sharing Integration with OneDrive

This feature will be included in Roadmap ID 51230. We are removing this item as a result: Users of Microsoft Teams will be able to see and configure OneDrive link settings right from within the Teams app.

ID: 27016    Tags: OneDrive for Business-All environments Release: Q2 CY2020

Azure AD Conditional Access: Managed browser support for iOS/Android platforms | Public Preview

This feature adds browser support when using application-based conditional access on iOS and Android in the Azure portal. With this condition, admins can now restrict browser access to services so that only the Intune Managed browser which supports Intune app protection policies can use them. To learn more, read the full blog post and visit our documentation today!

ID: 33728    Tags: Azure Active Directory-DoD, All environments, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: Q1 CY2018

Risky IP for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) extranet lockout protection | Public Preview

Risky IP is a feature in Azure Active Directory Connect Health for ADFS. Depends on the threshold setup from the portal, Connect Health will notify admins if there are potential IP attacks through ADFS. With Extranet Lockout feature, ADFS will “stop” authenticating the “malicious” user account from outside for a period of time. This prevents your user accounts from being locked out in Active Directory. In addition to protecting your users from an AD account lockout, AD FS extranet lockout also protects against brute force password guessing attacks. The whole IP address list can also be exported from the Connect Health Portal. To get started, visit our documentation today!

ID: 33729    Tags: Azure Active Directory-DoD, All environments, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: Q3 CY2020

Share and coauthor documents with LinkedIn connections directly from OneDrive, SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Online

With this update, users in Targeted Release will be able to find many of their first-degree LinkedIn connections as people suggestions when sharing files or folders from the OneDrive and SharePoint websites, or from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Online. This makes it easier for employees in your organization to collaborate with people outside your organization without needing to know their email addresses.

ID: 48534    Tags: O365-Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2019

Outlook for iOS: Suggested / inferred locations

Outlook will automatically suggest locations for some recurring events on your calendar so you can access directions or receive Time To Leave reminders.

ID: 53995    Tags: Outlook-DoD, GCC   Release: Q2 CY2020