Play of the Week

The following list templates now have modern UI support: Issue Tracking, Contacts, Custom List in Datasheet View. Additionally the multi-line text fields with the Append Changes to Existing Text setting enabled and the ability to display column totals in Modern Views is now fully supported in modern view as well as. This should be a huge improvement for anyone who is currently using these features in classic view!

In Development

Outlook for iOS: 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: 56758    Tags: Outlook – Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD   Release: April CY2020

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: Q1 CY2020

Office 365 ATP, Secure by Default: Do not Allow for domains that fail authentication

We see lots of cases where configuration of our protection stack has enabled malicious content to be inadvertently delivered to end users. We’re working on a few features that will help address this problem. The second phase of this is blocking domains that fail authentication. The Antispam policy allows administrators to “Allow” domains regardless of the reputation of the domain. We’re changing our policies to not honor Allow rules when the domain fails authentication. This can be resolved by either addressing the authentication concerns with the sender domain, or adding a transport rule to allow the domain.

ID: 62398    Tags: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – All environments Release: April CY2020

SharePoint Integrations with Power Automate and Power Apps to GCC-High Tenants

In this update, we are enabling you and your users to create/manage custom flows with Power Automate and custom forms/apps with Power Apps for SharePoint lists and libraries in the GCC-High environment.

ID: 62437    Tags: SharePoint – GCC High   Release: Q2 CY2020

SharePoint and OneDrive: Navigation update for narrow screens

In SharePoint and OneDrive we are making a change for narrow screens to the location of the navigation hamburger menu. You will now find the hamburger menu in the header area for your site and command bar for files instead of in the suite bar.

ID: 62448    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: March 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: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – All environments   Release: March 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: O365, Microsoft Information Protection – All environments   Release: March CY2020

Rolling Out

Query alterations using SPFx for custom results page

Query alterations using SPFx for custom results page allows for query alterations in Microsoft Search for custom results pages with the SharePoint Framework.

ID: 57135    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019

Launched

Modern list templates for issues, contacts and datasheet

The following list templates now have modern UI support: Issue Tracking, Contacts, Custom List in Datasheet View New and existing lists created using one of these templates will now appear in modern UI by default. Additionally, the native UI now supports multi-line text fields with the Append Changes to Existing Text setting enabled. Lists that contain this field type will no longer fall back to classic mode to accommodate these fields.

ID: 31064    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019

Column totals

Users will be able to display column totals and subtotals in the footer of a group or a list/library view in the modern SharePoint experience without needing to change to classic mode.

ID: 46102    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2019

SharePoint lists – Bulk Approvals

In both the modern and classic UX, you can select multiple items and approve or reject them at the same time.

ID: 52716    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: Q2 CY2019

Access to crucial events in Advanced Audit

Crucial security- and compliance-related audit events are ones that can help you investigate possible breaches or other forensic-related investigations. The first crucial event that we’re releasing is the MailItemsAccessed mailbox auditing action. This action is triggered when mail data is accessed by mail protocols and mail clients. The MailItemsAccessed action can help investigators identify data breaches and determine the scope of messages that may have been compromised. If an attacker gained access to email messages, the MailItemsAccessed action will be triggered even if there is no explicit signal that messages were actually read (in other words, the type of access such as a bind or sync is recorded in the audit record).

ID: 56790    Tags: O365 – Germany, GCC High, DoD   Release: Q4 CY2019

Canceled

Outlook for iOS: actionable contact search answers

Duplicate of 53741

ID: 53121    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: April CY2020

Access to crucial events in Advanced Audit

Duplicate of 53122

ID: 56790    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: April CY2020