Play of the Week

Microsoft Lists home page is your home for all your lists across Microsoft 365. You can start a list easily from scratch or with ready-made templates. People will see the new Lists app icon in the Microsoft 365 app launcher that will then take them to the Microsoft Lists home page.

In Development

Power BI: Excel data types from Power BI

Using data types in Excel, you can quickly retrieve data from featured tables in Power BI and load it in the Excel grid. Discover available tables in Excel’s data types gallery and analyze your data in a familiar and simple way.

ID:57141    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Third-party single sign-on (SSO) for apps in Teams

End users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) for supported Teams apps on both desktop and mobile. After they’re signed into Teams, users won’t have to sign in again on apps that integrate with single sign-on for both desktop and mobile. Developers will also enjoy a simplified authentication process through a single API call.

ID:59369    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Android On-Demand Chat Translation

Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. This feature will now be available on Android.

ID:63226    Tags: Microsoft Teams – All environments, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

[iOS] Teams Mobile On-Demand Chat Translation

Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. This feature will now be available on iOS.

ID:63227    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Power BI: PivotTables from Power BI Datasets

You can create PivotTables in Excel that are connected to datasets stored in Power BI with a few clicks. Doing this allows you get the best of both PivotTables and Power BI. Calculate, summarize, and analyze your data with PivotTables from your secure Power BI datasets.

ID:63806    Tags: GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – home page – built on SharePoint

The Microsoft Lists home page is your home for all your lists across Microsoft 365. You can start a list easily from scratch or with ready-made templates. Create new lists and access ones recommended to you, plus see all your favorited and recent lists – on the web. People will see the new Lists app icon in the Microsoft 365 app launcher that will then take them to the Microsoft Lists home page.

ID:64160    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – mobile app (iOS) – built on SharePoint

Access all lists you own and that have been shared with you – all on the go. You’ll be able to create new lists, edit list items and easily share with other people. The Lists app will first come to iOS and Android shortly after.

ID:64161    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q1 CY2021

Microsoft Lists – Lists app in Microsoft Teams- built on SharePoint

Team members will be able to both create new lists and add existing ones as tabs in Teams’ channels. The new Lists app in Microsoft Teams can be accessed by clicking “+” to add a new tab, and then select “Lists” to get started.

ID:64162    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Lists – rules – built on SharePoint

Create simple if/then rules based on changes to list information to set reminders and send notifications.

ID:64163    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – sharing – built on SharePoint

Share entire lists, or individual list items, to individuals or groups with view or edit and the ability to manage access by expiration and password protection.

ID:64164    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – forms customization – built on SharePoint

Adjust what information shows on the out-of-box forms and include custom header and footer imagery and information.

ID:64165    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Lists – ready-made templates – built on SharePoint

Create a new list from ready-made templates that accelerate list creation, structure, forms and flows. There will be 8 templates at initial launch: Issue tracker, New hire checklist, Event itinerary, Business trip approvals, Team evaluations, Asset tracker, Project planning, Social media calendar.

ID:64166    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Lists – calendar view – built on SharePoint

Visualize any list with items that use date column information in a calendar view.

ID:64167    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Lists – sticky first column – built on SharePoint

As you scroll left and right, the first column of your list remain in place; similar to the sticky header that is already a part of Lists.

ID:64168    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Lists – comments – built on SharePoint

Add a comment on a list or list items, including @mention capabilities to draw a person’s attention.

ID:64169    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020

Taxonomy service Graph APIs

New Graph APIs that allow developers to work directly with Managed Metadata Services, which provides a common taxonomy for tagging and classifying content across Microsoft 365.

ID:64185    Tags: O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Bulk edit your list items and file properties in the form

People will be able to select multiple items and edit their list items or documents properties all at once in the default form.

ID:64228    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, Education Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Save a view in Quick Edit

People can save their view in Quick Edit for any list or document lib in SharePoint for Microsoft 365. When a person saves a view in Quick Edit, the list or library will always render in quick edit for easy inline editing.

ID:64229    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Open a list or document library item within the view form from Quick Edit

Users will see their list and document library view forms inside of the Quick Edit experience.

ID:64230    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, Education Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists and libraries – Quick Edit page size expanding from 30 items to 101

People will now see up to 100 items per page on their document library or list when using Quick Edit.

ID:64231    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

SharePoint lists – Create a new list item via a form in Quick Edit

Users will see the “New” button on their command bar in lists when they are in Quick Edit to create new items via the default form.

ID:64232    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, Education Release: June CY2020

Outlook on the web – Admin control to remove the option to search for GIFs when composing a message

We are providing admin controls to remove the option for users to search and insert a GIF using the native controls in the ribbon.

ID:64237    Tags: Exchange – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Outlook on the web – In-product notification of full inbox

When a user reaches 90% of their inbox capacity, Outlook will show a message on the bottom left (down on the left nav or folder column) warning the user and linking to the settings where they can address this.

ID:64275    Tags: Exchange – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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: May CY2020

OneDrive: Sync reports

Ability to monitor the heath of OneDrive sync app across your organization.

ID:64289    Tags: OneDrive for Business – All environments   Release: Q1 CY2021

Office 365 Groups are being renamed to Microsoft 365 Groups

To reflect the fact that Office 365 Groups power collaboration across Microsoft 365, Office 365 Groups will become Microsoft 365 Groups. These changes will happen over time and will be reflected in all the connected endpoints over the upcoming quarters.

ID:64336    Tags: O365, Groups – DoD, All environments, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Education   Release: June CY2020

Office What’s New management card available for Microsoft 365 admin center

Global or Office Apps administrators can select which new items to display in their end-users’ Office desktop applications’ “What’s New” section of Help. The Office What’s New Management card will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID:63337    Tags: Admin Center, O365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, All environments, DoD   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams – new lobby setting: only the organizer joins the meeting directly

A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “Only me” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the organizer will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else, including people from within the same organization, will be sent to the lobby.

ID:64343    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams – live captions in Teams meetings for GCC tenants

This feature enables meeting participants to view 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, O365 – GCC Release: June CY2020

Rolling Out

Screen recording and editing in Microsoft Stream

Quickly create videos using Microsoft Stream! Quickly create screen recordings by capturing your screen, mic, or webcam, applying light edits, and uploading directly into Stream.

ID: 25687    Tags: Microsoft Stream – All environments   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Real Time Presence

Stay focused throughout the day with Microsoft Teams. Whether you are free for a quick chat or presenting in a meeting, real time presence increases the accuracy of your status so others know when to reach out.

ID: 52395    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

SharePoint admin – Migration manager

The migration manager, now a key part of the SharePoint admin center (preview), helps orchestrate and simplify management of large-scale migrations. Admins can add and manage multiple migration machines to centrally orchestrate all migration activities. The new task view in the SharePoint admin center provides one location to create and monitor progress. For each task, there is a task detail pane to download reports and change settings for individual tasks – all centrally managed within the SharePoint admin experience.

ID: 57308    Tags: O365, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

OneNote integration in Teams

Users will see the ability to add a OneNote notebook tab to their Teams channels.

ID: 57708    Tags: OneNote – GCC High, GCC   Release: Q1 CY2020

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: Q1 CY2020

SharePoint: Extended layout for site footer

The site footer in modern communication sites will now include a new layout option, extended, to show more content in the footer section. The footer control will also have a background color functionality.

ID: 61063    Tags: SharePoint – All environments   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Include up to 10,000 users in an individual team

We are raising the upper limit on individual team membership from 5,000 to 10,000 users. We are excited for this increase in team membership to power collaboration and process scenarios especially for large teams and organizations that rely on firstline workers.

ID: 62549    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – New experience for launching instant channel meetings

Meet Now buttons in Teams channels will have a new home. You will soon find them in the Channel header where you can easily find and launch the meeting.

ID: 62904    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams – set tenant-wide default selection for “Who Can Present” in Teams meetings

We are enabling tenant admins to update their Teams meeting policies to allow for a new default selection when choosing who can present in new Teams meetings (everyone, people in my organization, specific people, or only me). Today, the default selection is “everyone” unless the meeting organizer selects otherwise through the “meetings option” configuration. To start, organizations can set this policy via a PowerShell cmdlet, and soon after we will have this policy configurable in the Admin portal. This new functionality will begin to roll-out the first week of May.

ID: 63206    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Group chat with up to 250 people

Sometimes you need to kick off a big project chat with a large group, or organize an ad-hoc discussion with staff at an event, but it is unnecessary to start a new team; perhaps you don’t all work together on a regular basis, or maybe you need a communication channel with a large group of people at an event. Group chats will be able to accommodate up to 250 users.

ID: 63577    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: May CY2020

Settings Gear on your Activity Feed

Users can now directly access activity feed and notification setting from the feed left rail by the means of a settings gear.

ID: 64135    Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, All environments, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Simplified way to manage your channel notification settings

Through the teams and channels list or from the channel header, the users can quickly manage their notification settings by the means of a new fly-out design. Users can turn on all activity on or off with a single click or diving deep into custom to set their preferred permutations.

ID: 64139    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, All environments, DoD   Release: June CY2020

[Teams Mobile Clients] Organization allowed accounts configuration for Teams

Teams for iOS and Android now provides Teams administrators with the ability to push allowed account configurations to Teams. These configurations will work with any mobile device management provider that uses managed app configuration channels (for iOS) and the Android enterprise channel (for Android). The devices must be managed for this allowed account configuration to work.

ID: 64143    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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: DoD, All environments, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May 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: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, All environments, DoD   Release: May CY2020

Launched

SharePoint: Home sites

A Home site is the top of your intranet – the landing page that reflects your branding and brings your organization together with rich experiences. Microsoft is helping you build and launch a successful home site, built on the familiar communication sites platform, with great looking and highly functional out-of-box experiences. This SharePoint home sites feature lets you designate a communication site as the “home site” for your intranet. This site will then be more the SharePoint mobile app. It will also automatically be set up for organization-wide search and as a source of authoritative news.

ID: 26842    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), All environments, Education   Release: May CY2020

Intelligent classification for Information Governance

Advanced Compliance customers will now be able to utilize out of the box machine learned classifiers or train their own custom machine learned models to help classify, protect and govern sensitive or business relevant content across relevant compliance solutions such as Information Governance, Records Management, Supervision and Advanced eDiscovery.

ID: 48505    Tags: O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: Q4 CY2019

Multilingual page publishing for Modern SharePoint.

Customers can now create, publish and consume modern SharePoint pages/news in multiple languages.

ID: 50217    Tags: SharePoint – All environments Release: May CY2020

Designer for branded templates

Now large enterprises, SMBs, universities can utilize Designer recommendations in their own branded templates. This allows people to stay on-brand.

ID: 51006    Tags: PowerPoint – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 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

Updated feature: Manage admin roles in the Microsoft 365 admin center

We’re improving how you manage admin roles in the Microsoft 365 admin center. It will be easier to see who has admin access and to assign roles that grant the right level of access to your admins. We are rolling out this feature to Targeted Release customers and will begin rolling it out to worldwide production in July. Today, you can view, add, or remove admin roles for a specific user from the Active users page. We’re adding a Roles page accessible from the left navigation pane in the new admin center to extend your capabilities. With this experience you can export a list of all admins in your org who are assigned Azure Active Directory roles that apply to Microsoft 365 services. You can view all admins assigned to a specific role, add or remove admins from a specific role, search for roles by name and keyword, and learn more about what each role allows a user to do.

ID: 52624    Tags: O365, Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: Q2 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Policy packages

IT admins can meet user requirements faster by applying a pre-defined set of policies across Teams functions, such as messaging and meetings, to employees based on the needs of their role.

ID: 53641    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q3 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – enhanced scheduling form

We’re updating Microsoft Teams with an improved scheduling experience. The existing scheduling form will be updated with multiple new features, including: improved scheduling assistant, time zone picker, availability status on people and locations, option to add required and optional attendees, and more.

ID: 54364    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

3rd Party Apps in Teams for GCC

With this feature, GCC admins have the option to enable external third-party apps in Teams. By default, users in the tenant will continue to have the experience they have today. Admins must know that they take responsibility for compliance when enabling a Microsoft external app. Microsoft is compliant by disabling all external apps by default for users in the tenant.

ID: 55373    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC   Release: Q1 CY2020

Record, edit and personalize videos with Stream mobile app

Easily create personalized videos including annotations, text and emojis directly from your Stream mobile app

ID: 57297    Tags: Microsoft Stream – All environments   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – raise hands in Teams meetings

The new raise hands feature in Teams allows meeting attendees to identify that they wish to speak by toggling the hand icon in the meeting control bar, making it easier to actively participate in meetings. When a meeting participant has raised their hand, an icon will appear next to their name in the roster view as well as their profile picture or video on the main meeting stage. Both the attendee who raised their hand and any presenter can lower individual hands in the meeting. Raise hands will be available for both PC, Mac, and web-based clients to start, with mobile applications quickly following. We will continue to iterate and enhance this new feature in the coming weeks.

ID: 62755    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress

We are making it easier for meeting organizers to quickly and easily change their presenter and lobby settings once a Teams meeting starts by providing an easy to access link directly in the participants pane. This new functionality will be present for both scheduled and “Meet Now” meetings.

ID: 63334    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – download a participant report in a Teams meeting

Meeting organizers, especially teachers, often need to know who joined their Teams meetings. Soon you will be able to download a participant report, found in the roster view that includes join and leave times for participants. Available in the roster view, meeting organizers can download the report that includes those users who joined while the organizer was present. This feature is only available within the meeting while the meeting is active. Available on desktop (Windows and Mac) and the web.

ID: 63351    Tags: O365, Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Office 365 G5 GCC High and DOD offering name update

Office 365 G5 GCC High, and DOD offerings will be rebranded to specify the inclusion of Audio Conferencing with BYOT (Bring Your Own Trunk) calling capabilities. Previous offering names: Office 365 GCC High G5 and Office 365 DoD G5. New offering names: Office 365 GCC High G5 with Audio Conferencing – BYOTOffice 365 and DoD G5 with Audio Conferencing – BYOT.

ID: 63967    Tags: O365 – DoD, GCC High   Release: May CY2020

Canceled

Office Online: Manual sensitivity labeling in Word, PowerPoint, Excel

NOTE: This is a duplicate of 63575 and will be removed. Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels within the Office 365 versions of the Office Online apps – Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

ID: 44919    Tags: O365, Microsoft Information ProtectionWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

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

This feature has been postponed. 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: Microsoft Information Protection, O365 – All environments Release: Q2 CY2020