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Microsoft Teams has a new method for saving meeting recordings, allowing for recorded meetings to be stored in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint vs. Microsoft Stream.

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In Development

MyAnalytics: More granular control to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features

MyAnalytics – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

ID:67167    Tags: Microsoft Teams, OneNote – Education   Release: October CY2020

Office 365: Translate in Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Translate is coming to Word, Excel and PowerPoint for DoD customers.

ID:67173    Tags: Office 365, Word, PowerPoint, Excel – DoD Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Outgoing screen-sharing support on Safari

Teams meetings in Safari 13 and later will now support outgoing screen sharing. A participant can share their screen. No configuration is needed.

ID:67174     Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat moderation settings

Meeting organizers can now turn off the chat functionality during a meeting, which is turned on by default.

ID:67175   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Meeting transfers and companion devices

End users can transfer meetings between mobile, desktop, and web, and add another device as a companion to their meeting.

ID:67176   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Exchange: SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) Support

MTA-STS (RFC8461) helps thwart such attacks by providing a mechanism for setting domain policies that specify whether the receiving domain supports TLS and what to do when TLS can’t be negotiated, for example stop the transmission.

ID:67177    Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC, Education  Release: December CY2020

Exchange: Block Sending to Groups on BCC Line

Have you ever created an inbox rule to move incoming messages sent to a Distribution List (DL) you’re on to a specific folder? But then you discover that some senders will add the DL to the BCC line so the rule (for privacy reasons) is ignored and the message lands in your Inbox instead? Ugh! Yep, some of our Transport developers had that happen to them too – and they decided to do something about it. They added the ability to configure a DL or group to reject (NDR) messages when the DL is on the BCC line. It’s been a big hit within Microsoft, and now we’re making it available to Exchange Online customers! We plan to expose this setting to email admins (for DLs) and group owners (for Microsoft 365 Groups).

ID:67178    Tags: Exchange – Education, GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Include up to 10,000 users in an org-wide team

We are raising the upper limit on org-wide team membership from 5,000 to 10,000 users.

ID:68692    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Rolling Out

OneNote: OneNote Feed in Outlook and Outlook on the web

The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in Outlook.com and Outlook on the web. The OneNote feed includes your Sticky Notes and recent OneNote pages so you can quickly reference them in Outlook. Use the search to find the note you are looking for. Have a quick thought while replying to emails? You can create a new Sticky Note in your feed right in Outlook.

ID: 66203    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, All environments   Release: October CY2020

PowerPoint: Live Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint for GCC and GCC-High

Live Captions and Subtitles enables presenters to turn captions or subtitles on in 60+ languages, while presenting in 10+ spoken languages with PowerPoint for Windows 10, macOS, and Web. Note this release is for our GCC and GCC-High tenants, and does not yet include DoD environments.

ID: 66205  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC, Germany   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft 365 Admin center: Introducing additional message tags in Admin Center Message Center

We are introducing tags in the Message Center to enable more granular filtering of messages. The new tags will include “New feature,” “Feature update,” “User impact,” and “Admin impact.”

ID: 66469    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC  Release: October CY2020

Whiteboard: Per user licensing

Tenant admins will be able to use licenses to enable or disable access to Whiteboard at an individual user level, instead of only at the global tenant level. These licenses currently exist in tenants today, but are not used for enablement.

ID: 66761    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Incoming video support on Safari

Teams meetings in Safari 13 and later will support incoming video.  A participant can see the video of an active speaker.  No configuration is needed.

ID: 67109    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High  Release: October CY2020

Forms: New Forms Start Page

This update replaces the existing Forms Portal page at Forms.office.com with a new Forms Start page at Office.com (Office.com – Forms). Users who access forms via office.com will get this experience first, then users accessing forms via forms.office.com will get the experience soon after.

ID: 67143    Tags: Forms – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab page (NTP) integrates productivity with customizable, work relevant feed content.

The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable “My Feed” with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you.

ID: 68691    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Excel: Workbook Link Support in Excel for the Web

Workbook link support in now available in Excel for the Web. This feature was previously only supported in Excel for Windows and Mac. (aka “External Links”)

ID: 71476    Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Tasks in Teams

Tasks for Information Workers in Teams—Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you’re on desktop or mobile.

ID: 57213  Tags: Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Records Management: Proof of disposal

Customers will be able to access the list of records disposed in their tenant after they have been deleted.

ID: 59217   Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020

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: Word, PowerPoint, Excel – GCC High   Release: August 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 – Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, All environments, DoD, GCC High Release: October 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 – GCC, Education, DoD, GCC High, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Tasks for Information Workers in Teams

Tasks for Information Workers in Teams—Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you’re on desktop or mobile.

ID: 65385    Tags: Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: July CY2020

OneDrive: Improved Sync Warning for Locked Office Files

New warning experience in OneDrive sync app when there are local changes to an Office file that cannot be uploaded because someone else has the document open in edit mode in Office on the web.

ID: 66099    Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, Germany, GCC Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Read Receipts in GCC High and DoD

Read receipts will soon be available in all clouds. Read receipts in private chats allow senders to know that a message was read by the recipients.

ID: 66132    Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Group policy to enable Microsoft Edge UI to test sites in Internet Explorer mode

Starting with Microsoft Edge 86, administrators can enable a UI option for their users to load a tab in Internet Explorer mode for testing purposes or as a stopgap for users until sites are added to the site list XML through group policy.

ID: 66333    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Remove HTML5 Application Cache API

The legacy Application Cache API enabling offline use of web pages is being removed from Microsoft Edge. Web Developers should review the Web.Dev documentation for information on replacing use of the Application Cache API with Service Workers. Requesting an AppCache OriginTrial Token allows sites to continue to use the deprecated Application Cache API until Microsoft Edge v90.

ID: 66334   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Automatic profile switching on Windows 7, 8, 8.1

Extend the automatic profile switching currently available in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 to down-level Windows (Windows 7, 8, 8.1).

ID: 66335   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Teams: New File Viewer released for GCC- High

GCCH will have a new file viewer – OneUp

ID: 67087   Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes

Microsoft Forms now provides a setting on multi-page (multi-section) Forms/Quizzes which, when enabled, will show responders a progress bar. The progress bar is a visual indicator telling the responder how far they are through the survey, eg “Page 1 of 3”. Note: this feature is off by default on new forms and quizzes. Form owner should choose to enable this setting if they want to use it. However, forms/quizzes already existing at rollout time will have the progress bar setting checked. This Progress bar feature still is only shown on multi-page forms, and can be easily disabled by the Form owner in the settings pane for that form/quiz.

ID: 67120    Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Table of Content for PDF Documents

Microsoft Edge has added support for table of contents which enables users to easily navigate through PDF documents beginning with Microsoft Edge v.86.

ID: 69099   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Add custom image to the NTP, and control ability via GPO

Beginning with Microsoft Edge v.86 the New Tab Page has an option to replace the default image with a custom user supplied image. The ability to control this feature using group policy has also been added.

ID: 69100   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.86: Secure DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS) Support

Starting in Microsoft Edge v.86, settings to control Secure DNS on unmanaged devices has been added. These settings are not accessible to users on managed devices, but IT admins can enable or disable Secure DNS using Group Policy.

ID: 69102    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Edge v. 86: Version Rollback

Rollback lets administrators quicker revert to a known working version of Microsoft Edge if there’s an issue in the latest version of Microsoft Edge.

ID: 69104   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Edge v. 86: Policy for enterprises to enforce enabling Sync by default

Administrators can enable synchronization for Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts by default with this new policy.

ID: 69106   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Edge v. 86: New group policy to replace existing diagnostic data policies MetricsReportingEnabled and SendSiteInformation in downlevel Windows and MacOS

Control Microsoft Edge diagnostic data that gets sent to Microsoft on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and macOS. We are deprecating MetricsReportingEnabled and SendSiteInformation policies. They are being replaced by Allow Telemetry on Windows 10 and then the new DiagnosticData policy on all other platforms. The current plan is for this to mark MetricsReportingEnabled and SendSiteInformation as deprecated in Microsoft Edge 86 and become obsolete in Microsoft Edge 89. The new DiagnosticData policy will release in Microsoft Edge 86.

ID: 69132   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Canceled

No cancellations to announce in this week’s update.