In Development

Microsoft Stream (Classic): Preview of IT admin-led migration from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to the new Microsoft Stream

Early preview and ability to migrate videos from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to the new Microsoft Stream, specifying the target location for the video: the team, site, community, or user file store.

ID:68928    Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2021

Custom verticals and refiners in Microsoft Search

Add a custom attendee registration page to any meeting to better manage attendance before and after any engagement. Following registration, attendees receive an email confirmation with calendar invite.

ID:66586    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: SharePoint home site app

With the new home site app, you can bring your intranet directly into Teams. The app’s icon and name match your company brand and enable employees to discover, navigate and consume your top sites in Teams. The home site app gives employees a window into the rest of the company intranet by using the same global navigation as the SharePoint app bar.

ID:66584     Tags: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

New Microsoft Stream Web App

The new video app in Microsoft 365 brings together all your videos uploaded to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, and across the suite and enables you to easily create new videos and get to videos shared with, and recommended for, you.

ID:68830   Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2021

New Microsoft Stream: Playback quality and scale for videos in Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint that matches Microsoft Stream (Classic)

Improved video streaming performance and overall user experience for any video uploaded to Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and any other Microsoft 365 app that uses either for storing files.

ID:68831   Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2021

OneDrive: “At a glance” in sharing emails

When users receive Sharing emails they will now see a short 3-bullet point summary of the document in the email to better inform them as to how relevant the file is for them so they can make a more informed decision as to whether to spend the time opening the file or not.

ID:66189    Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

SharePoint admin center – site creation source

SharePoint admins will now be able to see where sites were created from – be it PowerShell, via the SharePoint admin center, from Teams, from SharePoint “Create site” – and to be able to see more clearly who created the site.

ID:68813    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: December CY2020

Automatic sensitivity labeling in Office apps on Windows

Automatic sensitivity labeling based on content inspection is built natively into Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) on Windows (in the Office 365 subscription version of the Office apps).

ID:49444    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Bookings: ”Cc” functionality to email notifications

‘Cc’ an additional email address on confirmation and reminder emails

ID:66141    Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2021

Bookings: Add an attachment to notification emails

Adding the ability to include specific attachments in email communications that are sent following an appointment booking.

ID:66139    Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Bookings: Clone an existing Bookings calendar

Duplicate current Bookings calendar in order to create a new calendar with the same properties and customization as an existing one.

ID:66138  Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Bookings: Updated user experience

Updated design and enhanced user experience for viewing main components of the web app and create a more connected experience.

ID:66142    Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2021

Bookings: Updates to Staff roles

Addition of a Scheduler role and changes to roles with calendar privileges.

ID:66140    Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Custom verticals and refiners in Microsoft Search

New support for custom verticals and refiners in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search, add custom refiners and create new verticals for SharePoint content.

ID:57054    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

File recommendations

Planner will recommend related files to attach to your tasks

ID:66364    Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December 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: November CY2020

Forms: Specific User Sharing for Response Collection

With this update, Microsoft Forms owners will now be able to send out a survey to collect responses from specific users or security groups. (You now have the new option in the “Send to Collect Responses” dropdown menu to select that “Specific people in my organization can respond.”)

ID:67157    Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Improvements to the Microsoft Search API in the Microsoft Graph

The Microsoft Search API in the Microsoft Graph allows for developers to build custom applications to leverage Microsoft Search results from across Microsoft 365.

ID:57068    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Information Governance: Retention policies for Yammer

Expand support for Yammer messages.

ID:63064    Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October 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), Germany, GCC High, GCC, DoD  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Project: Assign tasks to non-group members

Assign tasks to anyone to add them to your group.

ID:67150    Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Project: Create attachments on tasks

Add file attachments or links to any task in Project.

ID:67151    Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Project: Deploy Project for the web in Named Environments

Organizations have more flexibility in how they deploy Project. In addition to using Project in the Default environment, you can now use it in Named Environments.

ID:67156    Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Project: Email Notifications in Project

Switch on to receive notifications about changes to your projects.

ID:67152    Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Search in Bing and Edge mobile applications

With Microsoft Search in the Bing and Edge mobile applications (iOS and Android), you can now authenticate with your organizational account and search across information in Microsoft 365 and connected experiences with Microsoft Search.

ID:57069    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites

Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites brings the Microsoft Search experience to classic SharePoint sites and moves the search box to the application header in Office 365.

ID:57131    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Live reactions

React during a meeting using emojis that will appear to all participants.

ID:65946    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Meeting room capacity notifications for Microsoft Teams Room

Alerts in-room meeting participants if the room is over-capacity based on data defined in a room account. Not all cameras will support this feature.

ID:65965    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Overflow meetings

When attendees exceed the meeting attendee limit, the meeting will scale to accommodate up to 20,000 in an experience where they can watch.

ID:65952    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Private Channels in Office 365 for GCC-High

Limit which team members can see the conversation and content within a particular channel. You can right-size channel participation and exposure without having to create discrete teams to limit visibility.

ID:67199    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Support for Cortana voice assistance on Microsoft Teams Room devices

Cortana voice assistance gives users the ability to manage controls on Microsoft Teams Room devices using spoken commands.

ID:65961    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Wirelessly cast to Teams devices

Wirelessly cast to any Teams Room, collaboration bar or Surface Hub device, enabling seamless ad-hoc in-person collaboration for people in a shared space

ID:65962    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: On/Off Shift – V2

IT admins have the option to block the entire Teams app when a user is off shift.

ID:59722    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Germany  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: On/Off Shift Presence

Manage Teams for your Firstline Workers when on a personal device outside payable hours. IT admins can enable Firstline Workers to get shift-based presence (On shift and Off shift).

ID:57173    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: 25K person teams

Support for up to 25,000 members per individual team.

ID:68723    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Better together for calls on Teams phones

With this capability, users will be able to use the better together feature on P2P calls and group calls.

ID:68946    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Branch Office Survivability on Teams phones

Teams phone users in a Branch Office can make PSTN Calls to other users even if Branch office loses internet connectivity.

ID:68944    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: By invitation only meetings

Organizers will be able to schedule invite-only meetings where only authorized participants will be allowed to join.

ID:68730    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Call Merge

Call Merge gives end users the capability to merge their active unheld 1-1 call into another 1-1 call or another group call. This applies to Teams VOIP calls and PSTN calls.

ID:66054    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Custom layouts for meetings

Presenters will be able to customize how content shows up for meeting participants, including overlaying their video on content or moving their content box to a corner of the video view – allowing for a more dynamic content viewing experience where presenters can easily direct their audiences’ attention through hand gestures and facial cues, without making the viewer choose between the speaker and the content.

ID:66587    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Recap

Meeting recap will help teams stay on track and keep their work moving forward after the meeting is over. Coming this year, a recap with the meeting recording, transcript, chat, shared files and more will be shared with participants in the meeting Chat tab and viewable in the Details tab for each meeting.

ID:68729    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams panels

This new category of devices can be mounted outside a meeting space to streamline space management, providing users with the ability to view space and meeting details, reserve a space, view upcoming reservations and easily identify current availability status. Users can also view the building floor plan and book another room using the “Nearby Rooms” feature.

ID:68735    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Personal wellbeing insights in Teams

New personal insights to help you reimagine your work day and embrace wellbeing are coming to Microsoft Teams. Users can create mental bookends to productively start and mindfully end the work day with a virtual commute, tap into dedicated moments of mindfulness with Headspace and use emotional check-ins to pause and reflect.

ID:68748    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Remote Provisioning of Teams Android devices from Teams Admin Center

Tenant admins will be able to remotely provision and sign into all their Teams Android devices from Teams admin center.

ID:68947    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Room Remote for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Control in-room meeting devices using a new experience on the Teams mobile app. Controls include: turn mic on/off, turn camera on/off, adjust audio, leave the meeting.

ID:65960    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration

Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence for a specific period of time.

ID:68726    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration for Government clouds

Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence for a specific period of time.

ID:68937    Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High  Release: December 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: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: View all upcoming assignments in the Teams calendar

Keep tabs on all of your student’s responsibilities and due dates by visualizing their assignments within the Teams calendar.

ID:66562    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Visio: Link your diagrams

Link shapes in your diagram by adding hyperlinks to web pages, other files stored online, pages within same Visio file, and email addresses to make your diagrams interactive with richer information.

ID:53961    Tags: Visio – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Visio: Azure icons in Visio for the web

The latest Azure icons are available in Visio for the web. These icons can be used to accurately create diagrams to represent Azure services and networks.

ID:56627    Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

New and improved Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search

Microsoft Graph connectors provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors to allow for you to connect Microsoft Search to disparate data sources outside of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Graph connectors will include the following connectors available within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Windows File Shares; ServiceNow, Microsoft SQL Server, Intranet websites, MediaWiki, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Salesforce and an ingestion API.

ID:67065    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

New Bing Enterprise Homepage with Microsoft Search

The enterprise focused Bing Homepage with Microsoft Search offers company branding, Office content, quick links to top queries as well as company updates from your admin.

ID:57070    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

New Bing Industry News with Microsoft Search

Industry news gives you a targeted set of news content specific to their company and industry. In addition, it offers access to news content for free, that would otherwise be behind a paid subscription wall, such as Wall Street Journal and more.

ID:57071    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync

Admins can exclude newly added files from syncing to the cloud by file name or extension

ID:66188    Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD   Release: November CY2020

Outlook for Android: Start a Chat in Teams with email recipients

When reading an email, have the option to start a Chat in Teams with the people in your organization who are included in the address of an email or conversation.  You can see their presence status to inform you if it’s a good time to chat online.

ID:71035    Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: January CY2021

Outlook for Android: Two way synchronization with local Calendar

Outlook for Android: Two way synchronization with local Calendar

ID:63429    Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Intune – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: October CY2020

Outlook for Android:  Suggested people and actionable search answers

Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as “John’s phone number”. Searching for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar.

ID:53122    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Start a Chat in Teams with email recipients

When reading an email, have the option to start a Chat in Teams with the people in your organization who are included in the address of an email or conversation.  You can see their presence status to inform you if it’s a good time to chat online.

ID:71036    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Outlook for iOS:  Suggested people and actionable search results

Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as “John’s phone number”. Searching for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar.

ID:53714    Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Outlook for Mac: New user experience across email, search and calendar

Delivers the option to preview updates coming to Outlook for Mac that enhance performance and user experiences across email, search and calendar.  Includes capabilities that are based on intelligent technology such as suggested replies and Meeting Insights.  Architected using the Microsoft sync technology.

ID:27287    Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD   Release: October CY2020

Outlook on the web – Files view

Outlook on the web will release a view of all the files sent and received as attachments in your inbox. To access it, search for Files on the switcher bar that includes Mail, Calendar, People.

ID:59643    Tags: Exchange, Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Education, GCC  Release: December CY2020

SharePoint: Active time spent reports on SharePoint Site Usage

You can now get reports with aggregated data on the amount of time that users are spending on your intranet sites

ID:57159    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: September CY2020

SharePoint: Audience Targeting capability for Quick Links Web Part

We are adding the ability to target specific audiences per link within the Quick Links Web Part. With it, you target specific links to different audiences, helping you provide more personalized experiences on SharePoint pages.

ID:67115    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

SharePoint: Updates to site header options

New options will become available to customize the branding of modern SharePoint sites. Site creators will be able to choose to show or hide the site title and will have additional configuration options for site logo – a square site logo thumbnail or a non-square site logo. Both changes will be reflected in the Site settings Change the look panel.

ID:63776    Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, All environments, Germany Release: October CY2020

Smart Planner Board backgrounds

Add relevant and unique background images to your Planner board through smart recommendations

ID:66578    Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Teams: Microsoft Teams displays

A new category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that features an ambient touchscreen and a hands-free experience powered by Cortana. These devices seamlessly integrate with your PC, providing easy access to Teams chat, meetings, calling, calendar, and files. With natural language, users can ask Cortana to join and present in meetings, dictate replies to a Teams chat, and more.

ID:53941    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Visio: People gallery and modern presence

Easily see who is collaborating on your Visio diagram and where they are in the drawing.

ID:61431    Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Visio: While you were away and catch-up highlights

Know who edited your shared document since your last visit, and see what’s changed.

ID:61432    Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Whiteboard: Additional content types

Whiteboard: Additional content types

ID:66757    Tags: Whiteboard: Additional content types  Release: December CY2020

Whiteboard: Additional facilitation features

Participants in Teams and on Web will have additional facilitation features.

ID:66766    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Whiteboard: Attribution

Participants in Teams and on Web can see who added content to the board.

ID:66765    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2021

Whiteboard: Australia GoLocal

New whiteboards created by tenants in Australia will now be stored in local datacenters. Previously created boards will be migrated in future.

ID:66762    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Whiteboard: Locking content

Participants in Teams and on Web can lock content types on the board to prevent accidental movement or deletion.

ID:66764    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2021

Whiteboard: Migrating previously created boards

Tenants in locations that are currently storing new whiteboards in European datacenters will have previously created whiteboards migrated to European datacenters.

ID:66763    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December 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

Whiteboard: Storage in SharePoint Online

Whiteboard content will be stored in SharePoint Online.

ID:66767    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q3 CY2021

Whiteboard: Tab app in Teams

Whiteboard will be available as a tab app inside Teams, making it even easy to pin a whiteboard to a channel.

ID:66760    Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: New channel files tab for GCC, GCC-High and DoD

We are rolling out the new channel files tab experience to the government clouds (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD). This upgrade brings in more than 10 new features, including different SharePoint view, ability to view metadata, sync, row/column formatting etc.

ID:65350    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD  Release: September 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

Templates in Teams

When creating a new team, users can now choose from a variety of customizable templates including event management, crisis response, as well as industry-specific templates like hospital ward and bank branch. Microsoft will publish a set of first-party templates and customers can also create new templates for their own organization.

ID:63175    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous grading and marking in Assignments

Bias and being able to identify students can have negative impacts on an educator’s ability to grade objectively. With anonymous grading, educators can elect to hide the names of the students whose work they are reviewing.

ID:66560   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education   Release: October CY2020

Forms: Group Forms for GCC

When GCC customers access Group forms on the Forms portal, they will see the group Forms that they have been recently working on.

ID:67106   Tags: Forms – GCC   Release: September CY2020

Forms: Print a blank Form

This new feature allows form designer to print a blank form/quiz to responder, who cannot fill the online form, to finish the form.

ID:67099   Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Teams – improvements in meetings experience for Safari browser users

We are bringing improvements to the browser-based meetings experience for those who join Teams meetings with Safari browsers.  Users will no longer be required to use Audio Conferencing to dial into the meeting for audio needs, but rather, can use their device to speak and listen.  As was prior, participants can continue to view meeting content being shared in their browser.

ID:65090    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Large Gallery view (Preview) – see up to 49 participants

We will soon bring Large Gallery view to Microsoft Teams, providing a new way to view video up to 49 participants at once on a single screen (7×7).  We will begin rolling out the feature to production with the new multi-window experience in late June and target full availability by the end of August.  In order to take advantage of this new view, users will need to turn on the new multi-window meeting experience once made available.

ID:65333   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Teams: spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting

We are delivering the ability for presenters to lock on an individual video feed for all attendees to see during a Teams meeting. Once selected, the individual identified as the spotlight will be the main video shown to all participants. This applies to PC, Mac, mobile, and Microsoft Teams room systems.

ID:67090    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Assignments improvements to support large file sizes and counts

Assignments will now support files sizes up to 500MB and more than 10 total attachments per assignment.

ID:66564    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Changes in Incoming IP Video policy (New Audio and Video Policies)

We are updating our meeting policies to allow IT administrators more control over how video is managed in Teams Meetings. Current policy can only be set to prevent outgoing video. We are extending the Allow IP Video policy to prevent both outgoing and incoming video as needed. Tenant administrators can use this policy to manage bandwidth.  This item has been updated to reflect changes to the original plan.

ID:67082    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Consume and control structured meeting role support and roster controls (presenter/attendee) from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Allows meeting organizer to assign meeting roles (presenter and attendee) from the device, which enables those users to take specific actions in the meeting (ex: who can mute others, who can present content, etc.)

ID:66355    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Control live captions from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Ability to turn on live captions from the device UX.

ID:66356   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Pin Video from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Ability to pin the video stream of a participant from the device/console, keeping the pinned user’s video visible in the gallery. This “pinned view” is only applied to the gallery view in the meeting room and not to other meeting participant’s views.

ID:66354   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Raise Hands from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Ability to use the raise hands Teams meeting feature from the device and/or console.

ID:66353   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: View assignments across all classes

Using the Assignments app from the Teams left rail, students can view all of their upcoming or previous assignments. Students can also filter by category, see the due date & assigned value of the assignment and more.

ID:66566   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education   Release: October CY2020

SharePoint – lists and libraries web parts consume dynamic data

Let web parts talk to other web parts and your pages and experiences become more dynamic with data and interactive. You will be able to configure list web part to send its property values to the List Properties web part, including updating those values based on what is selected.  Item has been updated to align with release plans.

ID:57307   Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2020

Yammer: New Conversation Insights

See which conversations perform best. Monitor engagement, measure reach, & amplify conversations.

ID:65516   Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: October CY2020

Canceled

Notifications for shared lists in Microsoft To Do (AAD users)

(This is a duplicate of 67114 and will be removed.) Customers who use list sharing in Microsoft To Do with their AAD account will begin receiving push notifications for activity in shared lists, such as task creation and completion.

ID:56871   Tags: Microsoft To Do – All environments  Release: March CY2021

Outlook Calendar – new APIs

This items has been replaced by roadmap item 53084. New capabilities will be available so you can better manage your organization’s resources. SetPlace cmdlet – This feature will let you update information about rooms and add metadata like what devices are in the room. This functionality is only available for admins and will be performed through an Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet. The changes made to the rooms will sync into Azure Active Directory as well. Places – Get all the information about rooms and roomlist like devices, floor and capacity. Room Naming schema- Room names will now be auto generated based on attributes admins can set.

ID:51358   Tags: Exchange  Release: Q3 CY2019

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

(This is a duplicate of 66205.) 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:66745   Tags: PowerPoint – DoD, GCC, GCC High  Release: October CY2020

Usage reports update: new Office Extensibility Add-Ins report

New report in the Office 365 usage dashboard. We continue to update the usage reports to provide you with a complete picture of how your organization is using Office 365. We’re adding a new Office Extensibility Add-Ins report that will help you understand how your organization leverages Office Add-Ins.

ID:16816   Tags: O365, Admin Center   Release: Q1 CY2020