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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Outlook for Windows: support Immersive Reader
With a new option in the Simplified Ribbon, you can access Immersive Reader options in Outlook that are currently available today in Microsoft Word
ID:56423 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: October CY2020
Microsoft compliance center: Records Management in Microsoft 365 available in Government cloud
Records Management in Microsoft 365 enables government customers to manage recordkeeping obligations intelligently. This update restructures capabilities that were previously part of the Advanced Data Governance solution and provides you with a dedicated and specialized solution for records management, with new features including proof of disposal, record versioning, and enhanced record immutability.
ID:63063 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2020
Yammer: New Live Events Insights
Improve your live events viewership. Monitor attendance, measure engagement, and recognize trends.
ID:65515 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October 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: November CY2020
Yammer: New Community Insights
Manage and moderate content faster with Yammer Community Insights. Key metrics help admins and users measure engagement and find valuable insights.
ID:65591 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Organizational branding for line of business app catalog
IT Admins will be able to customize their Teams line-of-business (custom) app catalog using their organization’s branding. This will enhance the user experience (UX) for end users and increase organic discovery and use of an organization’s line-of-business (custom) apps.
ID:67111 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Search: New image vertical
A new image is coming to Microsoft Search to provide better search capabilities for images in your organization. The new image vertical will initially be available for search results in SharePoint and Office.com, and will come to Bing.com later.
ID:67117 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Lists: updated Yes/No column experiences – powered by SharePoint
List items with a Yes/No column, in and out of Quick Edit mode, will appear using the new experience design format – making it easier to create and more accessible to consume.
ID:67119 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Manage your meeting options in-meeting
Meetings organizers can now view and update meeting options within the in-meeting making it easier and faster to manage your meeting options during a meeting.
ID:67121 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: End-of-meeting notifications
Microsoft Teams will automatically issue a 5-minute warning when the meeting is nearing a close – it will be triggered for all scheduled private, and channel meetings.
ID:67122 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for gov clouds
Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in GCC, GCC-High and, DoD environments. Sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to label important content to associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. With this release, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input.
ID:67125 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Yammer: Browse community files stored in SharePoint with SharePoint library structure and capabilities.
Browsing files that have been uploaded to a Yammer community will now have access to the SharePoint files structure and capabilities.
ID:67240 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Yammer: Select attachment uploads from SharePoint file picker
When selecting a post attachment, Yammer will now use the SharePoint Online file picker to select the file.
ID:67241 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Set Outlook as your default email app with iOS and iPadOS 14
When iOS and iPadOS 14 are available and you update your OS, you can choose Outlook as your default email app.
ID:67980 Tags: Outlook – DoD, Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: September CY2020
Yammer: New people experiences
Enhancing how users can share, post and discover content across their company.
ID:68066 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Planner: Use Dark Mode in Planner Mobile
Use your system’s dark settings or enable Planner’s dark settings to view Planner Mobile in dark mode.
ID:68083 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Translate content during investigation
Leverage Microsoft translator in Communication Compliance to automatically translate messages that are not in the investigator’s preferred language.
ID:68130 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Burnout and suicide detection
Deliver new machine learning models for Communication Compliance to detect both burnout and suicidal thoughts.
ID:68131 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Conflict of interest template
Introducing a new policy template for Communication Compliance that will monitor communications between two groups of users which can be used for collusion or conflict of interest detection.
ID:68132 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Ability to ignore email signature or disclaimer
Provide the ability within Communication Compliance to define text that should be ignored during policy evaluation to avoid false positives.
ID:68133 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: See Outlook calendar details with watchOS 7
See what’s on your calendar tomorrow and at a glance know if you’re marked as free or busy.
ID:68291 Tags: Outlook – Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Watch email complication with unread email badge count
Your email complication for Outlook will include an unread email badge count on your Apple Watch with watchOS 7
ID:68293 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Education Release: September CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Insider risk management hand-off
Introducing a new remediation action in Communication Compliance that will enable a user to be added to an existing Insider risk management policy for further evaluation.
ID:68686 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Policy health check and ability to pause policy
Provide guidance during Communication Compliance policy creation on the settings used and the potential volume of items that will be captured. Pausing a policy will enabled an administrator to manually suspend evaluations of communications.
ID:68687 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Ability to set a retention period for a Communication Compliance policy
Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained.
ID:68688 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Word: Embed content in Word for Web
Embedding in Word for the web helps to make a word document rich by showing live and interactive web content in the form of Videos, slides and more from a number of sources – YouTube, Microsoft Streams, SlideShare, Vimeo and more. It just works by pasting the web content URL in the document. Try pasting a URL from any of the supported sources.
ID:68923 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Office 365 Advanced threat Protection: Attack Simulation Training
Attack Simulation training helps customers detect, assess, and remediate phishing risk across users through integrated simulations and targeted training campaigns that change user behavior.
ID:68925 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021
Microsoft Teams: PowerPoint File Sharing in GCC-High and DOD
PowerPoint File Sharing allows you to share a PowerPoint file within a Teams Meeting without having to use Desktop or Window sharing.
ID:68926 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2020
Outlook for Android: Scan QR code to sign into your work or school account
When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to Google Play store to download Outlook for Android and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.
ID:69147 Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Scan a QR code to sign into your work or school account
When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to the Apple app store to download Outlook for iOS and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.
ID:69148 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.87: ClickOnce deployment enabled by default
ClickOnce will be enabled by default in Microsoft Edge 87, reducing the barriers for enterprises to deploy software and better aligning with legacy Microsoft Edge browser behavior. Starting in Microsoft Edge 87, the ClickOnceEnabled policy’s “Not configured” state will reflect the new default ClickOnce state of Enabled (as compared to the previous default state of Disabled).
ID:69952 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Yammer: Updated UX the Yammer tab for Microsoft Teams
The Yammer tab for Microsoft teams will get updated to include the new Yammer experience.
ID:70073 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Support Scribble with iPadOS 14
Once iPadOS 14 is available and you update your OS, you can use the Apple Pencil with Outlook to Scribble in text fields such as the body of your email, keyword Search, new event scheduling. Your hand writing will be converted to text.
ID:70323 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Project: Custom fields at the Task level
Task custom fields enables you to add details to your tasks so you can manage your project more effectively. Fields such as numbers and dates can be created for tasks and shown in the Grid view and Task Details pane.
ID: 43296 Tags: Microsoft Project – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Add to OneDrive
Add to OneDrive is the capability for customers to add shared folders alongside their own content which means that, instead of finding shared content based on who shared it and how someone shared it with them, users will be able to access the files they care about directly within their OneDrive.
ID: 56384 Tags: OneDrive – All environments Release: September 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 – DoD, GCC High, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: NDI for Teams
NDI for Microsoft Teams converts a meeting participant’s video into a discrete source that can be used in the production tools for professional broadcasts.
ID: 66009 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Security and Compliance Center: Advanced Audit available in GCC, GCC-High and DoD
The new Advanced Audit solution will be available to the Microsoft 365 Government cloud environments (GCC, GCC High, DoD).
ID: 66202 Tags: Security and Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2020
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Enabling export of security reports
We’re adding the ability to export many of our security reports, including, but not limited to: Threat protection status report, mail flow status report, top malware, spoof detections, top senders and recipients, Office 365 ATP file types, URL protection report, and more.
ID: 66360 Tags: Security and Compliance center, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Germany Release: September 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
Visio: Self-service purchase capabilities for Visio
Microsoft is enabling individuals and teams to purchase some Microsoft Visio product directly with their business domain. Self-service purchasing capabilities will allow individuals worldwide (excluding India) to acquire a subscription for Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2. Self-service purchase capabilities are not available for customers who are eligible for Government or Education offers.
ID: 67124 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Outlook for Windows: Administrator notification of Outlook incidents
Microsoft 365 tenant administrators will be notified about Outlook incidents affecting their users with a new Outlook for Windows right side panel notification.
ID: 58085 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Released: June CY2020
Excel: Tasks in Excel
Create and assign tasks to collaborators in an Excel workbook to track ownership and get work done
ID: 61111 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Allow user to override locked file to delete
Users are unable to delete a document because if they had it opened in another tab on a different computer, or because someone else had it open and forgot about it, effectively locking the document. This feature allows you to override that lock and delete a WXP file when someone (or yourself) has it open, whether intentionally or not.
ID: 62665 Tags: OneDrive – All environments Release: June CY2020
SharePoint lists & libraries – new rich-text editor (RTE) for text fields
We are bringing a newer, richer experience when a person creates a multi-line text field for a SharePoint list or library. They now will have the option to enable the rich-text editor (RTE). When people edit their items in a form, they see pencil icon to edit text and adjust font, size, color, highlight, bold, italics, underline, bulleted lists, numbering, etc.).
ID: 63176 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Channel info pane
Selecting the “Channel info” icon in the channel header will display summary information related to that channel including the description, a list of recent contributors and members, as well as system messages.
ID: 64173 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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 – Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: September 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 – Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2020
SharePoint lists and libraries – Rename title column
Users will be able to rename the title field column and see the name change appear consistently in grid view, when in Quick Edit and on the associated view and edit forms.
ID: 65146 Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Germany, All environments, DoD Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Forms: New Office 365 Header
Microsoft Forms will now have a similar look to the other Office 365 family of apps.
ID: 66010 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2020
Microsoft 365 Admin center: Introducing additional message labels in Admin Center Message Center
We are introducing additional labels in the Message Center to enable more granular filtering of messages. The new labels will include “New feature,” “Feature update,” “User impact,” and “Admin impact.”
ID: 66469 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: PowerPoint File Sharing in GCC
PowerPoint File Sharing allows you to share a PowerPoint file within a Teams Meeting without having to use Desktop or Window sharing.
ID: 68927 Tags: GCC Release: March CY2020
No cancellations to announce in this week’s update.
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
