| Outlook for Windows: Your ribbon icons have a new look |
New icons built with crisp, clean lines and new colors render and scale well on screens of all sizes. |
Outlook |
September CY2018 |
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| Customize search results for your organization |
Customize search results with your content, bring the best of your organizational content and personalized search together. Extend the search box: Add what’s important to your organization with custom sources from a SharePoint list Extensibility of search pages: Leverage SPFX and its dev chain Customize search suggestions Add new verticals for high value entities Use adaptive cards to display new entities |
O365 |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions (S/MIME) |
With SMIME, sign or encrypt messages in Outlook mobile with company issued certificates. |
Outlook |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions (S/MIME) |
With SMIME, sign or encrypt messages in Outlook mobile with company issued certificates. |
Outlook,Android |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| FindTime – ability to delete user’s data |
We are adding a “delete all” button on the FindTime dashboard that deletes a user’s account and all of their FindTime data |
Exchange |
August CY2018 |
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| SharePoint hub sites: increase admin creation limit to 100 |
When SharePoint hub sites initially shipped, the admin creation limit for how many hub sits could be created in a single tenant was 50, and we are now upping the limit to 100. |
O365,SharePoint |
August CY2018 |
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| FindTime – automatic and manual reminders to complete polls |
We are adding email reminders that can be manually and automatically sent to attendees who haven’t voted on a poll. |
Exchange |
September CY2018 |
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| Advanced anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365 |
Extending coverage of Advanced Anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365 and additional checks for stricter DMARC enforcement |
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September CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Bookings – mobile app read-only mode |
Users with an Office 365 license who have been added to a booking calendar but are not the Bookings calendar admin can now use the Bookings mobile app in read-only mode to see their bookings. |
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September CY2018 |
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| FindTime – automatic deletion of 90 day old polls |
Closed and cancelled polls will be deleted after 90 days of inactivity. Pending polls will be deleted after 90 days after the latest poll time option if there is no activity until that day. |
Exchange |
September CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Bookings – social sharing controls |
Office 365 administrators can block social sharing from inside the Booking page node in Bookings |
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September CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Conference Room Finder improvements |
See the availability of recently reserved conference rooms and choose a room from multiple room lists. |
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September CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: quick calendar view |
Get visibility into your calendar when responding to a meeting or event invitation from your inbox. |
Outlook,Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Quick calendar view |
Get visibility into your calendar when responding to a meeting or event invitation from your inbox. |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Open a shared calendar |
Search for a calendar previously shared with you and add it to your Calendars on Outlook for iOS |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Dismiss past event reminders |
Option to set reminders to automatically dismiss calendar events that occurred in the past. |
Outlook, Calendar |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Bookings – email notifications to users added to booking calendars |
Users that are added to booking calendars will now receive an email notification letting them know. |
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Q1 CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Bookings – Email confirmations customization |
Bookings administrators can now add URLs and rich text in confirmation emails sent to their customers. |
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Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Open a shared calendar |
Search for a calendar previously shared with you and add it to your Calendars on Outlook for Android. |
Outlook,Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Access: Updates to Linked Table Manager |
We are updating the Linked Table Manager in Access to make it easier to manage your external links. Resize will be enabled, we’ll be smarter about grouping similar data sources, and connections could be easily remapped when needed. |
Access |
Q3 CY2018 |
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| Access: Black and Dark Gray theme support |
Change the look and feel of Access databases by changing the Office themes. You can now choose from Colorful, Black, Dark Gray, and White themes. |
Access |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint admin center updates |
Improvements to the SharePoint admin center include the ability for administrators to manage Group connected sites, hub sites, and ownership. In addition these improvements we’re also introducing a new entry points for viewing tenant wide storage and storage management for sites as well as improvements to configuring sharing policies. |
SharePoint,All environments |
September CY2018 |
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| SharePoint pages: avoid edit lockout |
Be more aware of who is editing a page, and don’t feel locked out. With these SharePoint page editing improvements, you can now see that someone else is editing the page. And to help prevent unintentional page lockouts, we’ve added a 5-minute timeout if no changes are made and the page is left open in edit mode. |
O365,SharePoint |
August CY2018 |
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| SharePoint news: news link to external source |
You can now bring in news articles from external sources. The News link feature gives you the option to paste in an external URL. And then it generates a thumbnail and gives you the option to adjust the primary text. Once you save it, the news article goes into the SharePoint news service as a new News article. And when a person clicks on it, they will be taken to the original source to read the article. |
O365,SharePoint |
August CY2018 |
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| Automapping on Mailbox Full Access |
Customers can enable automapping when assigning Full Access permissions to cross-premises mailboxes in an Exchange Hybrid deployment. |
Exchange |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Stream available in Office 365 SMB |
Microsoft Stream will be available by default in all Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business plans. |
Microsoft Stream |
August CY2018 |
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| AutoSave for Semi Annual |
AutoSave will be enabled by default in the upcoming semi-annual release of Office. This change means that for documents stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, your users will not have to worry about losing their changes. Changes will be stored in the cloud automatically, and users will no longer have to explicitly press Ctrl + S or the Save button. |
Windows Desktop,All environments |
September CY2018 |
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| DLP Availability in Microsoft 365 Business |
DLP policies to help identify, monitor and restrict sensitive information like SSNs, Credit Card Numbers etc from being transmitted |
O365,Exchange |
September CY2018 |
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| Tasks side panel on Outlook.com |
Quick access to your Tasks on Outlook.com via a side panel you open using the new top bar design |
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September CY2018 |
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| Modern library content types and document templates |
In SharePoint document libraries, we are adding the streamlined ability to add document templates to library content types. We’re also adding the ability to edit the New menu to add, hide or reorder the new file type options. |
SharePoint |
September CY2018 |
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| New design for To-Do for Web |
To-Do for Web ‘s design is getting updated to simplify the experience and align it more closely with the other experiences inside Microsoft 365. |
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September CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 Store – Device based deployment |
Deploy app to a shared devices and install for all users. Device based deployment |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Certificate deployment |
Enable deployment of certificates for Wi-Fi with Intune, without user. Device based Wi-Fi authentication. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 Kiosk – Guided deployment |
Simple Intune deployment and management. Simplified all in one kiosk deployment and configuration from Intune. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 Edge – Edge in Kiosk Mode |
Enables Edge to run full screen above lock with Assigned Access, with some options in edge (add printer, safe to file, execute apps, ) disabled. Kiosk Browser app remains available in store. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Apply Kiosk from the settings app |
Interactive Wizard on Windows 10 device to configure Kiosk on the device, including Edge kiosk settings (SMB) |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Shell Customization |
Kiosk (Assigned Access) Shell Customization Customization of taskbar, Settings app: expand the manageability of settings page visibility to include user context, as well as device context. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Logon |
Enable FiDO2, weblogin, Windows passwordless logon, Google sign, with AAD/Shared PC. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Alert Management |
Enable configuration of alerts from kiosk to management system. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Kiosk – Update Management |
Managing UWP app updates to occur during a specific time of day. Prevent Kiosk from displaying update related messages. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 in S Mode – Developer Mode |
Provide a way for Store app developer to unlock S mode system to side load their Store app for testing |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 in S Mode – Bulk Switch-out |
IT admin can automatically configure devices to switch out of S mode during OOBE and post OOBE using Intune or any other supported MDM? |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows 10 in S Mode – Block Switch |
IT admin can configure devices using Intune or any other supported MDM to block end-users from switching out of S mode |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Time Improvements |
Leap second support: every 18 months, a leap second adjusts the official time by one second to account for variations in the earth’s rotation around the sun; Windows 10 now supports this automatically. Precision Time Protocol: For the highest accuracy environments, users can improve their time accuracy by leveraging a new time protocol that delivers more accurate time samples to the endpoint (Windows Server 2019 or Windows 10, host or virtual machine). Software Timestamping: customers can now further improve their network time accuracy by eliminating the software delay introduced by the Windows networking stack. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| New clipboard experience |
Users can paste from the clipboard history, and pin frequently-used items; history roams with you using the same technology which powers Timeline, so users can access their clipboard across any PC. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Notepad improvements |
Wrap-around find and replace in Notepad: new option to do wrap-around find/replace in the find dialog. Notepad will remember previously entered values and the state of check boxes, and will automatically populate them the next time users open the find dialog. Text zooming in Notepad: There is a new menu option under View Zoom to change the zoom level and we display the current zoom level in the status bar. Users can also use Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus and Ctrl + MouseWheel to zoom in and out and use Ctrl + 0 to restore the zoom level to the default. Line numbers with word-wrap in Notepad: Notepad can display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled, and the status bar is visible by default. Users can still turn the status bar off in the View menu. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Accessability Improvements |
Custom text size: from the display page in Ease of Access settings, users can customize text size, making words bigger without distorting the rest of the visual layout. When users go to Settings Ease of Access Display they’ll find a new setting called “Make everything bigger” – this slider will adjust text across the system, win32 apps, and UWP apps. Improved magnifier: magnifier has a new centered mouse mode, so users don’t lose their mouse cursor or focus when trying to navigate. Narrator QuickStart: new Narrator users can get a quick tutorial with the new QuickStart that automatically launches when they turn Narrator on. With just 13 pages, they get an overview of basics such as keyboard shortcuts, scan mode, and more. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Edge – Experience improvements |
Settings: The menu options are now organized into groups, with icons for each entry, and keyboard shortcuts (where applicable). Top sites in the jump list: users can now see top sites in the jump list on the Windows task bar or Start menu. Tabs: Once users have set a group of tabs aside, they can choose the “Tabs you’ve set aside” icon (top left corner), and click on the label for any group to rename it. “Downloads” pane: new options for Show in folder and Copy link to the right-click menu for downloads in the Downloads pane. Retired XSS filter: We are retiring the XSS filter in Microsoft Edge. Our customers remain protected thanks to modern standards like Content Security Policy, which provide more powerful, better performing, and secure mechanisms to protect against content injection attacks, with high compatibility across modern browsers. PDF reader toolbar options: The toolbar available on a PDF document opened in Microsoft Edge will now show text descriptions for the icons to make them easily understandable by users. Pin/unpin PDF toolbar: The PDF toolbar can now be pinned at the top of the document, making all the PDF tools easily accessible if users need them. Users can also unpin the toolbar for an immersive reading experience. PDF reader rendering improvements: rendering performance fixes will have users see less white pages when they navigate through PDF files in Microsoft Edge. WebDriver improvements: users can automate testing in Microsoft Edge using WebDriver. WebDriver is a Windows Feature on Demand, so users no longer need to match the build and branch manually when installing WebDriver. Web authentication preview: Web Authentication provides an open, scalable, and interoperable solution to facilitate authentication, which replaces passwords with stronger hardware-bound credentials. The implementation in Microsoft Edge allows users to use Windows Hello (via PIN or biometrics) and external authenticators like FIDO2 Security Keys or FIDO U2F Security Keys, to securely authenticate to websites. Per-site media autoplay controls: users can now control autoplay permissions on a per-site basis under the Website permission section of the Website Identification pane – just click the information icon or lock icon on the left side of the address bar and click manage permissions to get started. Lookup definitions for words in reading view, books, and PDFs – there’s a new dictionary function, so users can look up definitions for key words when reading a page or document. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| SwiftKey writing |
SwiftKey functionality, such as gesture writing and improved auto-corrections and predictions, give Touch Keyboard users the option for quicker composition. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Ink Improvements |
All modern Store apps now support embedded handwriting capabilities so users with digital pens can write in search and other text boxes. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Autopilot Reset |
This feature extends the zero-touch experience from deployment of new Windows 10 devices to reset scenarios where a device is being repurposed for a new user. We’re making it possible to completely reset and redeploy an Intune-managed Windows 10 device into a fully business-ready state without having to physically access the device. All you need to do is click a button in Intune |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Windows Autopilot Self-Deploying mode |
Currently, the Windows Autopilot experience requires the user to select basic settings like Region, Language, and Keyboard, and also enter their credentials, in the Windows 10 out-of-the-box experience. With a new Windows Autopilot capability called “Self-Deploying mode,” we’re extending the zero-touch experience from IT to the user deploying the device. Power on* is all it takes to deploy a new Windows 10 device into a fully business-ready state—managed, secured, and ready for usage—no need for any user interaction. You can configure the device to self-deploy into a locked down kiosk, a digital signage, or a shared productivity device—all it takes is power on. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Your Phone |
Your Phone is a new app in Windows 10 that allows users to interact on their PC with the photos, messages, and notifications on their Android device. |
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Q1 CY2019 |
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| Windows 10 in S Mode – Switch Notification API |
Developer can get a notification on their Store App when user switch out |
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Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint web parts: web part to web part connections |
Let web parts talk to other web parts and your pages and experiences become more dynamic and interactive. You will be able to configure web parts to get their property values from other web parts, including updating those values based on selection state. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Setting Permission Mode in Project Web App (PWA ) |
Project Online offers two security management options for controlling the kind of access that users have to entities within PWA. This setting currently resides in the Office 365 tenant administration and will become available to Site Collection Admins within PWA server settings. |
Project |
September CY2018 |
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| Email notifications and other Message Center preferences for customized admin roles |
Customized admin roles will now be able to receive email notifications for Message Center and change other Message Center preferences, including email preferences for major updates and weekly digests. These preferences can be accessed and modified within Message Center directly. |
O365, Admin Center,All environments |
September CY2018 |
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| SharePoint hub sites: create hub sites and associate others in SharePoint admin center |
The SharePoint admin center in Office 365 will now allow you to create SharePoint hub sites and associated other sites once the hub site exists. This also provides a view into hub sites as they exist allowing for common admin tasks like reporting, contacting and managing sites – now including hub sites from the admin center user interface. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint sites: adjust the footer of a site |
When you change the look of your site, you can now add a site footer to showcase common information you wish to highlight at the bottom of your site. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint pages: section background color |
Create additional visual design and clarity as a user scrolls through your content. Now you can add different colors to the background of your page sections, or leave them white as they are by default. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint pages: custom page designs |
Save your creators time when they generate new SharePoint pages, and ensure that the consistency of experience for how you promote your content and information remains intact. You can control the design and layout of your pages in a similar fashion as you can with custom site designs and themes using site scripts. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint hub sites: Events web part roll up |
Similar to the News web part and Site activity, commonly used on the home page of a hub site, you can now leverage the Events web part to roll events up from associated sites so that the aggregated view appears at the hub site level. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint hub sites: create new associated site from within hub site |
Make governing sites associated to a hub site easier by having them automatically associated and created from within the hub site itself. You’ll connect sites to hubs by using a “new site” button right on the hub site itself — when you tap it, you get our normal new site experience and the site will be automatically associated to the hub site. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint hub sites: mega menu navigation |
Increase the value of your hub site navigation. The new mega menu options allows for multiple levels of hierarchy at once – no fly-outs needed. This will enable you to better organize and showcase the content and sites associated under that particular hub site. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint sites: new site header layouts |
Now, site owners can reclaim some of the vertical space at the top of the site and highlight the main page content instead. There will be three new choices: standard, minimal and compact. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Insights in Excel |
Insights provides value to a range of users. Insights provides a softer approach to data analysis and for others it provides a different perspective to your data. |
Excel |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Windows Defender ATP – Windows 7 and 8.1 Support |
Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 based EDR solution to give security teams rich insights into threats on their endpoints. All detections and events are surfaced in Windows Defender Security Center, the cloud-based console for Windows Defender ATP. Security teams benefit from correlated alerts for known and unknown adversaries, additional threat intelligence, and a detailed machine timeline for further investigations and manual response options. |
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Q4 CY2018 |
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| Custom view formatting |
Custom view formatting is a new capability that can redesign the user experience of lists and libraries with cut-and-paste JSON scripts |
SharePoint |
August CY2018 |
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