| Office 365 Message Encryption: customize with company branding |
New capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption uses encryption and rights protection to help you protect and control your sensitive emails. We are adding new value into Office 365 Message Encryption so you can now apply your company branding to customize the look of your organization’s Office 365 Message Encryption email messages and the contents of the encryption portal. See link to add your organization’s brand to your encrypted messages. |
Exchange,O365 |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint Online: communication sites for sovereign datacenters |
Bringing SharePoint communication sites to all sovereign datacenters, including government tenants. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Block links to external images |
Set up your account to block links in emails to external images. |
Outlook,Android |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Customer Key for GCC, GCC High and DoD |
Customer Key is a feature that allows you to provision and manage the keys used to encrypt data at rest in Office 365. Customer Key is now available for Exchange Online in Office 365 Government Community Cloud instances: GCC, GCC High and DoD. |
O365,Exchange |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Office 365 Message Encryption: Default on for new Office 365 tenants |
Starting February 2018, Office 365 Message Encryption and the protection capability in Azure Information Protection will automatically be enabled for our **new** Office 365 tenants with an eligible subscription. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Office 365 Groups created from Microsoft Teams will be hidden from Outlook by default |
Based on customer feedback, new Office 365 Groups generated as a result of creating a team in Microsoft Teams will no longer show in Outlook by default. For customers that want to continue with the existing behavior of showing these groups in Outlook, an Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet will be provided which can enable the group for the Outlook experience. Groups created through Outlook and then later enabled for Teams will continue to show in both Outlook and Teams. This update will gradually roll out across Outlook and Teams in the coming months. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Update “Save” experience to point to “Recent Save locations” |
When saving a new project, you will be taken to a list of your recent “Save” locations by default. |
|
July CY2018 |
|
| Idle Session Sign-out for SharePoint and OneDrive |
Idle session sign-out is one of a number of policies you can use with SharePoint and OneDrive to balance security and user productivity and help keep your data safe regardless where users access the data, what device they’re working on, and how secure their network connection is. |
SharePoint,All environments |
July CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: Block links to external images |
Set up your account to block links in emails to external images. |
Outlook |
August CY2018 |
|
| MyAnalytics – chat/call insights from Skype |
To give users a more complete picture of how they spend their time, MyAnalytics will now incorporate chat/call insights from Skype for Business. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Combined Password Reset & MFA Registration |
We are releasing a preview of a new user experience that will allow users to register security info for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password reset in a single experience. Now when a user registers security info such as their phone number for receiving verification codes, that number can also be used for resetting a password. Likewise, users can change or delete their security info from a single page, making it easier to keep information up-to-date. |
|
July CY2018 |
|
| Add more information on your Task Board card |
Customize the task board cards to show whatever fields you want. |
Project |
August CY2018 |
|
| Compliance Manager Manual Control Import |
Manual Control Import Allows customers to import their own security and compliance controls into Compliance Manager, including controls for corporate policy, local law, industrial standards. Organizations can create risk assessment tiles for on-premises services and non-Microsoft assets, and manage their compliance posture in one place. |
O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Rich Yammer feeds in SharePoint |
New web part to add a fully functional native Yammer feed to any modern SharePoint site. |
Yammer |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Make the Action Center Easier to Find |
When administrators need to unblock a blocked sender(s), due to compromise and/or sending spam, they could go to the Security and Compliance Center (SCC) Admin Center, but that wasn’t easy since you had to type it into the browser. So we’re making it easier to find if the admin is already in SCC and also adding a link in the Exchange Admin Center to point directly to it. |
Exchange,All environments |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Project & Microsoft Planner – Create a new plan |
When connecting a Planner plan to a Project task, create a new plan quickly instead of linking to an existing one. |
Project |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Office 365 Message Encryption: Support for protecting PDF attachments |
New capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption uses encryption and rights protection to help you protect and control your sensitive emails. In addition to protecting the Office attachments, we are adding support for protecting PDF files as attachments when sending sensitive email messages. |
O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Service Encryption for Exchange Online |
Office 365 offers an added layer of encryption at the application level for customer content in Office 365, including SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. We are now rolling out Service Encryption for Exchange Online. |
Exchange |
Q2 CY2019 |
|
| Microsoft Bookings – online payments for Business Premium subscriptions |
Bookings will now allow users to request an online payment in order for a customer to complete booking an appointment. Feature will be off-by-default and payment/banking information can only be set-up or modified by an Office 365 admin. |
Small Business Apps,O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| MyAnalytics Nudging |
MyAnalytics nudges in Outlook are brief, data-driven productivity tips that appear within Outlook as you process emails and meeting invites. For example: as your calendar fills up with meetings, MyAnalytics will remind you to set aside time for focused work before accepting new invites in Outlook. |
O365,Exchange |
July CY2018 |
|
| Update to Exchange Mailbox Auditing – Mailboxes Audited by Default and New Mailbox Actions to Audit |
To ensure that our customers have access to critical audit data to investigate security incidents in their tenancy when required, the Exchange Online service will begin introducing a configuration that will automatically enable mailbox auditing on all applicable mailboxes to users of the Commercial service. When this update is complete, Tenant administrators will no longer be required to configure the per-mailbox AuditEnabled setting for the service to begin storing security audit data on their behalf. Additionally, we continue to add mailbox audit actions to the default configuration, most recently UpdateInboxRules and UpdateCalendarDelegation. These actions are of high interest to security analysts to understand the activities that are taking place within the tenant. |
Exchange |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint and OneDrive: mass delete notification |
To help raise awareness of possible uncommon or accidental file deletions (based on a ‘higher than usual’ number of deleted files per hour), people will be notified if a large number of files are deleted. For OneDrive, if a large number of files are deleted from a person’s OneDrive, that person – the *owner* – will be sent an email notification letting them know about it and pointing them to the Recycle Bin in case they want to restore. For SharePoint team sites, if a large number of files are deleted, the *person that deleted them* (site owner or member) will be sent an email notification letting them know about it and pointing them to the Recycle Bin in case they want to restore. Each email notification will include an unsubscribe link at the bottom for those that wish to opt out of this type of notification. |
SharePoint,O365 |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: improved subsite creation settings |
In the past, subsite creation settings were enabled for all SharePoint Online templates and could be disabled for Office 365 Group-connected team sites. These settings only appear in the menus display on site contents page. With this change, we’ve extended these settings to apply only to “classic” site templates and we are enabling the option for you to disable them for all site templates. If you have elected to hide the subsite menu command for Office 365 Group-connected team sites, the setting title will change to “Show the subsite command only for classic sites” and when selected, will hide the option for all modern site templates. |
All environments,O365,SharePoint |
July CY2018 |
|
| Project Home |
When a user clicks on the Project icon from the application launcher or from Office.com they will be taken to the new Project Home. The Project Home will provide users the ability to access all their recently accessed projects, favorite projects to get back to them quickly and to create new projects all in a single place. They will also be able to navigate to the default Project Web App by clicking the link at the bottom of the page, which will take them to where the Project icon previously took them. |
Project |
August CY2018 |
|
| Default Policy View and Anti-Phishing Insights for Advanced Threat Protection |
New anti-phishing protection features with enhanced policy configuration and data-driven insights related to spoof, domain and user impersonation will be made available. |
O365 |
August CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint default file location |
Yammer will make SharePoint the default file location for connected groups, enabling local data residency for documents, images, and videos. |
Yammer |
August CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Coming Soon preview pane |
By clicking on a new Coming Soon button, a new pane opens in Outlook for users to preview new features, learn more and provide feedback. A toggle on/off allows users to try the new features. The first set of features will be the new Outlook user experience including the Simplified Ribbon and other visual updates. |
Outlook |
August CY2018 |
|
| Yammer tab in Microsoft Teams Preview |
Easier access to Yammer communities with a built-in tab in Microsoft Teams. |
|
Q4 CY2018 |
|
