Microsoft Teams: Busy on Busy | Microsoft Teams: Busy on Busy is a feature that allows callers to know a user’s status when contacting them. When a call comes in to a user who is already engaged in a call or meeting, this setting alerts the calling party that the user is busy by playing a busy signal. | Microsoft Teams | May CY2019 | |
Office 365 Groups Activity-Based Expiry Renewal | This feature will provide the ability to automatically renew Office 365 Groups which are about to expire when recent activity has been detected within services attached to the Office 365 Group. | O365 | Q1 CY2020 | |
Expiry Notifications Within Office 365 Groups Applications | This feature will generate an Expiry Date that can be consumed by end user applications built on Office 365 Groups. Applications built on Office 365 Groups will then have the ability to display notifications within the context of their app to notify a user that a group will expire. Rather than rely strictly on email notifications, users will be notified in the context of their apps, upon which they can take action to renew the group. | O365 | Q1 CY2020 | |
Group Driven Membership | Public Description? This feature will provide the ability for Group Owners to add a Security Group as a member of an Office 365 Group. The Security Group can then be used to drive membership inside an Office 365 Group, simplifying membership management scenarios where membership is already be managed within Security Groups. | O365 | Q1 CY2020 | |
Office 365 Group card enhancements: search members, renew groups, approve pending members | In Outlook on the web and SharePoint Online, users can now search for members inside Office 365 Groups. As well, owners can renew expiring groups as well as approve pending members. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – Meeting Insights | When you click on a meeting event in your calendar, Outlook will show you relevant content (like email, files, or relevant information from LinkedIn) for your meeting, so you can easily find what you need. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook – Get schedule API on the Microsoft Graph | Get the free/busy availability information for a collection of users, distributions lists, or resources (rooms or equipment) for a specified time period. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Groups Administrator Role | This feature will provide a new role for Groups administration. Members of this role can create and manage Groups, create and manage groups settings such as naming and expiration policies, and view groups activity and audit reports. | O365 | June CY2019 | |
Outlook for iOS: Create Group calendar events | Create a Group event from Outlook for iOS to appear on your Group calendar | Outlook | June CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Create Group calendar events | Create a Group event from Outlook for Android to appear on your Group calendar
| Outlook | June CY2019 | |
Microsoft Information Protection Labels – Classification Driven Policies with Office 365 Groups | We are developing consistent Office 365 Groups classification to make it easier to protect sensitive data. Tenant administrators can now better govern groups created in their respective tenants by enforcing policies on those groups using classification labels in a streamlined and proactive manner. | O365 | Q1 CY2020 | |
Outlook on the web – meeting time suggestion | When trying to set up a meeting by using the calendar meeting form, Outlook will show you available times for the people with whom you are trying to meet so you don’t have to browse through their calendar trying to find an open slot. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
New Outlook on the web – Search filters | Search filters allows you to search with more specific terms such as folder, from, to, subject, keywords, date range, and attachment. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
SharePoint: Slow performance banner updates | If SharePoint Online detects that structural navigation is causing the page to render slowly, site owners will see the following banner and have the opportunity to learn more: “Slow performance detected. Your site is using structural navigation, which decreases page performance. Learn how to improve performance by using a different navigation method.” | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook calendar increase transport limit for meeting updates | We previously did work to prevent meetings sent to hundreds of users from hitting the maximum recipients limit of 500 in Office 365. As a result, we tracked the first 500 responses (tracking a response involves adding the responder to the recipients list). Additional responses after 500 were ignored in order to ensure that there were no more than 500 recipients of the meeting. With this release, we’re increasing the maximum recipients limit in Office 365 to 2,000 only for these types of meetings, so we’ll be able to track up to 2,000 individual responses to the meeting. | Exchange | Q4 CY2019 | |
Enabling Modern Auth for Managed Tenants | We’re constantly improving the security of Office 365 products and services. Modern Authentication is one of the best ways of ensuring that your clients can take advantage of authentication features like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and third-party SAML identity providers. All new Office 365 tenants created on or after August 1, 2017 have Modern Authentication enabled by default in Exchange Online for all clients. We’re making a change so that Modern Authentication will be enabled for the Windows Outlook client and Skype for Business client in all managed (non-federated) tenants that were created before to August 1, 2017. Those tenants already have Modern Authentication enabled for Outlook mobile, Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the Web, so there are no changes to any of those clients. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
LinkedIn Support in Sharing Control | People picker for ODB and SP shows LinkedIn contacts | OneDrive for Business | May CY2019 | |
Now use larger, more flexible image types to upload your company logo in the Office 365 navigation bar | We are modernizing our navigation bar customization to help you represent your brand across Office 365. Now, you’ll be able to upload your custom logo of any file size and of any format via a URL in order to improve the clarity of the logo image that your users see in their Office 365 navigation bar across their Office applications, like SharePoint and Office.com. After setting your custom logo you can configure it to point to your company or intranet portal, enabling easy access to your users. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Stay productive with focus teams | Focus on the teams you’re most active in, and hide the ones where you’re not. To keep you organized, Microsoft Teams will automatically move teams you haven’t visited in several weeks to the “More” section at the bottom of your teams list. They’ll still update with any new activity and you can visit them at any time. | Microsoft Teams | Q2 CY2019 | |
Multilingual page publishing for Modern SharePoint. | Customers can publish and consume modern SharePoint pages/news with language translations. | SharePoint | Q1 CY2020 | |
M365 Supervision now includes Skype for Business online chat and email domain exclusions | Now organizations can expand supervision policies beyond email and Teams content to include Skype for Business online chat. In addition Supervision policies can now exclude specific email domains so that automated notices such as newsletters are not included in the review. | O365 | May CY2019 | |
Yammer data residency in Europe | In-geo storage of Yammer messages at rest for new EU customers | Yammer | Q4 CY2019 | |
eDiscovery for Yammer | Yammer will bring eDiscovery capabilities to Office 365 connected Yammer groups. We are excited to add Yammer content to the advanced security and compliance capabilities our customers expect. This helps your company search, discover, and hold content related to its legal policies and helps you to be proactive in the management of information and records, giving your organization more control over the handling of eDiscovery cases and requests. | Yammer | Q4 CY2019 | |
Native connectors to 3rd party data for Archiving | Now connect and import third party data such as social media and other business data like Bloomberg for archiving and discovery purposes. Use native connectors built into the compliance center to identify, connect and archive to non Office 365 data sources. Once the content is archived into Microsoft 365 it is available for use in various compliance solutions such as Supervision, Advanced eDiscovery and more. | O365 | June CY2019 | |
Prompt for pending uploads | Sync client will also notify users when they have pending uploads in queue when the computer is shutting down or going into standby. | OneDrive for Business | May CY2019 | |
OneDrive – updated “manage access” pane for classic user interface (UI) | Users will be able to manage access permissions, remove individual recipients from shared links or stop sharing overall – all when working within the OneDrive classic user interface. When you go to a file or folder’s information pane and click “Manage access,” you’re taken to a more modern interface to review, add, adjust and remove access to a file – inline with where the file lives – OneDrive or SharePoint. you can also see and manage any and all sharing links that have created on the file or folder. | OneDrive for Business | May CY2019 | |
Self-help for Sync client | Availability of “Get Help” option in the activity center that will enable end users to initiate a support ticket. Admins have the control to turn off this setting if required. We will have more capabilities built into this in future. | OneDrive for Business | May CY2019 | |
Incident deflection for Sync client | In- app resolutions to sync errors to help end users avert and solve issues easily.The first one of them is for “Illegal files names not syncing “. End users will get an error status in the ODB icon in their system tray along with guidance on renaming the affected files as well as education on legal file names.We will have more such resolutions in future. | OneDrive for Business | May CY2019 | |
Golden Folders : New Folder Icon Design | As we continue rolling out the Fluent design language and the refreshed Office brand icons, we are introducing fresh folder design with the “golden folders”. The new color palette and subtle yet noticeable clues emblazoned on the icon remind you of the contents and sharing status of each folder. We will initiate this roll out across Web and iOS with Android following up soon. | OneDrive for Business | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – browse rooms | When creating a meeting from your calendar, you can now search for available meeting rooms by clicking on the location bar and then on “Browse more places” – Search by city or room list. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
New M365 Supervision policy creation experience in Microsoft 365 compliance center | With this update customers can now quickly get started with Supervision with a new set of pre-configured templates for common policies and an improved wizard policy creation flow. | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
New M365 Supervision review experience | Improved review experiences including threaded email and chat review, and review escalation options help to improve supervisory review experience | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: People contact information | Detailed contact information about people in your organization (people card) including organizational reporting structure for businesses, people they work with or those you email with frequently. | Outlook | June CY2019 | |
News & page targeting | With audience targeting, site owners and intranet managers can deliver rich experiences to various audiences from within the same site with intelligence on what content to show specific people based on role, region, status, etc. | SharePoint | May CY2019 | |
Advanced Record Versioning in Advanced Data Governance | Now users with correct permissions can lock and un-lock a record to enable collaboration on records within SharePoint online. Use the advanced record versioning feature to ensure records retention policies are met, while supporting collaboration and productivity on records in your organization. At each lock or un-lock action a snapshot of the record is taken and preserved to ensure records retention requirements are met. | O365 | June CY2019 | |
Records Management solution in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center | Now take advantage of Microsoft 365 records management capabilities in one place with specific permissions model and tailored experience for records management including file plan, event based retention, and defensible disposition. Enable your records management requirements in-place within Microsoft 365. | O365 | May CY2019 | |
Organization assets | Centralized curated view of digital images for reuse in page authoring | SharePoint | May CY2019 | |
Office Online Account Manager is getting updated | Office Online Account manager is available in the authenticated experience and enables you to access your account, profile and sign out. The current experience is different from Account Manager on other Microsoft Products. We are updating Office Online Account Manager to be consistent with other account experiences across all of Microsoft. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
Advanced eDiscovery delegated access | Now add external counsel to a specific case within Advanced eDiscovery. This feature will help organizations ensure their partners of choice are able to execute eDiscovery related tasks within Microsoft 365 directly. | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
Advanced eDiscovery threaded chat and email review | Now eDiscovery managers can review chats and emails in context of the thread and full context of the collaboration or discussion. This will help speed the efficiency of the review process with communications in full context of the conversation. | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
The Office mobile apps will be available for Office 365 F1/G1 for US government customers | Office 365 administrators for customers with Office 365 F1/G1 in GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds are being notified that the Office mobile apps will start rolling out to these tenants on May 21, 2019 and will be available for all eligible customers by the end of July. | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Manage discovery of private teams | Teams is making it easy to discover and join private teams. Admins and team owners can control whether they want to allow private teams to be discovered by Teams users. When a private team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for people to search for and find the private teams that they want to join. People can request to join a private team which a team owner can then approve or deny. | Microsoft Teams | June CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – agenda in Calendar | We are bringing back the daily agenda view in your Outlook calendar when you set up monthly view. Get a rich view of your day while seeing your full month. | Exchange | June CY2019 | |
Multiteam Support in Shifts | Many Firstline Workers work on more than 1 team, and now with multiteam support in Shifts, employees will be able to access their shifts, other user’s shifts, requests, open shifts, their profile, other user’s profiles in a multi-team manner. This feature will save them both time and potentially data usage if they are switching teams often. | Microsoft Teams | May CY2019 | |
Time clock in Shifts | Enable your Firstline Workforce to clock in and out of their shifts and breaks from their mobile device. Additionally, you can set up Time clock using a geofenced location and collect GPS data to validate that someone has clocked in/out at the appropriate worksite. | Microsoft Teams | May CY2019 | |
Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365: admin controlled message revocation | We are enabling the ability for admins to revoke encrypted emails. Revocation of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails. All such encrypted emails will be revocable. Once an email has been revoked, the recipient will get the following message when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 portal: “The message has been revoked by the sender.” | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Message encryption: admin controlled message expiration | We are releasing the ability for admins to expire encrypted emails. Expiration of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. If the recipient received a native inline experience in a supported Outlook client, then those emails cannot be revoked. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 Message Encryption portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails – and if the message is expired they will no longer be able to read and reply to the encrypted email. Once an email has been expired, the recipient will get an error when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 Message Encryption portal: “The message has been expired by the sender.” | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
FindTime – online meeting support | We are updating the online meeting support for FindTime – With this update, FindTime will use the default online meeting provider your organization has set up between Skype for Business or Teams. If you have a stored Skype link in your FT settings, you will need to remove that link if your organization’s default online meeting tool is Teams. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – PowerShell Module General Availability | This PowerShell module allows users to manage the lifecycle of teams within the organization. Team owners can manage the groups they own, and Global Administrator and Teams Service Administrator roles can identify and manage teams on behalf of users, and make bulk updates to teams faster – including changing memberships or managing team settings. This 1.0 generally available version of the module leverages only 1.0 Graph APIs. | Microsoft Teams | Q2 CY2019 | |