Microsoft Teams – Focus Mode | Stay focused and get more done with Microsoft Teams. When a user schedules Focus Time via MyAnalytics, her presence in Teams will be changed to “Focusing” and notifications will be silenced during the focus period based on her priority access settings. | Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
Enhanced filtering for connectors | This feature will help organizations that have complex mail routing set ups. This basically means that your MX record does not point to Office 365 EOP and you receive mail through an inbound connector. Properly configured connectors are a trusted source of incoming mail to Office 365, but connectors aren’t necessarily the true source of messages and obfuscates the sender information. Enhanced filtering for connectors is a feature that allows you to filter email based on the actual source of messages that arrive over the connector. This is also known as skip listing and this feature will allow you to overlook, or skip, any IP addresses that are considered internal to you in order to get the last known external IP address, which should be the actual source IP address resulting in improved effectiveness. We believe that this feature will help those customers that aren’t fully leveraging EOP/ATP’s full value to show why you could or should move your MX record to EOP. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | Q3 CY2019 | |
Enhanced submission experience of suspicious content and quarantine improvements | Submissions are critical in reporting suspicious content to Microsoft. They help improve the ML models to accurately detect malicious content. We’re significantly enhancing the experience of submitting suspicious content to Microsoft for analysis. With this new submission process, Admins can: • Submit suspicious emails, files and URLs to Microsoft for analysis • Receive immediate feedback on their submissions • Find and remove rules allowing malicious content into the tenant Find and remove rules blocking good content into the tenant. We’re also making some improvements to quarantine experience for users. Prior to this change, the Quarantine file previewer only rendered text. With the improved previewer, users can now natively view files, allowing users to visually inspect files before taking action. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Updated search experience on larger screens | The results from tapping Search in Outlook on a device with larger screens will be configured to optimize for the larger surface and show additional contacts, upcoming events and files in portrait and across 2 panes in landscape. | Outlook | October CY2019 | |
Outlook for iOS: Delegate permissions | Share your mailbox with a delegate and assign permissions to create, read, update and delete email on your behalf from Outlook on their mobile device.
| Outlook | Q1 CY2020 | |
Outlook for Android: Delegate permissions | Share your mailbox with a delegate and assign permissions to create, read, update and delete email on your behalf from Outlook on their mobile device. | Outlook | Q1 CY2020 | |
Converting Pending Users to Active Users | We’re excited to share that we will be soon making “active” as the default state for new users when you deploy Yammer in your organizations or when new users join your organization. | Yammer | Q3 CY2019 | |
Updates to outbound spam settings | We’re updating the Outbound spam settings together with the Anti-spam policy page in Security and Compliance Center (SCC). With these updates, admins will see a more streamlined Anti-spam policy page in SCC together with a number of new options in the Outbound spam filter policy. Admins will be able to set limits for the number of recipients a user can send emails to and take action when they exceed that limit. We are also adding support for custom Outbound spam policies so these settings can be scoped to the users as required. We’ll be gradually rolling this out in early September, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | October CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Support for Samsung S Pen | When using a Samsung Note device, you can use your S Pen to hover over mails, attachments, events or people and perform quick actions. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Use a link or code to join a team in Office 365 Government DOD | As a team owner, you can now share a link or a code with others to have them join your team. Recipients can simply paste the link into any browser to join the team or enter the code in the Enter code box after clicking Join or create a team at the bottom of the teams list. | Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Feedback surveys | Let us know how we are doing. From time-to-time, users will receive a survey asking them to rate their experience in Teams. Admins can control the feedback experience for users by creating and assigning policies via PowerShell. | Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Video Compression | Outlook introduces an option to compress video attachments to reduce the size of your email messages. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Support for POP3 accounts | Easily add a POP3 account to Outlook for Android. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: More visibility on larger screens | View more of your messages across 3 panes and a flexible reading window when using Outlook for Android on tablets. When using a DeX Station, you can open multiple messages on a larger screen and interact with Outlook using a mouse and keyboard. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: New app for Samsung Galaxy watch | See your mails and act on them with a new Outlook app for Samsung Galaxy wearables.
| Outlook | November CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Phone System for GCC High and DoD | Phone System enables call control and PBX capabilities in the Office 365 cloud for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is now enabling this environment for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD. | Microsoft Teams, O365 | October CY2019 | |
Audio Conferencing via Direct Routing for GCC High and GCC DoD | Audio Conferencing via Direct Routing for GCC High and GCC DoD enables participants to join your organization’s meetings using a standard phone number. Participants choose to use a phone to join meetings for scenarios where Internet connectivity is limited, are in transit, or don’t have access to a Teams application. Participants can join the meeting either by using the dial-in access numbers of your organization or by having the meeting dial out to a phone number. Configuring this feature requires your organization to use its own numbers for dial-in access and all meeting dial-outs to phones are via Direct Routing. To enable the service, organizations need to set up Direct Routing and configure phone numbers that can be used for dial-in access. GCC High and DoD customers should note that the requirement to use direct routing is different from the Audio Conferencing service that is offered to commercial organizations where the dial-in access numbers are provided by Microsoft. Please be sure to review the correct documentation for this offering. We expect the documentation to be available at the same time as General Availability for the feature. | O365, Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Forms available for Department of Defense | Microsoft Forms, a simple, lightweight application that lets you create surveys, quizzes, and polls with ease, will be available for your organization. | Microsoft Forms | October CY2019 | |
Office ATP AIR – Exposing Investigation data through Management Activity API | In response to customer feedback and suggestions, and to ensure that our customers have access to critical information to investigate security incidents in their tenancy, we have made some enhancements to the Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) feature in Office 365 ATP. We have been working to meet the extensibility requirements of our customers, who want to leverage the intelligence of our investigations within their custom tools. As part of this work, we will be exposing information about AIR investigations through the Office 365 Management Activity API. This data will include Investigation metadata like ID, Name, Originating Alert ID along with link to the investigation for further analysis. In addition to this, we will also be providing high level information about the investigation actions and entities associated with that investigation. The investigation data will be sent as an event to the Management Activity API on the change of the status of an investigation. As an example, when the status of an investigation changes from Running to Pending Action, it will be captured as an event with the latest investigation data for that state made available through the Management Activity API. The enhancement will begin to rollout by end of July and is targeted to be saturated by 2nd week of August. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Cloud Voicemail Enhancements | Cloud Voicemail (CVM) is being enhanced with multiple items. Users will be able to directly transfer a call to Cloud Voicemail. Addtionally, we are enabling end users to directly configure features in the Teams settings option. These settings include configuring call answer rules, choosing the greeting language, customize the TTS for the standard greeting and the out of office (OOF) greeting, and choosing when you want your OOF greeting to be played. | Microsoft Teams, O365 | Q3 CY2019 | |
SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) support for SharePoint Server 2010 Site Migrations | The SharePoint Migration Tool has enabled migration of content from SharePoint Server 2013 and from on-premises file shares and easily move them to either Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive in Office 365. This update to the SharePoint Migration Tool provides support for site migrations from SharePoint Server 2010. This includes files, folders, lists, pages, permissions, metadata, versions, and more. | SharePoint | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Planner for Microsoft 365 Government DoD | Planner is a simple, intuitive, and collaborative work management tool that helps teams visually organize their work and reach shared goals. Planner will be available in Microsoft 365 Government DoD. | O365, Planner | November CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Location, meeting time and the ability to RSVP in notifications | Expand your Outlook calendar notification to RSVP, see the location and meeting time.
| Outlook | October CY2019 | |
Automatic phishing detection for enterprise in-org forms | Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight app that lets you easily create surveys, quizzes, and polls. In order to make Forms a more secure service, we have enabled automatic phishing detection on all public forms in July. Now we’d like to provide this feature to enterprise in-org forms as well for better protection. | Microsoft Forms | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Windows: calendar sync protocol transition to REST API | The new sync protocol will make your RSVP responses to meetings visible in the Tracking Status for organizers and attendees, even if you chose not to send a response, as well as the details of past events of a recurring meetings will not change if the end date of a series is updated. | Exchange, Outlook | Q2 CY2020 | |
Recommendation to re-use historical forms | When a user starts to type in the forms title field, Microsoft Forms will recommend questions based on the user’s historical forms. The user would see only their own forms and questions. | Microsoft Forms | Q3 CY2019 | |
Yammer will use Office profiles | Yammer will now pull the profile fields from the Office Profile to provide a simplified and more secure identity experience across the suite. | Yammer | Q2 CY2020 | |
Microsoft Teams – Meet now | Not all meetings can be scheduled in advance. Some happen spontaneously. Select ‘Meet now’ to start a new meeting instantly–no calendar, no scheduling, no fuss. | O365, Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Whiteboard Web App General Availability | Microsoft Whiteboard, the digital infinite canvas is coming soon to Office for the web. | Microsoft Whiteboard | October CY2019 | |
Outlook for Windows: support for native sensitivity labeling | Support Microsoft Information Protection native labeling of sensitive messages with justification for changes with company administrators. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for iOS: Time-zone support | You can schedule events and meetings with co-workers in a different time-zone. | Outlook | November CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Time-zone support | You can schedule events and meetings with co-workers in a different time-zone. | Outlook | November CY2019 | |
Outlook for Windows: Advanced Room Finder with filters | Adding an Advanced Room Browse functionality as a replacement for the existing Room Finder add-in in the meeting form leverage similar functionality that will be used in Outlook on the web. | Outlook | Q2 CY2020 | |
Outlook for Android: Dark Mode | You can turn on Dark Mode by choosing your theme for Dark, Light or on Battery Saver in Settings under Preferences. Virtually every screen is designed and engineered to help you be even more productive where you couldn’t before. The true black color palette takes full advantage of your OLED screens to help reduce eye strain and optimize battery life. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Outlook for iOS: Dark Mode | You can choose to turn on Dark Mode in Settings under Preferences. Virtually every screen is designed and engineered to help you be even more productive where you couldn’t before. The true black color palette takes full advantage of your OLED screens to help reduce eye strain and optimize battery life. | Outlook | Q3 CY2019 | |
Planner for Office 365 F1 and Microsoft 365 F1 | Microsoft Planner is a simple, intuitive, and collaborative work management tool that helps teams visually organize their work and reach shared goals. Planner will be available for Office 365 F1 and Microsoft 365 F1 | Planner | Q3 CY2019 | |
Planner for Office 365 Government F1 | Microsoft Planner is a simple, intuitive, and collaborative work management tool that helps teams visually organize their work and reach shared goals. Planner will be available for Office 365 Government F1. | Planner | Q3 CY2019 | |
Priority Field for Planner Tasks | Microsoft Planner is adding a new field to all tasks: Priority! Users will be able to choose one of the following priority levels to further organize tasks: Low, Medium, Important, and Urgent. In addition, users can Group by Priority and filter tasks of a certain priority. | Planner | Q3 CY2019 | |