| Outlook on the web – suggested attachments |
Outlook will now suggest relevant files you can attach when you respond to an email and click on the -Attach- paper clip drop down icon. |
Online, Exchange, Education |
February CY2019 |
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| New Outlook on the web – Schedule a meeting as an option in suggested replies |
As part of suggested replies, Outlook will show an option to schedule a meeting as one of the reply suggestions when relevant to the conversation. Clicking on that suggestion will bring up the meeting form with pre-populated information. |
Education, Exchange, Online |
February CY2019 |
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| Groups in Outlook – Self-serve events |
You will be able to create “brownbag” style events. Create events on a group calendar where you can send invites to required attendees without sending an invite to the entire group. Others in the group can see the event and add themselves if they want.” |
Education, Exchange, Online |
March CY2019 |
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| Outlook in Mac App Store |
Office empowers everyone to achieve more on any device. And Office loves Mac. We’re committed to delivering the power and simplicity of Office in an experience designed specifically for Mac, and we continue to make significant investments in the platform. Today, we’re excited to announce that Office 365 is now available on the newly redesigned Mac App Store. With one click, Mac users can download the cloud-connected, always-up-to-date version of the Office suite—including full installs of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive. |
Outlook, Mac |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: App configuration settings |
Support the app configuration profile settings delivered through mobile device management tools by their company administrators. |
Outlook, Android |
March CY2019 |
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| SharePoint Admin Center Experience Updates |
The SharePoint Admin Center experience will default to the modern experience for tenants with less than 50 seats. Tenants will continue to have the ability to switch back to the classic admin center experience as needed. |
SharePoint |
March CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Do Not Disturb settings |
Set time and work/personal situations when you do or don’t want email notifications and reminders. |
Outlook, iOS |
Q3 CY2019 |
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| Open file links directly in Office desktop apps |
Users now have the option to open Office cloud file links in the Office desktop apps. When you open a file link from the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook desktop app, you can choose to have the file open directly in the appropriate Office app instead of in the browser. For Office file links opened from the browser, the file will still open in the Office web apps. |
All environments, O365, Windows Desktop |
Q3 CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Planner for G4 (GCC & GCC High) |
Microsoft Planner helps users and teams create new plans, organize and assign tasks, set due dates and update status. It also offers the ability to attach documents to specific tasks, edit them together and have conversations around tasks. Planner’s visual dashboards and email notifications help keep everyone informed on the overall progress of their initiative. Planner will be available in Office 365 G4 for US Government Community (GCC). |
O365, GCC, Planner, GCC High |
March CY2019 |
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| Groups in Outlook – easier membership management |
Group owners will have the capability to approve or decline membership requests right in an email in Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows through actionable messages. Approved or declined request will be visible to all the group owners. Owners can select one or multiple requests to approve or decline. |
Online, Exchange, Education, GCC, GCC High/DoD, GCC High, Germany, China |
February CY2019 |
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| Cortana integration for Microsoft To-Do |
Use Cortana to add tasks and reminders to your lists in Microsoft To-Do. |
Windows Universal, Microsoft To-Do |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Suggested locations |
Select an available conference room or a suggested location to your calendar events. |
Outlook, Android |
March CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Calendar category colors |
View the colors of your calendar categories set in Outlook for Windows, Mac and on the web in Outlook for iOS. Available only to customers on the updated architecture using the Microsoft sync technology (Office 365 Message Center post ID 165218). |
Outlook, iOS |
Q3 CY2019 |
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| Personalized onboarding in ODB |
When users use OneDrive for the first time they would be asked questions on various scenarios and based on their answers , they will get a tailored onboarding experience |
OneDrive for Business |
March CY2019 |
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| Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery refresh |
This update will include a new experience for Advanced eDiscovery in Office 365 and additional capabilities including additional custodian intelligence and communications, working sets to improve working with content within a case, and native review and annotation capabilities. |
Online, O365 |
February CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Forms Pro Preview |
Forms Pro is a simple, yet comprehensive enterprise survey solution for businesses to capture and analyze feedback to improve how they engage across their business. With Forms Pro, you can get actionable feedback from customers in real-time at every stage of their journey, improve organizational health with real-time feedback, build the products customers want, and leverage the data and tools you already use from Dynamics 365, Common Data Services (CDS) and Power Platform. Forms Pro will adhere to the compliance, security, and privacy levels you’ve come to expect from Forms and other Office 365 apps. Companies can collect information without users having to go to non-secure solutions, and there isn’t a need to build and maintain custom surveying tools. |
Online, Microsoft Forms, All environments |
February CY2019 |
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| General availablity of live and on-demand events in Microsoft 365 |
General availability of live and on-demand events in Microsoft 365 gives organizations an easy way to deliver events through video and interactive discussion. Events can be as simple or as sophisticated as desired. Using webcams, content, and screen sharing for informal presentations, or stream a studio-quality production for more formal events. AI-powered services enhance the on-demand experience with: A speaker timeline, which uses facial detection to identify who is talking, so you can easily jump to a particular speaker in the event. Speech-to-text transcription, timecoding, and transcript search, so you can quickly find moments that matter in a recording. Closed captions to make the event more accessible to all. |
O365 |
February CY2019 |
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| Improvements in reporting of ‘bad items’ during mailbox migrations |
We are improving migrations so that the admin will no longer be required to specify an explicit Bad Item Limit or Missing Item limit. Instead, a migration will be assigned a Data Consistency Score that will classify it as – Perfect, Good, Investigate or Poor. These classifications are based on the nature and amount of data loss that might have occurred during the migration process. Based on these scores the admin may be required to take an additional step to approve a migration before it can be completed successfully. With the introduction of Data Consistency Score, we aim to increase visibility into conversion errors and help triage the criticality of item conversion failures. |
Exchange |
Q3 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Apple watch enhancements |
Outlook for iOS for Apple Watch is now faster and supports new Series 4 watch faces. |
iOS, Outlook |
March CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Teams – Unified Presence (Skype for Business and Teams unified) in Office 365 Government GCC |
Presence states for users (i.e. available, busy or in a call) is now aggregated between Teams and Skype for Business. This ensures that a user has a single presence state regardless of the app and the device they use. For this functionality, the underlying Skype for Business account that is connected to the Teams user needs to be hosted in Skype for Business online. |
Microsoft Teams |
February CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Teams – Interoperability (1:1 Teams-Skype for Business chat) in Office 365 Government GCC |
A user that has been upgraded to Teams-Only mode can continue to communicate via chat with other users in the organization who are still using Skype for Business by using the interoperability capabilities between Teams and Skype for Business. This helps users stay productive while the organization transitions from Skype for Business to Teams. |
Microsoft Teams, GCC |
February CY2019 |
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| SharePoint pages: removal of the Feedback button in preparation of new feedback experience, plus removal of circular pictures of members |
The SharePoint feedback button is being retired? in preparation of new feedback experience. Starting the week of February 18th, 2019, we’re removing the product Feedback button from the site footer of all SharePoint home and modern site pages. For SharePoint users to easily provide product feedback and suggestions we included a footer link to our SharePoint UserVoice forums. Customer feedback continues to help us prioritize our work. We’ll be adding new ways to send feedback from the navigation bar in the coming months. Note: If you had previously enabled or disabled the button using the Set-SPOTenant -UserVoiceForFeedbackEnabled property, this setting will no longer be required as the button will no longer be displayed for any tenant sites. We’re updating the design of the site header for SharePoint sites connected to Office 365 groups to remove the circular pictures of the first three members of the group. Users who want to see members of the group can continue to click the Members link in the header to see the full membership list. |
O365, Online, SharePoint |
February CY2019 |
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| Microsoft Teams – Add up to 5,000 members to a team |
Bring everyone in your team together to collaborate in a single workspace. All new and existing teams can now accommodate up to 5,000 members, double the previous limit. Additionally, the distribution list import has being increased to 3,500 users so you can easily populate the team. |
Microsoft Teams |
February CY2019 |
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| Data Investigations solution |
The new data investigations solution provides IT admins with the ability to search for specific content in their organization and take action to remediate that content. This is helpful in the case that an organization needs to isolate and remove malicious or sensitive content. |
O365, Online |
March CY2019 |
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| External Sharing in Microsoft Forms for Governament Customers |
Office 365 administrators for customers on Office 365 GCC are being notified that Microsoft will enable external sharing in Forms to these tenants on March 28th. |
Online, GCC, Microsoft Forms |
March CY2019 |
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| Manage face detection in Microsoft Stream |
A new administration control to turn off the face detection feature on a tenant level will be available in the Stream admin portal. |
Microsoft Stream |
March CY2019 |
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| Intelligent classification for Advanced Data Governance |
Advanced Compliance customers will now be able to utilize out of the box machine learned classifiers or train their own custom machine learned models to help classify, protect and govern sensitive or business relevant content. |
O365, Online |
Q3 CY2019 |
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| New Calendar App replaces Meetings App In Teams |
We’re updating Microsoft Teams with an improved scheduling app. The existing Meetings app will become the Calendar app, and we’re bringing multiple new updates to the feature. We’ll begin rolling this feature out in early March 2019. |
Microsoft Teams, All environments |
Q3 CY2019 |
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