| SharePoint pages: configure title region | Customize the title region for each page: Modern pages will now have more options to customize the title region of each page, with four layouts, alignment choices, text above the title, ability to change the displayed author, and show or hide the published date. | O365, SharePoint | Q4 CY2018 | Link |
| Auto-Investigation with threat playbooks | Auto-investigation capabilities for threats will be available in Office 365 E5. Also, there will be key threat playbooks available at this time also. Ability to trigger automated investigations using the playbooks from Threat Explorer also will go live. | O365, GCC | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Office app tile icons update on the Office 365 app launcher and Office.com | Existing functionality with the app launcher and Office.com will remain the same. The only difference will be the icons for Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Teams, Yammer and Skype. | Online, O365 | January CY2019 | |
| To improve performance, cached files will open before syncing changes | Word and PowerPoint will open non-synced cloud files directly from the Office Document Cache instead of waiting for any changes to be downloaded. This will allow users to start working on documents and presentations faster and match the behavior when opening files within a user’s sync folders. If the user has a cloud-based presentation available in the Office Document Cache, the user will see the last version stored on their machine while the changes are downloaded. | O365, Windows Desktop | February CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers | Microsoft Teams is continuing to expand to meet the needs of Firstline Workers with 4 capabilities: the new customizable mobile experience, Shifts, Praise, and Graph APIs for Shifts. | Microsoft Teams | January CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams Availability for Office 365 Government DoD | Microsoft Teams, the hub for teamwork in Office 365, brings together everything a team needs: chats, meetings, calls, files, and tools. Microsoft Teams will be made available to Office 365 US Government DoD customers. | Microsoft Teams | February CY2019 | |
| MyAnalytics add-in coming to more Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites | The MyAnalytics add-in for Outlook will be made available to everyone using Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Business suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 E3, Business, Office 365 E3, E1, Business Premium and Business Essentials. | O365 | February CY2019 | |
| New Outlook on the web – Suggested reply with a meeting | Replaced by item 46244. As part of suggested replies in Outlook on the web, we will offer the option to schedule a meeting as one of the reply options. With this you can reply with a meeting invite without leaving your inbox. | Exchange, Online | February CY2019 | |
| Planner Task Assignment Notifications in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams users will receive a notification in their Teams Activity Feed when a Planner task is assigned to them by another person. | Online, O365, Planner | February CY2019 | |
| Out of box Flow templates | After this change takes place, you and your users will be able to create and run Flows directly from OneDrive for Business. Just select a document and click on the Flow button in the command bar, and you’ll automatically have the options to Copy as a PDF and to Request approval Flow templates. Run the Flow and with one click you can create a copy of any document or send one off for an approval. | Online, OneDrive for Business | January CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Bookings – booking page search indexability | We are adding a user control in their booking page so they can select when their page can be indexed by search engines. The default behavior stays the same, pages will be indexed by default but users/page admins will have the ability to turn it off. | Bookings, Online | February CY2019 | |
| Outlook on the web – Suggested Meetings add-in off by default | The Suggested Meetings add-in is currently enabled by default for organizations. An upcoming update to Outlook will change this behavior. The add-in will still be installed, but it will be disabled by default. | Online, Exchange | February CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Whiteboard for Education | Combining the?magical simplicity?of an analog whiteboard with interactive, collaborative technology, Microsoft Whiteboard for Education gives the whole class a new space to engage, ideate, and?create in real time. Teachers and students can brainstorm and grow ideas on this infinite canvas, and work together on lessons and projects from their Windows 10 devices and now iPad. Teachers can also pick up where they left off and never waste time getting back into a lesson by securely saving boards to the cloud. There, they can share them as live links or export them as images! | Education, Windows Desktop, O365 | January CY2019 | |
| Office.com is becoming the default start page for all Office 365 commercial users | Currently in Office 365, there is a setting that allows users to personalize what page they land on when they log into Office 365. Office.com has evolved to pull a user’s most relevant apps, documents and places where they are working —all in one place.–and consequently will be the default page a user lands on when signing into Office 365 at Office.com | O365, Online | February CY2019 | |
| Column drag and drop | If you need to move a column around in a list or library, you can drag the column header to a new location in the view. | SharePoint | February CY2019 | |
| Outlook on the web – New Tasks experience | The new Tasks experience has a redesigned look and feel to go with the new Outlook on the web and integration with Microsoft To-Do so you can manage your tasks on-the-go. | Exchange, Online | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Sticky column headers | For large lists and libraries, the column headers will remain visible as you scroll vertically or horizontally in larger lists and libraries. | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Add columns between columns | You can insert new columns in place between existing columns in a modern list or library view. | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Auto Attendant / Call Queues Administration Enhancement | The administration of new and existing Auto Attendants or Call Queues for your organization will be migrated to the Teams Admin Center. A new experience will also be introduced for creating Resource Accounts. We will be gradually rolling this out starting in the last week of February 2019, provided the testing with our early adopter customers meets our goals for quality. | O365, GCC | February CY2019 | |
| Saving to the cloud – simplified. | We’re making it easier for your users to save their files to Microsoft 365 cloud storage locations. This new experience allows users of Word, Excel & PowerPoint on Windows and macOS to save documents to OneDrive and SharePoint Online more easily. When users go to manually save using Ctrl-S (Windows), Cmd-S (macOS), the Save button in the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar), or App Exit, they will see a new save dialog. | O365, Online | January CY2019 | |
| Flow generates tenant-shareable links | Use Flow to automatically generate a shareable link to content and then use that link in approvals, automated communications and more. | SharePoint | Q4 CY2018 | |
| Bulk check-in/check-out | You’ll be able to check in and check out multiple files at the same time from the modern command bar in the document library. | SharePoint | February CY2019 | |
| Column totals | You’ll be able to display column totals and subtotals in the footer of a group or a list/library view. | SharePoint | February CY2019 | |
| Signals | We’re adding visual cues about the status of a file, such as check-outs, sharing, DLP blocks, or missing metadata to modern views. | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Custom forms image support | Use camera and image controls inside a custom PowerApps embedded form | SharePoint | Q3 CY2019 | |
| PowerApps and Flow packaging | Support for adding PowerApps and Flow provisioning as part of SP site designs | SharePoint | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Supervision updates | Supervision is now expanding to include Teams content. In addition supervision review will now take place within the Security & Compliance center directly to improve ease of use and ability to take bulk actions. Also included in this update is the ability to use offensive language classifier to detect communications for monitoring. | Online, O365 | Q4 CY2018 | |
