| SharePoint pages in Microsoft Teams |
Easily add SharePoint pages as a new tab in the Microsoft Teams channel interface. Now you can access the dynamic, data-driven pages you’ve created for your team sites and communication sites and surface them right in the context of the chat-based work space of Microsoft Teams. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Custom forms with PowerApps |
Use PowerApps to design in-browser custom list/library forms |
SharePoint |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: search improvements |
A new, more intelligent search in Outlook for We’ve made search front and center, giving it its own tab in our new simplified navigation bar. No matter where you are in the app, whatever you’re looking for will be just one tap away: the venue of tonight’s concert, your flight’s exact departure time, or that file your boss needed in her inbox 5 minutes ago. Personalized suggestion will make it easier and faster to search, with less typing. Search will also return both email and contact information and feature new filters to help you find what you need fast. |
Outlook |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Cross premises permissions for “send on behalf of” |
The feature will enable specific mailbox delegation scenarios (send on behalf of) between Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises. Through this update customers can manage delegates for cloud mailboxes and flow these delegates back to Exchange on-premises, enabling on-premises users to be delegates of cloud mailboxes. This reduces complexity of migrating mailboxes to the cloud by removing one of the tasks of mapping the delegate family as part of onboarding planning. Future work not included in this enhancement may include other cross premises mailbox permissions including (Send As, Full Mailbox Access, Full Mailbox Access with AutoMap). |
Exchange,All environments |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Message Encryption: Admin control now available for Office attachments |
Administrators can now control whether Office attachments are protected for recipients outside of Office 365 when the Encrypt-Only template is used. This was a key ask from Office 365 Message Encryption customers and is now available as a tenant-level setting. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard – Organization Config Transfer Phase 1 |
The Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard will detect and copy specific policy and configuration objects from On-Premises to Exchange Online to reduce administrative overhead when setting up a new tenant. The objects evaluated in this phase are; Retention Policy, Retention Policy Tags, OWA Mailbox Policy, Mobile Device Mailbox Policy, Active Sync Mailbox Policy. This phase will only copy and create non-matching objects, i.e. if Policy A exists in both On-Premises and Cloud it will not be copied. If Policy B exists only in On-Premises it will be copied. |
Exchange,All environments |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Planner: Guest User Access |
Microsoft Planner now supports guest access. You can assign tasks and collaborate with team members who are not a part of the tenant. This helps teams collaborate with their customers, vendors, and partners more effectively. |
O365,Planner |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: connect an existing site to a new Office 365 group |
Giving the ability to take an existing SharePoint Online team site and connect it to an Office 365 Group. The group provides membership management and other services like shared calendar, Planner, etc. will then provision. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Introducing the new Office 365 Group Card |
We’re improving the way Outlook on the web users interact with Office 365 Groups with a newly refreshed group card that gives you easy access to all the components of a group, such as conversations, calendar, notebook, files, planner, and so on. You’ll be able to easily join, leave, follow and un-follow groups at your convenience. Look for more components and features in the future with our new, refreshed look! It will start gradually rolling out to customers in First Release, and we will monitor usage and feedback as we continue to increase the usage base that sees the new design. |
Groups,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – Outlook scheduling add-in |
Ability to add a Microsoft Teams meeting add in to Outlook so that users can schedule Microsoft Teams meetings from within Outlook |
Microsoft Teams |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – Sharing chat history |
Ability to share history of a chat with more than the original participants |
Microsoft Teams |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Groups: classification is available when creating or modifying a group across apps |
Selecting a Group classification is now available when creating or editing a group across the following Office 365 applications: Outlook, SharePoint, Planner, Teams, Yammer and StaffHub. |
O365,Groups |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Modern library field view customization |
Support field level formatting and scripting for modern list and library pages. |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| PowerPoint on Windows PCs and Macs |
PowerPoint on Windows PCs: (a) Quickstarter; (b) Automatic alternative text descriptions (alt-text) for images |
Windows Desktop |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Groups: expiring groups |
To support administrators’ desire to keep their directories clear of stale or inactive content, we’re working on a policy that would expire inactive Office 365 Groups over a definable period of time. |
O365,Groups |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Improved account and folder navigation |
We are simplifying the experience of moving between multiple accounts and different folders in Outlook. |
Android,Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams in India Datacenter |
Ability to have India data residency for core customer data at rest, plus failover and disaster recovery |
Microsoft Teams |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: search improvements |
Personalized suggestions will make it easier and faster to search, with less typing. Search will also return both email and contact information, and will be a more prominent experience by moving to the app taskbar. |
Outlook,Android |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Set status for calendar events |
Show events on your calendar as free, busy, tentative or out of office and define Private setting. |
Android,Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: new RSVP options |
New RSVP options to match other Outlook endpoints! For each RSVP (accept, tentative, or decline), user can choose ‘edit response before sending’ or ‘don’t send response.’ Today the response always sends a blank email. |
Outlook,Android |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: new RSVP options |
New RSVP options to match other Outlook endpoints! For each RSVP (accept, tentative, or decline), user can choose ‘edit response before sending’ or ‘don’t send response.’ Today the behavior is to always send a blank response email. |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| eDiscovery Compliance Boundaries |
Segment eDiscovery searches and results by users as defined by your organization to allow compliance boundaries between business units, geographic location, or other divisions. This also includes full support of Compliance Security Filters for OneDrive for Business. |
Information Protection |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Usage reports update: General Availability of Microsoft Graph Reporting APIs and Office 365 adoption content pack APIs |
The Office 365 usage reporting APIs and the adoption content pack APIs will enable customers to programmatically access the data from the usage reports in the new admin center and integrate it into custom applications like a company reporting portal. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – WhoBot |
Availability of a bot that uses natural language processing to help users discover experts and contacts in their organization |
Groups,O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – External access – guest in a team |
Ability to add a guest to a team from outside the organization |
O365,Groups |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Advanced Data Governance Events Based Retention |
Allows customers to create events that will trigger the retention period of content in Office 365 Advanced Data Governance for records management purposes. For example, retention period of a contract will begin after the project completion date. |
Information Protection |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| US Gov: Drive Shipping and Network Based Data Import for Office 365 |
The ability to import data into Office 365 in a quick and easy manner has been a known constraint of Office 365, and a solution for this issue has emerged as a key request from customers. We are working on a solution that will allow quicker imports of data into Exchange Online Archive Mailboxes. You will now be able to import Exchange Online data through PST files into the service without using third party tools. Drive Shipping and Network Based Ingestion options will use Azure-based services to import data. Over time we will be extending this to other data types across Office 365. Drive shipping is currently available to commercial tenants, and this roadmap item is specific to US Government (GCC). [Update 3/9: PST import is now available in GCC and GCC High. Support via ExpressRoute will be added in late Summer.] |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Improved calendar attendance tracking |
Now you can see other people’s responses to a meeting request, even if you aren’t the organizer. |
Outlook,Exchange |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Recover deleted Office 365 Group from the Exchange admin center |
If an Office 365 Group is deleted, tenant administrators will have the ability to restore the group from the Exchange admin center. Note you can also restore an Office 365 Group using PowerShell cmdlets. |
Groups,O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook on the web: Attach OneDrive Consumer Files |
This allows you to access files stored on Microsoft’s OneDrive for Consumer cloud storage when sending attachments in Outlook on the web. This feature will come with an admin switch for companies that do not want to give users access to personal file storage. |
O365,Exchange |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Calendar events for groups in Outlook |
Users will receive calendar invitations for the Office 365 Groups they’ve joined, directly in their inbox. This will replace the current behavior, which required users to manually add groups in Outlook events to their individual calendars. |
O365,Groups |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Find and upgrade eligible Exchange Online Distribution Lists |
Groups in Outlook are more than a distribution list – even new members get access to past conversations and attachment. Using the Exchange Admin Console, tenant administrators can easily identify all DLs that can be upgraded to Office 365 Groups, and upgrade one or more eligible DLs at the same time. Exchange cmdlets will also be available for this purpose. |
Groups,O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Groups: Invite To Join |
We are introducing a new feature for group users to create an invite link for any group they are part of and share it with others. The invite link can be emailed or can be copied and pasted to any other channels. The users who click on this invite link will join the public group automatically and will join private groups on approval from group owners. This feature is available only on Outlook on Web. |
O365,Groups |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Mailbox Plan Enhancements |
Mailbox Plans allows the administrator to customize and pre-configure several mailbox properties that will be set on a mailbox at the time it is created. This feature extends the set of properties that are allowed to be configured. |
Exchange,O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – in-line message translation |
In-line message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. |
Microsoft Teams |
July CY2018 |
|
| Label Activity Explorer Dashboard in Office 365 Data Governance |
Use the Label Activity Explorer Dashboard to gain insights into labels usage in your organization, including top labels, ratio of user vs auto-applied and more. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Enhancements to predictive indexing for lists and libraries |
We are rolling out a change to remove the index creation limit at 20,000 items and allow customers to create indexes on lists of any size. The update will be available in the list settings web UI. |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Mac: Improved authentication for Google accounts with IMAP |
OAuth authentication against Google accounts configured via IMAP. Rolled out to Target Release customers 1Q CY2018. Moving onto production starting in June 2018. |
Mac,Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Office 365 Groups: naming policy in Azure Active Directory |
Administrators can configure a policy for appending text to the beginning or end of a group name and email address for groups no matter where a group is created (e.g. Outlook, Planner, Power BI, etc.). Administrators can also configure a list of specific blocked words that can’t be used in group names, and rely on the native list of thousands of blocked words to keep their directories clean. |
O365,Groups |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web: New First Run Experience |
First run experience (FRE) for on-boarding new Outlook on the web users. Walks user through set up their preferred signature and theme. |
O365,Exchange |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Updates to secure external sharing experience for files and folders |
We are updating our one-time passcode secure external sharing experience for files and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint Online. With this change, external recipients who also use Office 365 in their organization will be asked to sign in to their Office 365 account. This process will create a Guest account in your organization’s directory and can be managed by you in the same way that all other Guest accounts can be managed today. This update will also allow external recipients that also use Office 365 in their organization to open Office documents using the Office desktop apps. |
OneDrive for Business |
June CY2018 |
|
| Changes to the legacy SMTP Authenticated Submission client protocol in Exchange Online |
SMTP Authenticated Submission (also known as SMTP Client Submission) protocol allows clients and apps using smtp.office365.com to send a message from an Office 365 hosted mailbox. Changes to the protocol are being rolled out may affect customers who send using this protocol. Moving forward, sent emails will now be stored in the Sent Items folder of the mailbox as is the case with other client protocols. Also, a maximum of three active concurrent connections submitting emails to our service per mailbox will be allowed. Additional connections will be rejected with the error: 4.3.2 STOREDRV.ClientSubmit; sender thread limit exceeded. Given that throttling is already in place to limit submissions to 30 per minute, this additional limit will not affect most of our customers. |
All environments,Exchange |
June CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint – Web part: PowerApps |
Add any PowerApp to any SharePoint modern page, regardless of data source |
SharePoint |
June CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams Availability for US Gov |
Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365. It is a smarter way of working as an essential hub for your chats, content, people and tools to keep the team connected. Microsoft Teams will be made available to Office 365 US Government Community (GCC) subscribers as soon necessary compliance is achieved. |
Microsoft Teams,GCC |
July CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: Draft sync |
Sync drafts emails between different versions of Outlook. You can start a message in one place and finish and send in another. |
Outlook |
July CY2018 |
|
| Create Power BI reports from Excel in SharePoint |
You will be able to create Power BI reports from Excel files and CSV files stored in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders. |
SharePoint |
July CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Quick Reply |
Reply to emails more quickly with a new reply field offering a simpler experience and the ability to scroll up and re-read the message thread while composing your reply. |
Outlook,Android |
August CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Drag and drop emails into a Group |
Drag a single email or an entire thread to a Group in Outlook. |
|
September CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Monthly Calendar view |
View your Outlook Calendar in a full month format in addition to Agenda, Day and 3-Day. |
Outlook,Android |
September CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Add attendees in Scheduling Assistant |
Add additional meeting attendees in Scheduling Assistant without returning to main New Meeting screen. |
Outlook,Exchange |
September CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Show URL in Safelinks |
Hover over a link in Outlook to see the original URL even when protected by Safelinks. |
|
September CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web: Third party storage services |
Outlook on the web will provide Office 365 admins the ability to allow their users to connect to third party storage services and share and attach files right from Outlook on the web. |
Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams: Team Templates |
Ability to create and use team templates |
Microsoft Teams |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Office 365 Cloud App Security – App Permission Alerts |
Policies can be created to alert you that a user has granted an application permission to their Office 365 information |
|
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| FastTrack | Dropbox to OneDrive for Business Migration |
FastTrack Center will offer file migration services from Dropbox to OneDrive for Business as a new benefit provided by the FastTrack Center. This migration service will be available to customers with 150+ seats of eligible Office 365 plans. Once available, please refer to the FastTrack benefit for Office 365to review eligibility details. |
O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Favorite people |
Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible in Outlook for Android and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) |
Outlook,Android |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: Favorite people |
Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible Outlook for iOS and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) |
Outlook |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: organizational news |
Broadcast news and announcements across the organization. This is a set of features that will be released over the summer. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Use Flow to approve hub-site joins |
Require an approval from a hub administrator before allowing other sites to be connected. |
SharePoint |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web – hide attendee list |
When creating a meeting, the organizer can now choose to hide the attendee list from attendees, similar to BCC’ing someone in an email |
Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web – option to cancel events from a date forward |
Outlook now gives you more flexibility when managing recurring series. Users will be able to edit or cancel a recurring series starting on a date, without affecting past events in the series. |
Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web – option to show declined events |
Outlook is adding an option to allow the user to show in their calendars the events they have declined. |
Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Outlook on the web – block forwarding of meeting invites |
When creating a meeting, the organizer can now choose to prevent attendees from forwarding the meeting invite. |
Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: site activity shows group inbox activity |
Beyond important site activities, like files modifications and published news, now you will see additional important email activity that’s happening in the group inbox. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint organizational news: audience targeting |
You can better define what news articles and pages appear on the home experience of your site by configuring what is visible to specific groups. Each person will have a unique experience that complies with what you wish them to view without creating multiple audience-specific sites, you can serve them all from within a more centralized location with a personalized, targeted experience. Audience targeting support will be enabled in news, pages and other web parts so that you can define and target who best to reach with content and site experiences. You will be able to control how pages and parts of pages appear to different people ad groups. This example shows a web part with tailor content by group permissions. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint mobile: new Find tab |
What was three is now one, and it’s a super powerful, personal tab infused with AI. The new Find tab makes it the easiest way ever to connect with expertise and knowledge across your organization. It brings a best-in-class mobile search experience, with an intelligent understanding of what you work on, how you work, and how your colleagues’ work relates to you. The new Find tab collapses Sites, Links, People and Search into one, streamlined experience. It, too, is where you will find quick answers, notifications, sites, people and more – in an efficient, tailored flow of what you’re looking for, even before you go looking. The Find tab, coming to the SharePoint mobile app, uses AI to help you find people, content, and answers to your questions while on the go. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard – Organization Config Transfer Phase 2 |
In addition to copying new objects from on-premises to cloud, the admins will be giving a choice to update existing objects in cloud if the attribute values are different from on-premises. Four additional objects – OrganizationConfig, DlpPolicy, ActiveSyncDeviceAccessRule and ActiveSyncOrganizationSettings are included in the scope of the feature. |
All environments,Exchange |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Disable Basic Authentication in Exchange Online using Authentication Policies |
Exchange Online is introducing a new feature – Authentication Policy. Authentication Policies provide an Admin the capability to define protocols which should allow Basic Authentication. Policies can be created and set as default for the tenant, or set per user, with per-user settings overriding the tenant default. When a connection to Exchange Online using Basic Authentication is made, the policy conditions are checked and applied. If the connection attempt used Basic Authentication and the policy is configured to prevent Basic the connection will be blocked at that point. |
Exchange,All environments |
Q4 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams in Canada datacenter |
Ability to have Canada data residency for core customer data at rest, plus failover and disaster recovery |
Microsoft Teams |
Q3 CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Teams in Australia datacenter |
Ability to have Australia data residency for core customer data at rest, plus failover and disaster recovery |
Microsoft Teams |
Q3 CY2018 |
|
| Service Health Dashboard Update: User level details |
We’re adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin center: Access user level details— You will also be able to access a full list of impacted users to enable you to drive more targeted communication and support. |
Admin Center,All environments,O365 |
Q1 CY2019 |
|
| Microsoft Planner for GCC |
Microsoft Planner helps users efficiently organize their teamwork. Teams can create new plans, organize and assign tasks, set due dates and update status. Planner 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 US Government Community (GCC) when it meets the compliance commitments of the offering. |
O365,GCC,Planner |
Q1 CY2019 |
|
| Service Health Dashboard Update: Report an Outage (preview) |
We’re adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin center: Tell us about issues—If you are impacted by an issue that is not showing up on your Service health dashboard, the Report an Outage feature will provide you with a quick and easy way to let us know. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2019 |
|
| SharePoint mobile: direct document library access |
As you tap into a SharePoint document library, you will stay within the SharePoint mobile app experience (for viewing and navigating) more before taken through the integrated connection to the OneDrive app – where you can perform richer actions on files and folders. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
|
| Outlook on the web: Share Calendar Availability |
Helps you easily provide available times for a possible meeting within an email. Within an email reply, can bring up your calendar and graphically drag and drop slots you currently have available on your calendar. These are then shown as a availability card in your email. |
O365,Exchange |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Increase in SharePoint Online storage allocation |
SharePoint Online per user license storage allocation will increase to 1 TB plus 10 GB per user license purchased, up from 1 TB plus .5 GB per user license purchased. Note this does not include SharePoint Online kiosk plans including Office 365 F1 and Microsoft 365 F1. This change will start rolling out in late June 2018 and will be completed by the end of August 2018. Once complete, you’ll see this increased storage in your SharePoint Online admin center. |
SharePoint |
June CY2018 |
|
| Support for Universal Outlook protocol in Client Access Rules |
This update to Client Access Rules allows administrators to control access to Exchange Online for clients that use the Universal Outlook protocol (e.g., the Windows 10 Mail app). UniversalOutlook will become a valid value for the AnyOfProtocols and ExceptAnyOfProtocols parameters in Client Access Rules |
Exchange |
June CY2018 |
|
| Update to file handling in libraries with required metadata |
When a new file is created (using Office Online) in a library by clicking the New button and entering the required metadata, the file will no longer be checked out automatically to the user who created it. This allows other people to see the file even if required metadata has not been specified yet. |
SharePoint |
June CY2018 |
|
| Modern list templates for issues, contacts and datasheet |
The following list templates now have modern UI support: Issue Tracking, Contacts, Custom List in Datasheet View New and existing lists created using one of these templates will now appear in modern UI by default. Additionally, the native UI now supports multi-line text fields with the “Append Changes to Existing Text” setting enabled. Lists that contain this field type will no longer fall back to classic mode to accommodate these fields. |
SharePoint |
June CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint organizational news: page approval |
Establish a new and custom Microsoft Flow flows for approval. Simply name your flow, add the person who will approve your page, save it as a draft, submit for approval. Once approved, the page status gets updated to “published” and is visible to your intended readers. Approvals for news posts work out of the box thanks to integration with Microsoft Flow. Of which, you, too, can further customize your workflow to meet the needs of your specific approval process. Kick off inline review for pages and news. Click the “Submit for approval” button and enter your reviewers email address. |
O365,SharePoint |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint organizational news: deem specific sites as main news sites |
As news rolls up to people across their SharePoint home in Office 365, or via the news tab in their SharePoint mobile all, the news that comes from “organizational news source” sites will get special visual treatment bubbling up to the top of one’s view. |
SharePoint,O365 |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint news: @mentions in comments |
Similar to Outlook, it is now possible to @mention someone who has access to the news article within its comments and they will be notified and brought into the discussion. Did we @mention to you that there’s no easier way to loop someone in? |
O365,SharePoint |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint organizational news: choose site sources |
News web parts filter news from a variety of source sites, filtering based on content you want to show, in the layout you find most conducive to your overall site vision. |
SharePoint,O365 |
July CY2018 |
|
| Microsoft Stream Live Event Broadcasts |
Schedule and host live event broadcasts in Microsoft Stream. |
Microsoft Stream |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: select a language at site creation |
It will be possible for site owners to select a language for their site at the time they create it during the self-service site creation process from SharePoint home in Office 365; using the “Create site” button. Previously this was only available to do by admins from the SharePoint admin center in Office 365. There are approximately 50 languages available in the service to choose from. You select this at the same time you choose the site design, name, description and classification. |
O365,SharePoint,All environments |
July CY2018 |
|
| Alert Policies in Office 365 Security & Compliance Center available to E1/ E3 customers |
You can use the new alert policy and alert dashboard tools in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center to create alert policies and then view the alerts that are generated when users perform activities that match the conditions of an alert policy. In this release, 3 system default alert policies will be visible and on by default for E1/E3 customers once the feature is rolled out, including Elevation of Exchange admin privilege, Creation of forwarding/redirect rules and Messages that have been delayed; With E5 subscription, or E1/E3 with Threat intelligence or Advanced Compliance add-ons, the experience of alert policies remains the same. |
O365 |
July CY2018 |
|
| SharePoint: modern team site if not group enabled |
People can create new team sites when they click “Create site” from the SharePoint home in Office 365. However, if a person is not enabled to create Office 365 Groups, they would be routed to create a subsite within a designated site collection, and it would not have modern team site features. With this update, people who are not deemed able to create Office 365 Groups will now be able to create modern SharePoint team sites that are not connected to an Office 365 group, though do have the modern user experiences for the home page, lists, libraries – and it is its own standalone site collection. This, too, applies to when a person creates a subsite, it, too, would use the modern design – if subsite creation is not disabled. |
O365,SharePoint,All environments |
July CY2018 |
|
| Correcting Shared Mailbox Provisioning and Sizing Logic |
We are correcting how shared (and resource) mailboxes are created in Exchange Online. As per our documentation, shared and resource mailboxes in Exchange Online should be created with the size of 50GB and if a larger size is desired, a license should be assigned to the mailbox. For some time the Exchange Online system would create both new shared and resource mailboxes with a default size of 100GB even if a license was not assigned. This is now being corrected to match the documented behavior. |
Exchange,All environments |
July CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 account connections |
Connect your LinkedIn with your Microsoft 365 account to see people’s professional network details in Outlook for iOS. |
Outlook |
August CY2018 |
|
| Additional Customer Lockbox Approver Role |
Additional approver roles in Customer Lockbox, extends Customer Lockbox approvers to non-tenant admins within their organization. With this feature, customers can designate specific personnel within their organization to be approvers to customer data during service operations by Microsoft. |
Information Protection |
August CY2018 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: LinkedIn and Microsoft account connections |
Connect your Microsoft 365 account with LinkedIn and quickly have access to the LinkedIn profile of the people you work with daily in Outlook. |
Outlook |
August CY2018 |
|
| Timeline view in Microsoft Planner |
Display and share views of Planner tasks on a timeline |
O365,Planner |
Q1 CY2019 |
|
| Service Health Dashboard Update: email notifications (preview) |
We’re adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Office 365 admin center: Stay informed through your preferred channel—The new Service health dashboard will enable you to sign up for notifications via email so that you can monitor the service and track issues through the channel you prefer. |
O365 |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Migration of Yammer Weekly Digest |
Users who have currently signed up for the Yammer weekly digest will be migrated to the Yammer daily digest. |
Yammer |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Usage reports update: new report for Microsoft Teams |
New reports in the Office 365 usage dashboard. We continue to add a new usage report on Microsoft Teams to provide you with a complete picture of how your organization is using Office 365. |
GCC,O365 |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Advanced Security Management – EU Datacenter Expansion |
Advanced Security Management will be hosted in the Microsoft EU datacenter region |
Information Protection,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| DLP availability in sovereign cloud environments |
Office 365 DLP capabilities will become available in sovereign cloud environments – Office 365 Germany and Office 365 operated by 21Vianet (China). |
O365 |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – Support for larger teams |
Support for larger team sizes, up to 2,500 |
Microsoft Teams |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – UK datacenter |
Ability to have UK data residency for core customer data at rest, plus failover and disaster recovery |
Microsoft Teams |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook Add-ins for Android |
Your favorite apps right inside email so you can accomplish tasks quickly without leaving Outlook. |
Outlook,Android |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Draft sync |
Sync drafts between different versions of Outlook, so you can start a message in one place and finish and send in another. |
Android,Outlook |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for iOS: Set status for calendar events |
Set and show events on your calendar as free, busy, tentative, out of office and private. |
Outlook |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Scheduling Assistant |
Inspired by the well-loved scheduling assistant of Outlook on Windows, Mac, iOS and the web, you will be able to see your coworkers’ availability and find a time that works for everyone when scheduling a meeting. |
Android,Outlook |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Power BI web part |
Add any Power BI report to any SharePoint page. |
SharePoint |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – predictive indexing for lists and libraries |
Over the coming months, we will be phasing in automatic indexing and performance optimization to improve performance of large lists and reduce or eliminate problems in large scale lists. |
SharePoint |
Q4 CY2017 |
|
| Document Preview for Safe Attachments |
Document preview will enable you to view a document attachment contents while the document is being scanned by the Safe Attachments attachment detonation technology. |
O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| OneDrive – Per Group Sharing Controls |
Per-group sharing controls is a new Office 365 feature for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. This feature allows you to limit external sharing in your organization to only users in selected security groups. We’ll begin rolling this feature out in June, in two phases. First, you will notice a new setting that allows users to specify a set of security groups that are allowed to share to authenticated external users and via anonymous links. Second, another option will appear that allows admins to specify a setof security groups that are allowed to share to authenticated external users only. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to First Release customers in early June, and the roll out will be completed by the end of July. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| MyAnalytics: Activity and group trends and network refresh |
MyAnalytics will now provide insights into your collaboration with your top Office 365 groups. Understand where your time is going by initiative, project or hierarchical team to prioritize and align to your priorities. This will include an update to the network section of the MyAnalytics dashboard that will provide a time map of your collaboration time across colleagues and groups. This update will also include the ability to understand trends over longer periods of time for the core metrics such as time in meetings, email, focus, etc. |
Delve,O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Client Access Rules for Exchange Online |
Client Access Rules help you to control access to your Exchange Online organization based upon the properties of the client or the access request type of the client. The rules are employed to block the ability of a client to use a particular protocol, application, service, or resource based upon username, source IP address or range, the authentication type, or a recipient attribute. |
Exchange |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Android: Add and edit contacts |
With our latest update, you can now add and edit contacts for Outlook.com and Office 365 accounts. To create a new contact from scratch, simply go to the People tab and tap the ‘+’ sign. You can also add a new contact directly from a message or event by tapping the name of a person and then ‘Add Contact’, or by using the search bar in the People tab to find and add contacts from your company directory. |
Android,Outlook |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Personalized Search in SharePoint Home |
See personalized results as soon as you click into the Search box that are informed by the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph. Locates expertise by searching for skills, projects and interests and see their people card and extended panel directly from SharePoint home. |
SharePoint |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – News: Notifications |
On-device notifications appear when important news items are published “to you” based on the relevancy of Microsoft Graph – which now contains News as a common content type that is indexed and applicable to what is relevant to you based on who you work with and what you and they are working on. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint mobile app for Android: create news |
Add your own news stories right from your Android device. Simply click + Add from the News section on a team site, type a title, add body text and format it. You can also add image(s) and embed documents. And then click Publish. You and your peers will see the story appear across the news service as a recent story – on SharePoint home in Office 365, within the personalized News tab of the SharePoint apps, and on the team site itself. That’s news reach – ensuring you have an effective, automated megaphone to amplify your news. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint mobile app for Android – on-premises access |
You will be able to log into your on-premises SharePoint Server environment from within the SharePoint mobile app for Android – giving you access to all of your sites within your firewall, and if you are leveraging SharePoint Online, the app will provide access to all your sites from both on-premises and online in Office 365. |
SharePoint |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Multi page scan from Mobile |
Using the OneDrive mobile app you can seamlessly take a photo, convert it to a PDF,and store it in OneDrive. Till date we support only single page PDF scan from the OneDrive Mobile app. With this feature OneDrive will support multi pages can from a mobile app |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| New Sharing Controls from Windows Explorer |
OneDrive and Sharepoint Users can now have similar sharing experience from Windows explorer as that of Web .This includes sharing with Anyone, People in your tenant and specific people inside or outside your organization. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Updates to Admin control for internal/ external sharing |
We now offer tenant admins the ability to restrict both external sharing and sharing via anonymous links to users in specified security groups. Furthermore, when admins choose to prevent external users from re-sharing content they don’t own, we have made changes to ensure that external users are unable to enumerate other external users inside of a site collection. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Updates to “Shared with me” view – external content |
OneDrive for Business now gives you easy access to files and folders shared from external partners. When a partner shares a file with you from anywhere in Office 365 (including OneDrive, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote),it appears in your Shared With Me view, so you’ve always got your important documents on hand across all your devices |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| OneDrive integration with Microsoft Flow |
Microsoft flow helps you to make repetitive tasks easy with workflow automation. With OneDrive and Flow integration user can now automate tasks by integrating their favorite apps with OneDrive |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Offline folders in OneDrive Mobile App (iOS) |
With this roll out , users can now take and entire folders for offline viewing on their mobile phones, along with individual files. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| New Sharing Controls from Mac Finder |
OneDrive and Sharepoint Users can now have the same sharing experience from the Mac Finder as that of Web .This includes sharing with Anyone, People in your tenant and specific people inside or outside your organization. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| OneDrive Files on Demand – Preview via Windows Insider Builds |
With OneDrive Files On-Demand- Preview, you can access all your files in the cloud without using storage space on your device. You don’t have to change the way you work, because all your files—even online files—can be seen in File Explorer and work just like every other file on your device. Furthermore, you’re covered in both your home and professional life, since it works with your personal and work OneDrive, as well as your SharePoint Online team sites. Available this summer for Windows Insiders. |
Windows Desktop |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams on iOS: Meeting join capabilities |
Microsoft Teams’ iOS app will be updated to enable users to join their meetings from the mobile app, including audio, video, and viewing shared desktop |
Groups,O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Mac: Favorite Folders |
Outlook will now support making folders as Favorites. These folders will then show up under Favorites at the top of the Sidebar. |
Outlook,Mac |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Yammer Desktop Client |
Yammer will develop a desktop client for Windows 7, 10 and Mac. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Groups of conditions and configurable logical operators in DLP rules |
Ability to group complex sets of conditions and choosing logical operators between and within them. This will help you create more advanced policies and reduce the number of polices that you have. |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| DLP policy tips in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business |
We are enhancing DLP’s block access feature with a new option that allows organizations to block SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business users right in the Share dialog – preventing them from exposing sensitive documents with guest or external users in real time. |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Large dictionary and unique match support in DLP policies and custom sensitive types |
DLP will now support keyword dictionaries of 100,000+ terms, providing some out of the box (e.g. medical lexicons for HIPAA) or ability to create your own. This will enhance your ability to discover sensitive content and enable you to better detect general or keyword-based content. |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Enhanced HIPAA protection in Office 365 DLP and Retention |
More advanced and accurate detection of HIPAA content built-in to Office 365 DLP and Preservation policies. You can now accurately detect and protect your organization’s HIPAA-related content, and you can customize the matching behavior to meet your organization’s specific requirements. |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – PowerShell configuration |
Ability to configure and manage Microsoft Teams via PowerShell |
Microsoft Teams |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Usage reports update: Reports Reader Administrator |
We continue to update the usage reporting experience to provide you with a complete picture of how your organization is using Office 365. The new reports reader administrator is meant for those who are tasked with Office 365 reporting and data analysis as well as those driving usage and adoption within their organization. This new role gives a user access only to the usage reports in the Office 365 admin center and the data responsible for those reports under the Microsoft Graph API. |
GCC,O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Advanced Security Management – Power BI Activity Support |
Anomaly and activity policies can be written to consider activities that are taken in Power BI |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Advanced Security Management – Yammer Activity Support |
Anomaly and activity policies can be written to consider activities that are taken in Yammer |
Information Protection |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| In-Product Language Auto-detection |
To highlight localization capabilities in Yammer, users will get an in-product notification (light box pop-up) asking whether their language setting should be set to their browser language. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Yammer iPad Relaunch |
As part of the ongoing initiative to improve the mobile experience on Yammer, the navigational structure, headers, and workflows for iPad will be redesigned. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| New User Onboarding: Content Creation |
As part of the on-going initiative to improve the Yammer onboarding experience, Yammer will introduce an interactive experience for users when they first get started on Yammer. This will include a drop-down menu that highlights different use case examples to help a user with their initial post, and will be based on their functional area. This may also roll out to existing users. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Basic Co-authoring on Excel Desktop |
Excel on Windows PCs: (1) co-authoring in spreadsheets (currently available for Office Insiders Fast). This Feature ID replaces 14958 which was a duplicate. |
Excel |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Improvements to OneDrive attachment handling |
When you save or drag and drop OneDrive attachments to your computer, we download the file for you. |
Outlook |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Improvements to Contact Card |
Updates to the Contact Card for people and groups, to make viewing contact details simpler and faster. |
Outlook |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Mac: Delay Send |
Delay the delivery of a message or choose when it will be sent. (Office 365 work or school account required). |
Outlook,Mac |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: Create appointments on Group calendars |
Items added to a Group calendar will now act as Appointments by default, rather than Meetings. Appointments will appear on the calendar, but will not notifying all group members (i.e. send invites to their personal mailboxes). The user will have the option during event creation to check a box to notify the group members. |
Exchange,Groups,Outlook |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Yammer Skype for Business Integration |
Yammer will leverage Skype’s rich audio video communication capabilities. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Yammer Groups Activity Reporting in O365 |
Groups activity reporting for Yammer will soon be made available and viewable in the Office 365 usage reporting portal. |
Yammer |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Business center |
The Office 365 Business center brings Bookings, Connections, Listings and Invoicing together in a central location—so you have easy access to your business apps and data. It features a unified dashboard where you can view key metrics from all the business apps, including total outstanding invoices, the number of appointments scheduled, the impressions across Facebook, Google, Bing and Yelp, and the number of new subscribers and sent campaigns. The Business center includes an activity feed, so you can see the details of what’s happening within each of the apps—making it easy to keep up-to-date on new customer appointments, invoices and payments being created or updated by the employees in your business. The activity feed also provides suggestions on what actions to take next, such as alerting you that a payment is overdue and it’s time to resend an invoice. Because the new business apps are built to work together, you don’t waste valuable time setting up connectors or transferring data manually. A contact in one business app is automatically recognized in another, so you don’t have to input data multiple times. As a business owner, you also have full control over who on your team gets access to which business apps and related information. Office 365 Business center is available on the web. It is rolling out in preview over the next few weeks to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, starting with those in the First Release program. |
O365 |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Intelligent Discovery for iOS |
From the OneDrive app, Discover view uses the Office Graph to suggest relevant and trending files from Office 365. The Discover view suggests content that is most relevant for each person based on the work they are doing and the people with whom they engage. |
iOS |
Q3 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Forms Preview for Office 365 Commercial Users |
Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight app that lets you easily gather customer feedback, measure and improve business performance, learn what employees think, and plan and organize company events. It is coming to Preview to Office 365 Commercial users. |
Excel,Online |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Metadata library navigation support |
Develop an in-context hierarchical drill through view filter capability based on metadata for libraries and lists in the filters pane. |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – List view web part |
Deploy filterable, reusable web part that allows an embeddable, read-only list view (items are still editable with correct permissions.) |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Library viewer web part |
Deploy filterable, reusable web part that allows an embeddable, read-only view against library contents (files are still editable with correct permissions.) |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Increasing File Path Limit |
This update for SharePoint Online and OneDrive will increase the file path limit( server relative path) from 260- 400 |
OneDrive for Business |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Web part: People |
Highlight important people by leveraging the People web part. Add it to your team sites or communication site page, or within a news article, and then do quick adds of numerous people via a Azure Active Directory (AAD) lookup. Once published, not only can viewers see the people you list, they can also hover over their names to see their people cards with contact and Microsoft Graph information and documents associated to them. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Web part: Hero |
The hero web part is commonly used at the top of a home page, a sub page, or a news article to visually highlight and link off to the most important content. You simply upload an image, associated a link and header text, and publish. You can also adjust the layout of the hero web part to fit your needs. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Web part: Events |
If you have important events you want to highlight on your home page in a team site or communication, or on a sub page or news article, you can now add events to the associated events list and have them appear for your viewers both visually and they can click “Add to calendar” if they want to track your event item(s) from within their Outlook experience. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Site usage page |
Site owners can easily see what’s going on within their site, to see what content is doing well, and how people are engaging with their site information. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – Simple site navigation edit |
You can quickly add and arrange links to your important pages at the top portion of a communication site. And for team sites, you can adjust the left-hand navigation by linking to pages, lists, and now you can quickly add links to other associated Office 365 Group elements, like your groups conversation, calendar and planner … all to make it easier to add the links and manage how they appear on your site. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint app for Windows 10 Mobile: view news |
If you use the SharePoint app for Windows 10 Mobile, you will now have the mobile experience of team news. When you tap the News tab, you will see a list of news tailored to you using the intelligence of Microsoft Graph. Now, SharePoint app for Windows 10 Mobile will give you one place to catch up on the news from across your intranet. That’s your news in your pocket! |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| People cards on SharePoint home in Office 365 |
Now, when you see a person name or face, you can hover over it and reveal their people card. You can then see their contact information and their relevant content that you have permissions to see – right in context without leaving the SharePoint home experience. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – News and pages: comment on news articles |
Once your news article has been published, it’s important to engage with your audience and allow them to provide comments, feedback and to ask questions. Now, at the bottom of all new news and page article, viewers will have a chance to post comments and connect with authors keeping everyone informed and engaged. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint – News and pages: banner images |
You can now add a hero image in the top banner section of your news articles and pages in SharePoint Online. You simply upload your image, choose the right focal point (which makes it look as intended for both web and mobile) and click publish. The service ensures the image scales properly and looks great to help people find and engage on your news and pages. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Parent and Guardian links, Permissions in the Collaboration Space in OneNote Class Notebook |
These capabilities include the ability for teachers to create read-only Parent and Guardian links, Permissions in the Collaboration Space to allow project based learning, and the ability to remove student content when removing student permissions in a Class Notebook. |
O365,Education |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook Customer Manager |
Outlook Customer Manager helps small businesses track and grow relationships with customers right within Outlook. It gives you a complete view of your interactions with each customer, helps you track tasks and deals in progress, and surfaces timely reminders – all next to your inbox where you need these. Now stay on top of your customer relationships, without any need to install or learn separate tools. Included at no extra cost to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers, Outlook Customer Manager is a cloud-powered solution designed especially for the needs of small businesses. It is available in 39 languages in Outlook for Windows, iOS, and on the web. A mobile app for iOS is coming soon. Outlook Customer Manager is now rolling out to all Office 365 Business Premium customers worldwide. Once it has rolled out to your Office 365 account, you will see an icon for it in the home tab in Outlook 2016 for Windows. Just click the icon to get started. Learn more at msft.social/zLJpVn |
O365,Exchange |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| MyAnalytics Outlook add-in update – insights feed |
The MyAnalytics Outlook add-in will be updated to provide more in the work flow assistance with a feed of productivity insights. For example, the add-in will provide you a weekly forecast, help you proactively schedule focus time for your big rocks, summarize unread email from Important people you’ve pinned, and provide new dwell time insights around quality of email engagement. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Safe Links in Office 365 ProPlus |
Safe Links in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection now extends protection to Office 365 ProPlus desktop clients. When a user clicks a link in Office 365 client applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Advanced Threat Protection will inspect the link to see if it is malicious. If the link is malicious, the user will be redirected to a warning page instead of the original target URL. This new capability further integrates and expands security across Office 365. |
Information Protection |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| OneNote Ink Math Assistant now with graphing |
OneNote can now graph handwritten equations and even let you manipulate variables to see the visual effect of changes. It can also teach you the steps to solve systems of equations. This expanded built-in intelligence within OneNote makes it an even more powerful math coach to help you learn in context. |
OneNote,Windows Mobile |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Increasing Project Online Site Limits to 30,001 |
We are increasing the number of supported projects sites in Project Online to 30,000. For more details, please read the Office blog post. |
Project |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Microsoft Teams – T-Bot user guidance |
Availability of additional messages from T-Bot to guide user engagement… |
Microsoft Teams |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Secure Score – Ability to ignore a control |
Office 365 Secure Score will support the option to allow a customer to ignore a control and have it not count towards the denominator of their score. |
Information Protection |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint Online – personalized search from SharePoint home in Office 365 |
Search results are trimmed using the Microsoft Graph, enabling a more relevant, intuitive, personalized experience when searching for content and people from the SharePoint home search boxes. As you click into the search box, you’re presented with recent items you’ve been working on. And as you type, you’ll see this list of recent items refine to the keyword(s) you type. And then on the results page, you’ll see relevant sites, files and people all based on who you work with and what you and they work on. |
SharePoint,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint Online communication sites |
To help keep everyone informed and engaged, we are introducing beautiful, dynamic, mobile-ready communication sites for Office 365 customers. Communication sites are created in seconds by clicking ‘Create site’ on SharePoint home in Office 365. Then, it’s easy to adjust page layouts and add web parts and to pull in valuable data and content from other services, like conversations from Yammer and videos from Microsoft Stream. The result is a vibrant, interactive, dynamic experiences for your site visitors. |
SharePoint |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition (OCR) |
Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition (OCR), enables the extraction of text from images. OCR is supported for loose files, email attachments and embedded images. This feature allows the powerful text analytic capabilities of Advanced eDiscovery, including near-duplicates, email threading, themes and predictive coding, to be applied to image files. |
Information Protection |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| MyAnalytics: Share |
The MyAnalytics dashboard will the add the ability to share a summary, specific module or portion of your MyAnalytics dashboard with others via email. This will enable the ability to create better work habits in partnership with others in your organization. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Maps in Excel (iOS) |
Powered by Bing Maps, Maps in Excel enable users to create professional visualizations in just a few steps for work, home and school. |
iOS |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Word on Windows PCs and Macs |
Word on Macs: (a) New Editor pane provides additional information and context (currently available for Office Insiders Fast) |
Windows Desktop |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Sway Admin: Sway in the Office 365 Auditing and Protection Center |
Office 365 admins will be able to audit how Sway is used in their organizations. They will have visibility into who has created/edited Sways, changed sharing options for Sways, and other user actions. |
Online,Sway |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| OneDrive for Business filename support improvements |
We’re adding support for file names that contain ‘%’ or ‘#’ characters. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Skype for Business Regionally Hosted Meetings |
Support for a Multi National Corporation tenant to have users be distributed across multiple Data centers for Skype for Business Online in the Multi-Tenant environment to provide better media quality by reduced latency. |
Skype for Business,O365 |
Q2 CY2017 |
|
| Outlook for Windows: A smarter To: line |
When you click the To: line to address a message, we suggest recipients you’re likely to choose. Plus, you can see their picture, so you know you’re sending to the right person. |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
|
| External users support for Project Online |
Project Online is going to support sharing Project sites with external users and also provide an ability to license external users for appropriate participation in project management workflows. |
Project,O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| BigInt datatype support |
Add support for 64-bit numbers (BigInt) as a new Access/Ace Datatype. Users will be able to use the new Large Number datatype and import/link to a SQL Database (via ODBC) that has BigInt columns. |
Windows Desktop,Access |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| MyAnalytics: weekly digest email |
MyAnalytics will start to send users a weekly digest email of insights derived from their MyAnalytics dashboard. This digest will include progress against goals, recommendations for how to improve progress and summary insights about the past week. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Conditional access policies for location and apps |
These policies allow IT and security administrators to establish broad tenant policies, limiting access when needed to just a specific corporate network or location – and preventing access from unknown locations. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Project Online: OData improvements to include timestamps for project entities |
Project Online OData service will now include modification dates for several entities such as tasks, resources, engagements, assignments etc. These changes will provide better insights into when something inside your projects gets updated, thereby enabling richer reports. |
O365,Project |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| FastTrack for Skype for Business Cloud Voice Services |
As part of FastTrack engagements, FastTrack will provide customers with guidance, content, and best practices on how to plan, deploy, and adopt Cloud Voice successfully. FastTrack best practices, tools, and resources associated with Skype for Business are based on the Skype Operations Framework. While FastTrack has provided onboarding and adoption guidance to this point, this update provides expanded guidance for voice services. FastTrack Provides guidance to: Overview the Skype Operations Framework (SOF): Capture business requirements, define architecture and approach, assess readiness, undertake remediation and preparation. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Project Center Scale and Performance Improvements |
We are making improvements to Project Center to decrease the load time and make it scale when you have access to more projects. For more details, please read the Office blog post. |
Project |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Delve – personalized search |
The search experience within Delve – when you start typing in the upper-left hand search text box – will become a more personalized; based more on the relevancy of who you work with and what you are working on. There are two main phases of this personalized search, recovery and discovery. Recovery starts as you click into the search text box, before even typing anything, you will see search items based on your most recent work. And as you type, you’ll see a refinement of recent work items related to the keyword(s) you used. Once you hit return, you enter the discovery side of search across Office 365. This is where you are now searching content, people, sites from throughout your enterprise – presented to you in order based on what is most relevant to you. |
O365,Delve |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Simplified sharing from OneDrive for Business from the web |
We have updated the sharing experience for OneDrive. This new sharing interface simplifies the sharing of personal content internally (within your organization) or externally, as well as making flow of emailing links to colleagues and guests and copying links to the clipboard super easy. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| New and Improved Skype for Business Windows Notifications |
This introduces a more modern look and feel for Skype for Business Windows notifications and makes it easier to take quick action on incoming calls / requests. |
Skype for Business,O365 |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Improved Consultative Transfer Workflow |
A new, streamlined workflow for conferring with an executive before transferring a call. Assistants can click a new “Consult” button from the call window, choose who to consult with, perform a consultation and complete the transfer in a single window. |
O365,Skype for Business |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| Delve – new entry point: delve.office.com |
Get to Delve more easily by typing in the new, easy-to-remember entry point to content & people search and discovery; type delve.office.com, sign in and you’re into the new Delve experience. Users will now get a more personalized view of content trending around their work social sphere, that now includes documents from Office 365 Groups, modern attachments from Outlook, and more. |
O365,Delve |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint home page in Office 365 – People Cards |
People Cards bring intelligent, Delve-like experiences to Office 365 apps (like Outlook on the Web, SharePoint Online document libraries and OneDrive for Business), right in the context of your work. When you hover over a person’s name or image, people cards expands to reveal contact information, organizational relationships and documents they have been working on. Now, People cards will appear on the SharePoint home page in Office 365 (you get there by clicking the “SharePoint” tile in the Office 365 app launcher). See a person’s name or photo, and simply hover over to learn more about them and the work they do. People cards are within reach where you are working and will help you prepare and stay informed throughout your day. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
|
| SharePoint mobile app for Android – team news rollup |
If you use the SharePoint mobile app on Android, you will soon get the mobile experience of team news. When you tap the News tab, you will see a list of aggregated news using the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph from the sites you work in, the sites you follow and the sites your colleagues work in. SharePoint mobile on Android gives you one place to catch up on the news from across your intranet. That’s your news in your pocket! |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
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| Flow Integration for Document Libraries |
We are enhancing the connector from SharePoint to PowerApps and Flow. We are adding write support for people, choice, and lookup columns for Microsoft Flow, and supporting connections to lists other than custom lists. Microsoft Flow will also be able to connect to SharePoint document libraries and use/set metadata columns. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
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| SharePoint Online – personalized news on the SharePoint home page in Office 365 |
Today, you have an aggregate, personalized view of team news coming to you on your SharePoint mobile app – team news that comes from across all your active team sites. You now will be able to view this same aggregate of news article at the top of the SharePoint home page in Office 365 (where you land when you click the “SharePoint” tile within the Office 365 app launcher). This makes the SharePoint home in Office 365 the best place to see what’s happening in all the sites and portals you interact with and track, perform enterprise-wide search, and now consume all the news happening around you. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
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| Integrated modern file copy for 500MB files |
Expanded scope of modern file copy for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business to cover files up to 500MB total size; copy in place; and support multiple file download to a single Zip file. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2017 |
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