Export Visio diagrams to Flow | Open an existing BPMN/Flowchart diagram or create a new one in Visio and export it to Microsoft Flow to automate. | Microsoft Visio | August CY2019 | |
Map your process data and automatically transform it into a Visio diagram | Use the process mapping pane to map your process data and provide custom settings for automatic creation of process flowcharts using the Data Visualizer Excel Add-in. | Microsoft Visio | August CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams Education – MakeCode Assignments | Teams Assignments now saves MakeCode work and allows students to turn in for review. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Channel Moderation | Drive focused conversations within your organization with Microsoft Teams. Channel moderation gives team owners and members who have been added as moderators exclusive rights to create new posts in the channel and control whether team members can reply. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Customizable Teams mobile experience | Microsoft Teams has new capabilities for the mobile experience: Location sharing – using GPS data, share your location with your team in channel or a 1:1/group chat. Smart camera – smart camera can interpret different image types such as a document, whiteboard or business card, and utilizes auto crop for easy consumption. Firstline Workers handle a lot of tasks that are image heavy. And they’ll begin a task by taking a picture and then posting it into a chat. Smart camera is valuable to customers because images taken from the Teams camera are not stored on the device. Record and sharing audio messages – record and share an audio messages with your team in a 1:1/group chat or channel for on-demand listening. | Microsoft Teams | Q1 CY2019 | |
Share and collaborate on Visio visuals | More sharing and collaboration features for Visio Visual in line with traditional Power BI visualizations | Microsoft Visio | Q2 CY2019 | |
SharePoint hubs limit raised to 2,000 | Hubs enable connecting related sites together to create a shared navigational and content experience. In order to meet the needs of many organizations, we are increasing the hubs limit from 100 to 2,000 providing even more flexibility on how you can organize your sites. | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Interoperability (1:1 Teams-Skype for Business chat) in Office 365 Government GCC and DoD | 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 | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Priority notifications | Share urgent messages and time-sensitive information more effectively with Teams. Priority notifications alert a recipient of an urgent message on their mobile and desktop devices until a response is received, every two minutes for up to 20 minutes. Note: For a limited time, unlimited Priority Notifications in Microsoft Teams will be made available for all customers. This promotion will run from July 2019 until December 31, 2019 and during this time all Teams users will be able to send unlimited Priority Notifications. Starting on January 1, 2020, licensed users will be able to send Priority Notifications according to the terms of their subscription. IT Admins will be given reporting on priority notification usage to support appropriate user licensing. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – External Access in Office 365 Government GCC High and DoD | Seamlessly communicate with people outside your organization with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams external access allows users from other domains to participate in your chats and calls, including those who are still using Skype for Business Online or Skype for Business on-prem. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
SharePoint: Site usage page update – popular platforms | Employees today use a variety of devices to connect to their sites, news lists and files. To support a best experience, we want to make sure that site owners and publishers have access to data about the different types of devices from where users are accessing their sites. Very soon, users will be able to see the most popular platforms from where their sites are accessed on the Site Usage page to best determine any information presentation methods to optimize the user experience. You will see trends for 7, 30 and 90 days. This new data insights compliments what is also available on the Site usage page already – unique viewers, site visits, site traffic (‘heat map’), most viewed content and visibility on external use if granted. | SharePoint, O365 | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Unified Presence (Skype for Business and Teams unified) in Office 365 Government GCC High and DoD | 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 | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Information Barriers | Avoid conflicts of interest within your organization by limiting which individuals can communicate and collaborate with each other in Microsoft Teams. This helps limit the disclosure of information by controlling communication between the holders of information and colleagues representing different interests, for example, in Firstline Worker scenarios. This is particularly helpful for organizations that need to adhere to Ethical Wall requirements and other related industry standards and regulations. | Microsoft Teams | Q2 CY2019 | |
MyAnalytics Dashboard is coming to more Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites | The MyAnalytics Dashboard will be made available to everyone using Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Business suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Business, Office 365 E5, E3, E1, Business Premium and Business Essentials. | O365 | August CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: Import a schedule into Shifts | Now in Teams, importing larger shift schedule amounts simplifies the manager experience. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – Authentication Session Management | Authentication Session Management allows you to control the frequency at which your users are required to enter their credentials. Admins will be able to configure both the Sign-in frequency as well as if sessions will persist after Outlook on the web is closed. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook for Windows supports Black Office Theme with reading pane toggle | Office Black theme will turn all Outlook screens into dark mode and adds a sun/moon toggle between black and white based on your preference for reading message content. | Outlook | August CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – Receive the emails you send to a group in your inbox too | We’re introducing a new setting for groups in Outlook. Currently when you send an email to a group in Outlook that you’re a member of, you currently do not receive a copy of that sent email back in your inbox. With this new setting, you can start receiving a copy of the emails you send to the group in your Inbox (as long as you are following that group in inbox). This is particularly helpful for those users who have workflows that get triggered basis receiving a copy of their sent emails in Inbox. | Exchange | July CY2019 | |
Multi-Geo Seat Count Reduction | Improvements to Multi-Geo Capabilities with Office 365 now support businesses with 500 seats. The previous requirement for Multi-Geo Capabilities with Office 365 required 2,500 seats. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams: Partner Provided Calling Plans for Japan | SoftBank is working with Microsoft to deliver their UniTalk calling plans to Office 365 customers in Japan. This collaboration enables SoftBank to provide and sell PSTN calling services specifically for the Japanese market. Prerequisites for this service include that the Office 365 tenant is based in Japan and customers will need to acquire Phone System. Customers interested in this offer should contact Softbank directly to learn more. | Microsoft Teams | August CY2019 | |
Microsoft Forms Pro | 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. Learn more at www.formspro.microsoft.com | Microsoft Forms | July CY2019 | |
Enhancements to SPO Preservation Library | This update will introduce a 30 day grace period for the release of SharePoint Online holds, and in the Preservation Hold Library items are now moved to the second stage recycle bin before being purged. | O365 | July CY2019 | |
Office 365 Groups – Updates to welcome emails to guests | We are updating the welcome email that guests receive when invited to an Office 365 Group. With the update guestes will now see your organization’s privacy policy link, group SharePoint site & OneNote. This will only affect organizations who have guest access enabled. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Native Federation for 1:1 Chats | Have richer conversations with people outside your organization with Microsoft Teams. Users in TeamsOnly mode can now enjoy the same familiar chat experience whether they are communicating with a colleague or an external user. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Real Time Presence | Stay focused throughout the day with Microsoft Teams. Whether you are free for a quick chat or presenting in a meeting, real time presence increases the accuracy of your status so others know when to reach out. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Self-Service Sign-up for hybrid environment customers | Want to enable all users in your hybrid environment to try Microsoft Teams? Users in hybrid tenants who are not in AAD will soon be able to sign-up for Teams using their organizational email address, which in turn will create an AAD identity and enable them to use the Teams Commercial Cloud Trial. | Microsoft Teams | July 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 EDU suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 A3 for Faculty and Students, Office 365 A3 for Faculty and Students. | O365 | July CY2019 | |
OneDrive & SharePoint integration with Azure AD B2B | Public Preview | Integration of external sharing in OneDrive and SharePoint with Azure AD B2B. This includes external sharing of files, folders, list items, document libraries and sites. | OneDrive for Business | July CY2019 | |
Teams EDU messaging policies migration | Currently about 300 tenants have their messaging policies in the O365 portal, but all of their other policies are on MoPo. We want to move these customers over to MoPo so they have a consistent admin experience and so they can leverage all of the new messaging capabilities that can only be managed in MoPo. | Microsoft Teams | Q2 CY2019 | |
Microsoft To-Do Mac App | Microsoft To-Do is now available on Mac for your daily task management needs. | Microsoft To-Do | Q2 CY2019 | |
MyAnalytics Email Digest is coming to more Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites | MyAnalytics Email Digest will be made available to everyone using Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Business suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Business, Office 365 E5, E3, E1, Business Premium and Business Essentials. | O365 | Q4 CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams Education – Redesigned UI | The improved Teams UI enables teachers and students to focus on one course at a time with minimal distractions from other teams. In addition, the new Assignments experience makes it easier to view existing and create new assignments. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – browse rooms with filters | Outlook will offer an additional way to filters rooms based on features like capacity, building floor, and AV equipment. Those filters are possible thanks to a new Set-place cmdlet available in Exchange Online to add new properties to rooms. | Exchange | Q2 CY2019 | |
Planner: Export to Excel | Export the tasks in a Planner plan to an Excel file. | O365, Planner | Q2 CY2019 | |
Outlook on the web – New 3rd party storage providers | We are adding more online storage providers to Outlook on the web and making it on by default. This update will bring two changes: 1. More providers, including personal OneDrive, Google Drive, and Facebook. 2. We are making this in-by-default | Exchange | July CY2019 | |
SharePoint Recommendations available on SharePoint Pages and SharePoint News Posts | SharePoint Recommendations help you discover new SharePoint Pages and News post in your company. At the bottom of SharePoint News Posts and Pages, you will see the SharePoint Recommendations which are most applicable to you powered by machine learning. | SharePoint | July CY2019 | |
Outlook for Android: Calendar category colors | View the colors of your calendar categories set in Outlook for Windows, Mac and on the web in Outlook for Android. Available only to customers on the updated architecture using the Microsoft sync technology (Office 365 Message Center post ID 165218).
| Outlook | July CY2019 | |
Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect | We’re updating and Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect. We are aiming to improve page loading performance for our office.com and portal.office.com users by removing any special redirection from portal.office.com and simply land users on the new and improved office.com experience. We’ll begin rolling this feature out soon. | O365 | July CY2019 | |
New Outlook on the web – S/MIME availability | Support for S/MIME is coming to the new Outlook on the web. If you have been using S/MIME in classic Outlook on the web, you will need to update your S/MIME control by going to: Settings – S/MIME | Exchange | July CY2019 | |
Live captions in Teams meetings | This feature enables meeting participants to view captions during a Teams meeting. Supported spoken languages in 1st release: English | Microsoft Teams, O365 | August CY2019 | |
Microsoft Teams – Auto-updates will use lower network bandwidth | Based on your feedback, we are making improvements to the update process of the Teams desktop app to help you provide the latest capabilities to your users while significantly reducing the impact on your network bandwidth. | Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Meeting Recording in Government Community Cloud | This feature enables US Government Community Cloud (GCC) users to record GCC meetings and save in Microsoft Stream. | Microsoft Teams, O365 | July CY2019 | |
Live events admin usage report | The live events usage report in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center shows admins the activity overview for live events held in their organization. Admins can view usage information, including event status, start time, views, and production type for each event. Admins can also gain insight into usage trends and see who in the organization schedules, presents, and produces live events. | O365, Microsoft Teams | July CY2019 | |
Live captions, translation and transcription in live events | This feature enables live event producers, presenters and attendees to view captions during a Teams live event. Organizers can download the transcription once the live event has concluded. Supported spoken languages in 1st release: English, German and Simplified Chinese. | Microsoft Teams, O365 | July CY2019 | |
Activity Highlights in the File Hover Card | This feature shows relevant activities related to the files you’re working on. If someone you work with edits, comments, or @mentions you, that activity is displayed in the File Hover Card with a link to the relevant activity. | SharePoint | July CY2019 | |
Bulk Approvals | In both the modern and classic UX, you can select multiple items and approve or reject them at the same time. | SharePoint | Q2 CY2019 | |