| SharePoint Online: site themes for classic sites |
Microsoft will start enabling the modern site theming experience for all sites, classic and modern (group-connected) sites. It will now be possible for customers to apply the modern site themes on classic sites. A new site theming panel will be available, empowering site owners to easily apply one of the new themes to all pages of the site by selecting the theme of their choice. |
O365,SharePoint |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| New Sharing UX(ODB- Mobile) |
We will deliver a similar sharing experience to what we have on the web and other endpoints which supports all link types supported within an organization. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Erase user in Yammer |
Yammer will give admins the ability to erase a users’ name and personal information in Yammer, as well as their user usage data. |
Yammer |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Export user data |
Yammer will give admins the option to export an individual’s user data from the admin panel. |
Yammer |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Organization charts |
Know who’s who within your company with quick access to the organization structure, including the manager, direct reports and other colleagues. |
Outlook |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: Block links to external images |
Set up your account to block links in emails to external images. |
Outlook,Android |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Read Aloud |
Outlook can read your email aloud, highlighting text as it’s read. Improves ease of access to email for everyone. |
Outlook |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Provide an option to show up to 3 time zones |
Add a second and third time zone to your Calendar to show up to 3 time zones at once |
Calendar,Outlook |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Project Task Boards: Board filtering |
Filter your Task Board view to see tasks related to either a specific resource or summary task. You can also use these filters when viewing Sprint or Kanban boards. |
Project |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Mac: View event details at a glance |
View important event card details at a glance. Check out who was invited, edit your response, or join the meeting with just one click. |
Mac,Outlook |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Project: Set percent complete from a task board |
Set % Complete field in Task Board, Sprint, and Kanban views allows you to update percent complete for tasks when you move them from column to column. This percent complete will persist in your Gantt Chart view as well. |
Project |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Single Sign-On for iOS |
Yammer will enable single sign-on for iOS apps. |
Yammer |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Office 365 Groups created from Microsoft Teams will be hidden from Outlook by default |
Based on customer feedback, new Office 365 Groups generated as a result of creating a team in Microsoft Teams will no longer show in Outlook by default. For customers that want to continue with the existing behavior of showing these groups in Outlook, an Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet will be provided which can enable the group for the Outlook experience. Groups created through Outlook and then later enabled for Teams will continue to show in both Outlook and Teams. This update will gradually roll out across Outlook and Teams in the coming months. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Groups in Outlook: New create option to let people outside the org email a group for Outlook |
Now when you create a group from the Exchange Admin center you can select to allow external users to email that group directly. |
Exchange |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Update to Office 365 groups hover card in SharePoint |
We’re improving the way SharePoint users interact with Office 365 Groups by adding new features to the groups hover card. The improved groups card appears when you hover over a group name in SharePoint and gives users easy access to all the components of a group, including conversations, calendar, files, planner and more. If group permissions allow it, users will be able to join, leave, follow and un-follow groups, right from the groups hover card. |
All environments,O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Trainer Preview |
The Microsoft 365 security and compliance center enables data administrators, compliance officers, security administrators, and security operations to discover security and compliance controls across Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows in a single place. Note that you must have purchased Microsoft 365 via the CSP program to get the Microsoft 365 security and compliance center. |
Information Protection |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Enhanced Anti-Spoof Capabilities for Office ATP |
1. New advanced learning and intelligence will be applied on top of standard email authentication standards (SPF, DMARC, DKIM) validation to infer authentication status for domains based on their sending infrastructure properties. and reject If a message fails our implicit authentication, it is marked as junk. 2. Admins can use policies to customize the actions and additionally block or allow specific senders based on their authentication status. |
O365 |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Office 365 Cloud App Security – Productivity App Discovery enhancements |
The Productivity App Discovery feature will be expanded to include additional details like top ip address and user details. |
Information Protection,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: Conversation count icon indicator |
See how many unread email conversations you have with an indicator on the Outlook application icon found on the home screen of most Samsung and Sony devices. |
Outlook,Android |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Options for calendar reminders |
Set reminders to pop up over windows you’re working in. Otherwise, Outlook will blink in the taskbar to get your attention. |
Calendar,Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Blind copy warning |
Be warned before accidentally responding to an email when you are blind copied. |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| Office 365 Assistant for FastTrack customers |
Office 365 Assistant is a new chatbot in the Office 365 Admin center where users can ask questions across Office 365 workloads in a natural and conversational way, 24×7. Users will be able to quickly find relevant solutions and information, based on their initial query. This feature will be available for FastTrack customers, and will be rolled out in phases. |
Admin Center,O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Introducing new Office Start Pages |
Newly redesigned Office Start Pages for Word, PowerPoint and Excel will help you get started more easily with new documents, pick up where you left off with recently used documents and find shared documents to work together with others. |
Office Desktop |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft 365 Admin Center |
The new Microsoft 365 Admin Center is a single place for admins to get started with Microsoft 365. Using the familiar UI of the Office 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 admins can use this space to manage their tenant and access the depth admin experiences necessary for their job. A new Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center, as well as Microsoft 365 Device Management can easily be accessed from the main admin center. The Security and Compliance Center will be available shortly, with Device Management to follow afterwards. |
O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: New homescreen widget |
Get more details at a glance with an improved Widget. |
Outlook,Android |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Resume Assistant, Powered by LinkedIn for Mac |
Craft your best resume to land your dream job, using the power of LinkedIn right inside of Word |
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Q2 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center |
The new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center will provide you a unified experience to manage Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. We’re delivering additional functionality, end-to-end insights, and the ability to manage Teams settings on a user level. |
Microsoft Teams |
Q1 CY2018 |
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| SharePoint pages and news: custom metadata columns |
Allow customers to add custom metadata to modern SharePoint pages and news articles. This gives you the ability to create prescriptive information architecture and solutions that use the pages/news’ metadata for dynamic grouping and organization. It, too, ships with a new Page properties web part used to display select metadata on the page itself. |
SharePoint,O365 |
July CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Forwarding Meeting Invites |
Meeting organizers have an option to allow if their meetings can be forwarded to others. |
Outlook,Exchange |
August CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Set text size for reading emails |
Set your preference for Zoom percentage to adjust the test size for ease of access to reading emails. |
Outlook |
Q4 CY2018 |
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| ATP SIEM Integration |
ATP threat feeds can be integrated to most of the commonly used SIEM solutions via the Office 365 management activity API. |
O365 |
Q4 CY2018 |
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| Outlook on the web – bill payment events on calendar |
Outlook will now automatically create events in your calendar for statements with payment due dates and send you an email reminder two days before the due date. This complements our work with flights, hotels, cars, and packages. Automatically adding the due date to your calendar will be set to “off by default”. |
Exchange |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Microsoft Bookings – online payments for Business Premium subscriptions |
Bookings will now allow users to request an online payment in order for a customer to complete booking an appointment. Feature will be off-by-default and payment/banking information can only be set-up or modified by an Office 365 admin. |
Small Business Apps,O365 |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Enjoy animated GIFs in email |
Emails take on more character with animated GIFs supported in messages you create or receive. |
Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Updates to organizational branding for Office 365 |
Custom organization logos will soon move from the center of the Office 365 navigation bar, and replace the Office 365 logo on the left side. By default, the color of the navigation bar will vary by application. If organizations wish to ensure that their custom logo shows up on the same navigation bar color across applications, they can set a custom navigation bar background color in the Organization profile section of the Admin Center. |
O365,All environments |
Q2 CY2018 |
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