| Project Online Desktop Client for GCC High / DoD | Project Online Desktop Client will now be available for GCC High / DoD customers to use along with their Project Online subscription. | GCC, GCC High/DoD, Project | October CY2018 | |
| Forms GA for GCC, GCC High and DoD | Forms is currently available for EDU and Commercial. Now, it is going to the rest of government customers. | Online, Microsoft Forms, GCC High/DoD, GCC, GCC High | November CY2018 | |
| SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: new Files experience | Manage files in Microsoft Teams with the full power of SharePoint. With the new Files experience, you will be able to add and manage custom columns, sort and filter files with custom views, trigger workflows, and sync files to your PC or Mac. Available this summer. | O365, Online, SharePoint | November CY2018 | |
| Office 365 Data Loss Prevention UI to create custom sensitive information types | Office 365 DLP will support the ability to create custom sensitive information types within the Security & Compliance Center UI. Previously this could only be configured via a XML file. | O365 | October CY2018 | |
| Flow for SharePoint reminders | Use Flow to automatically monitor date-tagged documents or items in SharePoint, and receive a reminder alert ‘x’ days in advance of each item’s date. | SharePoint | October CY2018 | |
| Office 365 Data Loss Prevention supports ability to block messages in Microsoft Teams chat | Office 365 Data Loss Prevention will be able to block Microsoft Teams chat messages after detecting the presence of sensitive information | O365 | Q1 CY2019 | |
| Office 365 Data Loss Prevention treats files as sensitive by default until fully scanned | Office 365 Data Loss Prevention will be able to treat files in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business as sensitive (by default) and therefore block external access until the file has been fully scanned for sensitive information. | O365 | Q1 CY2019 | |
| SharePoint sites: central asset library | Provide easy access to your organization’s approved images that can be leveraged by everyone. When a person needs an approved image, or one that was purchased for licensed use throughout the intranet, they can click on “Your organization” and navigate files and folders of assets that are centrally managed for use in title regions and the Image webpart. | O365, SharePoint, Online | Q2 CY2019 | |
| SharePoint sites: audience targeting in site navigation | Increase the value and engagement of your site navigation by filtering the items within the navigation menu based on people and groups. This applied to communication sites and hub sites in Office 365. | Online, SharePoint, O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Outlook on the web – conditional access | Office 365 admins can now set policies that block users from downloading files from Outlook on the web to non-compliant devices. | Exchange, Online | Q3 CY2018 | |
| Office 365 Message Encryption: Customizable branded templates | You can create customizable branded templates for encrypted emails originating from your organization. These templates can fulfill several use cases, such as: -Templates for each department, such as Finance, Sales, etc. -Templates for different products -Templates for different geographical regions or countries Once created, these branding templates can be applied to encrypted emails using Exchange Mail Flow rules. | Exchange, O365 | Q1 CY2019 | |
| Auto-Investigation with Key Threat Playbooks | Auto-investigation capabilities for threats will be available in Office E5 with integration with WDATP. Also, there will be key threat playbooks available at this time also. Ability to trigger automated investigations using the playbooks from Threat Explorer also will go live. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Auto-remediation with enhanced playbooks | Auto-remediation of threats with additional playbooks and deeper integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory. There will be additional remediation capabilities made available in guided threat hunting scenarios. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Enhanced Threat Explorer | Guided hunting enhancements with delivery status, location, policy override data supporting email investigations. Also, added remediation actions from Threat Explorer and advanced malware and phish detonation details. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Safe Links Protection for Microsoft Teams | The power of Safe Links will now be available to protect users from malicious links sent via Microsoft Teams. | O365 | Q2 CY2019 | |
| Create an org-wide team (for up to 1,000 users) in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams will support an easy way for everyone in an organization with up to 1,000 active users to be a part of a single team for collaboration with the new org-wide team type. With this feature, all internal users (up to 1,000 active users) will be added as members automatically. | Microsoft Teams | October CY2018 | Link |
| Project Roadmap | Roadmap is the capability for the new Project service, based on the CDS for Apps platform. It visually aggregates different project types so you can see phases, milestones and key dates in one view. You can learn more about this capability on this blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Project-Blog/Announcing-Project-Roadmaps/ba-p/268466. | Project | Q1 CY2019 | |
| Outlook on the web – Teams for online meetings | You will have the ability to create online meetings from Outlook on the web using Teams. | Online, Exchange, Education | December CY2018 | |
| FindTime – support for more languages | We are adding support for more languages. | Education, Exchange, Online | Q1 CY2019 | |
| New Help and Support pane from the Office 365 navbar | The new and improved help and support pane provides contextual help on top issues, access to the latest support information, and the ability for admins to customize the pane with their company’s helpdesk information. The same services that power help and support in Office desktop clients, are now extended to the web. You can see this today in the new Outlook in the web that is available to Targeted Release organizations. It will be coming to more Office 365 web apps over the next six months, starting with Office.com. | O365, Online, All environments | November CY2018 | |
| Manage Teams from Admin Center | A list of all teams in your organization is now available directly in the Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center. Simply click on “Teams” in the left navigation and select “Manage Teams” to see this list | Microsoft Teams | October CY2018 | |
| Microsoft Teams Admin Roles | Facilitate the administration of Microsoft Teams in your organization with new Azure Active Directory roles. Users can be assigned the Teams admin roles via the Azure Admin Portal. | Microsoft Teams | October CY2018 | |
| SharePoint admin center improvements | The new SharePoint admin experience provides a completely revamped SharePoint admin center that draws heavily on our modern principles… an administrative console designed to help IT achieve more, so their users can achieve more. Beginning in late October we’re adding new capabilities to this admin center to include: The ability to set as your default admin center Improvements to managing group-connected sites New options to manage and configure hub sites and associated sites Simplified configuration of sharing controls that are more aligned to the OneDrive sharing controls Additional options to allow for configuring default site creation properties | SharePoint | October CY2018 | |
| Chat made accessible with the Immersive Reader | Immersive Reader has made its way to chat and channels. Personalize text and page themes for increased visibility, minimize visual distractions with Line Focus, or follow along with the personalized text reader. To launch the immersive reader from any conversation or chat, open the “…” menu and select Immersive Reader. | Microsoft Teams | October CY2018 | |
| Convey more with image annotation | Capture images, annotate, and share them on a secure platform. IT Admins can set policies to prevent images from being stored on a mobile device or local drive. | Microsoft Teams | October CY2018 | |
| Dynamic Group Management | Reduce the administrative overhead of adding and removing users by creating teams from Office 365 groups with a dynamic membership rule. For these groups, membership is managed dynamically based on user’s Azure Active Directory (AAD) attributes. | Microsoft Teams | Q1 CY2019 | |
| Enrich your private chat experience with screen sharing | Need to quickly show someone your screen, but don’t have time for a call? You can now share your entire desktop or a specific window directly from a private chat session. You can even let them take control to collaborate on content together. To share your screen during a private chat, simply click the open sharetray icon on the top right of the screen and pick one of the available window options. | Microsoft Teams | Q1 CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Stream intelligence capabilites become available to additional Office 365 plans | As part of our commitment to empower people and organizations with AI solutions, we are expanding the availability of intelligence capabilities in Stream to additional Office 365 plans. The following Stream features will be automatically applied to new videos in your tenant: – Speaker timelines that use face detection to indicate every place that a person appears within a video so viewers can easily navigate to each speaker in the video – Speech-to-text and closed captions that capture spoken dialog in a readable form and make content more accessible for everyone – Transcript search and timecodes that let viewers quickly search and find moments that matter in a video Additionally, speech-to-text transcription that enables closed captions and deep search will be applied to existing videos in Stream. Beginning in November, these new capabilities will begin to roll out to the following Office 365 plans: • Enterprise E1 • Enterprise E3 • Firstline F1 • Education A1 • Education A3 • Business Premium • Business Essentials • Microsoft 365 Business | Microsoft Stream | November CY2018 | |
