| Outlook for Windows: Most relevant Search results on top |
Intelligent technology generates the most relevant results and presents it at the top of the list without duplicating results that are sorted by date. |
Outlook, Windows Desktop |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Suggested people in Search |
Suggestions of relevant people are provided while typing your Search query. |
Windows Desktop, Outlook |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Mac: Search results without typing |
Suggested results provided with one click in the Search box based on recent search and email history. |
Outlook, Mac |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: Access Group notebook |
Launch the Group’s OneNote notebook from the Group card in Outlook for Android |
Outlook, Android |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for iOS: External recipient warning |
Receive a tip when composing a message to a recipient that is outside your company. |
iOS, Outlook |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Android: External recipient warning |
Receive a tip when composing a message to a recipient that is outside your company. |
Outlook, Android |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Time to leave preview in calendar events |
Preview of the (intelligent, location based) departure time for an upcoming event at any time in the calendar event and quickly get directions with one touch. |
iOS, Outlook |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Manage events with large audiences |
Allow organizers to update or cancel events with over 500 attendees. |
Windows Desktop, Exchange, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Group calendar events |
View the Group calendar events from the Group card in Outlook for Android. |
Outlook, Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Comment when canceling meetings |
Have the option to add a comment to your meeting cancelation message. |
iOS, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Comment when canceling meetings |
Have the option to add a comment to your meeting cancelation message. |
Outlook, Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Mac: Office 365 Message Encryption |
Protect email content with Office 365 Message Encryption in Outlook for Mac. |
Mac, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Mac: Allow meetings to be forwarded |
Meeting organizers have an option to allow or disallow their meetings to be forwarded to others. |
Mac, Outlook |
September CY2018 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Act on one message in a conversation thread |
Take action on a single message from within a conversation thread. |
Outlook, iOS |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: act on one message within a conversation thread |
Take action on a single message from within a conversation thread. |
Android, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Support shared mailboxes |
Access shared mailboxes from Outlook for iOS to see read, write and send messages as well as a shared calendar experience. |
iOS, Outlook |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Support shared mailboxes |
Access shared mailboxes from Outlook for Android to read, write and send messages as well as a shared calendar experience. |
Outlook, Android |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Mac: Enhanced contact card information |
Select a contact’s name in a message or calendar event to see their photo, phone number, email, recent conversations, and more. |
Mac, Outlook |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| SharePoint mobile: organizational news support |
As you tap into the SharePoint mobile app News tab, you’ll now see support for organizational news – which brings more greater control, process and reach to how news can be published throughout your organization. |
O365, SharePoint |
October CY2018 |
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| SharePoint mobile: @mentions in comments |
When viewing a news article within the SharePoint mobile app, you can now directly @mention a person from within your organization and they will be notified – aka, drawn into the article and your response to further engage on what’s happening around you. Bring people into the discussion – @mention them. |
SharePoint, O365 |
October CY2018 |
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| SharePoint mobile: create a News link from an external source |
With News links, you can now bring in news articles from external sources. And now you can do this from your mobile device through the SharePoint mobile app. The News link feature gives you the option to paste in an external URL. And then it generates a thumbnail and gives you the option to adjust the primary text. Once you save it, the news article goes into the SharePoint news service as a new News article. And when a person clicks on it, they will be taken to the original source to read the article. |
O365, SharePoint |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook on the web – User Experience Refresh |
A new faster, smarter, and more personalized Outlook on the web experience is coming to Office 365 commercial licenses. We will start rolling out the ability to try this new experience to Targeted Release customers first. |
Exchange |
September CY2018 |
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| Outlook on the web – suggested replies |
For messages that can be addressed with a short response, Outlook suggests three related responses so you can reply with just a couple of clicks. |
Exchange |
September CY2018 |
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| SharePoint web part: countdown timer |
Site owners and members will now be able to show a countdown timer to important launch dates, key meetings, campaign ends, etc. on their site home page, within subpages and/or within a news article on team sites, communication sites and hub sites. Simply add the web part to your page or news, and tap in the target date and time to count down to. And voila, everyone can see how much time until that important date and time. |
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Online, SharePoint, O365 |
October CY2018 |
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| SharePoint and Teams: SharePoint web parts as tabs in Teams |
We’re working towards directly exposing SharePoint web parts as tabs in Microsoft Teams – including their configuration options. Now, your custom development can be used in more places throughout your organizations collaboration and communication efforts. |
O365, SharePoint, Online, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) |
October CY2018 |
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| Advanced Data Governance: Auto-Classify Records |
Now you will be able to auto-classify your content as a record based on detection of senstive data using a custom query or existing sensitive data types. Use this to extend Records Management governance in your organizations via auto-applications or the record designation within SharePoint, Groups, OneDrive and sites in Microsoft Teams. |
O365, Online, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) |
Q2 CY2018 |
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| Office 365 Message Encryption: More flexible admin control for attachments |
As a follow up to https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Admin-control-for-attachments-now-available-in-Office-365/ba-p/204007, administrators can control if recipients have unrestricted rights to their attachments when the Encrypt-Only template is used for any recipient. Previously this was supported only for non-Office 365 recipients, and now we support this control to be applied for Office 365 recipients as well. |
Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Exchange |
Q3 CY2018 |
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| Office 365 Message Encryption: Encrypt-Only template available in Office 365 Unified DLP |
New capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption uses encryption and rights protection to help you protect and control your sensitive emails. We are adding new value into Office 365 Message Encryption so you can create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center to identify, monitor, and automatically protect sensitive email messages and Office attachments by applying Encrypt-only template. |
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, GCC, O365 |
Q3 CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Spelling corrections in Search |
Outlook will provide a suggested search query with spelling corrections. |
Windows Desktop, Outlook |
September CY2018 |
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| Groups in Outlook – Removal of footnote in group emails |
We are removing clutter from group emails by removing the footnote in the emails you receive when you are following a group in your inbox. The footnote gave followers a direct link to stop following the group in their inbox. Following a group is the default value when someone creates a group but can be modified when creating it, if people want to stop following a group they have to do so from the group card now. |
Online, Exchange, All environments |
September CY2018 |
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| Automated transcription services for video and audio files stored in SharePoint & OneDrive |
Beginning later this year, automated transcription services will be natively available for video and audio files in OneDrive and SharePoint using the same AI technology available in Microsoft Stream. While viewing a video or listening to an audio file, a full transcript (improving both accessibility and search) will show directly in our industry-leading viewer, which supports over 320 different file types. This will help you utilize your personal video and audio assets, as well as collaborate with others to produce your best work. |
All environments, SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook – Unathenticated sender tagging |
If you receive an email from a mail server which does not use proper authentication, the email will be tagged and Outlook will show a “We could not verify the identity of the sender” Mailtip. |
Exchange, Online, All environments |
October CY2018 |
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| Outlook for Windows: Block external content in encrypted messages |
The default setting will be to block the automatic download of external content in encrypted or signed HTML messages (SMIME). |
Windows Desktop, Outlook |
October CY2018 |
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| Hierarchical file plans |
Import from Excel and manage hierarchical file plans for retention and records management |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Automatically apply retention labels based on content types and metadata |
Use content types, taxonomy or custom document metadata in rules to automatically apply retention/record management policy labels |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Modern document sets |
Integrate the document sets with the rest of the modern SharePoint user experience |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Label analytics |
Centralized reporting and analysis for content labeling activities through Office 365. |
SharePoint |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Autoapply retention labels based on content types and metadata |
Use content types, taxonomy or any document metadata column to automatically apply retention/record management labels |
SharePoint |
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| Outlook for Windows: Suggested People with images |
Pick the right email recipients from the suggestions provided with their corporate profile picture. |
Windows Desktop, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Mac: native labeling sensitive messages |
Support Microsoft Information Protection native labeling of sensitive messages and justify changes with company administrators. |
Outlook, Mac |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Calendar search |
Add a Search box option to the Outlook calendar to fine specific event results. |
Outlook, iOS |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Calendar Search |
Add a Search box option to the Outlook calendar to fine specific event results. |
Outlook, Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: Favorite notifications |
Option to receive Outlook for iOS notifications for emails only from your people you’ve identified as Favorites in Outlook. |
iOS, Outlook |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Favorite Notifications |
Option to receive Outlook for Android notifications for emails only from your people you’ve identified as Favorites in Outlook. |
Outlook, Android |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: native labeling sensitive messages |
Support Microsoft Information Protection native labeling of sensitive messages and provide a justification to company administrators for changes to the label to comply with corporate policies. |
iOS, Outlook |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: native labeling of sensitive messages |
Support Microsoft Information Protection native labeling of sensitive messages and provide a justification to company administrators for changes to the label to comply with corporate policies. |
Outlook, Android |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: enhanced access to Office 365 files |
Pick your cloud file attachments in Outlook with access to recently viewed Office 365 files, email attachments and other storage locations. |
Outlook, iOS |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Office 365 Home and Personal Subscription – Account Changes |
Three exciting changes are coming to Office 365 consumer subscriptions. (1) Office on all your devices: Subscribers can install Office on an unlimited number of devices—and be signed in to their accounts on up to five of those devices at the same time. (2) Six licenses rather than five: We’re increasing the number of licenses in a Home subscription from 5 to 6. (3) Everything you need in one place: You can now manage your Office 365 subscription directly on the Microsoft Account portal—the single place to manage all your Microsoft subscriptions, redeem your Microsoft Rewards, and access other Microsoft benefits. |
All environments, O365 |
October CY2018 |
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| Block download |
Users will be able to share a link to a file that prevents the recipient from downloading it (they can only view on the web). |
OneDrive for Business |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Comments on all files (SP and ODB) |
Comment on all non Office file types |
OneDrive for Business |
Q1 CY2019 |
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| Enhanced capture scenarios |
Optimized work flow experiences around whiteboard sharing and receipt capture. |
OneDrive for Business |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for iOS: User experience updates |
The new user experience in Outlook for iOS brings additional human factors design guidelines into the experience for increased simplification, focus and fast action. |
Outlook, iOS |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Sync local calendar with Outlook |
Bring changes made within the local calendar on Android phones to Outlook Calendar. |
Outlook, Android |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Outlook for Android: Time to leave notifications |
Powered by Cortana, get notifications of the time to leave for meeting in Outlook Calendar based on your location and traffic whether you’re driving or taking public transportation. |
Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook, Android |
Q2 CY2019 |
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| Mac files on demand preview |
Files On-Demand will be available in “preview” for Ignite. |
OneDrive for Business |
September CY2018 |
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| Ideas in Excel Online |
Office 365 apps are infused with artificial intelligence (AI) to help you do your best work. The Ideas pane uses AI to create smart, actionable suggestions that save you time and enhance your content. |
Excel, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Online |
October CY2018 |
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| Ideas in Excel (Mac) |
Office 365 apps are infused with artificial intelligence (AI) to help you do your best work. The Ideas pane uses AI to create smart, actionable suggestions that save you time and enhance your content. |
Mac, Excel, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) |
September CY2018 |
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| Ideas in Excel (Win32) |
Office 365 apps are infused with artificial intelligence (AI) to help you do your best work. The Ideas pane uses AI to create smart, actionable suggestions that save you time and enhance your content. |
Windows Desktop, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Excel |
September CY2018 |
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