| Office 365 Data Loss Prevention support for Exact Data Match (EDM) classification | Exact data match (EDM) classification capabilities in Office 365 Data Loss Prevention enables you to detect specific data fields in a given record in a structured data file to help protection sensitive information. For example, the ability to detect the combination of a credit card number along with a expiry date and customer name to block the inappropriate sharing of this individual record. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Manage sharing and access request settings from the Site permissions panel | Site owners can now manage sharing and access request settings from the Site permissions panel. Site owners can use these settings to, for example, only allow owners to share files, folders and the site and restrict everyone else from sharing. Previously these settings were only available in the Advanced permissions settings page | SharePoint | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Exchange Online Improvements to Accelerate Replication of Changes to Azure Active Directory | We’re updating Exchange Online to accelerate replication of changes to Azure Active Directory. With this change, modifications to Exchange properties will be written immediately to AAD reducing the replication time. | Exchange | October CY2019 | |
| Tenant Customizable Recipient Limits | In Exchange Online a mailbox user is allowed to send to a maximum of 500 recipients per message. This default value currently can’t be changed by the tenant admin. Yet, many admins would like to raise this limit on at least a few mailboxes (for monthly newsletters for example). Others want to significantly lower it (to, say, 50 or some such) for most or all mailboxes in their organization, as part of a perceived defense-in-depth strategy to reduce the potential impact should a hacker compromise a user account and start blasting out spam, or a disgruntled employee tries to air their grievances company-wide. With the upcoming customizable recipient limits, you’ll now be able to customize this setting between 1 and 1000, for a single mailbox, multiple mailboxes, and for the default setting for new mailboxes that you create in the future. Single and bulk edit will be available in the Exchange Admin Center UI, while customizing the default setting for new mailboxes can be done via Remote PowerShell. | Exchange | Q1 CY2020 | |
| Updated SharePoint start page experience | The SharePoint start page, previously known as SharePoint home is getting a UX refresh. We are also adding new experiences to the start page to help users discover and get back to their content. | SharePoint | October CY2019 | |
| Addition of New File Types to Default Block List | We are adding some additional file extensions to the BlockedFileTypes list. The BlockedFileTypes parameter specifies a list of attachment file types (file extensions) that can’t be saved locally or viewed from Outlook on the web. | Exchange | October CY2019 | |
| Enhancements to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts | With this change, the email template used for end-user-spam notifications will be modified to conform with other Microsoft email templates. As part of the change, end-users will need to navigate to the Quarantine Portal within the Security and Compliance Center to take actions, such as release message. Also with this change, a new alert is being added for Malicious email detected. With this, admins will be able to configure an alert to notify them when an end-user has a malware or phishing message quarantined. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October 2019. | Microsoft Information Protection, O365 | October CY2019 | |
| Outlook on the web – New Search suggestions | The new suggestions will help you easily find emails and files in your inbox when using Search. When searching for a keyword, Outlook will show relevant people, emails, and files that contain the keywords. | Exchange | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Outlook for iOS: Move messages to suggested folders | Effortlessly move emails to folders using Outlook folder suggestions | Outlook | October CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams – Pinned channels | Stay organized and easily keep track of your work with pinned channels. Pinning a channel moves it to the top of your teams list for easy access. To pin a channel, simply select “…” next to the channel name and select “pin”. | Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Safe Links for Office Online | Safe Links in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection has been protecting your links in Office clients on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Now, we are extending this protection to Office Online. When a user clicks a link in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote in Office Online, 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. In addition, we are simplifying the policy setup for Safe Links for Office that will combine the configuration for both Office Clients and Office Online into one setting. This feature will be ON by default. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | October CY2019 | |
| Phish and spam Zero-hour Auto Purge move to Quarantine | We are updating Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) to move phish and spam messages identified post-delivery to Quarantine to better align the ZAP action to the mail flow action defined in the Anti-spam policy. After this update, ZAP will move post-delivery detected phish or spam mails to Quarantine if the respective phish/spam action in the recipient’s Spam policy is set to Redirect, Delete, or Quarantine. If the policy action is set to Move to Junk, then ZAP will continue to move the message to Junk. ZAP still will not take action if the policy action is Add X-header, Modify Subject, or No Action. | O365, Microsoft Information Protection | November CY2019 | |
| Introducing the Quarantine Administrator Role | We’re introducing the Quarantine Administrator RBAC Role. With this introduction, users can now add a role for Quarantine to role groups within the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center. The new Quarantine role will provide access to all components of Quarantine. We’ll be gradually rolling this out in mid-October 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October 2019. | Exchange, O365 | October CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams – Enhanced Delegation | Currently Microsoft Teams offers basic delegation which is the capability to delegate your calls to another user. That person can answer and make calls on your behalf. Microsoft has enhanced this capability so that the people who support you can now add or remove additional delegates. They will also be able to change call forwarding settings on your behalf. This will better support those who need to delegate their calls. | O365, Microsoft Teams | October CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams – Dynamic Emergency Calling for Calling Plans | Dynamic Emergency Calling is a feature of Microsoft Teams Phone System. It uses the caller’s current location to route to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), a call center operated by the local government. This feature is for the United States. This is the second release of this feature which adds support for Direct Routing users. | Microsoft Teams, O365 | October CY2019 | |
| Microsoft Teams – Audio Calling for the Chrome Browser | Make and Receive calls using the Chrome browser. | O365, Microsoft Teams | Q3 CY2019 | |
| Automated Incident Response for compromised user accounts | We’re adding a new playbook for automated investigation and remediation of compromised user accounts. With the new playbook for detecting compromised users, security teams can automatically identify, mitigate, and contain threats due to these user accounts, reducing potential damages significantly. The playbook will trigger automatic investigations for users with abnormal sending patterns or users restricted from sending email. The playbook will also provide valuable insights into: • How the user was compromised???if the user clicked on a bad link or it changed state, or if the user performed some malicious activity, such as sending phish or malware. • What they did after that???for example, if they set up delegates or mail forwarding rules or changed other settings • What actions the security team performed???such as cleaning up malicious messages, investigating URLs that changed verdict, removing delegates and inbox rules, and so on | O365, Exchange | October CY2019 | |
| Updating Live Events policy setting for Live Captions and Subtitles | This policy change improves accessibility of Microsoft products by enabling closed captions for Live Event attendees participating in any Live Event hosted by the tenant. However, the event scheduler can disable the feature, although that would negatively impact application accessibility. This policy enables a CC button for attendees; closed captioning is not turned on by default. An attendee who wishes to view closed captions will need to activate the feature by clicking the CC button | O365, Microsoft Teams | November CY2019 | |
| File hover card – conversations | This new file hover card feature, alongside file details and actions like ‘Inside Look’ and ‘Activity,’ will show relevant emails, meetings and Teams conversations to the individual reviewing the file hover card information. So, when someone sends an email, a Teams message, or a meeting invitation that references a file from SharePoint or OneDrive, that conversation is displayed in the file hover card with a link to the conversation(s). | SharePoint | November CY2019 | |
| External sharing reports- OneDrive | End users will be able to access reports on all of their shared content. | OneDrive for Business | October CY2019 | |
| Common Office 365 file sharing experience in OWA | When you copy/paste a link to a file stored in OneDrive, Outlook Web App (OWA) will reconcile the file name as a hyperlink instead of the pasting the full URL. You also have the control to then change the access permissions on the shared link. | OneDrive for Business | Q3 CY2019 | |
| OneDrive and SharePoint email localization | We will now localize emails where possible to the preferred language of recipients as defined in their AAD and Exchange settings. In the case of multi-recipient emails ODSP has built logic to consume content and site languages to localize emails. | OneDrive for Business | November CY2019 | |
| SharePoint site URL rename | As business changes, so, too, can you sites – especially site URLs. In the SharePoint admin center you will be able to change site URLs by renaming them. So for example, if you have a site https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Develpment, using the SharePoint admin center you can rename the site URL to correct the incorrect spelling of “Development.” These changes are opaque, meaning that access requests to the old URL are redirected – users will not need to have to update their links. | SharePoint, O365 | October CY2019 | |
