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Updated Feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication MC178555 administrator roles check before: 05/05/2019 Updated feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged Status: authentication administrator rolesWe are updating permissions for the Created: 04/29/2019 Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication administrator Product: Azure Active Directory roles in Azure Active Directory. These roles will be given permission to reset passwords for users. We will deploy the change to these roles in Platform: Online, World tenant mid-May 2019. Scope: Administration, Security Recommendations Check your security and privileges assignments and the corresponding concepts if you are impacted by this change. Description Microsoft adds privileges to admin roles. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on. Docu to check Working instructions More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin- roles MS Preperations You should review the list of users who are assigned to these roles. If any of these users should not have permission to reset passwords for other users, you should remove them from the role.Please see the Additional Information for more information on roles and permissions. MS How does it affect When the roles are updated, existing and new users assigned to these roles will have permission to me reset user passwords. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on.
Microsoft Intune In Development for May is now available MC178596 check before: 05/06/2019 The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has Status: been updated for May 2019. Created: 04/29/2019 Product: Intune Platform: mobile, Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, MDM Recommendations As the Intune team stopped publishing their items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap the responsible Team for Intune is obliged to check upcoming changes in the Intune blog. see the link in the "Additional Info" section additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/in-development More Info URL https://aka.ms/Intune_InDevelopment MS Preperations You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your end user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your end users.Click Additional Information for the link to the In development page. MS How does it affect The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to me assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated for May. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release.
New Feature: Time Clock in Shifts MC178678 check before: 05/07/2019 Time Clock in Shifts is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this Status: Rolling out feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Created: 04/30/2019 ID 50835 Product: Teams, Teams Shifts Platform: Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Compliance, User Compliance This might be a case to check with the workers council. Recommendations Give notice to the responsible team for workers time recording of the new feature. Check for detailed configuration options as soon as the function is visible on your tenant. Links 50835 Config Options The new Time Clock feature comes with an opt-in function. More details are not available. Opportunities The Time Clock feature in Teams Shifts might help is some very limited scenarios, because acquiring workers time is in the most cases covered by a 3rd party system, which is already highly integrated into an existing ERP system. Maybe this feature can be an option for future use or future sites, where you might save the hardware equipment to aquire the time Description This change adds a time clock with geofencing to record worked time. Linked RM Item Title: Time clock in Shifts Details Description: Enable your Firstline Workforce to clock in and out of their shifts and breaks from their mobile device. Additionally, you can set up Time clock using a geofenced location and collect GPS data to validate that someone has clocked in/out at the appropriate worksite. More Info URL https://support.office.com/teams MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for end-user documentation which will be available in the Teams Helps center. MS How does it affect This feature is available to be enabled on Teams Web/Desktop and will be opt-in.We'll be gradually me rolling this out to customers in early May, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.This change does not affect Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MC178681 check before: 05/07/2019 The new Outlook on the web, currently opt-in, does not support the Share Status: availability feature. Created: 05/01/2019 Product: FindTime, Outlook Platform: mobile, Online Scope: UI, User Recommendations Give notice to the key users and help desk, if your users are allowed to toggle the new Outlook on the web experience already. additional Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s=calendar-1492711395&f=how-do-i-send-my- availability-to-someone-via-email-1556034333&p=all Description This change only applies to the new Outlook on the web experience. Microsoft adds a new toggle to opt-in or out the availability sharing capability even in the old Outlook on the web environment. Users can share their availability in different ways. One is using the Outlook mobile app (see additional info) or using FindTime. This doesn't mean sharing the user's calendar, but communicating user-selected time slots as available. More Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s MS Feature Name Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MS Preperations If users would like to continue to use the Share availability feature direct them to not opt-in to the new Outlook on the web. If they have already opted-in to the new Outlook on the web they can opt- out, via the toggle, and retain full use of the Share availability feature.We would also suggest the following options to share availability:Use the Outlook mobile app to send availability Use the FindTime add-in to share availabilityWe will send additional communication around the transition to the new Outlook on the web in the future.Please click Additional Information to learn more about how to share availability in Outlook mobile MS How does it affect Users who opt-in to the new Outlook on the web will not be able to use the Share availability me feature.
New Feature: Manage discovery of private teams in Microsoft Teams MC178666 check before: 05/07/2019 Admins and team owners can control whether private teams can be Status: In development discovered by Microsoft Teams users in your organization. When a private Created: 04/30/2019 team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in Product: Teams suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for users to search for and find the private teams that they Platform: Online, World tenant want to join. Users can request to join a private team which a team owner Scope: Administration, Compliance, can then approve or deny. User We’re introducing a new per team setting that determines whether a team shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. Team owners can set the discovery setting for a private team in the team settings and through create team dialog during creation and admins can do so by using PowerShell. As an admin, you can also control which users in your organization are allowed to discover private teams (for which team discovery setting is enabled) by assigning user level policies. For a given team to be discoverable for a given user, that team’s setting would need to be set to be discoverable and discovery would need to be enabled for the user through policy. All existing teams created prior to roll out will remain non-discoverable unless the setting is explicitly changed by team owners or admins after the roll out. Team owners will get an option to review the discoverability setting for the teams they own and, if needed, update it Any team created after the roll out will have the team discovery setting set as discoverable by default. When a team owner creates a private team, they can change this setting. By default, user policy AllowPrivateTeamDiscovery will be set to true for all users in an organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 44370. This feature is scheduled to roll out in early June, 2019. Compliance Making private teams not findable might enable more usage scenarios for Teams with high confidentiality requirements. Recommendations Make all Team owners aware of the option to hide teams. Check your provisioning processes to integrate this option, too. Links 44370 Config Options General discovery of private teams can be set at tenant level soon this can be set via PowerShell with this command Set-Team -GroupId
New feature: Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365 MC178646 check before: 05/07/2019 Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365 is a new feature that enables Status: Rolling out you to apply multiple custom email templates, expire and revoke Created: 04/30/2019 encrypted emails accessed through the Office 365 web portal. We'll begin Product: Exchange, Office 365 rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Advanced Compliance, Roadmap IDs: 34924, 46098, 46099 Advanced Compliance Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Recommendations Evaluate what is possible in terms of customizing. Give notice to the department which is responsible for corporate design or communication. Or if the parameters are clear setup your desired design and inform the users and the help desk. Give also notice to the team responsible for additional options in OME like expire and revoke encrypted emails accessed through the Office 365 web portal Links 34924,46098,46099 Opportunities Get more company branding to Office 365. The visibility to external persons is high when OME is in use. This allows you that recipients identify emails from your organization and associate these emails with your company. Description OME encrypted emails outside the organization are standardized. Now you can create one or more templates to the OME message and apply these via Exchange Mail flow rules as needed. Also, the web page for OME can be customized. This includes only a logo and text. The general layout can't be changed. Linked RM Item Title: Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365: Custom email templates Advanced Message Details Encryption in Office 365: admin controlled message revocation Message encryption: admin controlled message expiration Url: https://aka.ms/ignite2018ome Description: You can create more than one 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. We are enabling the ability for admins to revoke encrypted emails. Revocation of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails. All such encrypted emails will be revocable. Once an email has been revoked, the recipient will get the following message when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 portal: “The message has been revoked by the sender.” We are releasing the ability for admins to expire encrypted emails. Expiration of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. If the recipient received a native inline experience in a supported Outlook client, then those emails cannot be revoked. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 Message Encryption portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails - and if the message is expired they will no longer be able to read and reply to the encrypted email. Once an email has been expired, the recipient will get an error when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 Message Encryption portal: “The message has been expired by the sender.” More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Announcing-Office-365- Advanced-Message-Encryption/ba-p/502440 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, you’ll be able to:Create multiple customizable branded templates for me encrypted emails. These templates can fulfill several use cases, such as:Templates for each department, such as Finance, Sales, etc.Templates for different productsTemplates for different geographical regions or countriesOnce created, these branded templates can be applied to encrypted emails using Exchange Mail Flow rules. Set an expiration date as an added option to the customizable branded templates for encrypted emails. Admins can set automatic policies that can detect sensitive information types (e.g. PII, Financial or Health IDs) or keywords to enhance protection by expiring access through the Office 365 web portal to encrypted emails.Once the custom email template is created in PowerShell with the desired expiration date, you can go to the Exchange admin center to apply the new template. After the template is applied, the sender can send email normally, and if the email meets the conditions of the policy, the expiration date will be invoked. From the perspective of the recipient, after the message is sent, they would see the branded template with the expiration date. Once the encrypted email has expired, the email will no longer be accessible through the Office 365 web portal. Admins can go into the encryption report to find encrypted emails and revoke access through a new UI experience inside the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center. Once the encrypted email has been revoked, the email will no longer be accessible through the Office 365 web portal. Advanced Message Encryption requires a Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 Enterprise E5 subscription, or an Office 365 E3 subscription with the E5 Compliance add-on or Advanced Compliance add-on. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.
New Feature: OneDrive sync client Get Help MC179202 check before: 05/12/2019 Get Help is a new OneDrive sync client feature on Windows and Mac. Status: In development We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Created: 05/05/2019 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49313 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Users will be confused when the Microsoft support will contact them directly Recommendations It's highly recommended to disable the option for users to directly reach out to the Microsoft support in an enterprise environment. Links 49313 Config Options This function can be disabled via PowerShell: Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction -DisableReportProblemDialog $true Description Your organization's users will be able to reach out to the Microsoft support via a dialog in the OneDrive for Business sync client Linked RM Item Title: Self-help for Sync client Details Description: Availability of "Get Help" option in the activity center that will enable end users to initiate a support ticket. Admins have the control to turn off this setting if required. We will have more capabilities built into this in future. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/onedrive-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0 MS Preperations Tenant Admins can control whether their users see “Get Help” and “Send Feedback” by running a command:Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction -DisableReportProblemDialog $trueThe SCRIPTED_DEPLOY_DISABLE_REPORT_PROBLEM registry key controls the setting on the local machine. MS How does it affect End-users will be able to reach out to Microsoft Support from OneDrive Activity Center using “More” me menu and selecting “Get Help” option.The new entry point is located right next to “Send Feedback” and is meant to set the right expectations with the user: “Get Help” will create a support ticket and a support agent will get back to you, while with “Send Feedback” you can let us know what you like and don’t like, report bugs and send us suggestions.This feature will be available as part of OneDrive sync client build 19.043.0304.0007
We're making changes to the Microsoft Search admin experience MC179201 check before: 05/12/2019 Starting in late May, we'll be retiring the Microsoft Search in Bing admin Status: console in the Microsoft 365 admin center. As we continue to develop Created: 05/05/2019 Microsoft Search, we will begin consolidating the administrative Product: Exchange, Microsoft 365 experience into a single console to support the variety of endpoints across admin center, SharePoint, Microsoft 365. Teams, Yammer, Microsoft Search Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration Recommendations If you already made settings for Microsoft Search or Bing integration review these settings and make sure the new environment reflects the old settings. Description Microsoft changes the way of administration of Microsoft Search. Old settings are not taken over to the new admin experience. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/connected-services MS Feature Name We're making changes to the Microsoft Search admin experience MS Preperations When this change takes effect, you will need to verify which Connected Services are enabled in your organization and disable services to which you would like to exclude from Microsoft Search results. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect If you have been using the Microsoft Search in Bing admin console please review the changes that me will occur when the admin center is transitioned to new consolidated Microsoft Search admin center. If you have been using Connected Services to turn off any of the results, please note that these settings will not be honored going forward. If you have turned off a service because your Organization does not use it, then the system will handle this scenario going forward. For example, if you don’t have Yammer in your organization, we will not show a Yammer tile/tab in the search results when this change ins implemented. Organization logo, name and color will be integrated with Office 365 Organization Profile and can me managed there moving forward. We will also be removing the feedback email option.
Updated Feature: Teams chat group size to 100 MC179396 check before: 05/15/2019 We’re updating Group Chat Size to 100. We'll begin rolling this feature out Status: In development soon.This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID Created: 05/08/2019 51235.This does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: User Links 51235 Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Add up to 100 people to a group chat Details Description: Do you need to have an ad-hoc discussion with a large number of people? Group chats can now accommodate up to 100 users. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams MS Feature Name Updated Feature: Teams chat group size to 100 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect This feature simply allows for all users to add and chat with up to 100 users in a group chat. We are me increasing the limit from 50 to 100 so now you can communicate with even more people in group chats!We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early June and will be complete by the end of July.
New feature: Teams sharing file links with permissions MC179400 check before: 05/15/2019 Sharing file links with ability to set permissions is a new Office 365 feature Status: In development in Teams. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is Created: 05/08/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 51230 Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Security, User Links 51230 Docu to check Trainings, Working instructions, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Shared links Details Description: Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/sharing-files-in-teams MS Feature Name New feature: Teams sharing file links with permissions MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect We have improved the process of copying a link to a file, and sharing that link with other users me using a chat or channel.As part of this feature,users can go to any file from anywhere within Teams, and create a shareable link to the file and also setappropriate sharing permissions to the link:Anyone with the link can access People in your organization with the linkPeople with existing access Specific peopleThe copied link can then be shared with others, by pasting it into a chat or channel. On pasting theplain lengthy link, this feature converts the link into a file chiclet object (same as the ones already available in Teams, when you upload a file into a chat or a channel). The sender can also set permissions on the file link that they are sharing, at the time of composing the message itself, so that the recipients do not run into access issues.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late May, 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of June, 2019.
Updated Feature: New setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings MC177121 chat check before: 05/30/2019 We’re updating the way meetings chat is controlled by creating a new, Status: separate setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings chat, as a Created: 04/03/2019 change from previous practice where meetings chat followed Product: Skype for Business, Teams CsTeamsMessagingPolicy. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon, but will do it in stages to provide time for customers to make any changes. Platform: World tenant Scope: Administration Effects for Operations If you don't take action on this, users may complain because of the missing chat tab in Teams meetings. This will raise the amount of rickets. Recommendations Reserve time and effort in the responsible team for Microsoft Teams to review the new settings and make the needed changes. Description By adding a new setting to the Teams PowerShell configuration command, the meeting chat will be disabled by default after roll-out. Docu to check Automation / Scripts More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps MS Feature Name Updated Feature: New setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings chat MS Preperations Review your requirements and policies with respect to meetings chat. If you do not require meetings chat to be off for any user, you do not need to do anything. If you require meetings chat to be off for specific users, we recommend you apply CsTeamsMeetingPolicy's MeetingChatEnabledType setting with the Enum value of Disabled to these users.The Additional Information will be updated shortly to reflect these changes. MS How does it affect At customers' request, we are making some changes to the way meetings chat is controlled. Prior me to the change, it was controlled by the AllowUserChat setting of the CsTeamsMessagingPolicy. After this change, it will be controlled by a new setting, MeetingChatEnabledType, of the CsTeamsMeetingPolicy. The change will be rolled out selectively on the basis of users’ upgrade mode: Users with effective upgrade mode of SfBOnly, SfBWithTeamsCollab, or SfBWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings do not have access to the Chat tab and hence do not conduct private or group chat in Teams. However virtually all such customers want to and should be permitted to chat in meetings, and many have requested this capability. Prior to this change they were not able to do so. For these users, this change will take effect on or after April 9. On the other hand, users with effective upgrade mode of Islands or TeamsOnly do have access to the Chat tab unless chat has been explicitly disabled in CsTeamsMessaging policy. When that happens, they also do not have access to meetings chat today. An example is EDU tenants, who frequently ban the use of all sorts of chat (both private chat, group chat and meetings chat) for students. For these users, this change will take effect on or after May 15. Prior to the change, tenant admins should review users for whom they want meetings chat to remain off, and make sure these users are granted the new setting. The roll out will be completed worldwide for all tenants by 5/31/2019.
Cross Organizational Sync 33413 check before: 06/01/2019 We have heard that many customers wanted the option to be able to sync Status: In development OneDrive folders shared not only from users within your own O365 Created: 02/08/2019 organizations but shared from partners, external contractors, suppliers Product: OneDrive for Business and users outside of your organization that you collaborate with. Cross tenant sync will support this scenario. Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, Security, User Compliance This might cause accidental data loss and should be monitored carefully. Recommendations Evaluate the chances and risks of the cross-organizational sync. Check the options for configuration. Comments In Office 365 pro plus this feature is already available since latest Februare in the monthly targeted channel. Description Cross-organizational sync of OneDrive allows users to copy data from or to other organizations environments.
Service Encryption for Exchange Online 31171 check before: 06/01/2019 Office 365 offers an added layer of encryption at the application level for Status: In development customer content in Office 365, including SharePoint Online and OneDrive Created: 07/12/2018 for Business. We are now rolling out Service Encryption for Exchange Product: Exchange Online. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Compliance, Security Compliance If you are in a regulated environment or you have sensitive data with high protection needs the new service encryption might help to fulfill the requirements. Recommendations give notice to the security and the compliance team. And be aware of the limitations in the tenant the use of this feature has. Opportunities With the Exchange online service encryption and the option to use a customer-provided key for the service encryption may enable your organization to use Exchange and other services storing data in Exchange, like Teams, Skype for Business, Bookings, etc. to use the services even for critical data. Comments In addition to using volume-level encryption, Exchange Online, Skype for Business, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business also use Service Encryption to encrypt customer data. Service Encryption allows for two key management options: Microsoft manages all cryptographic keys. (This option is currently available in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Skype for Business.) The customer supplies root keys used with service encryption and the customer manages these keys using Azure Key Vault. Microsoft manages all other keys. This option is called Customer Key, and it is currently available for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. (Previously referred to as Advanced Encryption with BYOK.) additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Office365/securitycompliance/office-365-service-encryption Description Microsoft adds the service encryption for Exchange online. This enables customers to provide their own encryption key for the Exchange service encryption. More Info URL https://aka.ms/mcsce
Groups Administrator Role 50228 check before: 06/01/2019 This feature will provide a new role for Groups administration. Members of Status: In development this role can create and manage Groups, create and manage groups Created: 04/03/2019 settings such as naming and expiration policies, and view groups activity Product: Azure Active Directory, Office and audit reports. 365 Groups Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration Recommendations You should review your rights assignment concept and rework it in order to use the new role if needed. Description By adding a new built-in role, Microsoft adopts the needs of Microsoft 365 operations entities. A Groups admin role makes it easier to delegate rights to the teams responsible for direct user support. Docu to check Working instructions, Automation / Scripts
Updated feature: Groups in Outlook - easier membership management MC173965 check before: 06/01/2019 We’re updating how owners of groups in Outlook can manage Status: Rolling out membership requests. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This Created: 02/21/2019 message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID: 46436. Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Android, iOS, mobile, Online, US Instances, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: User Effects for Operations Users might be confused on the new email type, ticket volume might increase. Recommendations Inform your help desk. You should educate the group owner how to use the new function. Links 46436 Dependencies If your users manage Outlook groups (and Teams) themselves, this change applies. If group memberships are managed by IT or a 3rd Party tool, you can safely ignore this. Description This change adds "actionable messages" to manage Outlook groups memberships. Users can directly act from a received email message. Using use-managed group membership makes administration easier. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Groups in Outlook - easier membership management Details Description: Group owners will have the capability to approve or decline membership requests right in an email in Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows through actionable messages. Approved or declined request will be visible to all the group owners. Owners can select one or multiple requests to approve or decline. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/add-and-remove-group-members-in-outlook-3b650f4a-5c9b-4f94- a1bb-0cca4b1091de MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Powered by actionable messages, group owners will now have the capability to approve or decline me membership requests right inside an email in Outlook on the web and in Outlook for Windows, without the need to navigate to other pages. Approved or declined requests will be visible to all the group owners. Owners can select one or multiple requests to approve or decline.We’re gradually rolling this feature out over the next few weeks, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of March 2019. Organizations in GCC, GCC High, DoD and BlackForest environments will receive this feature update in mid-April.
Microsoft Teams is ready for your organization - you can begin your upgrade MC179368 today check before: 06/07/2019 Microsoft Teams now provides the same presence, chat, voice, video and Status: meetings capabilities as Skype for Business as part of Office 365. Teams Created: 05/08/2019 is the new communications client in Office 365 replacing Skype for Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, Business over time. Skype for Business, Teams
Microsoft is committed to supporting your organization’s upgrade to Platform: Online, World tenant Teams. To make the process as easy as possible, Microsoft will Scope: Administration, User automatically upgrade your users to Teams on Friday, June 7, 2019.
Alternatively, you can use the tools in the Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center to upgrade your users right away. More Info URL https://aka.ms/upgradebasic MS Preperations Review the readiness resources available to assist you in planning and upgrading your users to Teams.
If you’re not ready to upgrade to Teams by Friday, June 7, 2019, contact Microsoft Support. Otherwise, we will upgrade your organization to Teams on your behalf.
Please click Additional Information below to learn more. MS How does it affect On Friday, June 7, 2019, Microsoft will automatically upgrade your users from Skype for Business me to Teams.
Once upgraded, Teams will become your organization's default client for chat, voice, video and meetings in Office 365.
Reminder: We’re retiring StaffHub and migrating your organization to MC171786 Microsoft Teams check before: 06/30/2019 As previously communicated in MC149144 on September 24, 2018, Status: Microsoft Teams is evolving to include a new set of capabilities that will Created: 01/08/2019 simplify schedule management and help deliver the tools for every worker Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, to get the job done. As a result, we will be retiring Microsoft StaffHub on StaffHub, Teams October 1, 2019 and we will be focusing our investments on Microsoft Teams. Platform: After October 1, 2019 users that attempt to log in to StaffHub will be Scope: Administration, UI, User greeted with a message directing them to download Microsoft Teams. To help you in your transition to Microsoft Teams, we ask that you review the details below for pre-requisites related to user and data migration across Microsoft Teams and StaffHub. If you’re receiving this notice, you have one or more people in your organization who currently use Microsoft StaffHub. Please communicate these details to the right stakeholders in your organization. Links MC149144 MS Preperations We encourage you to activate Microsoft Teams, ensure group creation is enabled and that all impacted users are properly covered with an active license that includes Microsoft Teams. This is just the first step as we help you transition towards Microsoft Teams. As more information becomes available we will be providing additional documentation and guidance on user and team migration over the next few months. Please click Additional Information to learn more about Microsoft Teams and how you can enable it for your organization. If you plan to terminate your use of Microsoft StaffHub before October 1, 2019, and you do not wish to have your organization’s data transferred to Microsoft Teams, please contact us at [email protected]. MS How does it affect To help transition users, we plan to migrate data chat history in Microsoft StaffHub to Microsoft me Teams. The amount of chat history that will be available in Microsoft Teams will depend on how soon you configure your organization for the transition. We recommend taking action no later than June 30, 2019 to provide enough time to transition 90 days of data by October 1, 2019. Please ensure that Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Group Creation are enabled in your Microsoft 365 admin center before the transition begins, as these setting selections are essential to us being able to move your StaffHub data into Teams. Failure to turn these services on by June 30, 2019, will result in a later migration date or less chat data being copied over. Please note, by enabling Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Group Creation, we will create a corresponding Microsoft Teams team and Office 365 Group if those do not already exist for each of your StaffHub teams as part of the migration effort. We will also begin copying Microsoft StaffHub chat messages into the corresponding Teams team chat history. We recommend that you enable Office 365 Group Creation and Microsoft Teams no later than June 30, 2019, and that you do not delete these teams or groups as they are required to successfully migrate data into Microsoft Teams.
Updated Feature: Skype for Business Certified IP Phones: Microsoft Online MC178633 Device Registration updates check before: 07/01/2019 To provide our customers with best-in-class security across our services, Status: Microsoft is implementing the use of Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 (an Created: 05/01/2019 evolution of the Azure Active Directory identity service) which uses the Product: Azure Active Directory, Skype OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. OAuth 2.0 is a method through which a for Business third-party app can access web-hosted resources on behalf of a user, through a third-party application ID. Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Security, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/OAuth-2-0-and-third-party- application-ID/ba-p/482876 MS Feature Name Updated Feature: Skype for Business Certified IP Phones: Microsoft Online Device Registration updates MS Preperations All certified Skype for Business IP phones must be updated by July 1st, 2019. Without the update, successful authentication to Microsoft services on IP Phones will fail. Customers are encouraged to work with their certified Skype for Business IP Phone provider to make the update before the deadline.Please see Additional Information for more detail. MS How does it affect As result of this change, Skype for Business IP Phone partners have made a code change to use me partner specific application ID. When deployed, the customer tenant admin will be required to confirm consent to allow the third-party phone application to be granted the necessary permissions (the same permissions currently being used by Skype for Business IP Phones).
Updated timeline: Office 365 will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MC178198 check before: 07/09/2019 The start date of the retirement of the 3DES cipher has been moved from Status: the previously announced date of February 28th, 2019 to a new start date Created: 04/22/2019 of July 10, 2019. Based on customer feedback we have updated the Product: Exchange, Skype for timeline to allow additional time for organizations to update older client Business software and devices that rely on the 3DES cipher. As previously communicated in MC171089 in Dec 2018 and MC172798 in Platform: mobile, Windows Desktop Jan 2019, retirement of the 3DES cipher is part of the migration of all our Scope: Administration, Security online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in- class encryption, and to ensure our service is more secure by default. Recommendations Set up a project to evaluate all connections to O365, like MFP, SAP, Communication Systems, and other 3rd party Software. Check how to switch to TLS encryption and mitigate the results. Links MC171089,MC172798 Description The date, to remove 3DES is moved to the 10th of July in this message. Still: prepare all for the change, and check for connections using 3DES. More Info URL https://support.microsoft.com/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365 MS Feature Name Updated timeline: Office 365 will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MS Preperations Update or replace client software and devices that rely on the 3DES cipher to connect to Office 365 prior to July 10, 2019. By going to http://securescore.microsoft.com , you can find the overview of your TLS 1.0/1.1 and 3DES usage for Exchange. Click on ‘Score Analyzer’ and scroll to the - Remove TLS dependencies tab. Here you will see a summary of your TLS 1.0/1.1 and 3DES usage. If you want more details on which devices or clients are connecting using these weaker ciphers and protocols – click on the ‘Get Details’ button that will launch a flyout where you can click on ‘Launch now’. This will take you to the Secure Trust Portal (http://servicetrust.microsoft.com) where you can download your user and agent information. Encryption in Office 365 Preparing for 3DES Retirement in Office 365 Skype for Business Please review the Additional Information for more guidance details. MS How does it affect Starting July 10, 2019, Office 365 will begin retiring the 3DES cipher. This means that all me connections to Office 365 using the cipher 3DES will not work. TLS 1.0/1.1 connections without the 3DES cipher will not be affected.
Office 365 Skype for Business will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MC177977 check before: 07/10/2019 As previously communicated (MC171089) Office 365 Skype for Business Status: is planning to move all of our online services to Transport Layer Security Created: 04/18/2019 (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in-class encryption, and to ensure our service Product: Skype for Business is more secure by default.As part of this plan, we’ll be retiring 3DES beginning July 10, 2019. Platform: Mac, mobile, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Administration, Security Recommendations Plan for a small project finished by 9th of July to prepare for this change. Check all clients if they can connect without 3DES. Also, 3rd party applications, like call-center, help desk integrations, ERP system or other tool connecting to Skype for Business online must be able to connect to Skype for Business online. Links MC171089 Description As announced multiple times Microsoft retires 3DES encryption. In this case, Skype for Business will be affected. More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Preparing-for-3DES-Retirement- O365-Skype-for-Business/ba-p/440968 MS Feature Name Office 365 Skype for Business will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MS Preperations Update or replace clients and devices that rely on 3DES to connect to Office 365 Skype for Business prior to July 10, 2019.Please review the Additional Information for more guidance details. MS How does it affect Starting July 10, 2019, Office 365 Skype for Business will begin retiring 3DES. This means that all me connections to Office 365 Skype for Business using the cipher 3DES will not work. Clients that still require 3DES such as Lync Phone Edition, Lync Mac 2011 and Lync 2010 will not be able to login to Office 365 Skype for Business.Expect issues connecting to Office 365 Skype for Business services if you are using 3DES from this date onwards. TLS 1.0/1.1 connections without the 3DES cipher will not be affected.
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Intgrate with Azure Sentinel to define custom retention times for your 50224 discovery data check before: 05/01/2019 Microsoft Cloud App Security has a strict data retention policy and only Status: In development keeps Cloud Discovery data for 90 days. By integrating with Azure Created: 04/03/2019 Sentinel, organizations can now leverage their Discovery data within Product: Cloud App Security Azure Sentinel to define custom, longer retention times. This gives admins more flexibility to run queries and visualize data over time directly within Platform: Online, World tenant Azure Sentinel. This is a public preview. Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Description Administrators can export Microsoft Cloud App Security data to Azure Sentinel, if you need the data longer than the maximum of 90 days in Cloud App Security
Prompt for pending uploads 50729 check before: 05/01/2019 Sync client will also notify users when they have pending uploads in Status: In development queue when the computer is shutting down or going into standby. Created: 04/19/2019 Product: OneDrive for Business Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Effects for Operations Notifying the user on incomplete sync might reduce the incidents complaining in inconsistent data. Recommendations Give notice to the help desk and users. Description The notification of incomplete sync of the OneDrive client on standby or shutdown will help users to stay consistent with their files over the different platforms Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
New Feature: Favorite People and Notifications in Outlook for iOS and MC178380 Android check before: 05/01/2019 We are preparing to introduce new capabilities in Outlook for iOS and Status: In development Android that supports selecting specific people as favorites for quick Created: 04/24/2019 access to recent email conversations and provides additional notification Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph options. This message is associated with the following Microsoft 365 API, Outlook Roadmap ID's:Favorite people: 27825, 27826Favorite notifications 32756, 32766Android people contact information 50420These capabilities will Platform: Android, iOS, World tenant start to roll out in Outlook for iOS and Android in the coming weeks and Scope: MDM, User expect they will take several weeks to deploy across all eligible customers.This change does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC Recommendations Give notice to your key users and help desk on the new capabilities. Adopt training materials. Links 27825,27826,32766,50420,MC165218 Description Tag people, i.e., contacts to be a favorite to display them more visible in Outlook for Android. Users can take advantage of additional notification options in Outlook mobile. Docu to check Trainings Linked RM Item Title: Outlook for iOS: Favorite people Outlook for Android: Favorite people Outlook for Android: Details Favorite Notifications Outlook for Android: People contact information Description: Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible Outlook for iOS and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible in Outlook for Android and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) Option to receive Outlook for Android notifications for emails only from your people you've identified as Favorites in Outlook. Detailed contact information about people in your organization (people card) including organizational reporting structure for businesses, people they work with or those you email with frequently. More Info URL https://www.osupportweb.com/a/outlook-mobile/?p=ios&s=favorites MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change, but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. For more information about Favorites in Outlook mobile, please see the in-app FAQ in Help and Feedback, scroll down to Favorites, or refer to Additional Information. MS How does it affect Favorite people will be available for all Outlook for iOS customers whereas for Outlook for Android, me only those customers who are using the new native Microsoft sync technology (MC165218) will be able to select people as favorites. Additionally, for those customers using Outlook for iOS and Android with new sync technology, you will have the option to set your email notifications for Office 365 and Outlook.com accounts based on your favorite people. In addition to setting notifications for Focused Inbox, Focused Inbox and Other or No notifications, you will be able select the option to only receive notifications of emails from the people you select as favorites.Changing who you tag or the order of your favorite people (add, remove, reorder) will also appear in Outlook on the web.Outlook for Android contact information will also be updated with details from Azure Active Directory for easy access to the information about people in your organization when you’re on the go. This includes your company reporting structure as well as insight into who the people in your organization work with, powered by the Microsoft Office Graph. You will also be able to easily add your company contact to Outlook for Android.
New Feature: Outlook on the web - suggested attachments MC178455 check before: 05/02/2019 New feature: Outlook on the web - suggested attachmentsSuggested Status: In development attachments in the new Outlook on the web is a new Office 365 feature. Created: 04/26/2019 We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Product: Exchange, Outlook Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46145 Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: AI, UI, User Links 46145 Description This function is expected to be a part of Office intelligent services. So the suggested attachment analyzes the email and proposes matching documents. Linked RM Item Title: Outlook on the web - suggested attachments Details Description: Outlook will now suggest relevant files you can attach when you respond to an email and click on the -Attach- paper clip drop down icon. MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect It will soon be easier to find and attach a file in the new Outlook on the web. When you go to attach me a file, Outlook will use intelligent technology to find the files that are most relevant to the ongoing conversation and the files that you most recently used, providing quick access to them. To see "suggested attachments," just respond to an email and select the "Attach" paper clip drop down icon. Suggested attachments only supports files stored in OneDrive for Business & SharePoint Online for now. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release organizations in late April, and the rollout will be completed worldwide by the end of August 2019. This roll out is excluded from Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
New Feature: Groups in Outlook: 'Brownbag'-style events MC178523 check before: 05/05/2019 New feature:'Brownbag'-style events is a new Office 365 feature for Status: Rolling out groups in Outlook. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message Created: 04/28/2019 is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46257. Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Online Scope: User Effects for Operations An increase in tickets could take place. since Teams or Office 365 group invitations can show another behavior than before. Recommendations An increase in tickets could take place since Teams or Office 365 group invitations can show another behavior than before. Links 46257 Description The behavior of invitation in Office 365 Group calendar will change. Users can select invitees for a group event; all others can see these events. This may lead to confusion. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Groups in Outlook - Self-serve events Details Description: You will be able to create "brownbag" style events. Create events on a group calendar where you can send invites to required attendees without sending an invite to the entire group. Others in the group can see the event and add themselves if they want." More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/schedule-a-meeting-on-a-group-calendar-in-outlook-0cf1ad68- 1034-4306-b367-d75e9818376a MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect Being able to invite select attendees without inviting the group is extremely useful for group me collaboration. You can now invite external speakers to "brownbag meetings" on the calendar where attendees can selectively add to their calendars, or even have meeting rooms for a group appointment.Before this change, in Outlook for Windows, when a user creates a group meeting on a group's calendar and removes that group from the To: line, group members would still receive meeting invitations in their inbox. With this change, Outlook will now only send invitations to those in the To: line. If the group is removed from the To: line, then group members will not receive the meeting invitation. The meeting will continue to appear on the group calendar, where users can add it to their respective calendars.Similarly, before this change in the new Outlook on the web, when a user creates a group event on a group's calendar and adds others to the event, group members would receive meeting invitations in their inbox. With this change, Outlook will now only send invitations to those that are explicitly invited. If the group is removed from the To: line, then group members will not receive the meeting invitation. The meeting will continue to appear on the group calendar, where users can add it to their respective calendars.However, when individuals who do not have the feature accept, respond, or decline the 'brownbag-style’ event, Outlook will add and send invitations to the group as it previously did before the change.We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted customers in late April, and then to Standard Release customers in early May.
Updated Feature: Actionable Messages now support Payments in Outlook on MC178638 the web check before: 05/06/2019 We’re updating Actionable Messages to now support Payments in Outlook Status: Rolling out on the web. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is Created: 04/30/2019 related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 31061. Product: Outlook Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Compliance, User Recommendations If your organization doesn't allow Microsoft Account this will have no impact. If you have Microsoft Accounts allowed check if you want to disable the payment option. Links 31061 Config Options Payments in Outlook can be disabled for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users by disabling connectors and Actionable Messages. Admins can use Exchange OnlinePowerShell to disable connectors for an entire tenant or for a specific group mailbox. All users in that tenant or mailbox would be affected. It's not possible to disable for some and not others. The tenant-level setting overrides the group level setting. For example, if an admin enables connectors for the group and disables them on the tenant, connectors for the group will be disabled. To learn how to connect to Exchange OnlinePowerShell, see Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell. To disable connectors for the tenant, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsEnabled:$false To disable connectors for a group mailbox, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity [email protected] -ConnectorsEnabled:$false To disable actionable messages for connectors for the tenant, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsActionableMessagesEnabled:$false Description Apparently, This applies only to users with a Microsoft Account (MSA), with mail domains like outlook.com or hotmail.com etc. Since Microsoft Pay is linked to a Microsoft Account (MSA) Linked RM Item Title: Payments in Outlook: Support for Office 365 Details Description: Outlook Pay support was enabled for certain Outlook.com customers previously and we are continuing to roll out support for additional customers. Office 365 customers will be able to take advantage of paying invoices, right in email, without switching services. This functionality will be available for Outlook on the web initially and we will continue to roll out support for more platforms in the coming months. More Info URL https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2088484 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may wish to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Actionable Messages now supports Payments in Outlook on the web, which allows users to pay me invoices without leaving their inbox.We'll be gradually rolling this out to Standard Release customers in late May 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of August 2019.
New feature: Information barriers is now available in preview MC178647 check before: 05/07/2019 Information barriers is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this Status: feature out soon, and it will initially be in preview. Information barriers Created: 04/30/2019 requires administrator action to enable. Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Recommendations Give notice to the responsible teams for information security to familiarize with this new function. Opportunities Using Information Barriers you might include more user groups in using Teams. Description This is for preview at the moment. This function will prevent unwanted collaboration and information sharing between teams in your organization. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/information-barriers-in-teams MS Preperations If you would like to join the Information Barriers preview in Teams, nominate your organization: Microsoft Teams TAP Nomination.Please click Additional Information to learn about setting Information Barriers in Security & Compliance Center. MS How does it affect Information barriers help prevent communications in Microsoft Teams between specific groups of me people. After this change takes place, you’ll be able to prevent users in your organization from interacting with and viewing other members of your organization. This is particularly helpful for organizations that need to adhere to ethical wall requirements and other related industry standards and regulations. Information barrier policies are managed with Security & Compliance Center (SCC) PowerShell cmdlets. For more information about using these cmdlets, see Information barriers in Microsoft Teams preview. Information barriers in preview will be made available in late April, 2019.
Feature update: Office 365 Account Manager is getting updated MC178667 check before: 05/07/2019 The account manager in Office 365 allows an authenticated user to Status: In development access account links, sign out, and change their profile picture. Created: 04/30/2019 We are updating Office 365 account manager to be consistent with other Product: Azure Active Directory account experiences across all of Microsoft. This change also allows us to provide more account-based features in the future. Platform: Online, World tenant This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50753. Scope: UI This change does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. Recommendations Give notice to your key users and the help desk, check your documentation screenshots and click paths. Links 50753 Description The UI of the Office 365 account manager changes. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Office Online Account Manager is getting updated Details Description: Office Online Account manager is available in the authenticated experience and enables you to access your account, profile and sign out. The current experience is different from Account Manager on other Microsoft Products. We are updating Office Online Account Manager to be consistent with other account experiences across all of Microsoft. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/sign-in-to-manage-your-office-product-959ac957-8d37-4ae4-b1b6- d6e4874e013f MS Preperations You don't need to do anything but may consider updating your training and documentation as well as informing your users of the upcoming change. MS How does it affect Your account manager in Office 365 will have a new and refreshed look that is consistent with other me Microsoft products. Like before the new design, you will still sign out, access your account page, and access your Delve profile from within the account manager. Starting in late May, users in Targeted Release will begin to see the new account manager interface in Office 365.By June, the new account manager will be shipped worldwide.
New Feature: Enable modern communication site experience at the classic MC179211 root site of your tenant check before: 05/12/2019 We are rolling out a feature that allows admins to enable the modern Status: In development communication site experience at the classic root site of their SharePoint Created: 05/06/2019 tenant.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46338 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer Recommendations Inform your SharePoint team and SharePoint developers on this new feature. Links 46338 Description The option to enable modern communication site experience at the root site of a tenant is a change to the design. This adds the option for the SharePoint admins or developers to activate the new look. Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint: Enable communication site experience at the root site of a tenant Details Description: Allows admins to enable the modern communication site experience at the root site of a tenant. This experience will provide a new modern home page with horizontal navigation and the full width pages. The initial roll out will place some restrictions on the root sites where this experience can be enabled. Details will be available closer to the roll out. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/Enable- SPOCommSite?view=sharepoint-ps MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please see Additional Information to learn about the PowerShell cmdlet to enable this change. MS How does it affect This feature can be activated by running a simple PowerShell cmdlet. On the successful execution me of the PowerShell command(s), the root site of your tenant will have a new communication site home page. Details about the PowerShell cmdlet and feature requirements are available in the Additional Information We'll be gradually rolling this out, off by default, to Targeted Release customers in early May 2019, and the roll out will be available worldwide by the end of June 2019.
Updated Feature: Changes to definition of Files Shared Internally MC178008 check before: 05/13/2019 We have identified telemetry issues with the Sharing Report that resulted Status: in inaccurate counts for files shared internally and files shared externally. Created: 04/18/2019 We are making updates that will address these issues and improve report Product: OneDrive for Business, accuracy. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. After the update, “Files SharePoint shared internally” is the number of files that have been shared with users within the organization, or with users within groups (that might include Platform: Online, World tenant external users). Also, “Files shared externally” might see an increase in Scope: Administration, Security, User the numbers as there are additional events that are being tracked and categorized within external sharing. Please note that we are working on changes to further improve clarity over time. Effects for Operations After the rollout users will see more shared files, this might lead to an increase of incidents, because, users assume more files are all of a sudden shared. Recommendations Give notice to the users and the help desk, that this is a visual change. This only corrects the number of files shared, rather than unwanted shareing additional files. Description This is basically a bug fix to the file count of shared files. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/office365/admin/usage-analytics/usage-analytics-data-model MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more about the Microsoft 365 analytics data model.Information on SharePoint activity reports.Information on OneDrive for Business activity reports. MS How does it affect In some cases, files shared internally or externally were being improperly counted. Specifically, me events where files were being shared with security groups or Office 365 groups. Moving forward these will now be counted as Files Shared Internally. This update will address these issues going forward, additionally we will backfill the last 180 days to ensure continuity. We will be rolling out this change starting May 15th, 2019.
Manual sensitivity labeling of email in Outlook on Windows 44922 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development when authoring an email in the Office 365 version of Outlook on Windows. Created: 12/18/2018 Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Compliance, Security Recommendations Check together with the changes in the other Office Applications. Description Alongside with other changes, this adds the possibility to add labels in Outlook.
Manual sensitivity labeling in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook on 44920 Windows check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development within the Office 365 versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook on Created: 12/18/2018 Windows. Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Office Client Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Compliance, Security, UI, User Recommendations Check the technical possibilities of this feature together with the retention and deletion labels. Be aware of operational impact in your scenarios. Check with the responsible team for GDPR for implementation requirements. Opportunities Alongside with other changes, the sensitivity labeling is a great opportunity to full-fill regulatory requirements, like GDPR Description The sensitivity labeling will move from the AIP plugin to Office 365 Security&Compliance Center. The labeling is merged with the retention labels.
Simplifying management of Intra-Org Spoof and DMARC Failures 46841 check before: 06/01/2019 Intra-Org Spoof and DMARC Failures – We are simplifying the way that Status: In development our customer manage anti-spoofing by consolidating all spoof actions and Created: 02/19/2019 management under one policy: the Anti-Phishing policy. This means that Product: Exchange we will no longer take the Spam action, as dictated in the Anti-Spam policy, for intra-org spoof and DMARC failures. Cross-org spoof will Platform: Online, World tenant continue to be managed by the Anti-Phishing policy without changes. Scope: Administration, Security Additionally, we have further simplified anti-spoofing protection management by stamping all mails, including intra-org spoof, with a Composite Authentication result in the headers. This makes it much easier to quickly decipher our verdict on the authentication of the mail and whether we deemed the mail spoof, and why. This may result in some messages that were previously marked as spam will start getting marked as phish (CAT:SPOOF). In still other cases, customers that were moving all spam to the junk folder and phish to the quarantine would now see them going to quarantine. We'll be gradually rolling these features out over the course of the next few weeks, and we expect the rollout to be complete by end of February. Effects for Operations the management of spoofing emails will change for intra-org emails. Recommendations check your rulesets if there are impacts of this change additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office365/securitycompliance/anti-spoofing-protection Description Spoofing management will change by introducing a new tag (CAT:SPOOF). Instead of emails being marked as Spam. These emails will be sent to quarantine. Management will be done by the Anit-Phishing policy in Exchange administration. These changes are applied to intra.org spoofing. Docu to check Working instructions
Outlook on the web - hide attendee list 30678 check before: 06/01/2019 When creating a meeting, the organizer can now choose to hide the Status: In development attendee list from attendees, similar to BCC’ing someone in an email Created: 06/05/2018 Product: Exchange, Outlook Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Compliance, User Compliance this feature might be not compliant to codes of conduct or other company culture policies. This should be discussed and according to guidance should be given to users. Recommendations Like the use of bcc this might violate communication culture in an organization. Config Options no information by Microsoft. If you need to disable this option please open a Ticket with Microsoft Support. Description let meeting organizers hide the attendee list like bcc hides the recipients' list for email Docu to check Corporate policies
Outlook for iOS: Support shared mailboxes 32571 check before: 06/01/2019 Access shared mailboxes from Outlook for iOS to read, write and send Status: In development email messages. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS Scope: MDM, User Recommendations Give notice to the mobile team. Actively inform users of the new possibility to use shared mailboxes in Outlook for iOS Description In order to mobilize the workforce, Microsoft adds support for shared mailboxes to Outlook for iOS Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
Password-less sign-in for work or school accounts 33013 check before: 06/01/2019 The Microsoft Authenticator mobile app will support sign-in with your Status: Rolling out face/fingerprint or device PIN to your work accounts. You can take out the Created: 09/20/2018 security risk of passwords and have the convenience of using a device Product: Azure Active Directory, Multi- you already own and carry with you. Make this new option available to Factor Authentication your organization in Azure Active Directory. Platform: mobile Scope: Security Compliance no change Recommendations Check for the feasibility of this feature. We recommend involving the security team. Together with Windows Hello, and Windows Information Protection, Azure Information Protection, and other Identity and content securing functions this may raise the security level significantly Config Options configuration via PowerShell. see additional Info link. Dependencies only for users with mobile devices, in accordance with the organization mobile device policy. Azure MFA is needed to be active, and users have to be enrolled. Authenticator App is needed on iOS or Android. Opportunities This new option provides a new option to eliminate the use of passwords. Log in with a mobile device authentication to work account. Your organization can take advantage of better and more secure user experience for authentication Comments Please read the "Known issues" section in the article in the additional Info link, especially if you use ADFS additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-authentication-phone- sign-in Description When logging on to a web service an authentication push message will be sent. This enables the user to avoid typing passwords, for example in crowded environments
Outlook for Windows: Shared calendar improvements 26948 check before: 06/01/2019 Introducing a new service backed model for sharing calendars with other Status: In development Office 365 subscribers that improves performance and reliability and Created: 04/14/2018 keeps all calendars in sync. Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Troubleshooting for calendar issues will change with the roll-out of the new sync backend. Recommendations Keep an eye on the RM items 25007, 26356, 26948. Comments A MC entry ist expected before rollout. Description Shared calendars are often a cause for tickets with in an organization. A new backend sync model might help https://support.office.com/en-us/article/calendar-sharing-in-office-365-b576ecc3-0945-4d75-85f1- 5efafb8a37b4#bkmk_timeline Docu to check Knowledge base
The Lifecycle Dashboards are now available to help you ensure user access to MC175274 Office 365 check before: 06/30/2019 In February of last year, we announced that starting on October 13, 2020, Status: your organization would need Office 365 ProPlus or Office 2019 apps to Created: 03/05/2019 connect to Office 365 services. On September 6 of last year, we Product: Office Client announced that we would continue supporting Office 2016 connections with Office 365 services through October of 2023. In order for you to Platform: Windows Desktop better understand if and how your organization is affected by this change, Scope: Administration, MDM and where you need to take action to migrate users, we’re providing you with two System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) dashboards to help you begin your user migration. For larger organizations, we recommend starting this work in the near future in order to meet the October 13, 2020 deadline. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/sccm/core/clients/manage/asset-intelligence/product-lifecycle-dashboard MS Preperations There’s nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional information to learn more about the SCCM Product Lifecycle Dashboards. MS How does it affect Office versions will now be visible in the SCCM Product Lifecycle Dashboard, and a new dashboard me will display desktops in your organization that are ready to upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus with high confidence. These two features will be available with SCCM 1902. These dashboards will help ensure that your users will continue to be supported after October 13, 2020. The Product Lifecycle dashboard will display Office perpetual products, easily distinguishing the desktops that need their Office apps updated from those that do not. The ProPlus Readiness dashboard will identify the desktops that are ready to be upgraded to Office 365 ProPlus.
Improvements in reporting of ‘bad items’ during mailbox migrations 46690 check before: 07/01/2019 We are improving migrations so that the admin will no longer be required Status: In development to specify an explicit Bad Item Limit or Missing Item limit. Instead, a Created: 02/13/2019 migration will be assigned a Data Consistency Score that will classify it as Product: Exchange - Perfect, Good, Investigate or Poor. These classifications are based on the nature and amount of data loss that might have occurred during the Platform: Online migration process. Based on these scores the admin may be required to Scope: Administration take an additional step to approve a migration before it can be completed successfully. With the introduction of Data Consistency Score, we aim to increase visibility into conversion errors and help triage the criticality of item conversion failures.
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Customizable Teams mobile experience 51163 check before: 01/01/2019 Microsoft Teams has new capabilities for the mobile experience: Location Status: Launched sharing - using GPS data, share your location with your team in channel Created: 05/07/2019 or a 1:1/group chat. Smart camera - smart camera can interpret different Product: Teams image types such as a document, whiteboard or business card, and utilizes auto crop for easy consumption. Firstline Workers handle a lot of Platform: tasks that are image heavy. And they’ll begin a task by taking a picture Scope: User 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 To-Do: Planner task integration 45523 check before: 04/30/2019 Manage Planner tasks assigned to you within Microsoft To-Do. Users can Status: Launched view, edit, and complete Planner tasks from Microsoft To-Do. Add Planner Created: 05/10/2019 tasks to To-Do's My Day to focus on what's most important to get done. Product: Planner, To-Do Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: User
SharePoint news notification configuration 49604 check before: 05/01/2019 Configure personal email notification settings for SharePoint news Status: In development updates. Created: 03/18/2019 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Give notice to the help desk to assist the users with the configuration. Description This adds the option for the user to configure the email notification setting from SharePoint news. Docu to check Knowledge base
View labeling and protected PDF documents on Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac 49440 check before: 05/01/2019 This enables PDF documents that have been labeled and protected using Status: In development Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels to be opened natively by Created: 03/13/2019 Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac. Product: Information Protection - Azure (AIP) Platform: Mac Scope: Compliance, Security, User
SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel 30686 check before: 05/01/2019 Now it’s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Status: In development Teams channel & chat associated to it – right from within the SharePoint Created: 05/29/2018 user interface. Product: SharePoint, Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: UI, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/What-s-new-for-your-intranet-in-Office- 365/ba-p/194168
Organization assets 33594 check before: 05/01/2019 Centralized curated view of digital images for reuse in page authoring Status: Rolling out Created: 04/25/2019 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718
Outlook for Mac: Adds presence for Teams customers 45557 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook for Mac support a presence indicator on email addresses when Status: In development creating or reading messages. Created: 03/09/2019 Product: Outlook, Teams Platform: Mac
Scope: UI
Outlook for iOS: Apple watch enhancements 45977 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook for iOS for Apple Watch is now faster and supports new Series 4 Status: Rolling out watch faces. Created: 02/19/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: User
Share and collaborate on Visio visuals 33736 check before: 05/01/2019 More sharing and collaboration features for Visio Visual in line with Status: Previously released traditional Power BI visualizations Created: 05/10/2019 Product: Office Client, PowerBI Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Developer More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blog/Share-and-collaborate-on-Visio-visuals-just-like- other-Power-BI/ba-p/457770
Outlook for Windows: Spelling corrections in Search 27265 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook will provide a suggested search query with spelling corrections. Status: Rolling out Created: 09/06/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Description Improvement of the search functionality in Outlook
Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET 33411 check before: 05/01/2019 .NET developers can use MSAL.NET to securely sign-in and authenticate Status: In development any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), call Microsoft Created: 09/09/2018 Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers have built. All Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph functionality in ADAL.NET (Azure AD Authentication Libraries) is now API supported in MSAL.NET. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will continue to work. Platform: Developer Scope: Developer More Info URL https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet
Outlook for Windows: Get suggestions for Calendar meeting and appointment 20974 locations check before: 05/01/2019 Start typing a meeting room or venue for your appointment or meeting. Status: In development Outlook will look for matching locations.
Created: 04/01/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User
SharePoint Migration Tool Site Migration Support 51262 check before: 05/01/2019 The SharePoint Migration Tool lets you migrate content from SharePoint Status: In development Server 2013 or from on-premises file shares and easily move them to Created: 05/08/2019 either Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive in Office 365. This Product: OneDrive for Business, update to the SharePoint Migration Tool provides support for complete SharePoint site migrations with SharePoint Server 2013 in addition to support for migrations from SharePoint Server 2010 (preview). Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer More Info URL https://aka.ms/SPMT
Updated feature: reset password in the Microsoft 365 admin center 51332 check before: 05/01/2019 We're updating reset password so that it supports a 256 character Status: Rolling out maximum password length. For our hybrid customers, we have also Created: 05/08/2019 implemented support for password writeback. This Azure Active Directory Product: Azure Active Directory, premium feature allows admins to reset passwords for users synced via Microsoft 365 admin center AAD connect. This means that you can now reset passwords in the online portal for these users. Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Security More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-Blog/What-s-new-in-Microsoft-365-user- management-for-April-2019/ba-p/542153
Outlook for Mac: Enhanced contact card information 26734 check before: 05/01/2019 Select a contact's name in a message or calendar event to see their Status: In development photo, phone number, email, recent conversations, and more. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Mac Scope: UI Recommendations This is a visual change, update your training material for Mac users Description Adding an enhanced contact card for Outlook for Mac users will simplify the search for contact information.
Records Management solution in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center 50795 check before: 05/01/2019 Now take advantage of Microsoft 365 records management capabilities in Status: In development one place with specific permissions model and tailored experience for Created: 04/25/2019 records management including file plan, event based retention, and Product: Information Protection - Office defensible disposition. Enable your records management requirements in- 365 place within Microsoft 365. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance, UI Description Microsoft aggregates Records Management in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center. Different requirements can be covered in one place
PowerApps and Flow availability to GCC tenants 33770 check before: 05/01/2019 PowerApps and Flow will be available to government tenants in the GCC Status: In development environment. Created: 11/20/2018 Product: Flow, PowerApps, SharePoint Platform: US Instances Scope: Developer, User additional Info URL https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft- 365/PowerApps%20and%20Flow%20availability%20to%20GCC%20tenants More Info URL https://PowerApps and Flow availability to GCC tenants
Outlook for Windows: Lift 500 folder limit for shared mailboxes 27807 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook has improved synchronization of folders by removing the 500 Status: Rolling out folder limit for shared mailboxes. Created: 05/22/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Recommendations If needed, you may check historical tickets if the 500 folders limits caused a problem. On the other hand, as of now, this had to be solved by the users in other ways. The higher limit might cause sync issues. Description Microsoft Outlook was limited to sync 500 folders. In some scenarios, this limit was hit by the intense use of folders. This limit will be removed.
LinkedIn Support in Sharing Control 49097 check before: 05/01/2019 People picker for ODB and SP shows LinkedIn contacts Status: Rolling out Created: 04/11/2019 Product: LinkedIn, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform:
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Question & Answer 34238 check before: 05/01/2019 Harness collective knowledge with new Yammer features that significantly Status: In development improve support for communities where people can get questions Created: 11/14/2018 answered. Product: Yammer Platform: Online
Scope: Administration, User
Unified App Registration Experience 32977 check before: 05/01/2019 Register, configure and manage all your apps in the new app registration Status: In development blade in the Azure portal. The app registration experience now includes Created: 12/02/2018 more details about your app, quick start guides, improved navigation, Product: Azure Active Directory revamped permission selection experience and more. Platform: Developer, World tenant
Scope: Administration, Developer
Outlook for Android: act on one message within a conversation thread 32767 check before: 05/01/2019 Mark as read/unread or flag on a single message from within a Status: Rolling out conversation thread. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Android Scope: User Description Adds the capability to handle read/unread within a conversation threat in Outlook for Android per email, rather than the whole threat
Mini toolbar in OneNote for Windows 10 50711 check before: 05/01/2019 Edit faster with the new Mini toolbar in OneNote for Windows 10. The Status: Rolling out toolbar will appear above text when content is highlighted with tools Created: 04/18/2019 relevant to the selected content. Product: OneNote, Windows 10 Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: UI Recommendations Give notice to the help desk and key users Description This change adds the mini toolbar to the Windows 10 OneNote Store app like it's known of OneNote 2016 full client.
M365 Supervision now includes Skype for Business online chat and email 50585 domain exclusions check before: 05/01/2019 Now organizations can expand supervision policies beyond email and Status: In development Teams content to include Skype for Business online chat. In addition Created: 04/14/2019 Supervision policies can now exclude specific email domains so that Product: Skype for Business, Teams, automated notices such as newsletters are not included in the review. Office 365 Advanced Compliance Platform: Online Scope: Compliance Recommendations Under EU legislation the usage of Office 365 supervision is highly regulated. Be cautious if you plan to use the feature. additional Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Use-Supervision-to- monitor-email-Microsoft-Teams-manage-risk/ba-p/325827 Description The Office 365 supervision solution is extended to cover Skype for Business.
News & page targeting 50805 check before: 05/01/2019 With audience targeting, site owners and intranet managers can deliver Status: Rolling out rich experiences to various audiences from within the same site with Created: 04/25/2019 intelligence on what content to show specific people based on role, region, Product: SharePoint status, etc. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718
FindTime - support for more languages 42561 check before: 05/01/2019 We are adding support for more languages, including: Chinese Status: Rolling out (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) Dutch Italian French German Created: 10/16/2018 Portuguese (Brazilian) Korean Japanese German Turkish Russian Product: Exchange, FindTime Spanish Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Administration, UI
External Sharing Reports 27034 check before: 05/01/2019 Site admins will be able to see all the items in a site that are shared Status: In development externally. Created: 05/20/2018 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: World tenant Scope: Administration Compliance This may help to reduce data leakage and keep the organization informed on external sharing. Recommendations Give notice of this feature to the security department or the department responsible for DLP data leakage prevention. Description SharePoint administrators will be able to get a report on externally shared files.
Auto-Investigation with threat playbooks 45268 check before: 05/01/2019 Auto-investigation capabilities for threats will be available in Office 365 E5. Status: In development Also, there will be key threat playbooks available at this time also. Ability Created: 01/06/2019 to trigger automated investigations using the playbooks from Threat Product: Advanced Threat Protection - Explorer also will go live. Azure (ATP) Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Licensing, Security
New feature: error resolution flow for illegal file and folder names in OneDrive MC178370 check before: 05/01/2019 Error resolution flow for illegal file and folder names is a new OneDrive Status: In development feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is Created: 04/24/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 49314. Product: OneDrive for Business Platform: Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: UI, User Recommendations Check the help information against your knowledge base and align the information Links 49314 Description Microsoft adds helpful information to the OneDrive sync client. These small hints are intended to reduce support effort. Linked RM Item Title: Incident deflection for Sync client Details Description: In- app resolutions to sync errors to help end users avert and solve issues easily.The first one of them is for "Illegal files names not syncing ". End users will get an error status in the ODB icon in their system tray along with guidance on renaming the affected files as well as education on legal file names.We will have more such resolutions in future. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/99333564-c2ed-4e78-8936-7c773e958881 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect Sometimes files are not able to sync to OneDrive because they have illegal characters in the name me of the file, or in the name of the folder the file is in. OneDrive is rolling our an automated fix suggestion that will help users rename the problematic files on Windows and Mac, and thus resolve the sync issue around them. We began gradually rolling this out to all customers in mid-April, and we anticipate roll out completion worldwide by the end of April 2019.
New Feature: new Outlook on the web (opt-in) - browse rooms MC178383 check before: 05/01/2019 Browse rooms in the new Outlook on the web (opt-in) is a new Office 365 Status: Rolling out feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is Created: 04/25/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50722 Product: Exchange, Outlook Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: UI Recommendations
additions from 50722: Give notice to the help desk and key users. Links 50722 Linked RM Item Title: Outlook on the web - browse rooms Details Description: When creating a meeting from your calendar, you can now search for available meeting rooms by clicking on the location bar and then on "Browse more places" - Search by city or room list. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/create-modify-or-delete-a-meeting-request-or-appointment-in- outlook-on-the-web-6283f744-4ce1-470e-9d6b-96fa94e52996 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Now when creating a meeting from your calendar, you can search for available meeting rooms in me your organization by clicking on the location bar and then on "Browse more places". You can search by city or room list.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late April, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of June.This roll out is excluded from Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
New feature: OneDrive - updated "manage access" pane for classic user MC178385 interface check before: 05/01/2019 Updated file access management in advanced permissions if you are Status: In development using the classic OneDrive user interface is a new Office 365 feature. Created: 04/25/2019 We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Product: OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 50730. SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: UI, User Recommendations Give notice to the key users and the help desk Links 50730 Description The classic sharing UI in OneDrive changes. User can manage the assess rights more fine- grained. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: OneDrive - updated "manage access" pane for classic user interface (UI) Details Url: https://support.office.com/article/stop-sharing-onedrive-or-sharepoint-files-or-folders-or-change- permissions-0a36470f-d7fe-40a0-bd74-0ac6c1e13323 Description: Users will be able to manage access permissions, remove individual recipients from shared links or stop sharing overall - all when working within the OneDrive classic user interface. When you go to a file or folder's information pane and click "Manage access," you're taken to a more modern interface to review, add, adjust and remove access to a file - inline with where the file lives - OneDrive or SharePoint. you can also see and manage any and all sharing links that have created on the file or folder. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/stop-sharing-onedrive-or-sharepoint-files-or-folders-or-change- permissions-0a36470f-d7fe-40a0-bd74-0ac6c1e13323 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk, especially if you are still using Classic views in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Please click Additional information to learn more about file sharing and permissions in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. MS How does it affect We are making it easier for people to manage access permissions, remove individual recipients me from shared links or stop sharing overall - all when working within the OneDrive classic user interface. When you go to a file or folder's information pane and click "Manage access," you're taken to a more modern interface to review, add, adjust and remove access to a file - inline with where the file lives - OneDrive or SharePoint. you can also see and manage any and all sharing links that have created on the file or folder.We'll be gradually rolling this feature out in early May, 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of the month.
New feature: SharePoint Online news and page authors will now receive MC178376 emails with comments, replies and likes check before: 05/01/2019 We're adding new SharePoint Online emails to keep you informed about Status: Rolling out likes and comments on pages/news posts. We'll begin rolling this feature Created: 04/24/2019 out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: Product: SharePoint 49603. Platform: Online Scope: User Links 49603 Description Adding the capability to receive email notifications from SharePoint news Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint news email notifications Details Url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718 Description: Receive notifications for comments, replies and likes via email from SharePoint news More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training and notifying your helpdesk. End-users can unsubscribe from notification scenarios by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, when someone comments on a page or a news post, the author of me the post will receive an email. If this comment is a reply to a top-level comment, the top-level commenter will also receive an email. Comment emails will be batched so that your users will receive a single email when several comments have been made on the page or news post within a short duration of time. Additionally, the same functionality will apply when users leave a like on a page or news post. We’ll begin rolling this out in early June, and the rollout will be completed worldwide by the end of June 2019.
Updated Feature: Refreshed Folder Icon Design MC178514 check before: 05/05/2019 Updated feature: Refreshed Folder Icon DesignThis message is Status: In development associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 50597. Created: 04/28/2019 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: UI Recommendations
additions from 50597: Give notice to your help desk, and mobile team Links 50597 Linked RM Item Title: Golden Folders : New Folder Icon Design Details Description: As we continue rolling out the Fluent design language and the refreshed Office brand icons, we are introducing fresh folder design with the "golden folders". The new color palette and subtle yet noticeable clues emblazoned on the icon remind you of the contents and sharing status of each folder. We will initiate this roll out across Web and iOS with Android following up soon. More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/Designing-a-Fluent-and- Intelligent-OneDrive/ba-p/303748 MS How does it affect Microsoft is constantly pushing the bar on design, to deliver to customers a seamless experience me that is not just beautiful, but actively functional. As we continue rolling out the Fluent design language and the refreshed Office brand icons, we are refreshing the representation of one of the most commonly used objects across the suite: The file folder.This season, we are introducing golden folders. Inspired by the strong heritage of Windows but brought forth to a mobile-first age, these are the most functional and fresh folder designs we have ever shipped. Subtle yet noticeable clues emblazoned on the icon remind you of the contents and sharing status of each folder. Lastly, the color palette has been handcrafted to connect your content across the suite, and individually tested and fine-tuned for all the devices you care about.We are rolling out the design over the coming weeks across mobile and web in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and connected experiences in other apps, with no disruption in the functionality you rely on. We are always iterating, listening, and learning new ways to help you achieve more.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late April 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May 2019.; PublishedTime=2019-04-29T17:11:00Z
Feature update: Yammer simplified first-time login experience MC178630 check before: 05/06/2019 We are making changes to simplify the new user login experience for Status: Yammer. Created: 04/29/2019 Product: Yammer Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: User Description Microsoft removes some features from the fist sign in to Yammer. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/sign-in-to-yammer-d863154a-4223-4ea2-8855-ccc971321b8e MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may wish to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for Yammer Quick Start training for users. MS How does it affect The new user login experience is being updated based on customer feedback:New users will not me be prompted to switch their language to EnglishNew users will not be prompted to Invite New MembersNew users will not be sent a Welcome email
Updated Feature: Microsoft Secure Score Integrated into Microsoft 365 MC178636 Security Center check before: 05/06/2019 In response to frequent customer feedback, Microsoft Secure Score has Status: been integrated into the new Microsoft 365 Security Center console which Created: 04/30/2019 reached general availability on March 28th. By integrating this Microsoft Product: Information Protection - Office Secure Score into this new console we have consolidated the experiences 365 for many security administrators into a single location making discoverability and access to Microsoft Secure Score and other features Platform: mobile, Online, World tenant easier for all of our customers.This change does not apply to Office 365 Scope: Administration, Security subscriptions in GCC. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/overview-security-center MS Preperations You don't need to do anything but may want to update any bookmarks to the new location within Microsoft 365 Security Center. Please click Additional information to learn more about the Microsoft 365 Security Center and Microsoft Secure Score. MS How does it affect In late-May users of the existing Microsoft Secure Score site (http://securescore.microsoft.com) will me automatically be redirected to Microsoft 365 Security Center.
New Feature: Shifts Multiteam Support MC178679 check before: 05/07/2019 Shifts Multiteam Support is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling Status: Rolling out this feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Created: 04/30/2019 Roadmap ID 50988 Product: Teams, Teams Shifts Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, User Links 50988 Description By adding the capability for Teams Shifts users to participate in multiple teams and shifts, Microsoft enables more usage scenarios. Linked RM Item Title: Multiteam Support in Shifts Details Description: Many Firstline Workers work on more than 1 team, and now with multiteam support in Shifts, employees will be able to access their shifts, other user's shifts, requests, open shifts, their profile, other user's profiles in a multi-team manner. This feature will save them both time and potentially data usage if they are switching teams often. More Info URL https://support.office.com/teams MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for end-user documentation which will be available in the Teams Helps center. MS How does it affect This only affects users that are on multiple Shift teams. These users will now be able to navigate to me other teams via the top header. Shift features will now allow users to select the correct Team before performing team specific actions.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early May, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.This change does not affect Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
New Feature: Create SharePoint lists from Excel or other lists MC179277 check before: 05/13/2019 Create SharePoint lists from Excel or other lists is a new Office 365 Status: In development feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is Created: 05/07/2019 related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 33603. Product: Office Client, SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User Links 33603 Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint: lists from lists / lists from Excel Details Description: Build new lists from Excel, templates, or other lists More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Create-SharePoint-lists-from- Excel-or-other-lists/ba-p/533395 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Users will be able to create SharePoint lists from existing lists within a site or from Excel.We'll be me gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release in mid-May and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of July.
New feature: Suggested replies in Outlook for Android MC179478 check before: 05/16/2019 Soon we will be releasing additional intelligent technology in Outlook for Status: varies Android with suggested replies so you can quickly respond to email with Created: 05/10/2019 short, relevant responses to email messages.In anticipation of releasing Product: Intune, Outlook suggested replies later this quarter, we are expanding the controls available to you to help manage the Outlook experience through mobile Platform: Android, mobile, Online device management solutions, such as Microsoft Intune.This message is Scope: Administration, AI, MDM, User associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs: 43305 and 42521. Links 42521,43305,MC172761 Linked RM Item Title: Outlook for Android: App configuration settings Outlook for Android: Suggested replies. Details Description: Support the app configuration profile settings delivered through mobile device management tools by their company administrators. Simply select from one of a few suggested responses to common email messages More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/outlook-for-ios-and- android/outlook-for-ios-and-android-configuration-with-microsoft-intune MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.To learn more about deploying app configuration settings and securing Outlook mobile in the enterprise, see Additional Information. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, if your device language is set to English on emails that can be me answered with a short response, Outlook will suggest three response options that can be used to reply to emails with a couple of clicks. For enrolled Android Enterprise devices, administrators will be able to manage whether or not people in your company will see suggested replies to emails in Outlook for Android.As communicated in MC172761 in January of this year, we rolled out support for additional app configuration setting capabilities in Outlook mobile for MailTips when emailing external users. As an administrator, you will be able to deploy the configuration keys via any MDM provider to disable the suggested replies in Outlook for Android or allow the capability to be managed by the user. In mid-May, these controls will be available in Microsoft Intune in the new, easy to use App Configuration Policy for Outlook mobile. Until then, please see Additional Information for the specific configuration keys that can be set using your existing mobile device management solution.By default, suggested replies will be enabled in Outlook for Android. Users can manually disable (or-re-enable) the setting within the app at any time. Additionally, you can manage the settings that control whether the user can alter the setting.Whether deploying a new set of users or simplifying how existing users are supported, configuring these options can deliver a consistent experience for Outlook mobile on your managed devices and help reduce the calls to your helpdesk by simplifying the support process.Managing these settings with mobile device management will not impact the suggested replies experience in Outlook on the web. We’ll begin rolling out suggested replies in Outlook for Android in early June, and we anticipate rollout completion by early July.
New Feature: Microsoft Teams supports Music on hold MC179476 check before: 05/16/2019 Microsoft Teams supports Music on hold is a new Office 365 feature. We'll Status: In development begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is related to Created: 05/10/2019 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50796. Product: Skype for Business, Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, User Links 50796 Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams: Music on Hold Details Description: Music for users on hold. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/here-s-what-you-get-with-phone-system MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but you may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Teams will play music when an external PSTN caller is placed on hold by someone using Teams me for 1:1 PSTN-to-Teams calls. No music will be played for Teams-Teams calls or Teams-SfB callsWe will begin rolling this out at the end of May and expect to be complete by the end of June.
New feature: Share system audio in Teams MC179477 check before: 05/16/2019 Sharing system audio is a new Microsoft Teams feature. We'll begin Status: In development rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft Created: 05/10/2019 365 Roadmap ID: 50692. Product: Teams Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Links 50692 Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Share system audio in a Teams meeting Details Description: Do you need to share a video or audio clip as part of a presentation? Sharing your system audio lets you stream your computer audio to meeting participants through Teams. MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. MS How does it affect For Windows users of Teams, you will now be able to share the audio from any content you share me during a screen or application sharing session. If you want to share any content that has audio, your meeting participants will now be able to see and hear the shared content and audio. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Teams customers in early-June, and we anticipate rollout completion by the end of June.
Group resources on mobile 24667 check before: 06/01/2019 Yammer will bring the right navigation resources inside groups onto the Status: In development mobile app. This will include the 'Group Actions', 'Office 365 Resources, Created: 01/24/2018 and 'Pinned' tabs. Product: Yammer Platform: mobile, World tenant
Scope: UI
Service Health Dashboard Update: Language Translations 24232 check before: 06/01/2019 We're adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Status: In development Office 365 admin center: Customers will be able to view Service Health Created: 10/22/2017 Dashboard posts in different languages. Product: Microsoft 365 admin center Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Service Health Dashboard Update: Email Notifications 24231 check before: 06/01/2019 Stay informed through your preferred channel- service health dashboard Status: In development in the Microsoft 365 admin center will enable you to sign up for Created: 10/22/2017 notifications via email so that you can monitor the service and track issues Product: Microsoft 365 admin center through the channel you prefer. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Microsoft Authentication Library for Javascript 32978 check before: 06/01/2019 Developers bulding a Single Page App can use MSAL.js to securely sign- Status: In development in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Created: 09/06/2018 Accounts), call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph developers have built. All functionality in ADAL.js (Azure AD API Authentication Libraries) is now supported in MSAL.js. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on Platform: Developer, World tenant for users will continue to work. Scope: Developer More Info URL https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js
Azure Information Protection Government (DoD) 24679 check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Azure Information Protection helps you classify and label your Status: In development data at the time of creation. Protection (encryption + authentication + use Created: 11/09/2017 rights) can then be applied to sensitive data. Classification labels and Product: Information Protection - Azure protection are persistent, traveling with the data so that it’s identifiable and (AIP) protected at all times – regardless of where it’s stored or with whom it’s shared. Platform: US Instances
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
Outlook for Android: Time to leave notifications 16032 check before: 06/01/2019 Powered by Cortana, get notifications of the time to leave for meeting in Status: In development Outlook Calendar based on your location and traffic whether you're driving Created: 09/23/2018 or taking public transportation. Product: Cortana, Outlook Platform: Android, World tenant Scope: User Description If Cortana is enabled in your organization, this will add a feature to Outlook on Android. An additional impact is not expected.
Outlook for Android: Sync local calendar with Outlook 33122 check before: 06/01/2019 Bring changes made within the local calendar on Android phones to Status: In development Outlook Calendar. Created: 09/23/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Android
Scope: MDM, Security, User
SharePoint admin center updates 32864 check before: 06/01/2019 We’re updating capabilities in the SharePoint admin center. We'll begin Status: Rolling out rolling out these feature out soon. Updates to the SharePoint admin Created: 08/13/2018 center include: Setting the new SharePoint admin center as the default Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint admin experience in Office 365 with the option to return to the SharePoint classic SharePoint admin center The ability to perform bulk site actions to include site sharing settings, hub site association, and site deletion Platform: Online, World tenant Classic SharePoint admin center settings such as Business Connectivity Scope: Administration, Developer Services (BCS), Term Store, User Profiles, and more will be available to configure in the new SharePoint admin center experience New richer left menu with more controls for Sharing Policies for one or more sites
Advanced Record Versioning in Advanced Data Governance 50794 check before: 06/01/2019 Now users with correct permissions can lock and un-lock a record to Status: In development enable collaboration on records within SharePoint online. Use the Created: 04/25/2019 advanced record versioning feature to ensure records retention policies Product: SharePoint, Office 365 are met, while supporting collaboration and productivity on records in your Advanced Compliance, organization. At each lock or un-lock action a snapshot of the record is Advanced Compliance taken and preserved to ensure records retention requirements are met. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance, User Description If an item is marked as a record, the item is locked for collaboration. This change adds the capability to un-lock an item for collaboration with keeping the properties and information of an item.
Outlook for iOS: Do Not Disturb settings 45917 check before: 06/01/2019 Set time and work/personal situations when you do or don't want email Status: In development notifications and reminders. Created: 02/05/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: Android, iOS Scope: User Recommendations you should inform your help desk actively that users can use this. Description Users can suppress notification from Outlook on iOS and Android. This is configurable and plannable. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
Manual sensitivity labeling of email in Outlook on the web 44921 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development when authoring an email in the Office 365 version of Outlook on the web. Created: 12/18/2018 Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Outlook Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance, Security
Office Online: Manual sensitivity labeling in Word, PowerPoint, Excel 44919 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development within the Office 365 versions of the Office Online apps - Word, Created: 12/18/2018 PowerPoint and Excel. Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Office Client Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
Intelligent classification for Advanced Data Governance 48505 check before: 06/01/2019 Advanced Compliance customers will now be able to utilize out of the box Status: In development machine learned classifiers or train their own custom machine learned Created: 02/26/2019 models to help classify, protect and govern sensitive or business relevant Product: Office 365 Advanced content across relevant compliance solutions such as Advanced Data Compliance Governance, Supervision and Advanced eDiscovery. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, AI, Compliance, Security
Native connectors to 3rd party data for Archiving 48506 check before: 06/01/2019 Now connect and import third party data such as social media and other Status: In development business data like Bloomberg for archiving and discovery purposes. Use Created: 04/18/2019 native connectors built into the compliance center to identify, connect and Product: eDiscovery, Office 365 archive to non Office 365 data sources. Once the content is archived into Advanced Compliance Microsoft 365 it is available for use in various compliance solutions such as Supervision, Advanced eDiscovery and more. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance Recommendations If you are using Microsofts eDiscovery check the new connectors if they might help in legal cases. Give notice to the legal team Comments eDiscovery capabilities are relevant in the US and similar law systems. Description Microsoft develops its eDiscovery solution to a central tool for eDiscovery. Adding native connectors to other services will simplify the eDiscovery search in a legal case
Outlook for Android: Create Group calendar events 50307 check before: 06/01/2019 Create a Group event from Outlook for Android to appear on your Group Status: In development calendar
Created: 04/05/2019 Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Android
Scope: User
Outlook for iOS: Create Group calendar events 48585 check before: 06/01/2019 Create a Group event from Outlook for iOS to appear on your Group Status: In development calendar Created: 04/05/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: User
Microsoft Teams - Announcements 51326 check before: 06/01/2019 Do you have an announcement that needs to stand out from all other Status: In development posts in a channel? The new "Announcement" post type allows you to Created: 05/08/2019 add a headline with a background to your message. You can choose from Product: Teams our available backgrounds or upload your own custom image. Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: User
Outlook on the web - agenda in Calendar 50971 check before: 06/01/2019 We are bringing back the daily agenda view in your Outlook calendar Status: In development when you set up monthly view. Get a rich view of your day while seeing Created: 04/30/2019 your full month. Product: Outlook Platform: Online
Scope: UI
Move SharePoint sites to a new location 51259 check before: 06/01/2019 Beginning in June 2019 SharePoint Online administrators will be able to Status: In development leverage the new invoke-spositeswap Windows PowerShell cmdlet to Created: 05/07/2019 move SharePoint sites between locations within an Office 365 tenant. Product: SharePoint This feature will allow administrations to move a site to the location of an existing site. For example, move a modern site to become the root site at Platform: Online [tenant].sharepoint.com. Scope: Administration, Developer
Microsoft Teams: Secondary Ringer 51089 check before: 06/01/2019 Provides the capability to configure a second ringer for calling. This allows Status: In development for headsets to be plugged in but still be able to hear a incoming call ring Created: 05/06/2019 your device. Product: Teams Platform: mobile, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant
Scope: User
Microsoft Intune management of Windows Defender Firewall rules 51173 check before: 06/01/2019 Admins will soon be able to create a list of rules controlling traffic through Status: In development the Windows Defender Firewall. Rules can specify whether inbound or Created: 05/07/2019 outbound network traffic is permitted for an app, port, or IP address range. Product: Defender, Intune Use this feature to open critical ports on secure networks, or restrict network activity for unapproved apps. Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: MDM
Microsoft Intune integrated threat protection workflows between IT operations 51171 and IT security check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Intune security tasks are new guided remediation capability that Status: In development enhance effectiveness of all security stakeholders—security Created: 05/07/2019 administrators, security operations, and IT administrators—by allowing Product: Defender, Intune them to collaborate and seamlessly remediate threats. This integrated workflow capability will extend the newly announced Microsoft Defender Platform: Online Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM), a new component of Microsoft Scope: Administration, MDM, Security Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP, previously Windows Defender ATP) that uses a risk-based approach to the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of endpoint vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Microsoft Teams: Single toolbar for controls in Meetings and Calling 51186 check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Teams is improving discoverability and reducing clutter for users Status: In development in meetings and calls. The session controls will be unified to one toolbar at Created: 05/06/2019 the bottom of the screen. This will affect Windows, Mac, and web clients. Product: Teams There is no impact for mobile or Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) devices. Platform: Mac, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant
Scope: User
Improvements to Default Retention Label inheritance for SPO Move/Copy 51372 actions check before: 06/01/2019 Now when moving or copying a file in SPO, if the file does not have a Status: In development retention label, the default retention label at the library, folder or docset Created: 05/10/2019 level will be inherited whether the target location is within the same site Product: Information Protection - Office collection or is a different site collection. 365, SharePoint Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance
Microsoft Authentication Library for iOS 44286 check before: 06/01/2019 iOS developers can use MSAL.iOS to securely sign-in and authenticate Status: In development any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), call Microsoft Created: 12/02/2018 Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers have built. All Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph functionality in ADAL.iOS (Azure AD Authentication Libraries) is now API supported in MSAL.iOS. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will continue to work. Platform: Developer, iOS
Scope: Developer
Microsoft Authentication Library for Android 44287 check before: 06/01/2019 Android developers can use MSAL.Android to securely sign-in and Status: In development authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), Created: 12/02/2018 call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph have built. All functionality in ADAL.Android (Azure AD Authentication API Libraries) is now supported in MSAL.Android. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will Platform: Android, Developer continue to work. Scope: Developer
Outlook for Mac: OneNote integration 26371 check before: 06/01/2019 Simply send emails and notes to OneNote from Outlook for Mac. Status: In development Created: 11/13/2018 Product: OneNote, Outlook Platform: Mac Scope: User Description Users can seamlessly send information from OneNote on Mac to Outlook.
Auto-remediation with enhanced playbooks 34296 check before: 06/01/2019 Auto-remediation of threats with additional playbooks and deeper Status: In development integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory. Created: 10/09/2018 There will be additional remediation capabilities made available in guided Product: Azure Active Directory, Cloud threat hunting scenarios. App Security Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Security
SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: new Files experience 30548 check before: 06/01/2019 Manage files in Microsoft Teams with the full power of SharePoint. With Status: In development the new Files experience, you will be able to add and manage custom Created: 10/03/2018 columns, sort and filter files with custom views, trigger workflows, and Product: SharePoint, Teams sync files to your PC or Mac. Available this summer. Platform: Mac, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/New-innovations-in-SharePoint- amp-Microsoft-365-deliver-power/ba-p/260317
Outlook for iOS: Act on one message in a conversation thread 32764 check before: 06/01/2019 Take action on a single message from within a conversation thread. Status: In development Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: UI
Office 365 Message Encryption: Support for protecting PDF attachments 31523 check before: 06/01/2019 New capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption uses encryption and Status: In development rights protection to help you protect and control your sensitive emails. In Created: 07/11/2018 addition to protecting the Office attachments, we are adding support for Product: Information Protection - Office protecting PDF files as attachments when sending sensitive email 365 messages. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
Service Health Dashboard Update: Report an Outage 24153 check before: 06/01/2019 We're adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Status: In development Microsoft 365 admin center. If you are impacted by an issue that is not Created: 10/22/2017 showing up on your Service health dashboard, the Report an Outage Product: Microsoft 365 admin center feature will provide you with a quick and easy way to let us know. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Azure Information Protection unified labeling client 49441 check before: 07/01/2019 This is the version of the Azure Information Protection client that supports Status: In development unified labeling (sensitivity labels that are configured in the Security & Created: 03/13/2019 Compliance center or the Microsoft 365 security center). Product: Information Protection - Azure (AIP) Platform: Windows Desktop
Scope: Compliance, Security
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Customizable Teams mobile experience 51163 check before: 01/01/2019 Microsoft Teams has new capabilities for the mobile experience: Location Status: Launched sharing - using GPS data, share your location with your team in channel Created: 05/07/2019 or a 1:1/group chat. Smart camera - smart camera can interpret different Product: Teams image types such as a document, whiteboard or business card, and utilizes auto crop for easy consumption. Firstline Workers handle a lot of Platform: tasks that are image heavy. And they’ll begin a task by taking a picture Scope: User 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 To-Do: Planner task integration 45523 check before: 04/30/2019 Manage Planner tasks assigned to you within Microsoft To-Do. Users can Status: Launched view, edit, and complete Planner tasks from Microsoft To-Do. Add Planner Created: 05/10/2019 tasks to To-Do's My Day to focus on what's most important to get done. Product: Planner, To-Do Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: User
LinkedIn Support in Sharing Control 49097 check before: 05/01/2019 People picker for ODB and SP shows LinkedIn contacts Status: Rolling out Created: 04/11/2019 Product: LinkedIn, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform:
Scope:
Question & Answer 34238 check before: 05/01/2019 Harness collective knowledge with new Yammer features that significantly Status: In development improve support for communities where people can get questions Created: 11/14/2018 answered. Product: Yammer Platform: Online
Scope: Administration, User
Unified App Registration Experience 32977 check before: 05/01/2019 Register, configure and manage all your apps in the new app registration Status: In development blade in the Azure portal. The app registration experience now includes Created: 12/02/2018 more details about your app, quick start guides, improved navigation, Product: Azure Active Directory revamped permission selection experience and more. Platform: Developer, World tenant
Scope: Administration, Developer
Records Management solution in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center 50795 check before: 05/01/2019 Now take advantage of Microsoft 365 records management capabilities in Status: In development one place with specific permissions model and tailored experience for Created: 04/25/2019 records management including file plan, event based retention, and Product: Information Protection - Office defensible disposition. Enable your records management requirements in- 365 place within Microsoft 365. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance, UI Description Microsoft aggregates Records Management in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center. Different requirements can be covered in one place
PowerApps and Flow availability to GCC tenants 33770 check before: 05/01/2019 PowerApps and Flow will be available to government tenants in the GCC Status: In development environment. Created: 11/20/2018 Product: Flow, PowerApps, SharePoint Platform: US Instances Scope: Developer, User additional Info URL https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft- 365/PowerApps%20and%20Flow%20availability%20to%20GCC%20tenants More Info URL https://PowerApps and Flow availability to GCC tenants
Outlook for Windows: Lift 500 folder limit for shared mailboxes 27807 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook has improved synchronization of folders by removing the 500 Status: Rolling out folder limit for shared mailboxes. Created: 05/22/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Recommendations If needed, you may check historical tickets if the 500 folders limits caused a problem. On the other hand, as of now, this had to be solved by the users in other ways. The higher limit might cause sync issues. Description Microsoft Outlook was limited to sync 500 folders. In some scenarios, this limit was hit by the intense use of folders. This limit will be removed.
Outlook for Android: act on one message within a conversation thread 32767 check before: 05/01/2019 Mark as read/unread or flag on a single message from within a Status: Rolling out conversation thread. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Android Scope: User Description Adds the capability to handle read/unread within a conversation threat in Outlook for Android per email, rather than the whole threat
FindTime - support for more languages 42561 check before: 05/01/2019 We are adding support for more languages, including: Chinese Status: Rolling out (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) Dutch Italian French German Created: 10/16/2018 Portuguese (Brazilian) Korean Japanese German Turkish Russian Product: Exchange, FindTime Spanish Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Administration, UI
External Sharing Reports 27034 check before: 05/01/2019 Site admins will be able to see all the items in a site that are shared Status: In development externally. Created: 05/20/2018 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: World tenant Scope: Administration Compliance This may help to reduce data leakage and keep the organization informed on external sharing. Recommendations Give notice of this feature to the security department or the department responsible for DLP data leakage prevention. Description SharePoint administrators will be able to get a report on externally shared files.
Auto-Investigation with threat playbooks 45268 check before: 05/01/2019 Auto-investigation capabilities for threats will be available in Office 365 E5. Status: In development Also, there will be key threat playbooks available at this time also. Ability Created: 01/06/2019 to trigger automated investigations using the playbooks from Threat Product: Advanced Threat Protection - Explorer also will go live. Azure (ATP) Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Licensing, Security
Mini toolbar in OneNote for Windows 10 50711 check before: 05/01/2019 Edit faster with the new Mini toolbar in OneNote for Windows 10. The Status: Rolling out toolbar will appear above text when content is highlighted with tools Created: 04/18/2019 relevant to the selected content. Product: OneNote, Windows 10 Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: UI Recommendations Give notice to the help desk and key users Description This change adds the mini toolbar to the Windows 10 OneNote Store app like it's known of OneNote 2016 full client.
M365 Supervision now includes Skype for Business online chat and email 50585 domain exclusions check before: 05/01/2019 Now organizations can expand supervision policies beyond email and Status: In development Teams content to include Skype for Business online chat. In addition Created: 04/14/2019 Supervision policies can now exclude specific email domains so that Product: Skype for Business, Teams, automated notices such as newsletters are not included in the review. Office 365 Advanced Compliance Platform: Online Scope: Compliance Recommendations Under EU legislation the usage of Office 365 supervision is highly regulated. Be cautious if you plan to use the feature. additional Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Use-Supervision-to- monitor-email-Microsoft-Teams-manage-risk/ba-p/325827 Description The Office 365 supervision solution is extended to cover Skype for Business.
News & page targeting 50805 check before: 05/01/2019 With audience targeting, site owners and intranet managers can deliver Status: Rolling out rich experiences to various audiences from within the same site with Created: 04/25/2019 intelligence on what content to show specific people based on role, region, Product: SharePoint status, etc. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718
Organization assets 33594 check before: 05/01/2019 Centralized curated view of digital images for reuse in page authoring Status: Rolling out Created: 04/25/2019 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718
Outlook for Mac: Adds presence for Teams customers 45557 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook for Mac support a presence indicator on email addresses when Status: In development creating or reading messages. Created: 03/09/2019 Product: Outlook, Teams Platform: Mac
Scope: UI
Outlook for iOS: Apple watch enhancements 45977 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook for iOS for Apple Watch is now faster and supports new Series 4 Status: Rolling out watch faces. Created: 02/19/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: User
SharePoint news notification configuration 49604 check before: 05/01/2019 Configure personal email notification settings for SharePoint news Status: In development updates. Created: 03/18/2019 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Give notice to the help desk to assist the users with the configuration. Description This adds the option for the user to configure the email notification setting from SharePoint news. Docu to check Knowledge base
View labeling and protected PDF documents on Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac 49440 check before: 05/01/2019 This enables PDF documents that have been labeled and protected using Status: In development Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels to be opened natively by Created: 03/13/2019 Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac. Product: Information Protection - Azure (AIP) Platform: Mac
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel 30686 check before: 05/01/2019 Now it’s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Status: In development Teams channel & chat associated to it – right from within the SharePoint Created: 05/29/2018 user interface. Product: SharePoint, Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: UI, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/What-s-new-for-your-intranet-in-Office- 365/ba-p/194168
Share and collaborate on Visio visuals 33736 check before: 05/01/2019 More sharing and collaboration features for Visio Visual in line with Status: Previously released traditional Power BI visualizations Created: 05/10/2019 Product: Office Client, PowerBI Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Developer More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blog/Share-and-collaborate-on-Visio-visuals-just-like- other-Power-BI/ba-p/457770
SharePoint Migration Tool Site Migration Support 51262 check before: 05/01/2019 The SharePoint Migration Tool lets you migrate content from SharePoint Status: In development Server 2013 or from on-premises file shares and easily move them to Created: 05/08/2019 either Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive in Office 365. This Product: OneDrive for Business, update to the SharePoint Migration Tool provides support for complete SharePoint site migrations with SharePoint Server 2013 in addition to support for migrations from SharePoint Server 2010 (preview). Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer More Info URL https://aka.ms/SPMT
Updated feature: reset password in the Microsoft 365 admin center 51332 check before: 05/01/2019 We're updating reset password so that it supports a 256 character Status: Rolling out maximum password length. For our hybrid customers, we have also Created: 05/08/2019 implemented support for password writeback. This Azure Active Directory Product: Azure Active Directory, premium feature allows admins to reset passwords for users synced via Microsoft 365 admin center AAD connect. This means that you can now reset passwords in the online portal for these users. Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Security More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-Blog/What-s-new-in-Microsoft-365-user- management-for-April-2019/ba-p/542153
Outlook for Mac: Enhanced contact card information 26734 check before: 05/01/2019 Select a contact's name in a message or calendar event to see their Status: In development photo, phone number, email, recent conversations, and more. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Mac Scope: UI Recommendations This is a visual change, update your training material for Mac users Description Adding an enhanced contact card for Outlook for Mac users will simplify the search for contact information.
Outlook for Windows: Spelling corrections in Search 27265 check before: 05/01/2019 Outlook will provide a suggested search query with spelling corrections. Status: Rolling out Created: 09/06/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Description Improvement of the search functionality in Outlook
Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET 33411 check before: 05/01/2019 .NET developers can use MSAL.NET to securely sign-in and authenticate Status: In development any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), call Microsoft Created: 09/09/2018 Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers have built. All Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph functionality in ADAL.NET (Azure AD Authentication Libraries) is now API supported in MSAL.NET. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will continue to work. Platform: Developer Scope: Developer More Info URL https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet
Outlook for Windows: Get suggestions for Calendar meeting and appointment 20974 locations check before: 05/01/2019 Start typing a meeting room or venue for your appointment or meeting. Status: In development Outlook will look for matching locations.
Created: 04/01/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop
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Prompt for pending uploads 50729 check before: 05/01/2019 Sync client will also notify users when they have pending uploads in Status: In development queue when the computer is shutting down or going into standby. Created: 04/19/2019 Product: OneDrive for Business Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Effects for Operations Notifying the user on incomplete sync might reduce the incidents complaining in inconsistent data. Recommendations Give notice to the help desk and users. Description The notification of incomplete sync of the OneDrive client on standby or shutdown will help users to stay consistent with their files over the different platforms Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
Intgrate with Azure Sentinel to define custom retention times for your 50224 discovery data check before: 05/01/2019 Microsoft Cloud App Security has a strict data retention policy and only Status: In development keeps Cloud Discovery data for 90 days. By integrating with Azure Created: 04/03/2019 Sentinel, organizations can now leverage their Discovery data within Product: Cloud App Security Azure Sentinel to define custom, longer retention times. This gives admins more flexibility to run queries and visualize data over time directly within Platform: Online, World tenant Azure Sentinel. This is a public preview. Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Description Administrators can export Microsoft Cloud App Security data to Azure Sentinel, if you need the data longer than the maximum of 90 days in Cloud App Security
New feature: OneDrive - updated "manage access" pane for classic user MC178385 interface check before: 05/01/2019 Updated file access management in advanced permissions if you are Status: In development using the classic OneDrive user interface is a new Office 365 feature. Created: 04/25/2019 We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Product: OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 50730. SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: UI, User Recommendations Give notice to the key users and the help desk Links 50730 Description The classic sharing UI in OneDrive changes. User can manage the assess rights more fine- grained. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: OneDrive - updated "manage access" pane for classic user interface (UI) Details Url: https://support.office.com/article/stop-sharing-onedrive-or-sharepoint-files-or-folders-or-change- permissions-0a36470f-d7fe-40a0-bd74-0ac6c1e13323 Description: Users will be able to manage access permissions, remove individual recipients from shared links or stop sharing overall - all when working within the OneDrive classic user interface. When you go to a file or folder's information pane and click "Manage access," you're taken to a more modern interface to review, add, adjust and remove access to a file - inline with where the file lives - OneDrive or SharePoint. you can also see and manage any and all sharing links that have created on the file or folder. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/stop-sharing-onedrive-or-sharepoint-files-or-folders-or-change- permissions-0a36470f-d7fe-40a0-bd74-0ac6c1e13323 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk, especially if you are still using Classic views in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Please click Additional information to learn more about file sharing and permissions in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. MS How does it affect We are making it easier for people to manage access permissions, remove individual recipients me from shared links or stop sharing overall - all when working within the OneDrive classic user interface. When you go to a file or folder's information pane and click "Manage access," you're taken to a more modern interface to review, add, adjust and remove access to a file - inline with where the file lives - OneDrive or SharePoint. you can also see and manage any and all sharing links that have created on the file or folder.We'll be gradually rolling this feature out in early May, 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of the month.
New feature: SharePoint Online news and page authors will now receive MC178376 emails with comments, replies and likes check before: 05/01/2019 We're adding new SharePoint Online emails to keep you informed about Status: Rolling out likes and comments on pages/news posts. We'll begin rolling this feature Created: 04/24/2019 out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: Product: SharePoint 49603. Platform: Online Scope: User Links 49603 Description Adding the capability to receive email notifications from SharePoint news Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint news email notifications Details Url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718 Description: Receive notifications for comments, replies and likes via email from SharePoint news More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to- SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training and notifying your helpdesk. End-users can unsubscribe from notification scenarios by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, when someone comments on a page or a news post, the author of me the post will receive an email. If this comment is a reply to a top-level comment, the top-level commenter will also receive an email. Comment emails will be batched so that your users will receive a single email when several comments have been made on the page or news post within a short duration of time. Additionally, the same functionality will apply when users leave a like on a page or news post. We’ll begin rolling this out in early June, and the rollout will be completed worldwide by the end of June 2019.
New feature: error resolution flow for illegal file and folder names in OneDrive MC178370 check before: 05/01/2019 Error resolution flow for illegal file and folder names is a new OneDrive Status: In development feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is Created: 04/24/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 49314. Product: OneDrive for Business Platform: Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: UI, User Recommendations Check the help information against your knowledge base and align the information Links 49314 Description Microsoft adds helpful information to the OneDrive sync client. These small hints are intended to reduce support effort. Linked RM Item Title: Incident deflection for Sync client Details Description: In- app resolutions to sync errors to help end users avert and solve issues easily.The first one of them is for "Illegal files names not syncing ". End users will get an error status in the ODB icon in their system tray along with guidance on renaming the affected files as well as education on legal file names.We will have more such resolutions in future. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/99333564-c2ed-4e78-8936-7c773e958881 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect Sometimes files are not able to sync to OneDrive because they have illegal characters in the name me of the file, or in the name of the folder the file is in. OneDrive is rolling our an automated fix suggestion that will help users rename the problematic files on Windows and Mac, and thus resolve the sync issue around them. We began gradually rolling this out to all customers in mid-April, and we anticipate roll out completion worldwide by the end of April 2019.
New Feature: new Outlook on the web (opt-in) - browse rooms MC178383 check before: 05/01/2019 Browse rooms in the new Outlook on the web (opt-in) is a new Office 365 Status: Rolling out feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is Created: 04/25/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50722 Product: Exchange, Outlook Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: UI Recommendations
additions from 50722: Give notice to the help desk and key users. Links 50722 Linked RM Item Title: Outlook on the web - browse rooms Details Description: When creating a meeting from your calendar, you can now search for available meeting rooms by clicking on the location bar and then on "Browse more places" - Search by city or room list. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/create-modify-or-delete-a-meeting-request-or-appointment-in- outlook-on-the-web-6283f744-4ce1-470e-9d6b-96fa94e52996 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Now when creating a meeting from your calendar, you can search for available meeting rooms in me your organization by clicking on the location bar and then on "Browse more places". You can search by city or room list.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late April, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of June.This roll out is excluded from Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
New Feature: Favorite People and Notifications in Outlook for iOS and MC178380 Android check before: 05/01/2019 We are preparing to introduce new capabilities in Outlook for iOS and Status: In development Android that supports selecting specific people as favorites for quick Created: 04/24/2019 access to recent email conversations and provides additional notification Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph options. This message is associated with the following Microsoft 365 API, Outlook Roadmap ID's:Favorite people: 27825, 27826Favorite notifications 32756, 32766Android people contact information 50420These capabilities will Platform: Android, iOS, World tenant start to roll out in Outlook for iOS and Android in the coming weeks and Scope: MDM, User expect they will take several weeks to deploy across all eligible customers.This change does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC Recommendations Give notice to your key users and help desk on the new capabilities. Adopt training materials. Links 27825,27826,32766,50420,MC165218 Description Tag people, i.e., contacts to be a favorite to display them more visible in Outlook for Android. Users can take advantage of additional notification options in Outlook mobile. Docu to check Trainings Linked RM Item Title: Outlook for iOS: Favorite people Outlook for Android: Favorite people Outlook for Android: Details Favorite Notifications Outlook for Android: People contact information Description: Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible Outlook for iOS and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) Designate people as favorites so they are quickly and easily visible in Outlook for Android and soon in other Outlook endpoints (e.g. Outlook on the web) Option to receive Outlook for Android notifications for emails only from your people you've identified as Favorites in Outlook. Detailed contact information about people in your organization (people card) including organizational reporting structure for businesses, people they work with or those you email with frequently. More Info URL https://www.osupportweb.com/a/outlook-mobile/?p=ios&s=favorites MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change, but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. For more information about Favorites in Outlook mobile, please see the in-app FAQ in Help and Feedback, scroll down to Favorites, or refer to Additional Information. MS How does it affect Favorite people will be available for all Outlook for iOS customers whereas for Outlook for Android, me only those customers who are using the new native Microsoft sync technology (MC165218) will be able to select people as favorites. Additionally, for those customers using Outlook for iOS and Android with new sync technology, you will have the option to set your email notifications for Office 365 and Outlook.com accounts based on your favorite people. In addition to setting notifications for Focused Inbox, Focused Inbox and Other or No notifications, you will be able select the option to only receive notifications of emails from the people you select as favorites.Changing who you tag or the order of your favorite people (add, remove, reorder) will also appear in Outlook on the web.Outlook for Android contact information will also be updated with details from Azure Active Directory for easy access to the information about people in your organization when you’re on the go. This includes your company reporting structure as well as insight into who the people in your organization work with, powered by the Microsoft Office Graph. You will also be able to easily add your company contact to Outlook for Android.
New Feature: Outlook on the web - suggested attachments MC178455 check before: 05/02/2019 New feature: Outlook on the web - suggested attachmentsSuggested Status: In development attachments in the new Outlook on the web is a new Office 365 feature. Created: 04/26/2019 We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Product: Exchange, Outlook Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46145 Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: AI, UI, User Links 46145 Description This function is expected to be a part of Office intelligent services. So the suggested attachment analyzes the email and proposes matching documents. Linked RM Item Title: Outlook on the web - suggested attachments Details Description: Outlook will now suggest relevant files you can attach when you respond to an email and click on the -Attach- paper clip drop down icon. MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect It will soon be easier to find and attach a file in the new Outlook on the web. When you go to attach me a file, Outlook will use intelligent technology to find the files that are most relevant to the ongoing conversation and the files that you most recently used, providing quick access to them. To see "suggested attachments," just respond to an email and select the "Attach" paper clip drop down icon. Suggested attachments only supports files stored in OneDrive for Business & SharePoint Online for now. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release organizations in late April, and the rollout will be completed worldwide by the end of August 2019. This roll out is excluded from Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
Updated Feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication MC178555 administrator roles check before: 05/05/2019 Updated feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged Status: authentication administrator rolesWe are updating permissions for the Created: 04/29/2019 Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication administrator Product: Azure Active Directory roles in Azure Active Directory. These roles will be given permission to reset passwords for users. We will deploy the change to these roles in Platform: Online, World tenant mid-May 2019. Scope: Administration, Security Recommendations Check your security and privileges assignments and the corresponding concepts if you are impacted by this change. Description Microsoft adds privileges to admin roles. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on. Docu to check Working instructions More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin- roles MS Preperations You should review the list of users who are assigned to these roles. If any of these users should not have permission to reset passwords for other users, you should remove them from the role.Please see the Additional Information for more information on roles and permissions. MS How does it affect When the roles are updated, existing and new users assigned to these roles will have permission to me reset user passwords. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on.
Updated Feature: Refreshed Folder Icon Design MC178514 check before: 05/05/2019 Updated feature: Refreshed Folder Icon DesignThis message is Status: In development associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 50597. Created: 04/28/2019 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: Online Scope: UI Recommendations
additions from 50597: Give notice to your help desk, and mobile team Links 50597 Linked RM Item Title: Golden Folders : New Folder Icon Design Details Description: As we continue rolling out the Fluent design language and the refreshed Office brand icons, we are introducing fresh folder design with the "golden folders". The new color palette and subtle yet noticeable clues emblazoned on the icon remind you of the contents and sharing status of each folder. We will initiate this roll out across Web and iOS with Android following up soon. More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/Designing-a-Fluent-and- Intelligent-OneDrive/ba-p/303748 MS How does it affect Microsoft is constantly pushing the bar on design, to deliver to customers a seamless experience me that is not just beautiful, but actively functional. As we continue rolling out the Fluent design language and the refreshed Office brand icons, we are refreshing the representation of one of the most commonly used objects across the suite: The file folder.This season, we are introducing golden folders. Inspired by the strong heritage of Windows but brought forth to a mobile-first age, these are the most functional and fresh folder designs we have ever shipped. Subtle yet noticeable clues emblazoned on the icon remind you of the contents and sharing status of each folder. Lastly, the color palette has been handcrafted to connect your content across the suite, and individually tested and fine-tuned for all the devices you care about.We are rolling out the design over the coming weeks across mobile and web in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and connected experiences in other apps, with no disruption in the functionality you rely on. We are always iterating, listening, and learning new ways to help you achieve more.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late April 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May 2019.; PublishedTime=2019-04-29T17:11:00Z
New Feature: Groups in Outlook: 'Brownbag'-style events MC178523 check before: 05/05/2019 New feature:'Brownbag'-style events is a new Office 365 feature for Status: Rolling out groups in Outlook. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message Created: 04/28/2019 is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46257. Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Online Scope: User Effects for Operations An increase in tickets could take place. since Teams or Office 365 group invitations can show another behavior than before. Recommendations An increase in tickets could take place since Teams or Office 365 group invitations can show another behavior than before. Links 46257 Description The behavior of invitation in Office 365 Group calendar will change. Users can select invitees for a group event; all others can see these events. This may lead to confusion. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Groups in Outlook - Self-serve events Details Description: You will be able to create "brownbag" style events. Create events on a group calendar where you can send invites to required attendees without sending an invite to the entire group. Others in the group can see the event and add themselves if they want." More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/schedule-a-meeting-on-a-group-calendar-in-outlook-0cf1ad68- 1034-4306-b367-d75e9818376a MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect Being able to invite select attendees without inviting the group is extremely useful for group me collaboration. You can now invite external speakers to "brownbag meetings" on the calendar where attendees can selectively add to their calendars, or even have meeting rooms for a group appointment.Before this change, in Outlook for Windows, when a user creates a group meeting on a group's calendar and removes that group from the To: line, group members would still receive meeting invitations in their inbox. With this change, Outlook will now only send invitations to those in the To: line. If the group is removed from the To: line, then group members will not receive the meeting invitation. The meeting will continue to appear on the group calendar, where users can add it to their respective calendars.Similarly, before this change in the new Outlook on the web, when a user creates a group event on a group's calendar and adds others to the event, group members would receive meeting invitations in their inbox. With this change, Outlook will now only send invitations to those that are explicitly invited. If the group is removed from the To: line, then group members will not receive the meeting invitation. The meeting will continue to appear on the group calendar, where users can add it to their respective calendars.However, when individuals who do not have the feature accept, respond, or decline the 'brownbag-style’ event, Outlook will add and send invitations to the group as it previously did before the change.We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted customers in late April, and then to Standard Release customers in early May.
Microsoft Intune In Development for May is now available MC178596 check before: 05/06/2019 The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has Status: been updated for May 2019. Created: 04/29/2019 Product: Intune Platform: mobile, Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, MDM Recommendations As the Intune team stopped publishing their items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap the responsible Team for Intune is obliged to check upcoming changes in the Intune blog. see the link in the "Additional Info" section additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/in-development More Info URL https://aka.ms/Intune_InDevelopment MS Preperations You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your end user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your end users.Click Additional Information for the link to the In development page. MS How does it affect The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to me assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated for May. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release.
Updated Feature: Microsoft Secure Score Integrated into Microsoft 365 MC178636 Security Center check before: 05/06/2019 In response to frequent customer feedback, Microsoft Secure Score has Status: been integrated into the new Microsoft 365 Security Center console which Created: 04/30/2019 reached general availability on March 28th. By integrating this Microsoft Product: Information Protection - Office Secure Score into this new console we have consolidated the experiences 365 for many security administrators into a single location making discoverability and access to Microsoft Secure Score and other features Platform: mobile, Online, World tenant easier for all of our customers.This change does not apply to Office 365 Scope: Administration, Security subscriptions in GCC. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/overview-security-center MS Preperations You don't need to do anything but may want to update any bookmarks to the new location within Microsoft 365 Security Center. Please click Additional information to learn more about the Microsoft 365 Security Center and Microsoft Secure Score. MS How does it affect In late-May users of the existing Microsoft Secure Score site (http://securescore.microsoft.com) will me automatically be redirected to Microsoft 365 Security Center.
Feature update: Yammer simplified first-time login experience MC178630 check before: 05/06/2019 We are making changes to simplify the new user login experience for Status: Yammer. Created: 04/29/2019 Product: Yammer Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: User Description Microsoft removes some features from the fist sign in to Yammer. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/sign-in-to-yammer-d863154a-4223-4ea2-8855-ccc971321b8e MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may wish to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for Yammer Quick Start training for users. MS How does it affect The new user login experience is being updated based on customer feedback:New users will not me be prompted to switch their language to EnglishNew users will not be prompted to Invite New MembersNew users will not be sent a Welcome email
Updated Feature: Actionable Messages now support Payments in Outlook on MC178638 the web check before: 05/06/2019 We’re updating Actionable Messages to now support Payments in Outlook Status: Rolling out on the web. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is Created: 04/30/2019 related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 31061. Product: Outlook Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Compliance, User Recommendations If your organization doesn't allow Microsoft Account this will have no impact. If you have Microsoft Accounts allowed check if you want to disable the payment option. Links 31061 Config Options Payments in Outlook can be disabled for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users by disabling connectors and Actionable Messages. Admins can use Exchange OnlinePowerShell to disable connectors for an entire tenant or for a specific group mailbox. All users in that tenant or mailbox would be affected. It's not possible to disable for some and not others. The tenant-level setting overrides the group level setting. For example, if an admin enables connectors for the group and disables them on the tenant, connectors for the group will be disabled. To learn how to connect to Exchange OnlinePowerShell, see Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell. To disable connectors for the tenant, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsEnabled:$false To disable connectors for a group mailbox, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity [email protected] -ConnectorsEnabled:$false To disable actionable messages for connectors for the tenant, run the following command in Exchange OnlinePowerShell: Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsActionableMessagesEnabled:$false Description Apparently, This applies only to users with a Microsoft Account (MSA), with mail domains like outlook.com or hotmail.com etc. Since Microsoft Pay is linked to a Microsoft Account (MSA) Linked RM Item Title: Payments in Outlook: Support for Office 365 Details Description: Outlook Pay support was enabled for certain Outlook.com customers previously and we are continuing to roll out support for additional customers. Office 365 customers will be able to take advantage of paying invoices, right in email, without switching services. This functionality will be available for Outlook on the web initially and we will continue to roll out support for more platforms in the coming months. More Info URL https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2088484 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may wish to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Actionable Messages now supports Payments in Outlook on the web, which allows users to pay me invoices without leaving their inbox.We'll be gradually rolling this out to Standard Release customers in late May 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of August 2019.
New Feature: Manage discovery of private teams in Microsoft Teams MC178666 check before: 05/07/2019 Admins and team owners can control whether private teams can be Status: In development discovered by Microsoft Teams users in your organization. When a private Created: 04/30/2019 team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in Product: Teams suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for users to search for and find the private teams that they Platform: Online, World tenant want to join. Users can request to join a private team which a team owner Scope: Administration, Compliance, can then approve or deny. User We’re introducing a new per team setting that determines whether a team shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. Team owners can set the discovery setting for a private team in the team settings and through create team dialog during creation and admins can do so by using PowerShell. As an admin, you can also control which users in your organization are allowed to discover private teams (for which team discovery setting is enabled) by assigning user level policies. For a given team to be discoverable for a given user, that team’s setting would need to be set to be discoverable and discovery would need to be enabled for the user through policy. All existing teams created prior to roll out will remain non-discoverable unless the setting is explicitly changed by team owners or admins after the roll out. Team owners will get an option to review the discoverability setting for the teams they own and, if needed, update it Any team created after the roll out will have the team discovery setting set as discoverable by default. When a team owner creates a private team, they can change this setting. By default, user policy AllowPrivateTeamDiscovery will be set to true for all users in an organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 44370. This feature is scheduled to roll out in early June, 2019. Compliance Making private teams not findable might enable more usage scenarios for Teams with high confidentiality requirements. Recommendations Make all Team owners aware of the option to hide teams. Check your provisioning processes to integrate this option, too. Links 44370 Config Options General discovery of private teams can be set at tenant level soon this can be set via PowerShell with this command Set-Team -GroupId
New feature: Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365 MC178646 check before: 05/07/2019 Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365 is a new feature that enables Status: Rolling out you to apply multiple custom email templates, expire and revoke Created: 04/30/2019 encrypted emails accessed through the Office 365 web portal. We'll begin Product: Exchange, Office 365 rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Advanced Compliance, Roadmap IDs: 34924, 46098, 46099 Advanced Compliance Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Recommendations Evaluate what is possible in terms of customizing. Give notice to the department which is responsible for corporate design or communication. Or if the parameters are clear setup your desired design and inform the users and the help desk. Give also notice to the team responsible for additional options in OME like expire and revoke encrypted emails accessed through the Office 365 web portal Links 34924,46098,46099 Opportunities Get more company branding to Office 365. The visibility to external persons is high when OME is in use. This allows you that recipients identify emails from your organization and associate these emails with your company. Description OME encrypted emails outside the organization are standardized. Now you can create one or more templates to the OME message and apply these via Exchange Mail flow rules as needed. Also, the web page for OME can be customized. This includes only a logo and text. The general layout can't be changed. Linked RM Item Title: Advanced Message Encryption in Office 365: Custom email templates Advanced Message Details Encryption in Office 365: admin controlled message revocation Message encryption: admin controlled message expiration Url: https://aka.ms/ignite2018ome Description: You can create more than one 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. We are enabling the ability for admins to revoke encrypted emails. Revocation of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails. All such encrypted emails will be revocable. Once an email has been revoked, the recipient will get the following message when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 portal: “The message has been revoked by the sender.” We are releasing the ability for admins to expire encrypted emails. Expiration of encrypted emails is only possible if the recipient received a link-based branded email experience for the encrypted email. If the recipient received a native inline experience in a supported Outlook client, then those emails cannot be revoked. Organizations will have the ability to force a link-based experience regardless of the recipient identity. This way, all recipients will get a branded email with a link to the Office 365 Message Encryption portal where they will be able to read and reply to encrypted emails - and if the message is expired they will no longer be able to read and reply to the encrypted email. Once an email has been expired, the recipient will get an error when trying to access the encrypted email through the Office 365 Message Encryption portal: “The message has been expired by the sender.” More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Announcing-Office-365- Advanced-Message-Encryption/ba-p/502440 MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, you’ll be able to:Create multiple customizable branded templates for me encrypted emails. These templates can fulfill several use cases, such as:Templates for each department, such as Finance, Sales, etc.Templates for different productsTemplates for different geographical regions or countriesOnce created, these branded templates can be applied to encrypted emails using Exchange Mail Flow rules. Set an expiration date as an added option to the customizable branded templates for encrypted emails. Admins can set automatic policies that can detect sensitive information types (e.g. PII, Financial or Health IDs) or keywords to enhance protection by expiring access through the Office 365 web portal to encrypted emails.Once the custom email template is created in PowerShell with the desired expiration date, you can go to the Exchange admin center to apply the new template. After the template is applied, the sender can send email normally, and if the email meets the conditions of the policy, the expiration date will be invoked. From the perspective of the recipient, after the message is sent, they would see the branded template with the expiration date. Once the encrypted email has expired, the email will no longer be accessible through the Office 365 web portal. Admins can go into the encryption report to find encrypted emails and revoke access through a new UI experience inside the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center. Once the encrypted email has been revoked, the email will no longer be accessible through the Office 365 web portal. Advanced Message Encryption requires a Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 Enterprise E5 subscription, or an Office 365 E3 subscription with the E5 Compliance add-on or Advanced Compliance add-on. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.
New Feature: Time Clock in Shifts MC178678 check before: 05/07/2019 Time Clock in Shifts is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this Status: Rolling out feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Created: 04/30/2019 ID 50835 Product: Teams, Teams Shifts Platform: Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Compliance, User Compliance This might be a case to check with the workers council. Recommendations Give notice to the responsible team for workers time recording of the new feature. Check for detailed configuration options as soon as the function is visible on your tenant. Links 50835 Config Options The new Time Clock feature comes with an opt-in function. More details are not available. Opportunities The Time Clock feature in Teams Shifts might help is some very limited scenarios, because acquiring workers time is in the most cases covered by a 3rd party system, which is already highly integrated into an existing ERP system. Maybe this feature can be an option for future use or future sites, where you might save the hardware equipment to aquire the time Description This change adds a time clock with geofencing to record worked time. Linked RM Item Title: Time clock in Shifts Details Description: Enable your Firstline Workforce to clock in and out of their shifts and breaks from their mobile device. Additionally, you can set up Time clock using a geofenced location and collect GPS data to validate that someone has clocked in/out at the appropriate worksite. More Info URL https://support.office.com/teams MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for end-user documentation which will be available in the Teams Helps center. MS How does it affect This feature is available to be enabled on Teams Web/Desktop and will be opt-in.We'll be gradually me rolling this out to customers in early May, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.This change does not affect Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MC178681 check before: 05/07/2019 The new Outlook on the web, currently opt-in, does not support the Share Status: availability feature. Created: 05/01/2019 Product: FindTime, Outlook Platform: mobile, Online Scope: UI, User Recommendations Give notice to the key users and help desk, if your users are allowed to toggle the new Outlook on the web experience already. additional Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s=calendar-1492711395&f=how-do-i-send-my- availability-to-someone-via-email-1556034333&p=all Description This change only applies to the new Outlook on the web experience. Microsoft adds a new toggle to opt-in or out the availability sharing capability even in the old Outlook on the web environment. Users can share their availability in different ways. One is using the Outlook mobile app (see additional info) or using FindTime. This doesn't mean sharing the user's calendar, but communicating user-selected time slots as available. More Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s MS Feature Name Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MS Preperations If users would like to continue to use the Share availability feature direct them to not opt-in to the new Outlook on the web. If they have already opted-in to the new Outlook on the web they can opt- out, via the toggle, and retain full use of the Share availability feature.We would also suggest the following options to share availability:Use the Outlook mobile app to send availability Use the FindTime add-in to share availabilityWe will send additional communication around the transition to the new Outlook on the web in the future.Please click Additional Information to learn more about how to share availability in Outlook mobile MS How does it affect Users who opt-in to the new Outlook on the web will not be able to use the Share availability me feature.
New Feature: Shifts Multiteam Support MC178679 check before: 05/07/2019 Shifts Multiteam Support is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling Status: Rolling out this feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Created: 04/30/2019 Roadmap ID 50988 Product: Teams, Teams Shifts Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, User Links 50988 Description By adding the capability for Teams Shifts users to participate in multiple teams and shifts, Microsoft enables more usage scenarios. Linked RM Item Title: Multiteam Support in Shifts Details Description: Many Firstline Workers work on more than 1 team, and now with multiteam support in Shifts, employees will be able to access their shifts, other user's shifts, requests, open shifts, their profile, other user's profiles in a multi-team manner. This feature will save them both time and potentially data usage if they are switching teams often. More Info URL https://support.office.com/teams MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for end-user documentation which will be available in the Teams Helps center. MS How does it affect This only affects users that are on multiple Shift teams. These users will now be able to navigate to me other teams via the top header. Shift features will now allow users to select the correct Team before performing team specific actions.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early May, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.This change does not affect Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.
Feature update: Office 365 Account Manager is getting updated MC178667 check before: 05/07/2019 The account manager in Office 365 allows an authenticated user to Status: In development access account links, sign out, and change their profile picture. Created: 04/30/2019 We are updating Office 365 account manager to be consistent with other Product: Azure Active Directory account experiences across all of Microsoft. This change also allows us to provide more account-based features in the future. Platform: Online, World tenant This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50753. Scope: UI This change does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. Recommendations Give notice to your key users and the help desk, check your documentation screenshots and click paths. Links 50753 Description The UI of the Office 365 account manager changes. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Office Online Account Manager is getting updated Details Description: Office Online Account manager is available in the authenticated experience and enables you to access your account, profile and sign out. The current experience is different from Account Manager on other Microsoft Products. We are updating Office Online Account Manager to be consistent with other account experiences across all of Microsoft. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/sign-in-to-manage-your-office-product-959ac957-8d37-4ae4-b1b6- d6e4874e013f MS Preperations You don't need to do anything but may consider updating your training and documentation as well as informing your users of the upcoming change. MS How does it affect Your account manager in Office 365 will have a new and refreshed look that is consistent with other me Microsoft products. Like before the new design, you will still sign out, access your account page, and access your Delve profile from within the account manager. Starting in late May, users in Targeted Release will begin to see the new account manager interface in Office 365.By June, the new account manager will be shipped worldwide.
New feature: Information barriers is now available in preview MC178647 check before: 05/07/2019 Information barriers is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this Status: feature out soon, and it will initially be in preview. Information barriers Created: 04/30/2019 requires administrator action to enable. Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Compliance, Security Recommendations Give notice to the responsible teams for information security to familiarize with this new function. Opportunities Using Information Barriers you might include more user groups in using Teams. Description This is for preview at the moment. This function will prevent unwanted collaboration and information sharing between teams in your organization. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/information-barriers-in-teams MS Preperations If you would like to join the Information Barriers preview in Teams, nominate your organization: Microsoft Teams TAP Nomination.Please click Additional Information to learn about setting Information Barriers in Security & Compliance Center. MS How does it affect Information barriers help prevent communications in Microsoft Teams between specific groups of me people. After this change takes place, you’ll be able to prevent users in your organization from interacting with and viewing other members of your organization. This is particularly helpful for organizations that need to adhere to ethical wall requirements and other related industry standards and regulations. Information barrier policies are managed with Security & Compliance Center (SCC) PowerShell cmdlets. For more information about using these cmdlets, see Information barriers in Microsoft Teams preview. Information barriers in preview will be made available in late April, 2019.
We're making changes to the Microsoft Search admin experience MC179201 check before: 05/12/2019 Starting in late May, we'll be retiring the Microsoft Search in Bing admin Status: console in the Microsoft 365 admin center. As we continue to develop Created: 05/05/2019 Microsoft Search, we will begin consolidating the administrative Product: Exchange, Microsoft 365 experience into a single console to support the variety of endpoints across admin center, SharePoint, Microsoft 365. Teams, Yammer, Microsoft Search Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration Recommendations If you already made settings for Microsoft Search or Bing integration review these settings and make sure the new environment reflects the old settings. Description Microsoft changes the way of administration of Microsoft Search. Old settings are not taken over to the new admin experience. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/connected-services MS Feature Name We're making changes to the Microsoft Search admin experience MS Preperations When this change takes effect, you will need to verify which Connected Services are enabled in your organization and disable services to which you would like to exclude from Microsoft Search results. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect If you have been using the Microsoft Search in Bing admin console please review the changes that me will occur when the admin center is transitioned to new consolidated Microsoft Search admin center. If you have been using Connected Services to turn off any of the results, please note that these settings will not be honored going forward. If you have turned off a service because your Organization does not use it, then the system will handle this scenario going forward. For example, if you don’t have Yammer in your organization, we will not show a Yammer tile/tab in the search results when this change ins implemented. Organization logo, name and color will be integrated with Office 365 Organization Profile and can me managed there moving forward. We will also be removing the feedback email option.
New Feature: OneDrive sync client Get Help MC179202 check before: 05/12/2019 Get Help is a new OneDrive sync client feature on Windows and Mac. Status: In development We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Created: 05/05/2019 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49313 Product: OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Platform: Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Users will be confused when the Microsoft support will contact them directly Recommendations It's highly recommended to disable the option for users to directly reach out to the Microsoft support in an enterprise environment. Links 49313 Config Options This function can be disabled via PowerShell: Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction -DisableReportProblemDialog $true Description Your organization's users will be able to reach out to the Microsoft support via a dialog in the OneDrive for Business sync client Linked RM Item Title: Self-help for Sync client Details Description: Availability of "Get Help" option in the activity center that will enable end users to initiate a support ticket. Admins have the control to turn off this setting if required. We will have more capabilities built into this in future. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/onedrive-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0 MS Preperations Tenant Admins can control whether their users see “Get Help” and “Send Feedback” by running a command:Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction -DisableReportProblemDialog $trueThe SCRIPTED_DEPLOY_DISABLE_REPORT_PROBLEM registry key controls the setting on the local machine. MS How does it affect End-users will be able to reach out to Microsoft Support from OneDrive Activity Center using “More” me menu and selecting “Get Help” option.The new entry point is located right next to “Send Feedback” and is meant to set the right expectations with the user: “Get Help” will create a support ticket and a support agent will get back to you, while with “Send Feedback” you can let us know what you like and don’t like, report bugs and send us suggestions.This feature will be available as part of OneDrive sync client build 19.043.0304.0007
New Feature: Enable modern communication site experience at the classic MC179211 root site of your tenant check before: 05/12/2019 We are rolling out a feature that allows admins to enable the modern Status: In development communication site experience at the classic root site of their SharePoint Created: 05/06/2019 tenant.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46338 Product: SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer Recommendations Inform your SharePoint team and SharePoint developers on this new feature. Links 46338 Description The option to enable modern communication site experience at the root site of a tenant is a change to the design. This adds the option for the SharePoint admins or developers to activate the new look. Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint: Enable communication site experience at the root site of a tenant Details Description: Allows admins to enable the modern communication site experience at the root site of a tenant. This experience will provide a new modern home page with horizontal navigation and the full width pages. The initial roll out will place some restrictions on the root sites where this experience can be enabled. Details will be available closer to the roll out. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/Enable- SPOCommSite?view=sharepoint-ps MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please see Additional Information to learn about the PowerShell cmdlet to enable this change. MS How does it affect This feature can be activated by running a simple PowerShell cmdlet. On the successful execution me of the PowerShell command(s), the root site of your tenant will have a new communication site home page. Details about the PowerShell cmdlet and feature requirements are available in the Additional Information We'll be gradually rolling this out, off by default, to Targeted Release customers in early May 2019, and the roll out will be available worldwide by the end of June 2019.
New Feature: Create SharePoint lists from Excel or other lists MC179277 check before: 05/13/2019 Create SharePoint lists from Excel or other lists is a new Office 365 Status: In development feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is Created: 05/07/2019 related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 33603. Product: Office Client, SharePoint Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User Links 33603 Linked RM Item Title: SharePoint: lists from lists / lists from Excel Details Description: Build new lists from Excel, templates, or other lists More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Create-SharePoint-lists-from- Excel-or-other-lists/ba-p/533395 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Users will be able to create SharePoint lists from existing lists within a site or from Excel.We'll be me gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release in mid-May and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of July.
Updated Feature: Changes to definition of Files Shared Internally MC178008 check before: 05/13/2019 We have identified telemetry issues with the Sharing Report that resulted Status: in inaccurate counts for files shared internally and files shared externally. Created: 04/18/2019 We are making updates that will address these issues and improve report Product: OneDrive for Business, accuracy. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. After the update, “Files SharePoint shared internally” is the number of files that have been shared with users within the organization, or with users within groups (that might include Platform: Online, World tenant external users). Also, “Files shared externally” might see an increase in Scope: Administration, Security, User the numbers as there are additional events that are being tracked and categorized within external sharing. Please note that we are working on changes to further improve clarity over time. Effects for Operations After the rollout users will see more shared files, this might lead to an increase of incidents, because, users assume more files are all of a sudden shared. Recommendations Give notice to the users and the help desk, that this is a visual change. This only corrects the number of files shared, rather than unwanted shareing additional files. Description This is basically a bug fix to the file count of shared files. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/office365/admin/usage-analytics/usage-analytics-data-model MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more about the Microsoft 365 analytics data model.Information on SharePoint activity reports.Information on OneDrive for Business activity reports. MS How does it affect In some cases, files shared internally or externally were being improperly counted. Specifically, me events where files were being shared with security groups or Office 365 groups. Moving forward these will now be counted as Files Shared Internally. This update will address these issues going forward, additionally we will backfill the last 180 days to ensure continuity. We will be rolling out this change starting May 15th, 2019.
New feature: Teams sharing file links with permissions MC179400 check before: 05/15/2019 Sharing file links with ability to set permissions is a new Office 365 feature Status: In development in Teams. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is Created: 05/08/2019 associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 51230 Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, Security, User Links 51230 Docu to check Trainings, Working instructions, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Shared links Details Description: Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/sharing-files-in-teams MS Feature Name New feature: Teams sharing file links with permissions MS Preperations You don't need to do anything, but may consider updating your user training and notifying your helpdesk. Please click Additional information to learn more. MS How does it affect We have improved the process of copying a link to a file, and sharing that link with other users me using a chat or channel.As part of this feature,users can go to any file from anywhere within Teams, and create a shareable link to the file and also setappropriate sharing permissions to the link:Anyone with the link can access People in your organization with the linkPeople with existing access Specific peopleThe copied link can then be shared with others, by pasting it into a chat or channel. On pasting theplain lengthy link, this feature converts the link into a file chiclet object (same as the ones already available in Teams, when you upload a file into a chat or a channel). The sender can also set permissions on the file link that they are sharing, at the time of composing the message itself, so that the recipients do not run into access issues.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in late May, 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of June, 2019.
Updated Feature: Teams chat group size to 100 MC179396 check before: 05/15/2019 We’re updating Group Chat Size to 100. We'll begin rolling this feature out Status: In development soon.This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID Created: 05/08/2019 51235.This does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. Product: Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: User Links 51235 Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Add up to 100 people to a group chat Details Description: Do you need to have an ad-hoc discussion with a large number of people? Group chats can now accommodate up to 100 users. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams MS Feature Name Updated Feature: Teams chat group size to 100 MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect This feature simply allows for all users to add and chat with up to 100 users in a group chat. We are me increasing the limit from 50 to 100 so now you can communicate with even more people in group chats!We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early June and will be complete by the end of July.
New feature: Share system audio in Teams MC179477 check before: 05/16/2019 Sharing system audio is a new Microsoft Teams feature. We'll begin Status: In development rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft Created: 05/10/2019 365 Roadmap ID: 50692. Product: Teams Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: User Links 50692 Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams - Share system audio in a Teams meeting Details Description: Do you need to share a video or audio clip as part of a presentation? Sharing your system audio lets you stream your computer audio to meeting participants through Teams. MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. MS How does it affect For Windows users of Teams, you will now be able to share the audio from any content you share me during a screen or application sharing session. If you want to share any content that has audio, your meeting participants will now be able to see and hear the shared content and audio. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Teams customers in early-June, and we anticipate rollout completion by the end of June.
New Feature: Microsoft Teams supports Music on hold MC179476 check before: 05/16/2019 Microsoft Teams supports Music on hold is a new Office 365 feature. We'll Status: In development begin rolling this feature out soon.This enhancement is related to Created: 05/10/2019 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50796. Product: Skype for Business, Teams Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, User Links 50796 Linked RM Item Title: Microsoft Teams: Music on Hold Details Description: Music for users on hold. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/here-s-what-you-get-with-phone-system MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but you may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Teams will play music when an external PSTN caller is placed on hold by someone using Teams me for 1:1 PSTN-to-Teams calls. No music will be played for Teams-Teams calls or Teams-SfB callsWe will begin rolling this out at the end of May and expect to be complete by the end of June.
New feature: Suggested replies in Outlook for Android MC179478 check before: 05/16/2019 Soon we will be releasing additional intelligent technology in Outlook for Status: varies Android with suggested replies so you can quickly respond to email with Created: 05/10/2019 short, relevant responses to email messages.In anticipation of releasing Product: Intune, Outlook suggested replies later this quarter, we are expanding the controls available to you to help manage the Outlook experience through mobile Platform: Android, mobile, Online device management solutions, such as Microsoft Intune.This message is Scope: Administration, AI, MDM, User associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs: 43305 and 42521. Links 42521,43305,MC172761 Linked RM Item Title: Outlook for Android: App configuration settings Outlook for Android: Suggested replies. Details Description: Support the app configuration profile settings delivered through mobile device management tools by their company administrators. Simply select from one of a few suggested responses to common email messages More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/outlook-for-ios-and- android/outlook-for-ios-and-android-configuration-with-microsoft-intune MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.To learn more about deploying app configuration settings and securing Outlook mobile in the enterprise, see Additional Information. MS How does it affect After this change takes place, if your device language is set to English on emails that can be me answered with a short response, Outlook will suggest three response options that can be used to reply to emails with a couple of clicks. For enrolled Android Enterprise devices, administrators will be able to manage whether or not people in your company will see suggested replies to emails in Outlook for Android.As communicated in MC172761 in January of this year, we rolled out support for additional app configuration setting capabilities in Outlook mobile for MailTips when emailing external users. As an administrator, you will be able to deploy the configuration keys via any MDM provider to disable the suggested replies in Outlook for Android or allow the capability to be managed by the user. In mid-May, these controls will be available in Microsoft Intune in the new, easy to use App Configuration Policy for Outlook mobile. Until then, please see Additional Information for the specific configuration keys that can be set using your existing mobile device management solution.By default, suggested replies will be enabled in Outlook for Android. Users can manually disable (or-re-enable) the setting within the app at any time. Additionally, you can manage the settings that control whether the user can alter the setting.Whether deploying a new set of users or simplifying how existing users are supported, configuring these options can deliver a consistent experience for Outlook mobile on your managed devices and help reduce the calls to your helpdesk by simplifying the support process.Managing these settings with mobile device management will not impact the suggested replies experience in Outlook on the web. We’ll begin rolling out suggested replies in Outlook for Android in early June, and we anticipate rollout completion by early July.
Updated Feature: New setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings MC177121 chat check before: 05/30/2019 We’re updating the way meetings chat is controlled by creating a new, Status: separate setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings chat, as a Created: 04/03/2019 change from previous practice where meetings chat followed Product: Skype for Business, Teams CsTeamsMessagingPolicy. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon, but will do it in stages to provide time for customers to make any changes. Platform: World tenant Scope: Administration Effects for Operations If you don't take action on this, users may complain because of the missing chat tab in Teams meetings. This will raise the amount of rickets. Recommendations Reserve time and effort in the responsible team for Microsoft Teams to review the new settings and make the needed changes. Description By adding a new setting to the Teams PowerShell configuration command, the meeting chat will be disabled by default after roll-out. Docu to check Automation / Scripts More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps MS Feature Name Updated Feature: New setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings chat MS Preperations Review your requirements and policies with respect to meetings chat. If you do not require meetings chat to be off for any user, you do not need to do anything. If you require meetings chat to be off for specific users, we recommend you apply CsTeamsMeetingPolicy's MeetingChatEnabledType setting with the Enum value of Disabled to these users.The Additional Information will be updated shortly to reflect these changes. MS How does it affect At customers' request, we are making some changes to the way meetings chat is controlled. Prior me to the change, it was controlled by the AllowUserChat setting of the CsTeamsMessagingPolicy. After this change, it will be controlled by a new setting, MeetingChatEnabledType, of the CsTeamsMeetingPolicy. The change will be rolled out selectively on the basis of users’ upgrade mode: Users with effective upgrade mode of SfBOnly, SfBWithTeamsCollab, or SfBWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings do not have access to the Chat tab and hence do not conduct private or group chat in Teams. However virtually all such customers want to and should be permitted to chat in meetings, and many have requested this capability. Prior to this change they were not able to do so. For these users, this change will take effect on or after April 9. On the other hand, users with effective upgrade mode of Islands or TeamsOnly do have access to the Chat tab unless chat has been explicitly disabled in CsTeamsMessaging policy. When that happens, they also do not have access to meetings chat today. An example is EDU tenants, who frequently ban the use of all sorts of chat (both private chat, group chat and meetings chat) for students. For these users, this change will take effect on or after May 15. Prior to the change, tenant admins should review users for whom they want meetings chat to remain off, and make sure these users are granted the new setting. The roll out will be completed worldwide for all tenants by 5/31/2019.
Groups Administrator Role 50228 check before: 06/01/2019 This feature will provide a new role for Groups administration. Members of Status: In development this role can create and manage Groups, create and manage groups Created: 04/03/2019 settings such as naming and expiration policies, and view groups activity Product: Azure Active Directory, Office and audit reports. 365 Groups Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration Recommendations You should review your rights assignment concept and rework it in order to use the new role if needed. Description By adding a new built-in role, Microsoft adopts the needs of Microsoft 365 operations entities. A Groups admin role makes it easier to delegate rights to the teams responsible for direct user support. Docu to check Working instructions, Automation / Scripts
Service Encryption for Exchange Online 31171 check before: 06/01/2019 Office 365 offers an added layer of encryption at the application level for Status: In development customer content in Office 365, including SharePoint Online and OneDrive Created: 07/12/2018 for Business. We are now rolling out Service Encryption for Exchange Product: Exchange Online. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Compliance, Security Compliance If you are in a regulated environment or you have sensitive data with high protection needs the new service encryption might help to fulfill the requirements. Recommendations give notice to the security and the compliance team. And be aware of the limitations in the tenant the use of this feature has. Opportunities With the Exchange online service encryption and the option to use a customer-provided key for the service encryption may enable your organization to use Exchange and other services storing data in Exchange, like Teams, Skype for Business, Bookings, etc. to use the services even for critical data. Comments In addition to using volume-level encryption, Exchange Online, Skype for Business, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business also use Service Encryption to encrypt customer data. Service Encryption allows for two key management options: Microsoft manages all cryptographic keys. (This option is currently available in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Skype for Business.) The customer supplies root keys used with service encryption and the customer manages these keys using Azure Key Vault. Microsoft manages all other keys. This option is called Customer Key, and it is currently available for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. (Previously referred to as Advanced Encryption with BYOK.) additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Office365/securitycompliance/office-365-service-encryption Description Microsoft adds the service encryption for Exchange online. This enables customers to provide their own encryption key for the Exchange service encryption. More Info URL https://aka.ms/mcsce
Cross Organizational Sync 33413 check before: 06/01/2019 We have heard that many customers wanted the option to be able to sync Status: In development OneDrive folders shared not only from users within your own O365 Created: 02/08/2019 organizations but shared from partners, external contractors, suppliers Product: OneDrive for Business and users outside of your organization that you collaborate with. Cross tenant sync will support this scenario. Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, Security, User Compliance This might cause accidental data loss and should be monitored carefully. Recommendations Evaluate the chances and risks of the cross-organizational sync. Check the options for configuration. Comments In Office 365 pro plus this feature is already available since latest Februare in the monthly targeted channel. Description Cross-organizational sync of OneDrive allows users to copy data from or to other organizations environments.
Microsoft Intune integrated threat protection workflows between IT operations 51171 and IT security check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Intune security tasks are new guided remediation capability that Status: In development enhance effectiveness of all security stakeholders—security Created: 05/07/2019 administrators, security operations, and IT administrators—by allowing Product: Defender, Intune them to collaborate and seamlessly remediate threats. This integrated workflow capability will extend the newly announced Microsoft Defender Platform: Online Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM), a new component of Microsoft Scope: Administration, MDM, Security Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP, previously Windows Defender ATP) that uses a risk-based approach to the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of endpoint vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Microsoft Intune management of Windows Defender Firewall rules 51173 check before: 06/01/2019 Admins will soon be able to create a list of rules controlling traffic through Status: In development the Windows Defender Firewall. Rules can specify whether inbound or Created: 05/07/2019 outbound network traffic is permitted for an app, port, or IP address range. Product: Defender, Intune Use this feature to open critical ports on secure networks, or restrict network activity for unapproved apps. Platform: Windows Desktop
Scope: MDM
Improvements to Default Retention Label inheritance for SPO Move/Copy 51372 actions check before: 06/01/2019 Now when moving or copying a file in SPO, if the file does not have a Status: In development retention label, the default retention label at the library, folder or docset Created: 05/10/2019 level will be inherited whether the target location is within the same site Product: Information Protection - Office collection or is a different site collection. 365, SharePoint Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance
Microsoft Teams: Single toolbar for controls in Meetings and Calling 51186 check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Teams is improving discoverability and reducing clutter for users Status: In development in meetings and calls. The session controls will be unified to one toolbar at Created: 05/06/2019 the bottom of the screen. This will affect Windows, Mac, and web clients. Product: Teams There is no impact for mobile or Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) devices. Platform: Mac, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant
Scope: User
Outlook on the web - agenda in Calendar 50971 check before: 06/01/2019 We are bringing back the daily agenda view in your Outlook calendar Status: In development when you set up monthly view. Get a rich view of your day while seeing Created: 04/30/2019 your full month. Product: Outlook Platform: Online
Scope: UI
Microsoft Teams - Announcements 51326 check before: 06/01/2019 Do you have an announcement that needs to stand out from all other Status: In development posts in a channel? The new "Announcement" post type allows you to Created: 05/08/2019 add a headline with a background to your message. You can choose from Product: Teams our available backgrounds or upload your own custom image. Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: User
Microsoft Teams: Secondary Ringer 51089 check before: 06/01/2019 Provides the capability to configure a second ringer for calling. This allows Status: In development for headsets to be plugged in but still be able to hear a incoming call ring Created: 05/06/2019 your device. Product: Teams Platform: mobile, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant
Scope: User
Move SharePoint sites to a new location 51259 check before: 06/01/2019 Beginning in June 2019 SharePoint Online administrators will be able to Status: In development leverage the new invoke-spositeswap Windows PowerShell cmdlet to Created: 05/07/2019 move SharePoint sites between locations within an Office 365 tenant. Product: SharePoint This feature will allow administrations to move a site to the location of an existing site. For example, move a modern site to become the root site at Platform: Online [tenant].sharepoint.com. Scope: Administration, Developer
Outlook for iOS: Act on one message in a conversation thread 32764 check before: 06/01/2019 Take action on a single message from within a conversation thread. Status: In development Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: UI
SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: new Files experience 30548 check before: 06/01/2019 Manage files in Microsoft Teams with the full power of SharePoint. With Status: In development the new Files experience, you will be able to add and manage custom Created: 10/03/2018 columns, sort and filter files with custom views, trigger workflows, and Product: SharePoint, Teams sync files to your PC or Mac. Available this summer. Platform: Mac, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Administration, Developer, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/New-innovations-in-SharePoint- amp-Microsoft-365-deliver-power/ba-p/260317
Service Health Dashboard Update: Report an Outage 24153 check before: 06/01/2019 We're adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Status: In development Microsoft 365 admin center. If you are impacted by an issue that is not Created: 10/22/2017 showing up on your Service health dashboard, the Report an Outage Product: Microsoft 365 admin center feature will provide you with a quick and easy way to let us know. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Office 365 Message Encryption: Support for protecting PDF attachments 31523 check before: 06/01/2019 New capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption uses encryption and Status: In development rights protection to help you protect and control your sensitive emails. In Created: 07/11/2018 addition to protecting the Office attachments, we are adding support for Product: Information Protection - Office protecting PDF files as attachments when sending sensitive email 365 messages. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
Microsoft Authentication Library for Android 44287 check before: 06/01/2019 Android developers can use MSAL.Android to securely sign-in and Status: In development authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), Created: 12/02/2018 call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph have built. All functionality in ADAL.Android (Azure AD Authentication API Libraries) is now supported in MSAL.Android. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will Platform: Android, Developer continue to work. Scope: Developer
Microsoft Authentication Library for iOS 44286 check before: 06/01/2019 iOS developers can use MSAL.iOS to securely sign-in and authenticate Status: In development any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts), call Microsoft Created: 12/02/2018 Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that developers have built. All Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph functionality in ADAL.iOS (Azure AD Authentication Libraries) is now API supported in MSAL.iOS. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on for users will continue to work. Platform: Developer, iOS
Scope: Developer
Auto-remediation with enhanced playbooks 34296 check before: 06/01/2019 Auto-remediation of threats with additional playbooks and deeper Status: In development integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory. Created: 10/09/2018 There will be additional remediation capabilities made available in guided Product: Azure Active Directory, Cloud threat hunting scenarios. App Security Platform: Online, World tenant
Scope: Security
Outlook for Mac: OneNote integration 26371 check before: 06/01/2019 Simply send emails and notes to OneNote from Outlook for Mac. Status: In development Created: 11/13/2018 Product: OneNote, Outlook Platform: Mac Scope: User Description Users can seamlessly send information from OneNote on Mac to Outlook.
Outlook for Android: Time to leave notifications 16032 check before: 06/01/2019 Powered by Cortana, get notifications of the time to leave for meeting in Status: In development Outlook Calendar based on your location and traffic whether you're driving Created: 09/23/2018 or taking public transportation. Product: Cortana, Outlook Platform: Android, World tenant Scope: User Description If Cortana is enabled in your organization, this will add a feature to Outlook on Android. An additional impact is not expected.
Azure Information Protection Government (DoD) 24679 check before: 06/01/2019 Microsoft Azure Information Protection helps you classify and label your Status: In development data at the time of creation. Protection (encryption + authentication + use Created: 11/09/2017 rights) can then be applied to sensitive data. Classification labels and Product: Information Protection - Azure protection are persistent, traveling with the data so that it’s identifiable and (AIP) protected at all times – regardless of where it’s stored or with whom it’s shared. Platform: US Instances
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
SharePoint admin center updates 32864 check before: 06/01/2019 We’re updating capabilities in the SharePoint admin center. We'll begin Status: Rolling out rolling out these feature out soon. Updates to the SharePoint admin Created: 08/13/2018 center include: Setting the new SharePoint admin center as the default Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint admin experience in Office 365 with the option to return to the SharePoint classic SharePoint admin center The ability to perform bulk site actions to include site sharing settings, hub site association, and site deletion Platform: Online, World tenant Classic SharePoint admin center settings such as Business Connectivity Scope: Administration, Developer Services (BCS), Term Store, User Profiles, and more will be available to configure in the new SharePoint admin center experience New richer left menu with more controls for Sharing Policies for one or more sites
Outlook for Android: Sync local calendar with Outlook 33122 check before: 06/01/2019 Bring changes made within the local calendar on Android phones to Status: In development Outlook Calendar. Created: 09/23/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: Android
Scope: MDM, Security, User
Service Health Dashboard Update: Language Translations 24232 check before: 06/01/2019 We're adding enhancements to the Service Health Dashboard in the Status: In development Office 365 admin center: Customers will be able to view Service Health Created: 10/22/2017 Dashboard posts in different languages. Product: Microsoft 365 admin center Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Group resources on mobile 24667 check before: 06/01/2019 Yammer will bring the right navigation resources inside groups onto the Status: In development mobile app. This will include the 'Group Actions', 'Office 365 Resources, Created: 01/24/2018 and 'Pinned' tabs. Product: Yammer Platform: mobile, World tenant
Scope: UI
Microsoft Authentication Library for Javascript 32978 check before: 06/01/2019 Developers bulding a Single Page App can use MSAL.js to securely sign- Status: In development in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Created: 09/06/2018 Accounts), call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs or other APIs that Product: Azure Active Directory, Graph developers have built. All functionality in ADAL.js (Azure AD API Authentication Libraries) is now supported in MSAL.js. Applications built with ADAL and MSAL will have a shared token cache and single sign on Platform: Developer, World tenant for users will continue to work. Scope: Developer More Info URL https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js
Service Health Dashboard Update: Email Notifications 24231 check before: 06/01/2019 Stay informed through your preferred channel- service health dashboard Status: In development in the Microsoft 365 admin center will enable you to sign up for Created: 10/22/2017 notifications via email so that you can monitor the service and track issues Product: Microsoft 365 admin center through the channel you prefer. Platform: World tenant
Scope: Administration
Native connectors to 3rd party data for Archiving 48506 check before: 06/01/2019 Now connect and import third party data such as social media and other Status: In development business data like Bloomberg for archiving and discovery purposes. Use Created: 04/18/2019 native connectors built into the compliance center to identify, connect and Product: eDiscovery, Office 365 archive to non Office 365 data sources. Once the content is archived into Advanced Compliance Microsoft 365 it is available for use in various compliance solutions such as Supervision, Advanced eDiscovery and more. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance Recommendations If you are using Microsofts eDiscovery check the new connectors if they might help in legal cases. Give notice to the legal team Comments eDiscovery capabilities are relevant in the US and similar law systems. Description Microsoft develops its eDiscovery solution to a central tool for eDiscovery. Adding native connectors to other services will simplify the eDiscovery search in a legal case
Intelligent classification for Advanced Data Governance 48505 check before: 06/01/2019 Advanced Compliance customers will now be able to utilize out of the box Status: In development machine learned classifiers or train their own custom machine learned Created: 02/26/2019 models to help classify, protect and govern sensitive or business relevant Product: Office 365 Advanced content across relevant compliance solutions such as Advanced Data Compliance Governance, Supervision and Advanced eDiscovery. Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, AI, Compliance, Security
Outlook for iOS: Create Group calendar events 48585 check before: 06/01/2019 Create a Group event from Outlook for iOS to appear on your Group Status: In development calendar Created: 04/05/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS
Scope: User
Outlook for Android: Create Group calendar events 50307 check before: 06/01/2019 Create a Group event from Outlook for Android to appear on your Group Status: In development calendar
Created: 04/05/2019 Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Android
Scope: User
Outlook for iOS: Do Not Disturb settings 45917 check before: 06/01/2019 Set time and work/personal situations when you do or don't want email Status: In development notifications and reminders. Created: 02/05/2019 Product: Outlook Platform: Android, iOS Scope: User Recommendations you should inform your help desk actively that users can use this. Description Users can suppress notification from Outlook on iOS and Android. This is configurable and plannable. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
Advanced Record Versioning in Advanced Data Governance 50794 check before: 06/01/2019 Now users with correct permissions can lock and un-lock a record to Status: In development enable collaboration on records within SharePoint online. Use the Created: 04/25/2019 advanced record versioning feature to ensure records retention policies Product: SharePoint, Office 365 are met, while supporting collaboration and productivity on records in your Advanced Compliance, organization. At each lock or un-lock action a snapshot of the record is Advanced Compliance taken and preserved to ensure records retention requirements are met. Platform: Online Scope: Compliance, User Description If an item is marked as a record, the item is locked for collaboration. This change adds the capability to un-lock an item for collaboration with keeping the properties and information of an item.
Office Online: Manual sensitivity labeling in Word, PowerPoint, Excel 44919 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development within the Office 365 versions of the Office Online apps - Word, Created: 12/18/2018 PowerPoint and Excel. Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Office Client Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance, Security, User
Manual sensitivity labeling of email in Outlook on the web 44921 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development when authoring an email in the Office 365 version of Outlook on the web. Created: 12/18/2018 Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Outlook Platform: Online
Scope: Compliance, Security
Outlook for iOS: Support shared mailboxes 32571 check before: 06/01/2019 Access shared mailboxes from Outlook for iOS to read, write and send Status: In development email messages. Created: 09/05/2018 Product: Outlook Platform: iOS Scope: MDM, User Recommendations Give notice to the mobile team. Actively inform users of the new possibility to use shared mailboxes in Outlook for iOS Description In order to mobilize the workforce, Microsoft adds support for shared mailboxes to Outlook for iOS Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base
Password-less sign-in for work or school accounts 33013 check before: 06/01/2019 The Microsoft Authenticator mobile app will support sign-in with your Status: Rolling out face/fingerprint or device PIN to your work accounts. You can take out the Created: 09/20/2018 security risk of passwords and have the convenience of using a device Product: Azure Active Directory, Multi- you already own and carry with you. Make this new option available to Factor Authentication your organization in Azure Active Directory. Platform: mobile Scope: Security Compliance no change Recommendations Check for the feasibility of this feature. We recommend involving the security team. Together with Windows Hello, and Windows Information Protection, Azure Information Protection, and other Identity and content securing functions this may raise the security level significantly Config Options configuration via PowerShell. see additional Info link. Dependencies only for users with mobile devices, in accordance with the organization mobile device policy. Azure MFA is needed to be active, and users have to be enrolled. Authenticator App is needed on iOS or Android. Opportunities This new option provides a new option to eliminate the use of passwords. Log in with a mobile device authentication to work account. Your organization can take advantage of better and more secure user experience for authentication Comments Please read the "Known issues" section in the article in the additional Info link, especially if you use ADFS additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-authentication-phone- sign-in Description When logging on to a web service an authentication push message will be sent. This enables the user to avoid typing passwords, for example in crowded environments
Outlook for Windows: Shared calendar improvements 26948 check before: 06/01/2019 Introducing a new service backed model for sharing calendars with other Status: In development Office 365 subscribers that improves performance and reliability and Created: 04/14/2018 keeps all calendars in sync. Product: Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Administration, User Effects for Operations Troubleshooting for calendar issues will change with the roll-out of the new sync backend. Recommendations Keep an eye on the RM items 25007, 26356, 26948. Comments A MC entry ist expected before rollout. Description Shared calendars are often a cause for tickets with in an organization. A new backend sync model might help https://support.office.com/en-us/article/calendar-sharing-in-office-365-b576ecc3-0945-4d75-85f1- 5efafb8a37b4#bkmk_timeline Docu to check Knowledge base
Outlook on the web - hide attendee list 30678 check before: 06/01/2019 When creating a meeting, the organizer can now choose to hide the Status: In development attendee list from attendees, similar to BCC’ing someone in an email Created: 06/05/2018 Product: Exchange, Outlook Platform: Online, World tenant Scope: Compliance, User Compliance this feature might be not compliant to codes of conduct or other company culture policies. This should be discussed and according to guidance should be given to users. Recommendations Like the use of bcc this might violate communication culture in an organization. Config Options no information by Microsoft. If you need to disable this option please open a Ticket with Microsoft Support. Description let meeting organizers hide the attendee list like bcc hides the recipients' list for email Docu to check Corporate policies
Manual sensitivity labeling of email in Outlook on Windows 44922 check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development when authoring an email in the Office 365 version of Outlook on Windows. Created: 12/18/2018 Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Outlook Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Compliance, Security Recommendations Check together with the changes in the other Office Applications. Description Alongside with other changes, this adds the possibility to add labels in Outlook.
Manual sensitivity labeling in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook on 44920 Windows check before: 06/01/2019 Ability to manually apply Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels Status: In development within the Office 365 versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook on Created: 12/18/2018 Windows. Product: Information Protection - Office 365, Office Client Platform: Windows Desktop Scope: Compliance, Security, UI, User Recommendations Check the technical possibilities of this feature together with the retention and deletion labels. Be aware of operational impact in your scenarios. Check with the responsible team for GDPR for implementation requirements. Opportunities Alongside with other changes, the sensitivity labeling is a great opportunity to full-fill regulatory requirements, like GDPR Description The sensitivity labeling will move from the AIP plugin to Office 365 Security&Compliance Center. The labeling is merged with the retention labels.
Simplifying management of Intra-Org Spoof and DMARC Failures 46841 check before: 06/01/2019 Intra-Org Spoof and DMARC Failures – We are simplifying the way that Status: In development our customer manage anti-spoofing by consolidating all spoof actions and Created: 02/19/2019 management under one policy: the Anti-Phishing policy. This means that Product: Exchange we will no longer take the Spam action, as dictated in the Anti-Spam policy, for intra-org spoof and DMARC failures. Cross-org spoof will Platform: Online, World tenant continue to be managed by the Anti-Phishing policy without changes. Scope: Administration, Security Additionally, we have further simplified anti-spoofing protection management by stamping all mails, including intra-org spoof, with a Composite Authentication result in the headers. This makes it much easier to quickly decipher our verdict on the authentication of the mail and whether we deemed the mail spoof, and why. This may result in some messages that were previously marked as spam will start getting marked as phish (CAT:SPOOF). In still other cases, customers that were moving all spam to the junk folder and phish to the quarantine would now see them going to quarantine. We'll be gradually rolling these features out over the course of the next few weeks, and we expect the rollout to be complete by end of February. Effects for Operations the management of spoofing emails will change for intra-org emails. Recommendations check your rulesets if there are impacts of this change additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office365/securitycompliance/anti-spoofing-protection Description Spoofing management will change by introducing a new tag (CAT:SPOOF). Instead of emails being marked as Spam. These emails will be sent to quarantine. Management will be done by the Anit-Phishing policy in Exchange administration. These changes are applied to intra.org spoofing. Docu to check Working instructions
Updated feature: Groups in Outlook - easier membership management MC173965 check before: 06/01/2019 We’re updating how owners of groups in Outlook can manage Status: Rolling out membership requests. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This Created: 02/21/2019 message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID: 46436. Product: Office 365 Groups, Outlook Platform: Android, iOS, mobile, Online, US Instances, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: User Effects for Operations Users might be confused on the new email type, ticket volume might increase. Recommendations Inform your help desk. You should educate the group owner how to use the new function. Links 46436 Dependencies If your users manage Outlook groups (and Teams) themselves, this change applies. If group memberships are managed by IT or a 3rd Party tool, you can safely ignore this. Description This change adds "actionable messages" to manage Outlook groups memberships. Users can directly act from a received email message. Using use-managed group membership makes administration easier. Docu to check Trainings, Knowledge base Linked RM Item Title: Groups in Outlook - easier membership management Details Description: Group owners will have the capability to approve or decline membership requests right in an email in Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows through actionable messages. Approved or declined request will be visible to all the group owners. Owners can select one or multiple requests to approve or decline. More Info URL https://support.office.com/article/add-and-remove-group-members-in-outlook-3b650f4a-5c9b-4f94- a1bb-0cca4b1091de MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more. MS How does it affect Powered by actionable messages, group owners will now have the capability to approve or decline me membership requests right inside an email in Outlook on the web and in Outlook for Windows, without the need to navigate to other pages. Approved or declined requests will be visible to all the group owners. Owners can select one or multiple requests to approve or decline.We’re gradually rolling this feature out over the next few weeks, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of March 2019. Organizations in GCC, GCC High, DoD and BlackForest environments will receive this feature update in mid-April.
Microsoft Teams is ready for your organization - you can begin your upgrade MC179368 today check before: 06/07/2019 Microsoft Teams now provides the same presence, chat, voice, video and Status: meetings capabilities as Skype for Business as part of Office 365. Teams Created: 05/08/2019 is the new communications client in Office 365 replacing Skype for Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, Business over time. Skype for Business, Teams
Microsoft is committed to supporting your organization’s upgrade to Platform: Online, World tenant Teams. To make the process as easy as possible, Microsoft will Scope: Administration, User automatically upgrade your users to Teams on Friday, June 7, 2019.
Alternatively, you can use the tools in the Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center to upgrade your users right away. More Info URL https://aka.ms/upgradebasic MS Preperations Review the readiness resources available to assist you in planning and upgrading your users to Teams.
If you’re not ready to upgrade to Teams by Friday, June 7, 2019, contact Microsoft Support. Otherwise, we will upgrade your organization to Teams on your behalf.
Please click Additional Information below to learn more. MS How does it affect On Friday, June 7, 2019, Microsoft will automatically upgrade your users from Skype for Business me to Teams.
Once upgraded, Teams will become your organization's default client for chat, voice, video and meetings in Office 365.
Reminder: We’re retiring StaffHub and migrating your organization to MC171786 Microsoft Teams check before: 06/30/2019 As previously communicated in MC149144 on September 24, 2018, Status: Microsoft Teams is evolving to include a new set of capabilities that will Created: 01/08/2019 simplify schedule management and help deliver the tools for every worker Product: Microsoft 365 admin center, to get the job done. As a result, we will be retiring Microsoft StaffHub on StaffHub, Teams October 1, 2019 and we will be focusing our investments on Microsoft Teams. Platform: After October 1, 2019 users that attempt to log in to StaffHub will be Scope: Administration, UI, User greeted with a message directing them to download Microsoft Teams. To help you in your transition to Microsoft Teams, we ask that you review the details below for pre-requisites related to user and data migration across Microsoft Teams and StaffHub. If you’re receiving this notice, you have one or more people in your organization who currently use Microsoft StaffHub. Please communicate these details to the right stakeholders in your organization. Links MC149144 MS Preperations We encourage you to activate Microsoft Teams, ensure group creation is enabled and that all impacted users are properly covered with an active license that includes Microsoft Teams. This is just the first step as we help you transition towards Microsoft Teams. As more information becomes available we will be providing additional documentation and guidance on user and team migration over the next few months. Please click Additional Information to learn more about Microsoft Teams and how you can enable it for your organization. If you plan to terminate your use of Microsoft StaffHub before October 1, 2019, and you do not wish to have your organization’s data transferred to Microsoft Teams, please contact us at [email protected]. MS How does it affect To help transition users, we plan to migrate data chat history in Microsoft StaffHub to Microsoft me Teams. The amount of chat history that will be available in Microsoft Teams will depend on how soon you configure your organization for the transition. We recommend taking action no later than June 30, 2019 to provide enough time to transition 90 days of data by October 1, 2019. Please ensure that Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Group Creation are enabled in your Microsoft 365 admin center before the transition begins, as these setting selections are essential to us being able to move your StaffHub data into Teams. Failure to turn these services on by June 30, 2019, will result in a later migration date or less chat data being copied over. Please note, by enabling Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Group Creation, we will create a corresponding Microsoft Teams team and Office 365 Group if those do not already exist for each of your StaffHub teams as part of the migration effort. We will also begin copying Microsoft StaffHub chat messages into the corresponding Teams team chat history. We recommend that you enable Office 365 Group Creation and Microsoft Teams no later than June 30, 2019, and that you do not delete these teams or groups as they are required to successfully migrate data into Microsoft Teams.
The Lifecycle Dashboards are now available to help you ensure user access to MC175274 Office 365 check before: 06/30/2019 In February of last year, we announced that starting on October 13, 2020, Status: your organization would need Office 365 ProPlus or Office 2019 apps to Created: 03/05/2019 connect to Office 365 services. On September 6 of last year, we Product: Office Client announced that we would continue supporting Office 2016 connections with Office 365 services through October of 2023. In order for you to Platform: Windows Desktop better understand if and how your organization is affected by this change, Scope: Administration, MDM and where you need to take action to migrate users, we’re providing you with two System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) dashboards to help you begin your user migration. For larger organizations, we recommend starting this work in the near future in order to meet the October 13, 2020 deadline. More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/sccm/core/clients/manage/asset-intelligence/product-lifecycle-dashboard MS Preperations There’s nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. Please click Additional information to learn more about the SCCM Product Lifecycle Dashboards. MS How does it affect Office versions will now be visible in the SCCM Product Lifecycle Dashboard, and a new dashboard me will display desktops in your organization that are ready to upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus with high confidence. These two features will be available with SCCM 1902. These dashboards will help ensure that your users will continue to be supported after October 13, 2020. The Product Lifecycle dashboard will display Office perpetual products, easily distinguishing the desktops that need their Office apps updated from those that do not. The ProPlus Readiness dashboard will identify the desktops that are ready to be upgraded to Office 365 ProPlus.
Azure Information Protection unified labeling client 49441 check before: 07/01/2019 This is the version of the Azure Information Protection client that supports Status: In development unified labeling (sensitivity labels that are configured in the Security & Created: 03/13/2019 Compliance center or the Microsoft 365 security center). Product: Information Protection - Azure (AIP) Platform: Windows Desktop
Scope: Compliance, Security
Improvements in reporting of ‘bad items’ during mailbox migrations 46690 check before: 07/01/2019 We are improving migrations so that the admin will no longer be required Status: In development to specify an explicit Bad Item Limit or Missing Item limit. Instead, a Created: 02/13/2019 migration will be assigned a Data Consistency Score that will classify it as Product: Exchange - Perfect, Good, Investigate or Poor. These classifications are based on the nature and amount of data loss that might have occurred during the Platform: Online migration process. Based on these scores the admin may be required to Scope: Administration take an additional step to approve a migration before it can be completed successfully. With the introduction of Data Consistency Score, we aim to increase visibility into conversion errors and help triage the criticality of item conversion failures.
Updated Feature: Skype for Business Certified IP Phones: Microsoft Online MC178633 Device Registration updates check before: 07/01/2019 To provide our customers with best-in-class security across our services, Status: Microsoft is implementing the use of Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 (an Created: 05/01/2019 evolution of the Azure Active Directory identity service) which uses the Product: Azure Active Directory, Skype OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. OAuth 2.0 is a method through which a for Business third-party app can access web-hosted resources on behalf of a user, through a third-party application ID. Platform: Online Scope: Administration, Security, User More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/OAuth-2-0-and-third-party- application-ID/ba-p/482876 MS Feature Name Updated Feature: Skype for Business Certified IP Phones: Microsoft Online Device Registration updates MS Preperations All certified Skype for Business IP phones must be updated by July 1st, 2019. Without the update, successful authentication to Microsoft services on IP Phones will fail. Customers are encouraged to work with their certified Skype for Business IP Phone provider to make the update before the deadline.Please see Additional Information for more detail. MS How does it affect As result of this change, Skype for Business IP Phone partners have made a code change to use me partner specific application ID. When deployed, the customer tenant admin will be required to confirm consent to allow the third-party phone application to be granted the necessary permissions (the same permissions currently being used by Skype for Business IP Phones).
Updated timeline: Office 365 will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MC178198 check before: 07/09/2019 The start date of the retirement of the 3DES cipher has been moved from Status: the previously announced date of February 28th, 2019 to a new start date Created: 04/22/2019 of July 10, 2019. Based on customer feedback we have updated the Product: Exchange, Skype for timeline to allow additional time for organizations to update older client Business software and devices that rely on the 3DES cipher. As previously communicated in MC171089 in Dec 2018 and MC172798 in Platform: mobile, Windows Desktop Jan 2019, retirement of the 3DES cipher is part of the migration of all our Scope: Administration, Security online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in- class encryption, and to ensure our service is more secure by default. Recommendations Set up a project to evaluate all connections to O365, like MFP, SAP, Communication Systems, and other 3rd party Software. Check how to switch to TLS encryption and mitigate the results. Links MC171089,MC172798 Description The date, to remove 3DES is moved to the 10th of July in this message. Still: prepare all for the change, and check for connections using 3DES. More Info URL https://support.microsoft.com/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365 MS Feature Name Updated timeline: Office 365 will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MS Preperations Update or replace client software and devices that rely on the 3DES cipher to connect to Office 365 prior to July 10, 2019. By going to http://securescore.microsoft.com , you can find the overview of your TLS 1.0/1.1 and 3DES usage for Exchange. Click on ‘Score Analyzer’ and scroll to the - Remove TLS dependencies tab. Here you will see a summary of your TLS 1.0/1.1 and 3DES usage. If you want more details on which devices or clients are connecting using these weaker ciphers and protocols – click on the ‘Get Details’ button that will launch a flyout where you can click on ‘Launch now’. This will take you to the Secure Trust Portal (http://servicetrust.microsoft.com) where you can download your user and agent information. Encryption in Office 365 Preparing for 3DES Retirement in Office 365 Skype for Business Please review the Additional Information for more guidance details. MS How does it affect Starting July 10, 2019, Office 365 will begin retiring the 3DES cipher. This means that all me connections to Office 365 using the cipher 3DES will not work. TLS 1.0/1.1 connections without the 3DES cipher will not be affected.
Office 365 Skype for Business will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MC177977 check before: 07/10/2019 As previously communicated (MC171089) Office 365 Skype for Business Status: is planning to move all of our online services to Transport Layer Security Created: 04/18/2019 (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in-class encryption, and to ensure our service Product: Skype for Business is more secure by default.As part of this plan, we’ll be retiring 3DES beginning July 10, 2019. Platform: Mac, mobile, Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Administration, Security Recommendations Plan for a small project finished by 9th of July to prepare for this change. Check all clients if they can connect without 3DES. Also, 3rd party applications, like call-center, help desk integrations, ERP system or other tool connecting to Skype for Business online must be able to connect to Skype for Business online. Links MC171089 Description As announced multiple times Microsoft retires 3DES encryption. In this case, Skype for Business will be affected. More Info URL https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Preparing-for-3DES-Retirement- O365-Skype-for-Business/ba-p/440968 MS Feature Name Office 365 Skype for Business will retire 3DES starting July 10, 2019 MS Preperations Update or replace clients and devices that rely on 3DES to connect to Office 365 Skype for Business prior to July 10, 2019.Please review the Additional Information for more guidance details. MS How does it affect Starting July 10, 2019, Office 365 Skype for Business will begin retiring 3DES. This means that all me connections to Office 365 Skype for Business using the cipher 3DES will not work. Clients that still require 3DES such as Lync Phone Edition, Lync Mac 2011 and Lync 2010 will not be able to login to Office 365 Skype for Business.Expect issues connecting to Office 365 Skype for Business services if you are using 3DES from this date onwards. TLS 1.0/1.1 connections without the 3DES cipher will not be affected.
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