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Jan 18
New Feature: Announce when dial-in users join/leave a meeting Updated January 18, 2020: We are updating the roll-out timeline to provide the best possible experience. We apologize for any inconvenience. Microsoft Teams will soon change the control that announces when a user who is on a telephone joins or leaves a meeting.We’ll be gradually rolling this out late March (previously mid-January).The roll-out will be completed by mid-April (previously late January).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 59919. More … MC199244 Like | Dislike
Jan 18
Updated Feature: We’re refreshing the Microsoft Search in Bing User Experience We’re updating the Microsoft Search in Bing user experience.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in mid-January 2020.The rollout will be completed by the end of April.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60422. More … MC201616 Like | Dislike
Jan 17
New Feature: Outlook on the web – Add a personal calendar, TeamSnap account Major Update: Announcement started Your end users will soon be able to add a personal calendar and connect a TeamSnap account to Outlook on the web.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to targeted release customers in mid-January 2020. We’ll begin gradually rolling this out to all customers in April 2020.The rollout will be completed in July 2020.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 54015, 54970, and 57277. More … MC201582 Like | Dislike
Jan 17
Allow OneDrive to disable Windows permission inheritance in folders synced read-only Admins can now enable OneDrive to manage permission inheritance for folders that are synced as read-only on a Windows computer. More … MC201573 Like | Dislike
Jan 17
Updated Feature: Microsoft Stream cloud recordings Meeting recordings are stored in Microsoft Stream cloud storage. Tenant admins have an option to go the Microsoft Teams admin center to turn ON/OFF “Allow cloud recording” setting for Teams meetings. The recording feature is currently disabled for customers whose Teams data is stored in-country if Microsoft Stream is not available in country. We will be changing this configuration by enabling the recording feature for customers even if Microsoft Stream data residency is not yet in country.We… More … MC200501 Like | Dislike
Jan 16
New Feature: Use Power Automate to approve hub-site joins We’re introducing Use Power Automate in Office 365 to approve hub site joins in SharePoint Online. To ensure the best experience we have updated the roll out timeline for this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience.We began gradually rolling this out to targeted release customers in October 2019, as announced in MC190936.We will begin rolling this out to all customers in early January 2020 (previously late October 2019).The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of January 2020… More … MC199669 Like | Dislike
Jan 16
New Feature: Enhanced scheduling experience in Teams Major Update: Announcement started We’re updating Microsoft Teams with an enhanced scheduling experience.We will roll this feature out in mid-February 2020.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54364. More … MC200243 Like | Dislike
Jan 16
New Feature: Per-Site Sharing Links can now default to people with existing access SharePoint administrators will soon be able to set the per-site sharing links default to people with existing access.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in late January 2020.The rollout will be completed by the end of March.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60335. More … MC200127 Like | Dislike
Jan 16
New Feature: Enable Bing Image search and YouTube search in one combined toggle for Forms Use one toggle to allow end users in your organization to add images from Bing search as well as videos from YouTube search to Forms.We’ll be gradually rolling this out in mid-February 2020.The rollout will be completed by mid-March 2020.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60191. More … MC200395 Like | Dislike
Jan 15
New Feature: Welcome a new colleague into Teams Major Update: Announcement started Updated January 15, 2020: In response to feedback we have updated the post to provide additional details. We are introducing ‘Colleague joined Teams’ notifications in Microsoft Teams.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers early December.The roll out is expected to be completed mid-January.This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57455. More … MC195023 Like | Dislike
Jan 15
New Feature: SharePoint page difference visualization Updated January 15, 2020: We are extending the roll out timeline to ensure the best possible experience. We apologize for any inconvenience. We are introducing a way for SharePoint editors to easily access the version history of a page.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in January, 2020 (previously late December 2019).The roll out will be complete by the end of February 2020 (previously January 2020).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57813. More … MC198535 Like | Dislike
Jan 15
New Feature: Teams Read receipts roll-out update Read receipts is a new Microsoft Teams feature that was originally announced in MC180651, May 2019. To ensure the best experience the original roll-out was delayed, however due to an oversight the Message center post was not updated. We wanted to inform you that we are in the process of rolling this out now. We apologize for any inconvenience.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 51552 More … MC200276 Like | Dislike
Jan 14
Updated Feature: end user access to phishing email This is an update to MC193076, adding ‘High confidence phishing email’ to the spam filter policy.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers starting in early February 2020. More … MC200232 Like | Dislike
Jan 14
Update: Blocking sensitive information in notifications for Outlook for iOS is delayed In November 2019, we announced plans to allow admins to block organizational data (notification obfuscation) from appearing inOutlook for iOS and Android email and calendar notifications on end-user lock screens via a Microsoft Intune App Protection Policy (APP), Org data notifications (MC195896). For iOS, this capability is dependent on Apple’s notification encryption service being available to all Office 365 customers.To ensure the best customer experience, we are pausing the roll out of… More … MC200112 Like | Dislike
Jan 14
New Feature: Office What’s New management We are introducing the ability for admins to customize what end users see in the What’s New content in Office desktop apps after the Office What’s New management feature is in general release.The Office What’s New management feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center is currently in public preview for monthly channel and semi-annual channel customers.We’ll be gradually rolling this out in mid-February 2020.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60010. More … MC200142 Like | Dislike
Jan 14
Updated Feature: Service health dashboard – Report an issue In July 2019 we announced a new feature in the Service health dashboard, Report an incident (MC186831). This feature is now going into broad availability as Report an issue.We have begun gradually rolling this out to all customers.The roll-out will be completed by the end of March.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 24153. More … MC200139 Like | Dislike
Jan 13
We’re making some changes to Quarantine Permissions Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Feb 14 On February 10, 2020, we are updating the roles required to access and manage Quarantine. More … MC200100 Like | Dislike
Jan 13
New Feature: Lobby control for dial-in attendees Updated January 13, 2020: We are updating our roll-out timeline to provide the best possible experience. We apologize for any inconvenience. Microsoft Teams will soon have a new setting to control the lobby for people joining a meeting via a telephone.We’ll gradually roll this out in late March (previously early February).The rollout will be completed by mid-April (previously mid-February).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54418. More … MC199245 Like | Dislike
Jan 13
Reminder: Self-service purchase capabilities for Microsoft Power Platform products Major Update: Announcement started As described in MC193609, self-service purchase capabilities will soon be available for Microsoft Power Platform products starting with Power BI. This post is a reminder of these capabilities and dates.January 14: Power BI ProJanuary 28: Power Apps and Power Automate (previously Flow)Self-service purchase will be available first in the United States, followed by other geographies beginning in February.For additional information related to self-service purchase, including available geographies,… More … MC200092 Like | Dislike
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