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Feb 15

Clutter for Outlook is being retired beginning January 31, 2020 As we previously announced in December 2017, on the Outlook blog, we will be retiring the Clutter feature from Outlook beginning January 31, 2020. To help our users manage their mail and be productive, we are leading with the Focused Inbox experience which provides a similar benefit as Clutter by showing less important and urgent mail in Other. More ... MC173616 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 15

New feature: SharePoint Online gets Sticky Column Headers for Lists and Libraries Sticky Column Headers is a new SharePoint Online feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46103. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted release Organizations in mid-February 2019, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of April. More ... MC173615 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 15

Office 365 from the Office Portal will not include OneNote 2016 for Semi-Annual Channel Users on Windows 10 by default   Major Update: General Availability In September 2018, Microsoft announced that OneNote for Windows 10 would be the default OneNote experience, and additional information was provided in a blog in April 2018. As we complete our rollout, we are now moving into the final Semi-Annual Channel. If you are not using the Semi-Annual Channel, you can ignore this Message Center post. Starting on Tuesday Feb 12, 2019, OneNote 2016 will not be included by default when a user on the Semi-Annual Channel downloads and installs Office 365 on... More ... MC173380 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 14

Microsoft Teams desktop app coming to new Office 365 ProPlus installs In an effort to improve and streamline user’s initial experience with Teams, we’re making an enhancement so that the desktop Teams app will now be downloaded automatically when new users with Office 365 ProPlus licenses first download the Office Pro Plus apps. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID: 46444. More ... MC173597 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 14

Updated feature: new look for the Office 365 NavBar in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online We’re updating the Office 365 NavBar in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and their respective admin centers, to align the looks of the NavBar across Office.com and Outlook.com. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 42268. More ... MC173542 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

Update - Updated feature: New "Sign-in options" link on the Office 365 login page   Major Update: General Availability Update: The rollout of the new sign-in options link is delayed. We will update this post once we have confirmed a precise date by when the rollout will start. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're updating the Office 365 login page to add a new link for more sign-in options. The functionality this link provides only applies to personal accounts. Microsoft leverages a common sign in start page utilized for both consumer and commercial services. Once the user enters a personal (e.g. Microsoft... More ... MC171955 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

Power BI Scheduled Maintenance Planned Maintenance: Power BI will be performing scheduled maintenance in all regions. North Central US: Starting Wednesday, February 20, 2019 01:30:00 AM UTC Ending Wednesday, February 20, 2019 06:30:00 AM UTC North Central US B: Starting: Friday, February 22, 2019 01:00:00 AM UTC Ending: Friday, February 22, 2019 05:00:00 AM UTC Central US: Starting: Friday, February 22, 2019 01:00:00 AM UTC Ending: Friday, February 22, 2019 05:00:00 AM UTC East US: Starting: Friday, February 22, 2019... More ... MC173525 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

Updated feature: Microsoft To-Do   Major Update: General Availability Microsoft To-Do is an updated Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this change out in mid-March and it will finish by the end of the month. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 34338. More ... MC173381 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

New feature: Microsoft Forms Pro Public Preview   Major Update: General Availability Microsoft Forms Pro is a new enterprise survey capability available in Public Preview on February 21st, 2019. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46517. More ... MC173446 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

Feature Update: General availability of 5,000 member teams   Major Update: General Availability We are pleased to announce general availability of 5,000 member teams. Starting today, all new and existing teams can accommodate up to 5,000 members, double the previous limit of 2,500 members. Larger groups can now collaborate effortlessly in a single team and leaders can connect with a broad audience within their organization. To make it easier to get everyone into one team, we also increased the e-mail distribution list import limit by over 10X from 300 to 3,500. This change does not apply... More ... MC173385 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

Updated feature: New Tasks module in Outlook on the Web   Major Update: General Availability We are excited to announce the new Tasks module in Outlook on the web as an updated Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out in mid-March. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 34338. More ... MC173377 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

The SharePoint feedback button is being retired​ We're making some changes to SharePoint Online. Starting 2/18/2019 we're retiring the product feedback button from the site footer of all SharePoint home and all modern site pages. More ... MC173439 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 13

UPDATE: New Service or app: Productivity insights in Outlook powered by MyAnalytics   Major Update: General Availability We’re excited to offer you productivity insights in an Outlook add-in powered by MyAnalytics. The add-in shows users insights about their recent collaboration and communication patterns and suggests ways to work more effectively. Click here to learn more about the experience that the users will receive. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 45625. This add-in will roll out to all customers with Microsoft 365 E3, Business, Office 365 E3, E1, Business Premium and Business... More ... MC172039 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 12

We’re bringing multiple new features to SharePoint Online Document Libraries and Lists Column Totals, Bulk check in/out, and File Signals are new Microsoft 365 features. We're currently rolling these out. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 46102, 46100, and 46101. More ... MC173417 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 12

Feature update: Location Columns for SharePoint Lists New feature: We are introducing a new column to SharePoint lists and Libraries: the Location Column. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 33593. We will be rolling this out mid February and expect to be complete by the end of the month. More ... MC173384 Like | Dislike

 

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