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Feb 24

Updated: 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 22

Updated - The Office 365 Home Page is becoming the default start page for all Office 365 commercial users   Major Update: General Availability Currently in Office 365, there is a setting that allows users to personalize what page they land on when they log into Office 365. The Office 365 Home Page has evolved to pull a user's most relevant apps, documents and places where they are working —all in one place--and consequently will be the default page a user lands on when signing into Office 365. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 45971. More ... MC172700 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 22

Updated feature: Groups in Outlook - easier membership management   Act By: Jun 01 We’re updating how owners of groups in Outlook can manage membership requests. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID: 46436. More ... MC173965 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 21

New feature: Microsoft Bookings - Booking page search indexability We’re rolling out a new feature in Office 365 for Microsoft Bookings. You’ll soon be able to control search indexability from your Microsoft Bookings page.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 45941. More ... MC173964 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 21

Admin policies for managing app permissions and app setup in Teams As announced last year, when we launched the Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center, we would continue to add additional functionality to enhance the experience. We are moving app management from the Teams service add in page to the new Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center. With the change you can use app setup policies to customize Microsoft Teams to highlight the apps that are most important for your users. You choose the apps to pin and set the order that they appear. App setup... More ... MC173960 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 21

New feature: Open file links directly in Office desktop apps We’re excited to announce a new feature that will allow your users to open files saved in the Microsoft cloud directly in their existing Office 365 desktop apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 46330. More ... MC173956 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 21

Feature update - Mobile admin app update, including device management   Major Update: General Availability The Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app allows you to receive notifications, add users, reset passwords, manage devices, create support requests, and more- all while you’re on the go. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 47918. This rollout does not impact Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. More ... MC173915 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 21

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 E5, E3, Business, Office 365 E5, E3, E1, Business Premium and... More ... MC172039 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 20

Outlook mobile supports Teams Meetings   Major Update: General Availability As announced at Microsoft Ignite, we will be rolling out native support for creating and joining Microsoft Teams meeting in Outlook for iOS and Android in late March. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 32955 and 32956 The ability to create Teams meetings will be available to all Outlook mobile customers. For customers who have migrated to the updated architecture using the Microsoft sync technology, as communicated in message center post MC165218, we’re also making it... More ... MC173895 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 20

Feature update: Admin center support updates, including full page ticket history view and callback scheduling   Major Update: General Availability Microsoft 365 support is designed to be effective, efficient, and transparent to ensure a high-quality experience. We hope the new support features coming soon to the Microsoft 365 admin center will help reduce time to resolution and improve the overall transparency and effectiveness of the support process. These updates do not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC at this time. More ... MC173891 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 20

We’re making a change to non-delivery report notifications Beginning on March 20, 2019, if after multiple attempts we’re unable to send or deliver a message sent by one of your users, we’ll send them a bounce message about it within 24 hours instead of 48 hours. More ... MC173908 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 20

Dynamics 365 – Minor Service Update for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) [Service Update 22] [EUR] We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 21 February 2019, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 22 February 2019, 03:00 UTC More ... MC173812 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 19

We’re changing your default SharePoint admin center experience   Major Update: General Availability The new SharePoint admin center will be the default experience for some organizations. We'll begin rolling out this change soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46375. More ... MC173771 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 19

Clutter for Outlook is being retired beginning January 31, 2020   Major Update: General Availability 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 19

Information Protection updates to the existing Office 365 E3, E5, Advanced Compliance and Information Protection   Major Update: General Availability We’re updating the existing Office 365 E3, E5, Advanced Compliance and Information Protection & Compliance SKUs to include: Information Protection for Office 365 – Standard Or Information Protection for Office 365 – Premium We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in March, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of March. More ... MC173614 Like | Dislike

 

Feb 19

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 19

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

 

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