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Apr 11

New service plan, Common Data Service, added to enable future Office features A new service plan, Common Data Service, is being added to Office subscriptions to enable future features.Once this service plan is in place and you have a Project license (Project for the web), your users will be able to view projects and roadmaps with the new feature, Office 365 user view to Project and Roadmap.If your tenant does not have a Project license, the new feature, Office 365 user view to Project and Roadmap, will not apply to you.The feature roll out will begin in mid-May and be... More ... MC209158 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 11

Microsoft Bookings to be added as an Office 365 app Microsoft Bookings, a self-service scheduling tool, will be available as an Office 365 web app in mid-May. More ... MC209154 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 11

Content query web part performance banner On a classic page, the Content Query web part is a tool for finding and displaying information. However, this web part can affect page performance. Consequently, we are adding an alert for classic publishing portals that use Content Query web parts. More ... MC209149 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 10

Updated Feature: Streamlining the recipient experience for links shared with “specific people” We streamlining the recipient experience for SharePoint and OneDrive links made to specific people in your organization.We'll be gradually rolling this out in early April, and the rollout will be completed by early May.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63220. More ... MC209098 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 09

Awareness: End-user spam notifications missing Phish Mails Phish Mails were not included in the end-user spam notifications. More ... MC209071 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 09

Updated Feature: Microsoft Forms eDiscovery export format change If your tenant does not use eDiscovery, you can safely disregard this message.We are changing how eDiscovery, the process of identifying and delivering electronic information that can be used as evidence in legal cases, presents search results in Forms.We'll be gradually rolling this out in mid-April.The rollout will be completed by late April. More ... MC209012 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 09

New Feature: Raise a Virtual Hand in Teams Meetings The new raise hand feature in Teams allows meeting attendees to identify that they wish to speak by toggling the hand icon in the meeting control bar, making it easier to actively participate in meetings.Raise hand will be available initially for PC, Mac, and web-based clients. Support for mobile applications will follow.We'll be gradually rolling this out in mid-April.Expect feature support in government environments in late-May.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 62755. More ... MC209022 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 09

New Feature: Modern experience for  managed metadata services, tagging and filtering We will be gradually enabling modern experiences for SharePoint managed metadata services (MMS) which will include:A modern term store manager in the SharePoint admin centerA modern content type gallery in the SharePoint admin center for creating and managing content types stored in the content type hubNew tagging and filtering options for end users as well as a new tree viewThis message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID57315. More ... MC208986 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 09

Dynamics 365 - Process Dialog Transition – Webinar Following the initial deprecation announcement of process dialogs in June 2017 we now have released a final retirement date of December 1, 2020 alongside the Unified Interface transition. A complete list of all deprecation announcements are available at this location. More ... MC208972 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 08

Update - New Feature: Outlook on the web - Files view Updated April 8, 2020: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes to the code before we proceed with the roll-out. We will deliver a new Message center post once we re-start the roll-out. Thank you for your patience. The Files view in Outlook on the web is a new Office 365 feature..We'll be gradually rolling this out in mid-January 2020.The rollout will be completed by the end of March 2020.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap... More ... MC198342 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 08

Updated - New Feature: Enable Bing Image search and YouTube search in one combined setting for Forms Updated April 8, 2020: To ensure the proper experience we have updated the roll-out timeline for this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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 the end of April 2020 (previously mid-March). This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60191. More ... MC200395 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 08

Dynamics 365 - Change is coming! Automatic transition to Unified Interface As announced on September 10, 2019, the time is now to prepare for the move to Unified Interface. We have introduced an optional transition service to help you with the move and assigned selected environments for transition in the next 30 days within your organization tenant. This requires your explicit approval for any transition to proceed. Read on for details. Planned Transition Date: May, 08, 2020 More ... MC208968 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 07

Teams Meeting experience improvements   Major Update: Announcement started Updated April 7, 2020: We have provided additional details in bold. We are pleased to announce the following features will be available to improve your Teams Meeting experience:Background effects in Teams meetings – Roadmap ID 62890Rolling out beginning in mid AprilNew experience for launching instant channel meetings - Roadmap ID 62904Rolling out starting in late AprilImproved Teams meeting join launcher experience - Roadmap ID 62905Rolling out starting in late April More ... MC208577 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 07

Dynamics 365 – Service Update 165 for EUR We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 03 April 2020, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 04 April 2020, 03:00 UTC More ... MC208920 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 06

New Feature: Teams/Skype Consumer chat and calling interop Updated March 11, 2020: Updated instructions to access the setting. We apologize for any inconvenience. Your Teams and Skype for consumers users will soon be able to chat and make Voice over IP (VoIP) calls to one another.We'll be gradually rolling this out at the end of March 2020.The rollout will be completed by the end of April.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 53935 More ... MC205801 Like | Dislike

 

Apr 06

Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – April 2020 Update   Major Update: Announcement started In response to the unprecedented situation we are in and knowing that priorities have changed for many of our customers we have decided to postpone retiring Basic Authentication in Exchange Online (MC204828) for those tenants still actively using it until the second half of 2021. We will provide a more precise date when we have a better understanding of the impact of the situation. More ... MC208814 Like | Dislike

 

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