Microsoft 365 Updates: Compliance, SharePoint, Office 365, Power Platform
Key Updates and Announcements
Key Updates and Announcements
Happy Friday, everyone. The new Office app for iOS and Android is now generally available from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The new application removes the need to have multiple office applications and combines them into a single application. The new app consolidates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, making it a single place to create, modify, and search for documents.
The new app includes several features included to simplify how people complete daily tasks, including:
- Share files: Either with a PC or with other phones located nearby
- Convert text in images: Extract text from a picture and convert to text or extract a table from a picture into Excel
- Work with PDF files: Work with PDF files, including adding a signature to a PDF file, take a new photo or use an existing photo and place into a PDF document, and convert a document to PDF
- Search: Quickly search for an locate either documents or contacts
Microsoft have released a new video providing an overview, check it out - Click here for more information
As per Microsoft’s update, more features will be arriving soon, you find details here - Click here for more information
List of Updates
Note: Please ensure you’re signed into your Office 365 Administration portal to access the links referenced below. Also note, some tenants may not have all the below updates currently published to them
New Feature: Communication compliance in Microsoft 365 Compliance center
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MC204280, Stay Informed, Published date: Feb 20, 2020
Announcing the general availability of Communication compliance, part of the new insider risk management solution set in Microsoft 365, that helps minimize communication risks by helping you detect, capture, and take remediation actions for >inappropriate messages in your organization. Communication compliance is available today for all tenants.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 61065
New Feature: Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 compliance center
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MC204277, Stay Informed, Published date: Feb 20, 2020
Announcing the general availability of Insider Risk Management, part of the new solution set in Microsoft 365, that helps you and your organization leverage machine learning to identify and action on insider risks. This solution will start rolling out to customer’s tenants in the coming days.
This is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 61115
Updated Feature: Image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience
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MC198528, Prevent or Fix Issues, Published date: Dec 18, 2019
Updated February 19, 2020: We have updated the roll-out timeline and apologize for any inconvenience. We are introducing the ability to resize an image in the modern SharePoint experience.
- We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in early January 2020.
- The roll out will be complete by the end of March (previously beginning of February 2020).
This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 57812.
Updated Feature: Sharing settings in the modern SharePoint admin center
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MC204238, Stay Informed, Published date: Feb 20, 2020
We’re updating how you manage OneDrive and SharePoint end-user and guest (external) sharing.
- We’ll begin rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in late February 2020.
- The roll-out will be completed by the end of April.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 61116.
New Feature: Microsoft Office app available for Android and iOS
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MC204208, Stay Informed, Published date: Feb 19, 2020
The new Microsoft Office app, which combines Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other productivity features into a single app, is now available for download for both Android and iOS.
- Download for Android phones through the Google Play Store
- Download for iPhones through the App Store
- Support for tablets will come at a later time
New Feature: Microsoft Office app available for Android and iOS
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MC204170, Stay Informed, Published date: Feb 19, 2020
We are enabling Power Apps to take advantage of Teams content (extensibility points) so that an app can create a custom dynamic experience based on the Teams channel to which the app has been added. We plan to launch this change at the end of February.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 61064.