Date: Friday, Jul 3, 2020
Reading time: 8 minutes.

Microsoft 365 Updates: Data loss prevention to be able to block new SharePoint and OneDrive files until they've been scanned, New task experience coming to Outlook on the web, and Teams large gallery view

Key Updates and Announcements Happy Friday, everyone. Here’s this weeks Microsoft 365 updates. Microsoft Teams is set to expand the total number of video participants displays on the screen up to a maximum of 49. Whilst this may not suit all meeting types, this is a requested feature for scenarios such as education. This feature requires the new multi-window meeting experience, and requires a minimum of 10 participants with video switched on.

Tags: Security and Compliance Microsoft Teams SharePoint Online Microsoft Outlook
Categories: M365 Updates
Date: Friday, Jun 26, 2020
Reading time: 19 minutes.

Microsoft 365 Updates: Outlook mobile conditional access fix, Teams Android gets a walkie talkie feature, Exchange retention changes, Updated sharing experience, and SharePoint

Key Updates and Announcements Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s a quick overview of several updates which caught my attention: Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie is rolling out in preview for Android clients, the public preview requires a setting change made within the Teams admin center to enable, whereby the feature is available within 48hrs. This is an interesting feature which could be made to good use for hospitality, manufacturing, education, etc.

Tags: Microsoft Teams Exchange Online SharePoint Online OneDrive for Business
Categories: M365 Updates
Date: Friday, Jun 19, 2020
Reading time: 9 minutes.

Microsoft 365 Updates: Enable Communications Site Experience on Classic Teams Sites, Retention Label Updates Applying to Exchange, New eDiscovery Features, and Outlook for Android Play my Emails

Key Updates and Announcements Happy Friday, everyone! This weeks Microsoft 365 updates. Updates this week include enabling a communications site experience on a classic teams site, visual updates for SharePoint Online lists and document management libraries, an update to retention labels applied to Exchange where deletion or retention is based off when a label was applied, and Play my Emails for Outlook on Android devices. Delayed and Rollout Date Change Announcements:

Tags: SharePoint Online Security and Compliance Microsoft Outlook
Categories: M365 Updates
Date: Saturday, Jun 13, 2020
Reading time: 11 minutes.

Microsoft 365 Updates: Intune will support iOS 14 and MacOS 10.13+, SharePoint Templates and Digest Messages, Updates to Microsoft To-Do

Key Updates and Announcements Slight change this week with the formatting of these updates, the majority of the content will focus on new feature announcements, with updates to previous announcements contained to their own section with reference URLs for more information. This streamlines the information contained here as there is no need to repeat the full update in subsequent weeks when the only change is the deployment timeline. When Microsoft announced their intention to allow self service licensing for the Power Platform there was plenty of push back from administrators who were concerned with lack of control of Microsoft 365 licensing components.

Tags: SharePoint Online Microsoft Intune Microsoft To-Do
Categories: M365 Updates
Date: Monday, Jun 8, 2020
Reading time: 16 minutes.

Microsoft 365 Updates: Microsoft Teams suggested replies, reverse number lookup, Islands mode defaulting to Teams Meetings, Retention Policy Changes, SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office 365

Key Updates and Announcements Welcome to the long weekend edition of the Microsoft 365 Updates! For those enjoying the long weekend, I hope it’s been a good one. Microsoft Teams has several announcements and updates this week: System messages - Est. time of arrival: Mid-July (Government tenants will be completed by end of August) - Some system message will no longer be displayed in the General channel of each team, including teams membership changes Teams mobile suggested replies - Est.

Tags: Microsoft Teams SharePoint Online Yammer Exchange Online Office 365
Categories: M365 Updates