Office 365 Roadmap Update | October 1 - 7, 2017
With all the news and announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2017, the natural result is a significant update to the Office 365 Roadmap. There were 30 items added over the last week, so in an effort to keep the weekly digest post from being extraordinarily long, I have separated the Office 365 Roadmap updates out for this week.
OFFICE 365 ROADMAP
Audio Conferencing Preview in Microsoft Teams
Feature ID: 23748
Status: Launched
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: Audio conferencing is a new Office 365 feature that is now available in public preview in Microsoft Teams.
More Info: Microsoft Teams documentation and practical guidance
OneDrive for Business: RMS / IRM Sync
Feature ID: 16622
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: OneDrive will support syncing documents protected with information rights management.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive Mobile On-Prem App
Feature ID: 16619
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: With this launch there would be support for on-premises with OneDrive Android app and Windows app.
More Info: n / a
Sway previews in emails
Feature ID: 20761
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: Show a preview of your Sway when you share it to others over email.
More Info: n / a
Sway analytics
Feature ID: 20548
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: Office 365 users can now see how many people have viewed their Sways as well as the time spent and average completion ratios for their Sways.
More Info: n / a
File activity views on mobile, web
Feature ID: 16641
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: User can gain insight into all the collab activities across their files and folders in the mobile app.
More Info: n / a
Admin Center - Home Dashboard update
Feature ID: 16634
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: Now admins can see active accounts, file activity and view all OneDrive Message center messages right from the admin console.
More Info: n / a
Photo intelligence (Auto tagging, OCR) and meta data
Feature ID: 16627
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: OneDrive will be able to scan and automatically tag the person in the photo along with intelligent detection and text extraction from your photos.
More Info: n / a
Files On-Demand
Feature ID: 16620
Status: In development
Date Added: October 01, 2017
Description: With files on Demand users can access all their files in the cloud without using their device storage space.
More Info: n / a
Microsoft Bookings release in EDU subscriptions
Feature ID: 23862
Status: In development
Date Added: October 04, 2017
Description: Microsoft Bookings will be available in our current paid Office 365 Education subscriptions.
More Info: n / a
Yammer Web Part for SharePoint
Feature ID: 20537
Status: In development
Date Added: October 04, 2017
Description: Yammer will call Yammer's API and surface conversations directly on SharePoint.
More Info: n / a
Microsoft To-Do for iPad
Feature ID: 20944
Status: Launched
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Manage your to-dos and Outlook tasks on the go with the new Microsoft To-Do for iPad app. Now available in Preview.
More Info: n / a
Microsoft To-Do for Android Tablet
Feature ID: 20949
Status: Launched
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Manage your to-dos and Outlook tasks on the go with the new Microsoft To-Do for Android Tablet app. Now available in Preview.
More Info: n / a
Use Microsoft To-Do for Web with your work or school account
Feature ID: 20950
Status: Launched
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Microsoft To-Do, available in Preview, now supports signing in with your work and school account.
More Info: n / a
Compliance Manager Preview
Feature ID: 23948
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Compliance Manager, soon to be available in preview, helps to perform real-time risk assessment, provides actionable insights, and simplifies your compliance process when using Microsoft cloud services.
More Info: Manage Your Compliance from One Place – Announcing Compliance Manager Preview Program
OneDrive for Business: Fluent UI updates for Web
Feature ID: 23755
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: New Fluent UI design for OneDrive web allowing you to see shared activity along with icons to show new files and folders.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive for Business: Improved Office File experience
Feature ID: 23754
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: OneDrive has updated the modern web experience. With OneDrive webview , users can directly land to edit mode when clicking on a file.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive for Business: Zip file support
Feature ID: 23753
Status: Rolling Out
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Open zip files in web view to see the content and pick and choose the files you would like to extract.
More Info: n / a
Group creation screen
Feature ID: 23943
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: The update changes the group creation screen, rearranging the layout (internal/external is shown in advanced settings, and users can now customize a photo and description).
More Info: n / a
Yammer: Polls on mobile - iOS
Feature ID: 23944
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Users will now be able to conduct polls on Yammer through their mobile phones.
More Info: n / a
Yammer: Praise on mobile - iOS
Feature ID: 23945
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Users will now have the ability to praise their coworkers on Yammer through their mobile phones.
More Info: n / a
Yammer: Polls on mobile - Android
Feature ID: 23946
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Users will now be able to conduct polls on Yammer through their mobile phones.
More Info: n / a
Yammer: Praise on mobile - Android
Feature ID: 23947
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Users will now have the ability to praise their coworkers on Yammer through their mobile phones.
More Info: n / a
Group Insights in Yammer GA
Feature ID: 20504
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Yammer will enable users of groups to view in-product reports of daily and weekly user engagement.
More Info: n / a
Outlook for iOS: Time to leave notifications
Feature ID: 16011
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: For events on your calendar that have locations, Outlook will notify you when it is time to leave in order to arrive on time. These smart notifications will use your current location and local or transit reports to notify you when to leave.
More Info: n / a
Microsoft To-Do, available in Preview, is now Commercially Available
Feature ID: 20951
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Microsoft To-Do, available in Preview, is now rolling out to more customers and is now default-on. Please see your Admin Center messages for more information.
More Info: n / a
Simplified External Sharing (no MSA)
Feature ID: 23751
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: Users will be able to share externally in a secure simple way without the need of creating a MSA. Users will be allowed to create a one time use passcode to grant external users access to the content.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive for Business: Mobile client updates
Feature ID: 23757
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: The mobile UI is being revamped with updates to make the information even clearer, making it easier to find quickly, what’s important to you.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive for Business: Shared by Me View
Feature ID: 23750
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: In this view, users will be able to see all the files and folders that they have shared internally and externally.
More Info: n / a
OneDrive for Business: New Sharing experience for Office desktop apps
Feature ID: 23749
Status: In development
Date Added: October 06, 2017
Description: In the effort to make the sharing experience seamless, users will now have the same sharing experience in the desktop Office apps as that of web and file explorer.
More Info: n / a