Office 365, Teams, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive have quality of life & feature updates available and coming soon. See the list below for a more detailed breakdown of what each entails.
Teams updates:
- New Teams Rooms licenses
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- Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard ($21.79) and Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium retired
- Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic – $0 per device per month:
- Basic features
- Single screen only
- Limited to 25 devices per customer
- Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro – $60.50 per device per month with an annual commitment or $72.60 per device per month, month to month:
- Full experience with new features coming
- Management portal
- Monitoring, alerting, and reporting
- Phone System and Dial-in Conferencing
- Required if you use Conditional Access security
- Pop-out scheduling in Teams
- Pop out the scheduling form as a separate window
- Extend sensitivity labels to meetings
- Microsoft Outlook appointments
- Meeting invites in Microsoft Teams
- Requires Teams Premium
- Schedule send for Teams chat
- Video Clips
- Send video messages in Chat
- Up to 1m in length
- Expanded reactions
- React using any emoji
- Available in chat and channel
- Teams chat with groups
- Start a Teams Chat with:
- Distribution Groups
- Mail-enabled Security Groups
- O365 Groups
- Start a Teams Chat with:
- Business Voice retired
- Business Voice is replaced by Phone System licence
- This consolidates the Business and Enterprise licences
- Lowers price from $18.10 to $12.10
- Detailed Call history
- Group calls, transferred calls, and forwarded calls, Voicemail
- Updates to Auto-Attendant & Call Queue Bi Reports
- SIP Gateway
- Already supports a range of SIP phones including DECT portables
- Coming soon:
- Analog Gateways
- Pagers, ringers, and speakers
- Teams download location
- Choose preferred download location
- Specify a download location for each download
- View full chat conversation via search
- Search rules will now take you to the full chat thread
- Previously you could only review the message that matched the search criteria thus removing the context of the thread
- Excel live in Teams
- Share Excel docs in Meeting to start a live collaboration
- Browser (CRM) pop-out
- Pop a browser window on incoming PSTN call
- Pass the PSTN number to the browser app
- URL configured in Teams Admin Center
- Browser POP can be disabled by the user
- Teams Premium
- New features:
- Meeting guides in Teams Premium help you create the experience that’s right for your meeting
- Customised meeting branding
- Intelligent recap for meetings
- Advanced meeting protection
- Advanced Virtual Appointments
- Advanced Webinars
- Customised presenter and attendee experiences including a virtual green room
- Existing features that will move to Premium:
- Live Translated captions
- Custom Together mode scenes
- Timeline markers in Teams meetings recordings (join/leave meetings)
- Virtual Appointments:
- SMS notifications
- Organizational analytics in Admin Center
- Scheduled queue view
- Features currently target advanced meeting and presentation capabilities
- New features:
Exchange Updates:
- FindTime now native feature called Scheduling Poll
- FindTime add-in replace by native feature baked into Outlook
- Will be called ‘scheduling poll’
- Reactions for emails
- React without replying
- Works for internal emails only
- Supports Thumbs up, Heart, Celebrate, Laugh, Surprise, Sad
- Cloud signatures in Outlook
- Use the same set of signatures on Outlook for Windows and Web
- Signatures will automatically migrate to cloud
SharePoint updates:
- Simplified Link Sharing Settings
- More helpful tooltips, definitions and clearer language to help you understand which link type and permissions best suit your
- Quick at-a-glance view of all the collaborators that currently have access
OneDrive updates:
- Folder Backup for macOS
- Redirect the local macOS Desktop and Documents folder to OneDrive
- Keep these common locations backed up and available on any device
General updates summary:
- The Office app is becoming the Microsoft 365 app
- Office app for web (office.com), Windows, iOS, and Android will be rebranded to become the Microsoft 365 app
- Mid-2023, office.com will begin automatically redirecting to microsoft365.com
- Relevance recommendation for Message center posts
- Helps you determine how relevant a change is to your tenant
- The recommendation (High, Medium, or Low) determined based on multiple factors, such as service usage and the type of change.
- ContextIQ: Inline Search
- Type “@’ in flow of writing
- Search for, filter, and insert entities that exist across their Microsoft 365 account – people, documents etc
- Coming to Outlook and Word
- Text Formatting Support for Microsoft Whiteboard
- Text formatting options in Whiteboard
- Authenticator number matching
- On by default from Feb 2023
- Prevent accidental approvals
- Critical to protecting against MFA fatigue attacks which are on the rise
- Application context:
- Show users which application they are signing into.
- Geographic location context:
- Show users their sign-in location based on the IP address of the device they are signing into.
- On by default from Feb 2023
- Paste Loop components into Whiteboard
- Copy/paste, view and edit live Loop components in Whiteboard.
