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Welcome to the Roadmap Radar for May 22.
This is the show where I trawl through the Microsoft 365 roadmap
and pick out the best new features and updates that I think you'll be interested in.
This month we have a nice selection across the board
including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva and Lists.
But first let's start with a much anticipated update for Outlook
Loop components for Outlook are finally here.
Well, almost. There has been a little delay.
They were supposed to be here already
but coming in late May there will be a Loop button on new messages we create
and ones we reply to.
Just like in Teams, Loop components are live interactive objects like text, lists and tables
that we'll be able to drop into Outlook messages
and once they're there,
they can be updated in real time by anyone who has the email in their inbox.
This new feature is coming to Outlook desktop for Windows and Outlook on the Web.
Not for Mac yet, so tough luck Apple users - which is me included.
Now, I'm really excited about this one
because I think it means that we'll be able to create a Loop
and use it in Outlook and Teams at the same time which is a game changer for Microsoft 365.
This is going to roll out in preview in May to Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web
and then it will roll out to everyone starting in July.
Microsoft are making it easier to switch accounts when we're using the 365 web apps.
There'll be a drop-down that will allow us to quickly change the account we're logged in as.
Until now we had to sign out and then sign back in again
so this is going to be great for anyone using Office for work and home
and those that have more than one work or school account.
It's going to be available in office.com, Outlook on the Web,
OneDrive, SharePoint and the admin centre.
And this feature started rolling out in April
and is expected to be available to everyone by the end of June.
This new feature for Microsoft Teams
will allow us to set individual 'show as' statuses to meetings.
So currently the default 'show as' setting for a meeting is 'busy',
and soon we'll be able to set our meeting status from the calendar
when we edit an existing meeting and when we create a new one,
and when the organiser sets the status it will automatically set it for all the attendees.
This Teams meeting status feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of June.
Currently, Together mode is just for personal use.
We can turn it on to see everyone in the Teams meeting in a virtual room.
So this new feature allows organisers and presenters
to switch everyone in the meeting to Together mode at the same time.
When the Together mode view is selected we'll be able to choose a scene
and we'll also see a 'select together mode for everyone' checkbox.
After selecting and clicking 'apply',
everyone in the meeting switches to Together mode
and new participants will also see this view as well.
So this new feature is rolling out to Teams desktop on Windows and Mac this month
and should be available to everyone by July.
A new inspiration library has been added to the Viva Insights app in Teams.
The inspiration library is full of useful and insightful articles and videos
from sources like the Harvard Business Review
that none of us will ever have the time to read or watch.
The goal is to give us insights in how to be productive and look after our well-being.
This feature has rolled out to Teams on Windows Mac ios and android
and should be available to everyone now.
This new feature gives us easy access to our Teams files from OneDrive.
Under the quick access list in OneDrive now we'll see a 'more places' link.
That will take us to a page where we can see a card
for each of the teams that we're a member of.
Clicking on any of these will show us all the files in that team
and there's a channel view and also a site library view.
This will save us time because we then don't have to open up Teams or SharePoint
to get to the files.
This feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of May.
This is an update that will apply to audio and videos stored in SharePoint and OneDrive.
The web player for these files will have two new features
called 'about' and 'custom thumbnail'.
If you have permission to edit the video we'll be able to go into the video settings
and edit the title and description for that file.
We'll be able to upload a custom thumbnail or select a frame from the video
to be the thumbnail.
That will be used wherever the video is seen in Microsoft 365.
The 'about' and 'custom thumbnail' features are rolling out now
and should be available for everyone by the end of June.
The sections feature that we use to format SharePoint pages is getting a refresh.
Page authors will be able to access section templates from the plus menu
and there will be six different templates to choose from.
They will have content already in them to make building your pages quicker and easier.
The section templates feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of May.
Next I've got two features for Microsoft Lists.
These are both for the calendar view.
First we can now drag and drop items into different dates on the view
and this makes it easier to change the date property.
And there is an 'unscheduled' pane where items without dates are listed.
You can drag them onto the calendar to update their date property
without having to open up the item.
These features are rolling out now and should be available by the end of May.
And finally, Microsoft Lists is now available on Android.
With the Lists app you can create new lists with templates,
you can view your lists and work with the data even when you're offline,
you can organise the list data using sorting, filtering and grouping
and you can upload files like photos and videos from your phone.
Microsoft Lists should be available to everyone in the Google Play store now.
Okay that's all I've got for you this month.
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
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