Hello everyone, it's June and it's Roadmap Radar time again.
This show is a monthly roundup of all the new features coming to Microsoft 365.
I've scoured that roadmap and picked out all the best bits that I think you'll be interested in
so you don't have to.
This month, as usual, I've got tons of new features for Teams and SharePoint to show you,
but let's start with a big update for Outlook.
The new Outlook for Windows is available now in preview.
This update gives Outlook a brand new appearance
so now it looks and feels more like Outlook on the web.
It brings some of the web features as well like board views for calendar.
You can turn on the new Outlook if you're in the Office beta channel.
You'll see a new Outlook toggle to switch on to the preview.
Now Admins can manage who has access,
but will have to disable it if they don't want their team to use it.
I've not seen a time frame for its general release yet
but you can try it today if you're in the Office beta channel.
And now on to Teams.
So shared channels for Teams are currently in preview
but will be generally available in the next few weeks.
This is a new channel type
in addition to the standard and private ones you already see in Teams.
It allows team owners to share channels with people outside of their team
and that even includes people outside of your organisation.
Now we can just share the channel and not the whole team.
This channel supports posting and scheduling meetings and meet nows
and it has its own SharePoint site for storing files like a private channel does.
We've covered shared channels a couple of times already
and I'm testing them with customers and partners, and so far so good.
Shared channels for Teams is in preview now
but will start rolling out to everyone in mid-July
and should be complete by the end of August.
And for those of you who like to talk to yourselves in the real world,
'Chat with Self' is coming to Teams.
You'll be able to open up a chat and put yourself in the 'to' line
and if you know why this is useful then please let me know in the comments
because I have no idea.
Chat with Self should be available to everyone by the end of June.
The Teams app on iPad is getting a multitasking update.
The users will now see a collapsible right-hand panel during meetings
and this will mean that we'll be able to see the chat or the participant list
alongside the ongoing meeting.
Multitasking on iPad is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of Jlune.
Chat bubbles are coming to ios and Android.
With this update we'll see chat bubbles for meeting messages on our mobiles.
Previews for chat messages will appear on the meeting stage for a few seconds
for the most recent two messages.
We'll be able to turn them off temporarily in the current meeting by tapping on the snooze button
and we can turn them off permanently using 'don't show chat bubbles' in the ellipsis menu.
Chat bubbles for ios and Android is rolling out now
and should be complete by the end of June.
A new question type is being added to polling in Teams meetings.
The rating question type is being added to give us another way
of getting feedback from the meeting participants.
Meeting owners can create and launch rating polls and share the results live.
The rating question is rolling out now and should be available to everyone by the end of July.
We'll soon be able to join Teams meetings with an ID and a passcode just like in Zoom.
So this feature is coming to Teams on desktop, mobile and web.
Now when we create a scheduled meeting in Teams,
the ID and a passcode will be added to the invitation
and we'll also see that information when we open the meeting in Outlook.
There'll be a new button on the Teams calendar that will let us join a meeting using an ID and a passcode,
and there'll be a public web page where we can do the same thing,
and we'll soon see a button on the mobile app as well.
Meeting IDs are rolling out starting in July and should be complete by the end of July.
This new Teams feature is called 'Collaborative annotation'
and it's going to let presenters annotate other people sharing during Teams meetings
so whenever we're sharing our screen,
we'll be able to turn on collaborative annotation with a new pen icon on the sharing toolbar.
The red outline around the screen share will then turn blue
and all the participants will see the Microsoft Whiteboard toolbar at the top of the shared screen.
Everyone in the meeting can start annotating the screen with pens in real time
and the sharer can control who can annotate with the settings menu on the toolbar.
This feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of June.
And now on to SharePoint.
Stream Classic, as you probably know, is getting ready to be retired
and it's being replaced by what Microsoft calls 'Stream on Sharepoint',
which just means all the videos are now stored in SharePoint.
During the transition,
Microsoft are going to let Admins change the behaviour of the Stream tile in the app launcher.
Right now it points to the classic Stream home page
but now from the Sharepoint Admin Center,
Admins will be able to switch to the new Stream on Sharepoint homepage instead.
And this feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of June.
Microsoft are making a couple of updates to channel sites
and these are the special SharePoint sites that are connected to private and shared channels.
First of all, the site permission panel is being added back into channel sites.
Site permissions will just show the owner the permissions, but not allow them to change them.
All changes will still have to be made in the Teams app.
Next, channel sites are also getting a simplified layout to make them easier to navigate.
There will be labels to show us that they are a channel site
and a link to the parent team site that the channel belongs to.
The second update is to adjust the way the theme and navigation work
when the team site is connected to a SharePoint hub site.
These updates are rolling out now and should be complete by the end of June.
This new feature will bring some more Planner integration to SharePoint.
Planner tasks will now show up in the activity feed on SharePoint pages.
This update is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of July.
Okay, so 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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