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Hello, it's Matt, and welcome to Collaboration Coach, and this is the Office 365 Roadmap Radar for July 2020.
The Roadmap Radar is all about what's new in Office 365.
We've scoured the roadmap for any new updates so you don't have to.
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This month we've got lots of great new features for SharePoint and some for Teams,
and there have been a few delays to some of the things we were expecting in June.
So let's get started.
The office.com homepage is getting a refresh.
As you know, currently the application icons are listed horizontally across the top of the page
and Microsoft is going to switch to vertical navigation
and have all the apps listed along the left-hand side.
This is just a cosmetic change and won't make any difference to functionality.
This change is rolling out from mid-June to late-July.
In Outlook on the Web now, we'll be able to delay sending emails.
When we choose "send later", we'll be asked to add a date and time
and the message will be delayed until then.
This feature is already available in the Mac and Windows versions of Outlook,
and this change is available now.
On to SharePoint now,
and there are some changes being made to the quick edit mode in SharePoint.
As you probably know, quick edit allows you to do bulk edits of SharePoint lists and libraries,
similar to how you would with an Excel spreadsheet.
The next 3 features started rolling out in mid-June to targeted customers
and the rollout will continue through July to mid-August and they'll be available to everybody then.
First, in quick edit view we'll be able to select multiple items in the list and edit their properties.
Next, we'll be able to select items and make changes to them inside of the quick edit view.
And last, we'll see a "New" button that will allow us to create new items, all in quick edit view.
Also for quick edit, there'll be sticky columns.
The left hand column will stay in place and you can still see the item name as you scroll through its properties.
Targeted users will see this in early July and everyone else will start to see it in late-July
and the rollout will end at the end of September.
Next in SharePoint, Microsoft is increasing the maximum file size for SharePoint and OneDrive...
...from 15GB to 100GB. That's for a single file.
You won't see an error message now if you try to upload a file to SharePoint or One Drive that's larger than 15GB.
This change is available now to all tenants.
This new feature is for SharePoint page creators.
SharePoint site owners will be able to set the default template in the page template picker.
And it can be a template with custom content and formatting.
When we create new pages in SharePoint,
we will be able to choose the default template set for us by the site owner.
This feature should be available to everyone by the end of July.
This is another feature for SharePoint page creators.
When we publish or update a SharePoint page now, the pre-publish panel will appear.
This gives the creator an overview of the contents of the page they are about to publish,
like the site name, the thumbnail preview, and information about what happens next.
It will also have a link to the page details pane so authors can make changes if they need to.
This was supposed to be rolled out to targeted customers in June but it has been delayed
so hopefully we should see it soon.
There'll be a new layout for the page footer in SharePoint communication sites.
The properties of the footer can be customised from the "change the look" panel
and we'll also be able to change the colour of the footer.
Once the new layout is chosen, you'll find 2 levels of links and labels in the footer...
...by selecting the "edit" link to the left side of the footer columns.
This feature should be available to everybody by the end of July.
Now some news on the SharePoint page scheduling feature that we talked about in the Roadmap Radar in June.
This was going to allow us to create a page and then schedule it for publishing...
...rather than publish it straight away.
I tested this and could never get it working
and now Microsoft have said that the feature will be rolled back because of problems.
Page scheduling will be removed from everybody's tenants for the time being.
Microsoft will make an announcement in the future to let us know when it's being rolled out again.
Now on to Microsoft Teams.
There was a lot of buzz around the Walkie Talkie feature when it was announced
and this month it's being added to the Android version of the Teams app as a public preview.
iPhone users will have to wait.
This will allow us to use the Teams app on the phone like a walkie-talkie.
Teams users will be able to join a Walkie Talkie chat through their existing channels
and use push-to-talk to chat to other people.
This feature will be available as a public preview in July.
Now you can make everybody wait in the lobby until the organiser joins a Teams meeting.
The organiser can configure the meeting options so that only they can bypass the lobby.
After changing the meeting options to "only me",
the meeting organiser can manage who is allowed in to their meeting.
This feature was supposed to be arriving in June for all tenants, so should be along soon.
Microsoft will soon bring a large gallery view to Teams meetings.
This will allow meetings to display up to 49 attendee videos at any one time in a 7x7 grid.
This will be part of the new meetings experience that we talked about in last month's Radar.
That will also allow us to pop out meetings into their own windows
and it will move the meeting toolbar up to the top of the window.
This was due to start rolling out in June but it hasn't appeared in my tenant yet.
Presumably we can expect it in July.
Finally in Teams, the updates to the Tasks app is delayed.
This app will allow us to manage all our tasks from Outlook, Planner and To-Do in one app in Teams.
We were expecting to see the new Tasks in Teams Planner app in June but it's been delayed until July.
Ok, that's your lot!
That's the Roadmap Radar for July 2020.
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