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Microsoft are rolling out new features and changes to the Microsoft 365 services frequently.
New Employee Onboarding Hub
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- July 2020
The NEO hub helps organizations guide new employees from the onset of their first day on the job. The hub provides new employees with the resources, support, and general information they need. It also helps connect them to important people, communities, and culture awareness.
Centralized management for hub visitor permissions
- Roadmap ID: 65641
- July 2020
This is an optional feature for both hubs and associated sites which allows for greater viewer access to content and improved discoverability across sites. After enabling a hub to sync to associated sites, hub owners can specify access by individuals, security groups, or Microsoft 365 groups.
SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) supports migrating content from SharePoint Server 2016 (GA)
- Roadmap ID: 63258
- July 2020
SPMT is designed for migrations ranging from the smallest set of files to a large scale enterprise migration. Bring your information to the cloud to take advantage of the latest collaboration, intelligence, and security solutions with Microsoft 365.
FYI | For all “intelligent intranet” materials – a new intranet resource center
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- July 2020
This is a place that makes it easy to harness the power of your *intelligent intranet* -- filled with training videos, templates, demos, customer interviews, and more to help you get started - just head over to https://aka.ms/IntelligentIntranet | Explore. Align. Implement. Engage.
Microsoft Lists app in Microsoft 365 and eight ready-made templates
- Roadmap ID: 64160
- July 2020
We are pleased to begin roll out of Microsoft Lists – starting this month with the Lists app in Microsoft 365 and eight ready-made templates. The Lists app is the central place for all the lists you access across different sites, with the ability to create new lists using the + New list button.
Improvements to the Quick Edit experience: Fixed row height
- Roadmap ID: 64867
- July 2020
When in Quick Edit, you will see a new layout option “Fixed Height” within the view drop-down menu. This layout will adjust the height of all rows to the same height to optimize vertical spacing.
Improvements to the Quick Edit experience: Improved Row Selection
- Roadmap ID: 64868
- July 2020
You will see an updated way for selecting single or multiple items. This, too, supports existing copy/paste and drag-to-fill, applicable to multiple rows when using shift+selection. And when navigating and interacting via keyboard key strokes - like what we talked to John Sanders about - a consistent keyboard navigation approach.
Improvements to the Quick Edit experience: Visual updates
- Roadmap ID: 64871
- July 2020
You'll see new grid lines, an improved on-hover experience when using your mouse around the grid, themed color bars on the side of list items - including error messaging, a “Create New Item” button at the bottom of quick edit for creating new items inline, and updated column header drop-down menus.
Improvements to the Quick Edit experience: Sticky first column appears while in Quick Edit mode
- Roadmap ID: 64866
- July 2020
As users scroll horizontally across a list or documentary library in Quick Edit, the far-left column remains in place.
Improved Image columns for both lists and libraries
- Roadmap ID: 64872
- July 2020
We've improved the image upload experience – including mobile camera support. You simply add a new Image column and upload images for that list item of file. This is a default column when using the new Asset manager template, and is a column type that can be added to any list or library.
Rename the Title column
- Roadmap ID: 65146
- July 2020
"Title" is a good column title title, and now you're en'Title'd and empowered to rename it to whatever you want. Now you can rename the default Title column title and the change will be reflected everywhere - in quick edit, on the associated view, and in the list form.
SharePoint pages keyboard shortcuts
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- July 2020
This month we released a way to see all the pages keyboard shortcuts you can take advantage of when authoring text, navigating the page or performing undo/redo. Just click Shift + ? when in page edit mode to bring up a list of available keyboard shortcuts. I’m particularly fond of Ctrl + K and Tab – huge time savers.
Automatically block guest access to new files until after security scans are complete
- Roadmap ID: 34247
- July 2020
You can enable Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to automatically block external access to new OneDrive and SharePoint files until they have been fully scanned by the service for sensitive information - including search freshness and indexing.
Tasks in Teams
- Roadmap ID: 57213
- July 2020
It’s time for a coherent task management experience in your hub for teamwork – Microsoft Teams. The new Tasks experience brings together Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do into Teams, giving you one place to manage your team plans and individual tasks.
Add to OneDrive
- Roadmap ID: 56384
- July 2020
This enables you to add shared folder shortcuts directly to your OneDrive. Shared folders include content that others shared with you through their OneDrive or content that is a part of your shared library in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint.
Microsoft Stream - remove unwanted background noise from videos
- Roadmap ID: 57301
- July 2020
It’s a noisy world and not every video is produced in a nice studio – often onsite and unable to get everything quiet. Noise suppression, when turned on by video owners, allows viewers to isolate speech from other sounds and music during playback. Noise suppression can be switched on or off for each newly uploaded video.
On-demand training for OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Project Cortex, Yammer, Stream and more
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- July 2020
This series of 14 training videos covers the value and recent updates across SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Teams, Project Cortex, Yammer, and Stream - including information for employees, admins, and developers - all in the context of scenarios supported within Microsoft 365 across teamwork and employee engagement.
