In our first Microsoft Office 365 news roundup of 2020, we cover updates and new features related to Outlook for Android, Teams, Yammer and Kaizala. See below for details.
New Features
- Discover Office files for Outlook for Android
- What’s happening: Microsoft has announced the addition of more intelligent tech – the Discover capability – to enhance the Search experience in Outlook for Android.
- Rollout start: Early January 2020 for Office 365 Monthly Channel customers
- Discover Office files for Outlook for Android
- Teams lobby control for dial-in attendees
- What’s happening: Soon Teams will have a setting to control of the lobby for attendees who dial in via phone.
- Rollout start: Early February 2020
- Rollout finish: Mid-February 2020
- Teams lobby control for dial-in attendees
- Teams announcement of dial-in attendees joining and leaving
- What’s happening: Microsoft has announced that Teams will alter the control that announces dial-in users joining and leaving meetings.
- Rollout start: Mid-January 2020
- Rollout finish: End of January 2020
- Teams announcement of dial-in attendees joining and leaving
- Yammer eDiscovery
- What’s happening: Microsoft will soon introduce eDiscovery for Yammer. With this feature, users will be able to search, hold and export data.
- Rollout start: Mid-January 2020
- Yammer eDiscovery
Updated Features
- Kaizala custom Actions update
- What’s happening: Kaizala custom Actions will now require user consent.
- Rollout start: Late January 2020
- Rollout finish: Early February 2020
- Kaizala custom Actions update
- Kaizala admin roles update
- What’s happening: Starting in February 2020, Microsoft is making the Kaizala Administrator role the primary management role.
- Kaizala admin roles update
Announcements
- Teams Priority Notifications promotion extended
- What’s happening: The time period in which all users will have access to a promotion involving unlimited Priority Notifications in Teams has been extended to April 1, 2020, from its original expiration date of December 31, 2019.
- Teams Priority Notifications promotion extended
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