Better late than never đ here’s a round-up of all the latest news, enhancements and feature updates for June 2019…
In this month’s update:
- SharePoint – Organizational assets, hub site limit increase, Adobe Document Cloud, SharePoint library Team join check
- Teams – Teams for Office installs, information barriers, announcements, group chat increase, private team discoverability, Azure pipelines, meeting/ calling improvements
- OneDrive – Password protection sharing links, external sharing B2B, sync client B2B, Search in OneDrive, inside look .docx file types, auto sync teamsite libraries
- Related – Yammer Q&A, Yammer local data residency, cloud app security, Azure AD conditional access, version history in Office Web
SharePoint
Organizational assets
Organization assets lets you register one or more document libraries via PowerShell as a special source for images, such as photos and logos, across all sites. The Organization assets libraries are available when you add images to page headers, galleries, or other web parts.
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SharePoint hub sites limit raised to 2000
A hub site brings together numerous other sites, and now the number of hub sites you can create in your tenant has increased. As announced at SPC19, the number of SharePoint hubs that you can create per tenant will go up from 100 to 2000.
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Adobe Document Cloud integration
Adobe Document Cloud also now supports single sign-on with Azure Active Directory, dramatically the simplifying log-in process. Now you’ll be able to work with PDF files on the web and in the context of SharePoint & OneDrive, with features like inline commenting and drawing.
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- New updates to Adobe Document Cloud show the power of integration with SharePoint and OneDrive
- Adobe – get more out your Microsoft investment
Easily tell if a SharePoint document library folder is connected to Teams channel
It’s now easier to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel. Chat capability associated to it is visible and actionable right from within the SharePoint user interface. SharePoint helps users understand that actions like delete or renaming a channel-connected folder need to happen through the Teams app.
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Teams
Teams desktop rolling out toO365 ProPlus & Microsoft/Office 365 Business/Business Premium
Starting in July 2019, if you’re using Monthly Channel, then Teams will be added to existing installations of Office 365 ProPlus (and Office 365 Business) on devices running Windows when you update your existing installation to the latest version.
If Teams is already installed in a userâs machine, they are not impacted by this change.
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Information barriers
Information barriers will help avoid conflicts of interest within your organization. This can help limit the disclosure of information by controlling communication between the holders of information and colleagues representing different interests.
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Team channel announcements
You can now post an âannouncementâ complete with a headline and background image, to ensure that your post catches your readersâ eye.
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Group chats now accomodate up to 100 users
Do you need to have an ad-hoc discussion with a large number of people? Group chats can now accommodate up to 100 users.
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Discover Private Teams more easily
Admins and team owners can now control whether they want to allow private teams to be discovered by Teams users. When a private team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams.
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Aid automation with Azure Pipelines
Launched in June, Microsoft releasued the Teams app for Azure pipelines. Azure pipelines allows you to automate customer builds and deployments, so you can spend less time with the nuts and bolts and more time being creative.
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Meeting Options in Teams
You now have even more control over the design of your meetings in Teams! Meeting organizer’s can now control the lobby setting of any scheduled meeting. Settings can be found in the “Meeting options” link from the “Meetings” tab.
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Single toolbar for controls in Meetings and Calling
Teams session controls will now be unified into one toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This will affect Windows, Mac, and web clients. There is no impact for mobile or Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) devices.
While joining Teams Meetings on the Chrome browser, you can now share your own video and receive video of others.
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OneDrive
Password protected anyone sharing links
Now in OneDrive, you are able to set custom passwords while sharing a file or folder with anyone links to their colleagues within or outside their organization.
You can share the password separately with your intended recipients and they will be required to enter the password in order to access the shared content. If they accidentally forward or re-share the shared link, anyone without the password will not be able to gain access.
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External sharing with B2B integration (Preview)
The Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) platform enables external users to exist in your Azure AD directory as âGuestsâ and can be managed in the way you are already familiar with.
External sharing with B2B integration joins external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive with Azure AD B2B. It includes external sharing of files, folders, list items, document libraries and sites. The integration also expands the one-time passcode authentication experience to SharePoint sites and lists when sharing with external recipients who don’t already have a work, school or a Microsoft account (MSA).
With the integration turned on, when a user shares an item in SharePoint or OneDrive with an external user, a âGuestâ account is immediately created for that external user (if one does not already exist). As a result, any sign-in or conditional access policies in place in your organization will take effect on those external users as well.
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OneDrive sync client B2B Sync – sync content shared internally or externally
Mirosoft are adding capabilities to the OneDrive sync client that lets users sync libraries or folders that have been shared from other organizations. You can now can sync content shared not only by peers within your own organization, but also by partners outside your organization that you regularly collaborate with.
This feature works in tandem with the external sharing with B2B integration feature and requires recipients to have a âGuestâ account in Azure AD to make B2B collaboration possible.
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Microsoft Search in OneDrive
Microsoft Search is now in OneDrive. A new search box will appear at the top of the page in the OneDrive suite header and provide a consistent place to access the search functionality making it easy to discover all files and folders.
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Inside Look for .docx file types in hover cards
There are a few new features being rolled out as part of the improved File Card experience. Now you will see a “time to read” estimate, plus the “at a glance” feature which will show key sentences from within the Word document.
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Automatically sync your SharePoint team site shared libraries with OneDrive team site automount
This feature offers admins the ability to automatically connect and synchronize specific SharePoint team site document libraries as part of a OneDrive deployment. To help configure a team site to sync automatically, Microsoft provide a new group policy (âConfigure team site libraries to sync automaticallyâ) for admins to deploy.
NOTE: these are the document libraries within group-connected team sites that appear under the âShared librariesâ list within a personâs OneDrive user interface.
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Related updates
Yammer Q&A
Question and answer in Yammer enables you to start a conversation in the question format from the browser or mobile app. Unique styling helps everyone identify which posts need answers. In the coming weeks, youâll also be able to filter to see only questions and unanswered questions.
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Yammer local data residency
Yammer now offers local data residency to help organizations in the EU meet data residency requirements. This feature is available to all new Office 365 customers associated with a tenant in the EU.
Coming soon, Yammer content will also show up in eDiscovery searches, bringing advanced security and compliance capabilities to Yammer groups connected to Office 365 Groups.
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Cloud App Security
Discover the apps and services that are running on top of your IaaS and PaaS subscriptions, whether they are running on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform. Gain visibility into those apps and services, including which users are accessing them, transactions, IP addresses, and how much traffic is being transmitted.
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Azure AD conditional access policies
Annouced in June, Azure AD Conditional Access policies help you maintain control over your Office 365 environment and how your company resources are accessed. For example, you can define a conditional access policy that evaluates sign-in connections from mobile devices to Exchange Online, and requires employees use Outlook for iOS or Android to successfully access their work email and calendar.
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Version history in Office for Web
Version History is coming to Office for the web, enabling you to see what changes have occurred and revert to an earlier version if necessary. Version History is rolling out now, starting with PowerPoint on the web.
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Links and resources
- New in 365 video – June 2019
- Microsoft 365 blog – New to Microsoft 365 in June 2019
- SharePoint community blog – SharePoint roadmap pitstop – June 2019
- Microsoft Teams blog – What’s new in Teams June 2019
- Microsoft OneDrive blog – OneDrive roadmap roundup â June 2019
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