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SharePoint News : Email
- Roadmap ID: 124803
- August 2023
With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, we're also adding six templates in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number.
New SharePoint site theme options
- Roadmap ID: 117368
- August 2023
This is a quick one - for the 'look and feel' aficionados out there. We are adding two new SharePoint themes to our Change the Look menu. The addition of Black and Cerulean (a blueish steel color) will enhance your site customization options, providing additional theme colors for the base of your SharePoint sites.
Accessibility improvements to SharePoint page authoring
- Roadmap ID: 146063
- August 2023
Microsoft’s goal is to deliver solutions which have been built, from the beginning, with accessibility and inclusion in mind -- to help every person and organization to achieve more. In adopting and continuing this empowerment, we’ve made some improvements to the Page authoring experience in SharePoint.
Announcements in Viva Connections
- Roadmap ID: 152481
- August 2023
Your communication team can share important information with employees by authoring announcements on your organization’s SharePoint home site or Connections app in Teams desktop. Announcements allows you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections.
Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive Sites
- Roadmap ID: 163991
- August 2023
We are introducing a new advanced capability for SharePoint admins to restrict SharePoint and OneDrive sites to specified users. With this feature, SharePoint admins can restrict site access to specified users using Microsoft 365 groups or AAD security groups - now Microsoft Entra ID groups. Users not added in the specified group(s) will not be able to access the site even if they were previously granted site access.
OneDrive and SharePoint: Colors for Folders
- Roadmap ID: 124980
- August 2023
Visual cues help direct both the eyes and mind. That's why adding colors to folders blends so well with the overall “personalization and organization” story for OneDrive and SharePoint. This feature allows users to colorize their folders with a pre-set range of 16 colors -- applicable to both new and existing folders. And by default, the color picker chooses yellow for ease of creation, which can be changed to any of the other colors by the user at any time.
Browse files by Meetings & People in OneDrive
- Roadmap ID: 124876
- August 2023
When you come to meetings view, you'll first see any meetings in the next week that you might need to prepare for, followed by a list of meetings that have already occurred. This view brings together all content shared both in meeting invites, meeting chat, and meeting recordings -- all into one place for easy access.
SharePoint page sharing update
- Roadmap ID: 124822
- August 2023
Now you can share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like you can with other Microsoft 365 files in a document library. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected. Only the page and items uploaded to the page, like images on the page, will be shared.
Meet App on Microsoft Teams
- Roadmap ID: 122540
- August 2023
The Meet app is a centralized hub for all meeting activity and content. The app is available across Desktop and Web, and serves as the destination for pre, during and after meeting insights, content, and action items. With the Meet app, users can prepare for upcoming meetings - aka, "Up next", catch on something they missed aka, "Recent" -- and find meeting content, agenda, notes, chats, and recaps – all in one place.
New Search experience within Teams chat and channels
- Roadmap ID: 122550
- August 2023
The new in-chat and in-channel Search experience takes place in the right handrail, making it possible to see your chat/channel list and your new search results in one single view. You can use a keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F (Windows) or Cmd + F (Mac) to start searching a chat or channel. Or, you'll also see a dedicated button ‘Find in Channel’, placed on the channel info pane.
Introducing Microsoft Clipchamp: Unlock the power of video at work
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- August 2023
Up until now, Clipchamp has been a natural fit for Microsoft 365 consumers - making it easy create professional-looking videos with no prior experience. Now, we’re thrilled that Clipchamp comes to Microsoft 365 commercial customers - making it possible for anyone to easily and efficiently create videos to help streamline their productivity and enhance their work.
Loop component links will now open on Loop.Microsoft.com
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- August 2023
Loop component links - all links to .loop files - that currently open in an editor on Office.com will now open on Loop.microsoft.com - aka, within the Loop web app. You'll have access to the same functionality as is available on Office.com. Users who have access to Loop workspace will also be able to leverage these capabilities on Loop.microsoft.com.
