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New features, security enhancements: Here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 in July
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Published onAugust 1, 2019
published onAugust 1, 2019
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The month of July is now over, and that means it is time toturn back and have a lookat what was new in Microsoft 365 for the seventh month of the year 2019. As always, Microsoft is constantly improving on its services, and July delivered the addition of updates to Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Outlook, and more. Here’s some of what was new across Microsoft 365 in July.
New features for Teams, Outlook, Yammer, Microsoft To-Do
Leading the list of new features added to Microsoft 365, are some enhancements to core products like Teams, Outlook, Yammer, and Microsoft To-Do.
Aswe’ve previously discussed, Microsoft added several features to Teams in July. These include priority notifications, the ability to tag someone in Teams without “@” them and also calling, meeting, and live events features. All of these features are designed to improve collaboration and productivity in Teams.
With Outlook, Microsoft added a new ability to add polls to emails, and book meeting rooms with Outlook on the web. The ability to add polls comesvia an add-in, and booking rooms will be available whencreating a meeting.
Next up, is Yammer. In July, Microsoft added an ability to make questions in Yammerstand out from general discussions. They now feature unique styling, and post author and group admins have a new option to mark “best Answers.” The changes will be coming later this summer and are in a private preview.
Finally, in Microsoft To-Do, working and assigning tasksare now easier. New in July was the ability to assign tasks to users on a shared To-Do list. Similar to Teams, the features works by “@” a user.
Other changes and features
Elsewhere in Microsoft 365 in July were some new additions for improving IT management. These includea public preview of Desktop Analytics in the Configuration Manager consoleand a new ability toimprove Office experiences in virtual environments. Other notable changes to Microsoft 365 range from theremoval of the “Online” brandingon Office web apps, and the announcement ofOneDrive Personal Vault.
Security enhancements
The final items on the list of new features in Microsoft 365 are some security enhancements. In July, Microsoft announced a publicpreview of FIDO2 security key support for Azure Active Directory.That allows more seamless and safe logins into Azure AD apps and services. Also falling under the same categoryis the addition of Microsoft Threat & Vulnerability Managementto the Microsoft Defender ATP portal. This feature is all about real-time risk-based vulnerability management.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
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