New to Outlook: choose how many days of email to sync on iOS and...
DetailsThe new sync window will allow you to choose how many days of email and attachments to download to your iOS or Android device for offline viewing...great for managing storage and...
Here’s how to enable Preserve Declined Meetings for viewing declined meetings in Outlook
TL;DRMicrosoft is releasing a new Outlook feature called Preserve Declined Meetings (PDM) to keep declined meetings in your calendar, instead of deleting them completely. Once you switch on PDM, your declined...
Manage someone else’s Outlook calendar? This new notifications feature will keep you up to...
TL;DR:Outlook shared calendar notifications: get notified when someone makes a change to a calendar that has been shared with you, and when someone makes a change to your calendar. Due between...
The Teams meeting Outlook add-in now supports multi-tenant/account meeting creation for users of new...
TL;DR: The Teams meeting add-in in Outlook now supports the ability to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings. Available now for users of the new Teams client.
Details:If...
New SharePoint news page templates: send SharePoint News to Outlook
TL;DR: SharePoint news authors will be able to preview and send entire news posts as email. There will be six made-for-email page templates in Outlook and SharePoint. Authors will be able...
Updated Experience for Office Document Conflict Resolution in OneDrive Sync
Details:Microsoft: "We have updated the experience to resolve Office document conflicts in the OneDrive sync app.
Previously, clicking the “Resolve” action on a conflict would require the user to choose between opening...
Reminders Window in the new Outlook for Windows preview
TL;DR:The reminders window is a new notification style for the New Outlook for Windows preview. It is a pop-out window that organises your meeting/event reminders and task reminders in one place....
Outlook on the web – Work Hours and Location (WHL)
TL;DR:Hybrid workers, you will soon be able to set up your work hours and location (WHL) in Outlook on the web, specifying when you’ll be remote or in the office. Once...
Outlook’s ‘Bookings with me’ availability
TL;DR:Bookings with me hopes to help you reduce the back and forth scheduling meetings, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You'll be able to create custom bookable slots to...
Pronouns on profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web
TL;DR:Microsoft are adding a new feature to the profile card in Microsoft 365. You will be able to add pronouns directly to your profile card in Outlook on the web and...
Meeting Recap on Outlook on the web
TL:DR:Microsoft: “Meeting Recap is a new feature on Outlook on the web that allows meeting participants to quickly access meeting content, such as the meeting recording, easily from the calendar event....
Microsoft Viva: Praise Highlights in Profile Card in Teams and Outlook
TL;DR:Praise in Microsoft Teams is great for showing your appreciation of colleagues. With updates coming soon, praises received will be highlighted on a user’s profile card in Teams and Outlook. ROLLOUT...
Inline search during email composing in Outlook with ContextIQ
TL;DR:Context IQ allows you to easily search for and insert content like people and files in an email by typing what you want to insert after typing an ‘@’. Now due...
Outlook for Windows: cloud signatures
Details:MS: “Upgrades to how your email signatures are managed will be launching soon. These enhancements change where the signature data is stored from per-device to per-account. This means the same set...
Microsoft Outlook: Reactions to Email Messages
Microsoft continue to breathe new life into emails with this super-fast way to respond to an email without generating another email.
TL;DR:With reactions in Outlook, you can now react to an email...
Use Loop components in Microsoft Outlook emails
Emails are written by a sender and read by a recipient(s); it has been that way for decades. Will this change make emails ‘live’ and truly collaborative?
TL;DR:Loop components are live, interactive,...
Outlook on the web – Update locations to message compose options
TL;DR:Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located. These changes include the formatting bar and the ‘send’ and ‘discard’ buttons. Now due mid-January to mid-April 2023.
Details:This update...
Folders and Rules Support for Microsoft 365 Groups in Outlook
TL;DR:You will have the ability to create folders and create rules inside a Microsoft 365 Groups mailbox using Outlook on the web. Due early September to mid-October mid-November 2022, but not...
New Location for Key Functions and Direct Access to Other Microsoft 365 Apps in...
You will have noticed that some M365 apps have a menu in the top-left corner. Outlook is joining that club.
TL;DR:The new experience for accessing Mail, Calendar, People, and other Outlook apps...
Immersive Reader for Outlook Desktop
Another great usability feature for Outlook on desktop; Immersive Reader is coming soon.
TL;DR:Immersive Reader in Outlook Desktop includes all capabilities available in Immersive Reader Microsoft Word. Now due late July to...
The Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Teams to...
TL;DRThe Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams is being updated to a new Microsoft Planner app. All existing functionality is...
