It’s time for our end-user focused catch up of updates for the week 15th to 22nd May 2021 across Microsoft 365.
What are you doing 15th & 16th September 2021? I hope you see you at the session I’m presenting at Commsverse – the ultimate Microsoft Teams conference in the UK – learn more here: Commsverse – The Microsoft Teams Conference.
Onto the updates, another quiet one this week. Generally, these handpicked updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users:
- Revised timelines
- Power Apps to display images from Microsoft Lists
- Sharing Links for Microsoft Lists
- Bite sized updates
- Ones to watch
- Keep up with 365
Revised timelines
Create and use approval templates in the Teams Approvals app: end of May to mid-June:
PowerPoint Live in Teams: Slide Translation: mid to late June:
Full updates
Lists
Sharing Links for Microsoft Lists – Lists and list items are usually available to everyone with permissions to the site. This release will allow you to share Microsoft Lists using the same sharing links options that you have been using for files and folders.
You can now share entire lists using sharing links. The experience is identical to the sharing links experiences that are supported for files and folders:
The same admin controls that apply to sharing files and folders will also apply to lists and list items.
Microsoft will begin rolling this out in mid-May and expect to complete rollout by late June. Step by step instructions and video.
Lists and Power Apps
Power Apps image controls to display images that are stored in image columns in Microsoft Lists. Images can be displayed in four sizes: small, medium, large, or full.
New apps that use the SharePoint connector to add a list as a data source may display images from the list if they are present in the list. Existing apps can also be updated to show images.
This feature rollout will begin mid-June and should be complete by the end of June 2021.
Links: Image control in Power Apps and SharePoint connector documentation.
Bite sized updates
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) | Desktop application retires on Windows 10: 15th June – Related blog.
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) | Microsoft apps and services to end support: 17th August – Related blog.
Microsoft Viva Insights | Headspace mindfulness content: late June to late July – Related blog.
Visio | New start page for Visio on Office.com: June 2021. MS: “We’ve leveraged some of the powerful features of Office.com—like improved file discovery, enhanced collaboration features, and better template categorization—to provide Visio for the web users with a familiar start experience similar to other apps in the Office 365 ecosystem. By clicking on “More templates,” users will be directed to a new page complete with templates and sample diagrams and a new search experience to enable users to quickly find the right template based on relevant search terms”.
Teams | Large gallery layout update on Teams mobile: June 2021. To provide a better experience for the Large Gallery for meetings on Teams mobile, Microsoft are introducing a mobile-optimised layout that let you swipe through all the participants in a meeting.
Outlook| Pin emails on Android and iOS: May 2021. Do you pin emails in Outlook on the Web? You can now find your pinned emails using the filter button at the top of the message list. You can pin new emails by setting up a Pin swipe action in settings, or by tapping the … in the top right corner of the reading pane.
Ones to watch
Teams | Lower all raised hands: June. Meeting organisers and presenters will see an option to lower all raised hands from the participant pane.
Yammer and Teams | Customise Yammer app icon branding & link previews: June. Microsoft Teams admins can customise the branding for the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams to suit their Yammer network with their preferred app logos, naming, accent colour, and more. with this Communities app for Microsoft Teams, users see a rich Yammer preview in chats and channel conversations when the user pastes a URL of a conversation from a public Yammer community.
OneDrive and SharePoint | Library Dropdown: July. Microsoft are adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site.
SharePoint | Editing Modern Pages in the Teams Experience: June. Edit Modern SharePoint Pages that are pinned to Teams channels & conversations.
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