T-0 days 12 months +

12 months

30 – 90 days

T-0

(First Release)

T-14 days

(standard release)

Public

In Product

No surprises

Organization readiness

Notify admins about client status: OS, browser, and Office version incompatibility

In-service, Get Started content

Notifications through direct to customer messages Office blogs for additional information

Online training videos for Office users

• Sign-in page branding and cloud user self-service password reset (SSPR) • Multi-Factor Authentication • Mobile Device Management • Support Windows Mobile, iOS & Android • Selective Wipe

• Device pin lock • Jailbreak detection

Sign-in page and Access Panel company branding allows any Office 365 tenant administrator to customize their sign-in page. The customized sign-in page is shown after a user enters their sign-in name (UPN) or if the WHR parameter is passed to the Sign-In URL.

Cloud user self-service password reset allows any Office 365 user with the cloud identity model to reset their password in case they forget it.

Multi-Factor Authentication Phone call SMS message Mobile app

Licensing

Included in all Office 365 SKUs Prior to Jan 2014 this was available for Admin accounts only

Futures

Seamless multi-factor authentication is planned in the next 12 months for Office client applications

*For representative purposes only.

NDA Disclosure Only

Copyright© 2013 Microsoft Corporation

A Sway is a polished, interactive, web-based canvas of your ideas, which looks great on any screen UPDATED

Reimagine the way your ideas come to life.

Built-in content sources, which will grow over time. Includes built-in Bing intelligence and OneNote (announced 3/3/15).

Create and share something new. Use Sway to easily

create and share a polished, interactive, web-based canvas of your ideas with family, friends, teachers, and coworkers. Sway makes sure your creation looks great on any screen.

Add your content easily. Save time and stop switching

between different apps to pull together your content. Sway is seamlessly integrated with OneDrive, your devices, social networks, and the web so you can drag and drop your content right onto your canvas. Sway even suggests relevant searches you can perform, based on your existing content.

Built-in design assistant takes the hassle out of formatting your content

Effortless design. Sway’s built-in design engine takes the

hassle out of formatting your various pieces of content by integrating them into a cohesive layout. From there, you can easily adjust the design to create a look and feel that reflects your unique style.

Announced at IGNITE May 2015 • •

Sway is rolling out to eligible Office 365 business/education customers in First Release later in May Sway will support more languages this quarter (Q2 CY 2015)

Key Office 365 relevant feature adds since October 2014

Brand new app for the Office portfolio. Rolling out to Office 365 First Release in May Get more info and sign in at Sway.com. More details on the Office blogs.

• Web: Interactive charts/graphs, Focus Points, easy document embeds and content imports, coauthoring, copy a Sway, more sharing options, more interactive photo options, Bing Image Search, Suggested searches, 3rd party embeds. • Sway for iPhone: single-sign on with other Office for iPhone apps, image cropping and Office Lens integration, local video, Offline support. Available in 46 countries.

UPDATED

Catch up on all missed system events with a single place, i.e. system alerts like password expiration new emails • calendar reminders • and group likes • •

Will be available across apps in the Office 365 web experience To access the new notification pane simply click on the top right notification icon

NEW

With this feature, a user can share a whole folder with an external party through OneDrive for Business.

Document Conversations Office Delve (Codename Oslo)

Office Graph Video for Office 365 Office 365 Video update About Me update and new page authoring tool

Office 365 Groups Yammer External Messaging Storage & file upload improvements for Sites and OneDrive for Business

Recommend OneDrive for Business for Large Attachments Save Attachments in OWA directly to OneDrive for Business Unlimited storage for OneDrive for Office 365 subscribers

Upload files ≤10GB NEW

Upload files up to 10GB in size to both Sites' document libraries, OneDrive for Business and Office 365 Video. More default storage for pooled storage [1TB + (0.5GB * # of E/A/G users)]; applies to SharePoint Online & Office 365 Video.

More pooled storage for SharePoint Online and Office 365 Video

NEW

Recommend OneDrive for Business when the file you are trying to send is above your organization’s message size limit. Warn you when you try to attach a file that is fairly large and suggest that you share with OneDrive for Business. This also ensures that your recipient will receive it, no matter how large the file is.

NEW

Save attachments you’ve received in email directly to your OneDrive for Business folder. Save individual files or all files into an “Email Attachments” folder. Once they are stored in OneDrive you can move them to another folder, or send them in email as a cloud attachment.

Skype for Business De-clutter your Inbox De-Clutter everyone’s inbox

UPDATED

For our business customers •

We’ve combined the familiar experience and user love of Skype with the enterprise security, compliance and control from Lync

•

talk, to share, to collaborate

•

the next version of Lync will become Skype for Business

•

with a new client experience, new server release and updates to the service in Office 365.

•

More on the Office blogs: Introducing Skype for Business

NO UPDATES

De-clutter you inbox – keep you focus on important work Less-important email messages are shown in a separate folder so they don’t clutter your inbox Reduces interruptions and keeps important email from being buried

Feedback loop lets you train the system to understand which email messages are low priority

NEW

Clutter is on by default for all inboxes in the service Clutter saves users 82 minutes per month Improved user notifications from Clutter

Alerts when emails are moved to Clutter for the first time Weekly summary notification of all Clutter activity

Administration Security Compliance Infrastructure

Control over Sent Items with shared mailboxes Workload-specific Admin Roles

Managing Office Mobile Apps with Intune (1) & (2) Simplified SharePoint Online Storage Management Skype for Business Online Admin Center Custom Tiles

Organization support card Purchase & Subscription Experience Refresh Sync block for non-domain joined PCs Office 365 ProPlus user activation management

Clutter Admin Controls Office 365 Setup Wizard Updated Office 365 Admin Center Service Communications API

Proactive notification of Outlook version Inline Service Health Notification when opening a Service Request

NEW

Emails can be sent as the shared mailbox itself or on behalf of it by members

Retain a copy sent from the shared mailbox in the Sent Items folder of the shared mailbox. A copy also resides in the Sent Items folder of the personal mailbox. Administrators have control over this feature

UPDATED

Workload-specific admin roles for Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business provides organizations with greater security and increased flexibility on how admins access their data.

In addition, organizations will have the option to assign admins with multiple admin roles providing greater flexibility in assigning admin permissions.

NEW

The custom tile feature will provide the capability for an Office 365 tenant admin to quickly create an app tile from any public website, intranet or team site and push it to the my apps page of all users within their tenant. Users will then be able to add this app to their app launcher for quick access to a top site for their organization.

NEW

Organization admins will have the opportunity set custom support contact information including email, website, phone number and a line of text that will be visible to users within the new help pane in the Office 365 web experience.

End User Experience for PC for users initially attempting to sync

NEW

This feature prevents users from syncing down corporate data to non-domain joined devices. IT admins can run a PowerShell cmdlet to set the whitelist with domain GUIDs; after which only PCs that are joined to a domain set in the whitelist will be able to sync data down to their PC.

End User Experience for PC for users who are already syncing

NO UPDATES

Allows admins to manage Office 365 ProPlus Desktop activations Managed through the Office 365 Admin Center Admins sees device* and can help to deactivate *Device names will be masked (e.g. CoXXXter01)

NEW

This feature will proactively notify admins when their users are connecting using an out of date Outlook client. An email will be sent to admins that provides the symptoms of degraded user experience when using out of date client and guidance on how to get the current Outlook client.

NEW

This feature notifies an admin of any service incidents when opening an SR to help provide context around the health of the service.

New Office 365 regions

Increased EXO mail size limits ExpressRoute for Office 365

1 million+ servers • 100+ Datacenters in over 40 countries • 1,500 network agreements and 50 Internet connections

UPDATED

Providing Office 365 hosting in more countries where Exchange Online mailbox content and SharePoint site content is stored at rest in Datacenters in that region. • New Japan Region: shipped Dec 2014 • New Australia Region (also servicing New Zealand and Fiji): shipped March 2015 • Europe Region Expansion: Finland and Austria. • New India Region: targeted CY2015

Microsoft will move customer tenants in the service area to the new Office 365 region. Details about the move program are at http://aka.ms/move

Existing regions: North America, United States Government, Brazil, Europe, Asia Pacific, and China

Change maximum message size for individual mailboxes

NO UPDATES

Exchange Online Message size limits will be increased to 150 MB size •

Increased limits

•

Set limits for individual users or group of users

Set default max message sizes for new mailboxes Bulk edit multiple mailboxes (selected)

Microsoft Datacenter

NO UPDATES

Office 365 Services on ExpressRoute

Customer Site 2

Office 365 Services Require Internet

Customer Site 1 MPLS VPN WAN

Customer Datacenter

Internet Co-lo

Public internet

Public announcement: http://aka.ms/o365er

Azure services

Alternate connection

Exchange Online Protection keeps getting better Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection Exchange Online Protection Update Service Health Communication Improvements:

Red Alert SHD Automatic Posting

Removal of RC4 cipher support Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection

UPDATED

All FOPE customers migrated to EOP

Multiple features released in last 12 months Key upcoming features around •

Enhanced Bulk Spam Protection

•

Detailed reporting and message tracking

Shipped December 2014

Started rolling out March 2015 - Global availability by mid-May2015 •

Quarantine Bulk Release Shipped March 2015

UPDATED

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Safe links

•

Safe Attachments

•

URL Tracking

More information on the Office blogs: