Some interesting summer news on the Office Roadmap this week. But first of all something that is not very cool at all; the Office roadmap URL has changed. I’ve used and linked to http://success.office.com/roadmap/, http://office.com/roadmap  and http://success.office.com/roadmap/en-us but the only one that is working right now is http://success.office.com/en-us/roadmap/. Booh! Thou shalt not change URL’s without redirects…

Changes 2015-06-26

This is the detected changes in the Roadmap. If you use the newly released feature on the Roadmap that shows the Recently Updated Features, you will see that it states about 50 changed features, since we don’t know their “algorithm” behind the feature, just ignore it and keep reading…

Now Launched

  • Skype for Business Online: Lync in a new shroud is now officially launched……
  • Office 365 ProPlus user activation management: You can now manage your ProPlus activations directly from the admin center
  • Office 365 Groups : improving visibility and management: The Office 365 Groups features are slowly rolling out and being launched on all tenants.
  • Compliance Search: Some of the new compliance features announced just weeks ago as being in development are now launched.

Rolling out

  • MDM for OneDrive for Business: was previously marked as launched but is now moved back to Rolling out…
  • Office 365 Video - Embed: A long waited for feature is now rolling out.
  • Office 365 Help pane: The new help feature is rolling out,
  • Clutter for your inbox on by default: This is an important announcement that you need to inform your end-users about. Clutter will from now on be turned on by default!

In Development

  • Skype Meeting Broadcast: Something that I really long for, being able to broadcast meetings with up to 10.000 viewers. New on the roadmap.
  • PSTN Conferencing in Skype for Business Online: Huge deal, something that all our customers ask for. Unfortunately only in US to start with, like all interesting things. Product Group, if you need testers that’s not still measuring stuff in feet and stones, then call me. New on the roadmap.
  • Cloud PBX in Skype for Business Online: Dial out from Office 365! Wow! All them phone switches - watch out! My guess - US only! New on the roadmap.
  • Drive Shipping and Network Based Data Import for Office 365: Another feature that is being rolled back on the roadmap, typo or buggy?

That was some nice additions and changes, right! Especially for all you Skype/Lync/UCM peeps!