Here’s some more updates on the Office Roadmap. A couple of days late due to me being offline and chasing bunnies and chickens. Highlights of these updates are the awesomeness going on in the Office 365 Video team and also that the OneDrive sync team is back!

Changes 2016-03-28

Launched

  • Class Notebook Add-in for OneNote: The Class Notebook add-in for Onenote is released. (NEW)
  • February Updates in Office Mobile Apps for Android devices: Android apps received some updates with auto-save and collab authoring in Word and PowerPoint (NEW)
  • February Updates in Office Mobile Apps for iOS: And iOS got some as well with Box integrations (NEW)
  • February Updates in Office Mobile Apps for Windows devices: And Windows Phone did too (these users can be counted on one hand nowadays); inking and Excel updates was on the menu (NEW)
  • Office 365 Admin app - Group functionality: Group admin options in the admin app, nice but for me the UX works fine with 10-15 groups, imagine an enterprise with thousands (from in development)
  • Office 365 Admin app - Push Notifications for Message Center: Get them push notifications from the admin app and always know when there is Office 365 issues. Great! (from in development)
  • Office 365 Admin app for Windows 10: The Windows 10 Universal App for Office 365 is here. Currently in Beta, but (NEW)
  • Office 365 Video - Choose Your Own Thumbnail: A great video addition (from in development)
  • Office 365 Video - Improved upload experience: easier to upload videos, one step forward to a real video internal Youtube (from rolling out)
  • Office 365 Video - Insert video from SharePoint edit page ribbon: use videos in your SharePoint sites (from rolling out)
  • Office 365 Video - Upload your own subtitle files: Wow! Awesome addition to the video portal! (from in development)
  • Office 365 Video - Video Viewer Statistics: I like this, but I’d like to see better overall statistics. Right now its a copy paste job from many sources (NEW)
  • Office 365 Video - Yammer settings per channel: about time, and the best thing is that you can turn the Yammer integration off! (back from previously launched)

Rolling out

  • Manage Yammer licenses in Office 365: To Yammer or not to Yammer - that is no longer the question, but up to you! (from in development)
  • Office 365 Reporting Dashboard: This new reporting dashboard is awesome! (from in development)
  • Search on Yammer iOS app: giggles, not commenting on this one (NEW)

In Development

  • Allow/Deny list external sharing domains: long awaited feature (NEW)
  • Bitcoin Currency Format Support: Bitcoins is back( NEW, well it was here before but disappeared for a while)
  • Delve People Experiences - Praise: Prais feature is now back in development (from rolling out)
  • Expiring Yammer Announcements: Instead of fixing the read item count issues (any of them) the Yammer team thinks, hey let’s focus on something else instead… (NEW)
  • Improvements to Outlook Add-in Store: better in-Outlook experience when getting Add-ins (NEW)
  • March Updates in Office Mobile Apps for Android devices: RTF support for Android devices and SmartArt editing (NEW)
  • March Updates in Office Mobile Apps for Windows devices: RTF and Sway features in the WinPhone apps (NEW)
  • OneDrive for Business Deny List of File Types for Sync: Allows admins to deny certain file types (NEW)
  • OneDrive for Business Pause Sync: looks like the OneDrive sync team is back from the coffee break (NEW)
  • OneDrive for Business Shared folder Sync: sync someone elses folder (NEW)
  • OneDrive for Business SharePoint Online Document Library Sync: The end of groove.exe? (NEW)
  • OneDrive for Business Windows 8.1 Support for Next Generation Sync Client: Anyone still on 8.1, slackers! (NEW)