Friday, August 7, 2020

New to Office.com/setup 365 in September—updates to Microsoft To Do, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more

Every update we make to Office.com/setup 365 is about helping our customers transform the way they work. And this month, we’re introducing updates and features designed to help you collaborate more effectively, work more efficiently, and protect your data more proactively.

We updated the conversation experience for Yammer mobile, so it’s easier to discover and share the content that matters most, and a new PowerPoint for iPad feature makes it (finally!) easy to share a single slide. The updated Office.com/setup To-Do app keeps you productive on the go, and now you can export Visio workflows to Microsoft Flow—a great way to streamline business processes and save your organization money and time. Also new in September: automated incident response with Office.com/setup 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for more effective, efficient security.

Collaborate, save time, and improve productivity with app updates

App updates streamline your mobile experience and help you conquer your to-do list across devices.

Join the conversation with beautiful new experiences for the Yammer mobile app—We updated the conversation experience for Yammer mobile, so you can connect, discover, and share in a way that’s easy on the thumbs and on the eyes. Highlights include a new card-based design that sharpens content, easy-to-read formatting and styling, a new grid layout for docs and images that make it easier to preview and engage with multiple images or files, and link previews and inline videos right in the feed. To experience these improvements, simply update your Yammer app to the latest version.

Image of three phones side by side displaying a Group Conversation in Yammer.

Get more done with the new version of Office.com/setup To-Do—This month, we unveiled a new version of To-Do with a fresh design, access from anywhere, and better integration with Microsoft apps and services. You can choose from customization options and backgrounds (including dark mode) to tailor your experience and suit your lists. You can also sync To-Do across all platforms to take your lists with you wherever you go. In addition, you integrate To Do with Office.com/setup 365 apps and services or have one centralized view of your tasks. Think of To-Do as your new task aggregator—from Outlook to Planner and Cortana and the Microsoft Launcher on Android, you can now see your whole list in one place.

To get started, download the To-Do app. And if you’re coming from Wunderlist, you can import your existing lists in just a few clicks.

Animated image of Microsoft To Do displaying a My Day to-do list.

Streamline IT management and security

New features simplify the management of corporate Android devices, making it easy to add Office.com/setup 365 customers and ensure endpoints and devices are secure.

Manage corporate-owned Android devices with Office.com/setup Intune—With support for Android Enterprise fully managed devices, Office.com/setup 365 customers can deliver a high-quality and feature-rich productivity scenario for employees on corporate-owned devices, while maintaining an extended set of policy controls over those devices. Intune support for Android Enterprise work phone management is now available.

To get started, check out our Intune documentation.

Image of three phones side by side setting up a device as a work phone in Microsoft Intune.

Save time when adding new employees to Office.com/setup 365—Adding and configuring new employees or freelancers to Office.com/setup 365 just got easier. Beginning this month, you can create and use a template to save time and standardize settings when adding people to the Office.com/setup 365 admin center. Templates are particularly useful if you have employees who share many attributes, like those who work in the same role and the same location.

Beginning this month, head to the Office.com/setup 365 admin center and select Users Active Users > User Templates Add Template.

Animated image of a user being added to an engineers list in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Automate incident response with Office.com/setup 365 ATP—We’re excited to announce the general availability of Automated Incident Response in Office 365 ATP, which applies powerful automation capabilities to investigation and response workflows, dramatically improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your business’s security teams. These capabilities are available to organizations with the Office.com/setup 365 ATP Plan 2, Office.com/setup 365 E5, and Microsoft 365 E5 Security SKUs.

Evaluate security products with ease—The new evaluation lab in Office.com/setup Defender Advanced Threat Protection removes the challenges of machine installation and configuration. Security experts can verify a potential platform, familiarize themselves with the product, learn about new features, or use the lab environment for attack simulations.

The new evaluation lab is now generally available. To access it, select the Evaluation and tutorials > Evaluation lab directly from the navigation menu.

Image of the evaluation lab dashboard in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection.

Also, new this month

  • The redesigned Outlook on the web is now generally available. The redesigned experience features a modern design, new and smarter features, and a faster framework.
  • Now generally available, Security Policy Advisor—introduced in public preview this spring—can examine your policies and provide recommendations to improve security.
  • Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available, delivering a virtual, multi-session Windows 10 experience. Windows Virtual Desktop enables you to deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

As always, every Office.com/setup 365 update reflects our commitment to improving the experience for you—so if you have feedback or ideas on how we can improve, don’t hesitate to let us know.

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