{"id":846,"date":"2019-01-29T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-my\/2019\/01\/29\/new-to-microsoft-365-in-january\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:48:56","slug":"new-to-microsoft-365-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-my\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/01\/29\/new-to-microsoft-365-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"New to Microsoft 365 in January\u2014compliance, productivity, and Microsoft Teams updates to help you enable a modern workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

More organizations are embracing a modern workplace, and new features for Microsoft 365 help you meet compliance obligations, empower Firstline Workers, and enrich your Office app experience.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at what\u2019s new in January.<\/p>\n

New capabilities to help organizations address compliance-related challenges<\/h3>\n

Today, we announced new information protection and compliance solutions<\/a> to help organizations meet their privacy and compliance commitments in a simple, integrated, and intelligent way.<\/p>\n

Access your compliance and privacy tools in a specialized workspace<\/strong>\u2014The Microsoft 365 compliance center is now available, providing your privacy and compliance teams a specialized workspace with easy access to features including Compliance Manager, sensitivity and retention labels, and tools to help respond to regulatory requirements like GDPR, to deliver a unified experience with actionable insights.<\/p>\n

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Simplify the eDiscovery process with new integrated capabilities\u2014<\/strong>New capabilities in Advanced eDiscovery help you efficiently manage discovery workflows with new features to notify custodians or employees related to a case or investigation, isolate case-related contents for processing, and use the new built-in review and redact capability to modify sensitive portions of documents before exporting them as part of a legal matter.<\/p>\n

Meet communications monitoring compliance obligations for regulated industries<\/strong>\u2014The Office 365 Supervision feature for communications monitoring requirements now includes Microsoft Teams content as well as expanded policy configuration, data classifications, and integrated review to simplify the employee communications review process.<\/p>\n

These new capabilities will be available to all Microsoft 365 E5 or Information Protection and Compliance SKU subscribers.<\/p>\n

Empowering Firstline Workers to achieve more<\/h3>\n

This month, we announced new capabilities in Teams to empower Firstline Workers<\/a>, including the ability to securely communicate while on the go, provide peer recognition, and have visibility into shift scheduling.<\/p>\n

Enable Firstline Workers to communicate securely<\/strong>\u2014A new, customizable Teams mobile experience lets Firstline Workers securely\u00a0communicate and effectively collaborate from anywhere. This new mobile experience is a simple and secure, with several new mobile-only features that specifically benefit Firstline Workers, including location sharing and smart camera. Additionally,\u00a0IT admins can now apply a prepackaged policy or create a custom policy to give employees role-based access to the Teams modules they need.\u00a0The customizable mobile experience is now available for all Office 365 subscribers.<\/p>\n

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Manage schedules directly in Teams with Shifts<\/strong>\u2014Managers can create shift schedules and team members can update their availability, review schedules, and request time off directly in Teams. You can now integrate Shifts with your existing workforce management system through the Graph API for Shifts, available in public preview later this quarter.<\/p>\n

Boost <\/strong>motivation and team morale with new Praise tool<\/strong>\u2014The new Praise tool, rolling out this quarter, gives managers and employees a simple way to recognize coworkers, right in the Teams app where the whole team can see it.<\/p>\n

Updates to help you easily access Office 365 and your files on Mac and deliver better content<\/h3>\n

New, integrated features bring more ways on Mac to improve productivity, deliver engaging content, and enhance learning.<\/p>\n

Download the Office 365 suite<\/a> with just one click on the Mac App Store<\/strong>\u2014This month, we announced that that\u00a0Office 365\u00a0is now available on the newly redesigned Mac App Store<\/a>. With one click, Mac users can download the cloud-connected, always-up-to-date version of the Office suite\u2014including full installs of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive.<\/p>\n

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Free up space and easily access your files with OneDrive Files On-Demand for Mac<\/strong>\u2014Files On-Demand is now also available for Mac<\/a>, making it easier to access all of your files in Office 365 directly in Finder without taking up valuable storage space on your device. You can take files offline for when you\u2019re without an internet connection and free up storage space when you no longer need a local copy of the file. Files On-Demand is now available to all customers running MacOS Mojave.<\/p>\n

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Engage employees with new interactive visuals and features<\/strong>\u2014Microsoft Photos now makes it easy to create videos with music and narration, text and filters, and even add 3D effects. In February, customers will be able to enhance PowerPoint content by adding Microsoft Stream videos<\/a> into presentations. And coming soon, teams will have a new way to seamlessly add Microsoft Forms quizzes and polling directly into Microsoft Stream videos.<\/p>\n

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Other updates<\/h3>\n