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Highly Discussed Office 365 features in dev/testing

Some Office 365 features that are in dev/testing cycle as of 9/2/2018 that are interesting and quite often discussed with clients:
Rich Yammer feeds in SharePoint
New web part to add a fully functional native Yammer feed to any modern SharePoint site.
Advanced anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365
Extending coverage of Advanced Anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365 and additional checks for stricter DMARC enforcement
Microsoft Bookings - mobile app read-only mode
Users with an Office 365 license who have been added to a booking calendar but are not the Bookings calendar admin can now use the Bookings mobile app in read-only mode to see their bookings.
(For some reason, bookings have not picked up. I thought this would be helpful to every organization. Maybe we are not educating properly?)
Microsoft Secure Score support for new controls
Secure Score will add new controls to support Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory.
Privileged access management in Office 365
New privileged access management capabilities in Office 365 provides an approval workflow that’s scoped to your high-risk tasks within Office 365. Requests for access can be automatically or manually approved. Either way, all the activity is logged and auditable, so that both privileged access requests and approvals can be reviewed and seamlessly provided for internal reviews and auditor requests.
Advanced Data Governance: API for Event Based Retention
Now automate Event Based Retention using the Advanced Data Governance API to connect to other line of business applications and trigger retention and deletion policies based on certain events.
SharePoint organizational news: audience targeting
You can better define what news articles and pages appear on the home experience of your site by configuring what is visible to specific groups. Each person will have a unique experience that complies with what you wish them to view without creating multiple audience-specific sites, you can serve them all from within a more centralized location with a personalized, targeted experience. Audience targeting support will be enabled in news, pages and other web parts so that you can define and target who best to reach with content and site experiences. You will be able to control how pages and parts of pages appear to different people and groups. This example shows a web part with tailor content by group permissions.
Malware Detect
The sync client helps to keep your data safe by taking signals from the service and from Windows Defender and pausing sync automatically to stop the damage and then help with the recovery once it is safe to sync.
Microsoft Teams - Call Queues
This is one of the SfB IT Pro calling capabilities coming to Teams. Call Queues provides an organizational greeting, hold music, can redirect calls, and settings for queue size, timeout, and other handling options. This feature is targeted for availability by Q2 CY 2018.
Block Download in OneDrive
Users will be able to share a link to a file that prevents the recipient from downloading it (they can only view on the web).
External Sharing Reports
Organization admins will be able to see all the files in a site that are shared externally.
SharePoint hub sites: create hub sites and associate others in SharePoint admin center
The SharePoint admin center in Office 365 will now allow you to create SharePoint hub sites and associated other sites once the hub site exists. This also provides a view into hub sites as they exist allowing for common admin tasks like reporting, contacting and managing sites - now including hub sites from the admin center user interface.
SharePoint hub sites: mega menu navigation
Increase the value of your hub site navigation. The new mega menu options allow for multiple levels of hierarchy at once - no fly-outs needed. This will enable you to better organize and showcase the content and sites associated under that particular hub site.
ATP SIEM Integration
ATP threat feeds can be integrated to most of the commonly used SIEM solutions via the Office 365 management activity API.

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